freamon

@freamon@lemmy.world

Mostly just used for moderation.

Main account is piefed.social/u/andrew_s

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freamon,

Screenshotting a post from another fediverse app seems a bit crazy. As an alternative, this post is available natively in lemmy, as text and from the original author (so you can reply to him if you’d like).

I can’t give a universal link to a post obviously, but if you’re on lemmy.world, it’s here: lemmy.world/post/11631169, and if you’re not, it’s available on the !tails community.

freamon,

Sorry, maybe I’m being a bit dense, but I don’t really understand what you mean. ‘This post’ as in the post on microblogmemes?

freamon,

Shift ends in 10 minutes? Whatever it is, it’s been the next shift’s problem for 50 minutes already.

freamon,

Well I hope it’s self-driving. Apple’s VR goggles just came out, so it might be related to that.

freamon,

Just viewed this Community in Boost. It handles actual GIF, WEBP, and MP4 (aka GIFV) okay. But lemmy in it’s infinite wisdom has converted this into a webm file, which it doesn’t look like Boost knows what to do with.

Let’s try an inline link:
https://i.imgur.com/WDnOQM7.mp4

freamon,

Yeah. That sort-of works in Boost. Have to click it, but it plays in a new screen after it’s had a little think.

freamon,

This was cross-posted from a lemmy community (!tails) that’s sort-of bridging lemmy and mastodon. If you’re on lemmy.world, they’ll already be a post you can visit, to upvote and respond to the original author of the comic, if you wish. If you’re not on an instance that’s brought !tails in yet, it can be done so in the usual way, of course.

(I tried this on a different instance - lemmy being lemmy means you might have to refresh a couple of times after clicking the ! link, but that’s nothing unusual)

freamon,

This post is now Featured in the Star Wars Memes community (?!) to help promote this month’s theme of 4 Frame February [4FF].

freamon,

Instead people just make this shit up and go after stuff that was never shown and never occurred. Never seen any other fandom do this.

It also happens with The Last of Us Part II, which points to a probable cause: the same factually wrong criticisms get repeated not from individual engagement with the original media, but rather with professional shit-stirrers on YouTube. Someone rides the algorithm to dunk on something popular, and their terrible takes are recycled forever.

freamon, (edited )

One from each:

  1. Rey’s dialogue-free introduction.
  2. Luke’s “Jakuu pretty much is nowhere” line.
  3. Adam Driver’s evocation of a Harrison Ford-esque smile at the end.
freamon,

A slightly worse version of this video was uploaded here 2 days ago, for anyone else getting deja vu.

freamon,

'salright. The other upload wasn’t directly linked, and was an edited and watermarked version, so if they’d been uploaded the other way around I’d have deleted that, but this may as well stay for anyone who missed it.

freamon,

Maybe edit post to be a direct link to the video?: (it’s at i.imgur.com/JQeqRPe.mp4)

If not, here’s an inline link for anyone with clients that can handle 'em:

https://i.imgur.com/JQeqRPe.mp4

freamon,

Hmm, yes the dichotomy indeed.

freamon,

https://i.postimg.cc/XYgVFHkn/newsort.jpg

freamon, (edited )

I’m not sure they are supported.

Firstly, I should clarify that lemmon.website is mine, and I’m the only user that’s ever been on there.

When I was running Mastodon, I noticed that, after I’d unsubscribed to the lemmy.ml communities, there was still entries for incoming activities in the systemd journal. Before I stopped running Mastodon, I unsubscribed from all lemmy.world communities. After I started up a new, basic server using Rust’s hyper library, I saw that all activity from both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world was still POSTing to /inbox

I think what happens is that, when a Mastodon user unsubscribes, the software longer views the community’s public key as valid, so it doesn’t show the posts, etc, but you haven’t ‘really’ unsubscribed because lemmy has errored. Here’s how I’ve tested this.

  1. Start a brand new lemmy instance, on a linux VM in Windows, using ngrok to tunnel though from a ephemeral URL. So, right now, there’s lemmy service you can see running using:
    curl --header ‘accept: application/activity+json’ https://f2d0-77-100-144-83.ngrok-free.app/api/v3/site
  2. Log in to a Mastodon server that’s designed to let users experiement with ActivityPub (activitypub.academy), to subscribe and unsubscribe to a new-created test community. It looks from there like:
    https://i.postimg.cc/yx9qJwr1/activitypub.jpg

But in lemmy, it shows the same ‘WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: Unknown’ that I quoted in my first post

I don’t know what that error means. But I can see that lemmy still thinks it’s federating with 1/1 instances, and if I create a post on the test community, I can see it do:


<span style="color:#323232;">INFO send:send:send_lemmy_activity: lemmy_apub::activities: Saving outgoing activity to queue https://f2d0-77-100-144-83.ngrok-free.app/activities/announce/create/ea41951a-6430-4e53-a5c4-afd644bf0824
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Jan 11 11:47:43 lemmyA lemmy_server[977]: 2024-01-11T11:47:43.343193Z  INFO send:send_lemmy_activity: lemmy_apub::activities: Saving outgoing activity to queue https://f2d0-77-100-144-83.ngrok-free.app/activities/create/bfcbf25e-37ab-4cfa-b44d-92cecacb1e56
</span>
  1. To investigate the error, I tried sending JSONs in the same format that Mastodon uses, but utilising a command-line script. The Follow works, but the Undo-Follow doesn’t. The header returned shows the same error as journalctl does: 400 Bad Request “{“error”:“unknown”,“message”:”“}”

I then recrafted the JSONs to be more like lemmy, changing the ‘id’ of Undo to have ‘activities/undo/UUID-string’, and that works. No entries in journalctl, and a 200 OK Response header.

  1. From lemmon.website, I can use the script to Follow and Unfollow communities on lemmy.ml

EDIT: I’ve had some success with this. Using the private key of the old Mastodon user I’m no longer getting stuff from ‘memes’ now, I think. (still stuff from ‘asklemmy’ though).

I’ll keep tinkering with this. Maybe during testing I followed asklemmy from another user. In the meantime though, it’d help enormously if any Follows from anyone at lemmon.website could be undone at your end (like I say: it’s all me)

(There is still the JSON problem though. It suggests that any ‘Undo-Follows’ you get from mastodon accounts aren’t being processed properly, so you’re maybe wasting subsequent federation activity. I realize that’s more a lemmy software issue than lemmy.ml issue, but it’s my understanding that you’re the same people!)

freamon,

I’m not no, just the cheapest VPS I could find.

The requests never reach my backend, 'cos they’re blocked by nginx rather than it reverse-proxying them like it does for the traffic I’m interested in. So, thankfully for my poorly-programmed backend, it doesn’t have to process the deluge from lemmy.ml. It’s a bit of blunt instrument though, 'cos it just blocks everything. In the future, there’s likely to be some quieter communities on lemmy.ml I’d like, but right now, I can’t follow them without also getting everything from ‘memes’ and ‘asklemmy’.

I’m also thinking about how lemmy seems to get behind on it’s federation activities, and it would maybe help if they didn’t generate them in the first place for recipients who don’t want them.

I’m essentially asking someone to stop coming to my house and knocking on my door. I could ignore the knocks, or put a sign up, or employ someone to stand in my garden and stop them. These are strategies to cope with the problem, but I think the real solution would be if they just stopped coming.

freamon, (edited )

update check

edit: somehow palpatine returned?

freamon,

Anakin, did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise?

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