freamon

@freamon@lemmy.world

Mostly just used for moderation.

Main account is piefed.social/u/andrew_s

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freamon, (edited )

Reading your link, a defederation is just blocking the traffic from my end, which I’m already doing by having nginx reject everything with a 403 code.

I’m hoping that I can stop the traffic from being sent in the first place.

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,

For problematic relationships with minors, I’m not saying you should do it, but
https://i.postimg.cc/kGc5gH6V/mpv-shot0002.jpg
Just run it through the computer, see what it says, yeah?

freamon,

Sorry, there was a better (and much quicker) reply to your comment from the automod, but I made a mistake when making it and it replied as top-level comment (I thought I’d tested it, but apparently not).

Let’s see if it randoms on a better quote. Try again, Anakin?

freamon,

“Sheev sleeves” are so hot right now, but who wore 'em best?

(Rey’s grandma is Emma Stone in ‘Poor Things’, for anyone not up-to-date on their auteur cinema)

freamon,

Sorry. Have to post this now, so I can claim that I made this connection in at least the the same YEAR that Barbie came out.

Meme Connoisseurs will be pleased know that I used Barbie Pink (0xE0218a, obvs) for the text.

freamon,

Disclaimer:

Rebel Moon is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to an actual Star War, living or dead, is purely coincidental

freamon,

A sketch called ‘These Guys Don’t Know Star Wars’ (available on YouTube). Much like Rebel Moon, it’s surprisingly long.

freamon,

Yeah, sorry, I’ve been feeling out of sorts lately. I’ll always sticky something that anyone else suggests of course.

I’ll create something for this Wednesday (give me an hour or so).

freamon,

I had the benefit of seeing it without knowing anything about it, so enjoyed watching it trying to figure out what kind of movie it was going to be.

I can see why people have responded negatively to it, but I think I’ll always like Sam Esmail’s technically accomplished direction of his projects (i.e. Mr. Robot, Homecoming, and now this film)

[Long post] Do more or fewer communities lead to increased engagement?

As I watch The Internet look like it’s starting to adopt a new phase (let’s call it federation writ large), I’m watching for signs of both success and struggle. I have some strong opinions of features and functionality lacking in the current suite of UIs that might help adoption, but thing I’ve been thinking about more...

freamon,

Ha, this is me. I did exactly that (with a community for the TV show Andor) and am guilty of the behaviour you describe.

I’ve probably been thinking along the same lines as you and OP though, 'cos I deleted the community a couple of days ago. I realized that if I had something more to say about that show, it doesn’t belong in it’s own niche community, or ‘Star Wars TV’, or ‘Star Wars’, or even ‘Television’. Perhaps a ‘Movies&TV’ comm, although - at this rate - maybe even ‘entertainment’ would be best.

I’m starting to think that instances that limit community creation to admins have the right idea (e.g. Beehaw, or - to use a non-federated example - tildes).

Some instances have started ‘Community Teams’, but I sense that anytime they discover a dead community, their instinct is to find ways to promote it, get new mods, drive engagement etc, whereas I’m more of the opinion that they should be nuked and consolidated (along the lines of what the ‘cooking’ communities have tried to do, I suppose).

freamon,

lemmynsfw has implemented (or intends to) an interesting compromise, in that you can only downvote posts on that instance’s communities that you’re already subscribed to. Ideally, this means that downvotes are for the quality of the individual post, rather than as a reaction to the type of content.

freamon,

From ‘Hard Stare’ to ‘Thousand Yard Stare’

freamon,

Edgar Wright said a similar thing recently: that the best thing they could do with superhero films is take a break, and wait for audiences to become excited about them again.

freamon,

So, what do you think about that Anakin?

freamon,

Another automod test

freamon,

Testing the new automod Anakin?

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