this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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I love it!
99.999999% of the time I see a giant image I block the user because they're annoying...
That shit is just too perfect tho
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Thanks for the transparency, sad to hear as always to see a country specific instance to go unmanaged
Edit: I guess a few people will miss !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl from @freamon@endlesstalk.org
New home: !trendingcommunities@endlesstalk.org
Will probably post to both for a while, until we have some kind of resolution.
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You can still go to the instance and read it, subscribe to it from a non-defederated instance, or even create an account there directly.
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Sucks to see my home countries instance isnβt being moderated properly
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Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it seems like everytime .world defeds from a problematic instance, it's almost immediately smashed with DDOS attacks.
The beauty of lemmy as I see it though IS the federation, if .world is down no worries, I'll just browse on sopuli.xyz or any of the multitude of other instances :) we are like a sexy hydra of positivity.
You guys are very transparent and that's great. Thanks for keeping us in the loop.
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Good to be back! π π₯³
It's funny that this post on feddit.nl has 20 upvotes. It doesn't catch up once the federation starts again. I thought it would tbh
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They've already replied with the reasons, but - for future reference - if you want to see specifics of things like this, a censure is often posted to https://fediseer.com. .world's censure of .nl is here
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Thanks for all you do!
Somewhat related: any word on re-enabling image uploads? I understand completely why you had to do it, just wondering if there's a roadmap?
Image uploads had an issue a while ago but should be working. Which client are you using?
Oh, sorry I haven't tried in a while. Looks like it's back up! Thanks!
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Well thatβs disappointing, but glad the lemmy.world team are making sure they are on top of it and keeping transparency with all that you do. Thank you.
Hiya! Question, is there a way we can see this sort of information ourselves as well? Namely, reports and admin activity logs.
Whatβs to stop an instance, then a collection of instances and so on from claiming others arenβt being actively moderated in order to censor?
Not making any accusations obviously, just a thought I had while reading.
I mean, it's easy to go over to feddit.nl and see they only have one admin who has not been active in almost two weeks.
Full transparancy: the abuse we were dealing with from that instance was vote manipulation and worse, csam. Especially in the case of csam we can not wait for days for a reaction.
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The modlog for the entire instance is available in a link at the bottom and the sidebar on the main page. Everything should be there.
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Part of the problem is the instance's open registrations which do not require you to enter an e-mail address during signup.
How is this even a thing? Why would the Lemmy software even allow operation like this?
Back when I signed up for reddit, you didn't need an email and they warned you if you lost your password you'd be locked out of your account until you regained it and they would not offer support to reset it
I liked that. I don't want to have to submit my email for everything just to interact
One of the reasons I have my own email domain and random email addresses for certain services.
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Let's be real - an email address doesn't really stop much of anything. Anyone can really easily spin up new email addresses freely.
Yeah I still don't have an email associated with my reddit account. Which shocks people... although I haven't logged on in months, so maybe it's now required for legacy accounts
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Sadly yeah. We absolutely should use email signup because it filters our the absolute lowest effort bots, but it does nothing against higher quality bots or humans. Not only can you easily spin up new emails on the fly, but many emails allow ways to make the email appear unique (eg, Gmail ignores dots and anything after the + sign), there's plenty of temporary email services with a variety of domains, and if you own a domain, you can trivially create unlimited emails until they catch on and ban the entire domain.
Inactive admins are also an issue, but if malicious users are determined enough, it doesn't matter that much how active an admin is. An active admin can mostly help by making IP banning an option (imperfect, but will work on many humans) and can temporarily turn on approvals to make it easier to weed out low hanging fruit. Nothing will work against someone determined enough, but could at least reduce how many instances they can turn to.
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Lemmy is open source. Everyone can modify it to fit their needs.
Because anyone running it can decide to do it this way. That's how code works; you can edit it. Even if the option wasn't there, if any instance admin wants that to happen it's easy to do.
Last I checked, even Reddit allows signups without an email addressβ¦
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It seems like the user who posted the csam has been banned, does that mean the admin/mod is active again?
With the nature of the recent attacks I think it makes perfect sense to take strong precautions necessary to protect the community. Can always refederate when/if the admin gets ahold of the situation.
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