sunaurus

sunaurus, 13 days ago

Just to clarify a few things:

1. Our mod log will show all federated mod actions, not just actions by lemm.ee mods and admins. So if any other instance is generating a ton of actions, it will also be visible from our mod log. In fact I don’t think there has been any increase recently in lemm.ee mod actions at all.
2. The mod log does not actually get cleared, there is simply a UI issue in Lemmy which makes it a bit hard to view the mod log chronologically. The UI makes it appear as if the mod log is one single list of actions, while in fact it’s different lists combined together (one list per each action type). You will notice some really old actions even on the first page of the mod log, this makes it seem as if there is a “missing period” in the actions, while in fact you are actually just seeing the first page for each different action type. If you navigate to subsequent pages, you will find all the “missing” actions there.

In practical terms, it’s not really possible to clear the mod log at all, thanks to federation. Even if one instance will delete their local mod log records, those records would still be visible in other instances which they previously federated out to.

sunaurus, 13 days ago

Purging is something that can’t really be used to hide mod actions, as any federated instances will still retain their copy of any purged content. Purging is a feature which is only really useful for completely removing illegal content from our servers, it’s used quite rarely and in fact leaves a trace in the mod log as well.

sunaurus, 13 days ago

Hey, indeed it appears that the community was somehow removed by you:

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/17e4595d-63bc-44c3-bf9b-aaa52251db98.webp

Notice it says “Deleted by creator” .

Can you check in the top right corner, in the area visible in my screenshot, is there not a small “Restore” link? This should in theory let you un-delete the community.

sunaurus, 13 days ago

Aha, I think this restore feature is missing from the standard Lemmy UI.

Maybe this will help: I quickly implemented a very basic restore button on lemmy-ui-next. Can you check if you see a “Restore” button in the sidebar at next.lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels? Note that you must be logged in as a moderator to see this button.

I need to step away from my computer for a while, but if this doesn’t work, then I will be able to look into it further during the weekend.

sunaurus, 13 days ago

Can you try logging in first at next.lemm.ee/login - or are you seeing this while already logged in?

sunaurus, 13 days ago

I temporarily transferred the community to myself and was able to undelete it. I’ve transferred it back to you now, should be all good.

sunaurus, 13 days ago

They are using an allowlist rather than a blocklist, unlike most big instances. We are linked, but we’re not on their allowlist, so the result is still that they block all federation from lemm.ee.

sunaurus, 3 months ago

I think there are like <10 people on Lemmy who speak my native language 😅 I don’t really mind just using English, though. I’ve always thought that languages are cool as a cultural thing, but as a pragmatic approach to day to day communication, I think it would be quite nice to just use a single language.

sunaurus, 13 days ago

I agree that using the mod log to attack other users with inaccurate mod action reasons is not really justifiable.

We now have some additional guidance about this here under the moderator responsibilities section:

Ensure that they only provide accurate and clear reasons for mod actions

I will make a separate announcement post about this as well shortly.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of mod log federation on Lemmy, it’s not really possible to retroactively change mod action reasons currently. I am sorry about that. If this does end up causing problems for you in the future, you could point people to this thread for context.