I can't do much at the moment from my home in Ohio, but just wanted you all to know we stand with you and are thinking about you.

Also, fuck the police.

Free Palestine!

Hey folks, got off Reddit early last year but have been procrastinating on finding a replacement. Finally got around to joining the LemmyBinVerse and figured I would join a more-regional server.

Big fan of cheese, the outdoors, and cheese outdoors. Dry, sarcastic humor is a love language. Shitposts are great, in moderation. I had an ICQ but I don’t remember my number.

I guess that’s all for now.

Depressing to see 196 get flooded with neoliberals, libertarians, and apolitical assholes standing against Palestine. Seems like most of them are coming from lemmy.world but still

Right now to avoid troll posts only mods can post. If you are interested in being a mod let me know. If you just want to post something let me know as well and I'll post it for you.

Source: https://mas.to/@dasharez0ne/111965947462974889

Alt text from original post: "A FREINGLY SKALATON TRYEN TO GO ABOUT THERE BUSNESS BUT THERE ALWAYS IN THE WAY OR SOMEONES IN DA WAY AND DA TEXT SAYS "I GO FROM ZERO TO OPE IN 0.8 SECOND'S ,SORRY BUD, OPE, SORREY, SCUSE ME HERE, GONNA SCOOCH ON BY YA,SORRY THERE,SORRY COMIN THRU GONNA SNEAK THRU REAL QUICK,OPE,SCUSE ME SORRY,OPE" AND THEY DIDENT KNOW UNTIL LIKE 2 YEAR'S AGO THAT NOT EVERY ONE SAID IT ,WHAT DO YOU SAY WHEN YOUR AROUND OTHER PEPOLE, DO YOU JUST SAY NOTHING SEEM'S WEIRD, DO YOU SAY A FULL SENTENSE SEEM'S LIKE TO MUCH TALKEN ,WHY IS IT SO HARD TO BE AROUND OTHER PEPOLE ,WHY IS EVERY INTERACTION A PUZZLE WHY DID EVERY ONE AGREE TO MAKE EVERY THING OUT OF PLASTIC AND PUT IT BACK IN DA GROUND FOREVER ,THAT JUST TURN'S DA GROUND INTO MILK JUG'S AND POP BOTTEL'S ,MAY BE THE ALIEN'S GAVE US THE IDEA AND THE TECNOLOGY TO DO IT BECUASE THEY LOVE PLASTIC ,MAYBE THERE FARMING US TO TURN ALL CRUDE OIL INTO PLASTIC LIKE WHEN WE TURN GRASS INTO BURGER'S AND MILK WITH COW'S , OUTA SPACE GOTTA GO - DASHARE.ZONE ADMI"

Upgraded to 0.19.1 and checked lemmy.ml as an example and everything is coming over from both sides.

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Noticing some federation issues with lemmy.ml for example. Investigating...

Update: supposedly, there is a fix for the 0.19 federation issues we're currently experiencing in a new RC image. I'll try upgrading later today.

Checking federation for 0.19

Please let me know of any issues you may experience. Right now I just occasionally see some toast errors pop up.

Are we going to defederate right away, see over time, or stay federated?

There are reports of spam coming from specific users on lemmy.blahaj.zone. I stumbled across some very unpleasant NSFL content on an unrelated post. I wouldn't reccomend it, but you could check soot@lemmy.blahaj.zone's profile for an example if it hasn't been taken down yet.

It may be worth temporarily blocking that instance until they get a handle on the situation.

We finally got 'em! 🦀🦀🦀🦀

Following this comment: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4039#issuecomment-1773482259 I updated the timestamps in the instance table of midwest.social's database. We'll see if that fixes anything. Fingers crossed. For example, the updated timestamp column for lemmy.world was sometime on 10-30-23.

In the past several days, I've noticed that comments that I make on this instance to cross-instance communities started to take up to several hours to propagate to the community's home instance, and now do not seem to propagate at all.

I've noticed the issue on lemmy.world, lemmynsfw.com, and lemmy.ml. Several comments I made today in a programming.dev community went through more or less instantly, though.

Has anyone else noticed this?

If you go to c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world through midwest.social, it shows fewer subscribers in the sidebar than if you go straight to lemmy.world (https://midwest.social/c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world vs https://lemmy.world/c/homeimprovement). Also, there are posts that only show up when you look at c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world through the midwest.social instance, and are missing from the lemmy.world instance.

For example, this post: https://midwest.social/post/4242666 is nonexistent if you look at the homepage on lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/c/homeimprovement. However, you can see it from the homepage on midwest.social: https://midwest.social/c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world.

My instance seems to be having issues federating content. Trying to test this out.

In the last couple of days, none of the comments I've made to kbin.social posts seem to be making their way over to that server. Are there any known issues with federating with them?

Hello beautiful people,

Today I had the pleasure of working with @Illecors@lemmy.cafe to set up midwest.social's email properly. HUGE shout out to them! Gmail and other emails should now work with this instance's email notifications instead of bouncing.

Update: a small issue has been found with the email server that's causing some of the emails to not get delivered. Will take a couple of hours to be fixed. Hang tight.

2nd update: issue has been resolved.

(Feel free to remove if not allowed)

I may be preaching to the choir , but I just wanted to say THANK YOU to the instance moderators and owners.

I really appreciate the welcoming attitude that a lot of our threads hold. I really like the freedom of expression we can have, as well as the disagrements that have helped broaden my worldview. I love that this is slightly more currated to our location in the world, it really helps connect local news with the people that might miss it if you're only scrolling the large social media networks or countrywide news outlets.

I am definitely biased and might be unaware of some problems, but to me the content and members here actually make me want to participate in the conversation.

So uh... yeah. Thank you.

I'm getting an error when I try to attach an image to posts. Am I just too prolific and there's a cool down?

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Ignoring fascists and other bad actors does not stop them from doing bad things and/or radicalizing others. This is a common complaint I see in online communities, and it's a flawed strategy that is a good way to lose ground to bad actors.

For the libs: I understand that hearing about current events involving bad actors that upset you may be annoying but please don't report them for that reason.

For the fascists: kill yourselves. You know what you're doing.

Nobody can tell what your motivation is online but the affect is still the same.

Here is a video essay that explains why ignoring fascists doesn't work. The entire alt-right playbook is worth a watch btw.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

I didn't know where else to post it, sorry. Hopefully the Canadians see this too. We should make sure to have a whole server post on this every year.

I'm not sure if it's just the larger instances getting the brunt of it, or if we've been quietly handling it in the background, but I just wanted to float the question in case it's something you have to be actively looking out for.

I would hate for this community to get taken down due to bad actors elsewhere.