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Is there any chance that Divisions by zero could run an onion service so that its users could get the extra anonymity/privacy benefits that come with it when browsing over Tor? For comparison, Reddit also runs an onion service.

There is a setup guide for doing this with lemmy, which was published just a few days ago, at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/tor_hidden_service.html

This is my current attempt at preparing to counter the spam waves that will be appearing as the fediverse becomes more and more popular.

It involves the creation of whitelists based on a chain of trust between instances with easy ways to add and remove into it with few overheads.

Let me know what you think and if you're interested, please do register your instance at https://overctrl.dbzer0.com.

Recently torrented a copy of the game. Full package with all DLCs and bonus content – yet I see nothing except the TAG1 and TAG2 DLCS; Even the Cultist Base Master Level with the Rip and Tear DLC is not present. Any help regarding this?

For instance say I post a guide on how to do something related to piracy...should I be concerned that my IP is being logged? I understand if it is logged it is most likely saved on the instance server I'm posting on. What I'm asking is if I should be constantly using a VPN while browsing or posting on instances?

The botted account proliferation is escalating fast. Almost all top instances one can see in the fediverse observer are now bot-filled ones

I contacted their team to ask them to gather more details so that we can use the Overseer to combat this in advance, but they're disinterested in helping so no assist will come from there. Fairly disheartening I must say.

I was not planning to get into this sort of api polling, so I'll have to see how feasible it is for me to develop it the overseer itself.

Obligatory "I'm a reddit refugee and have no idea what I'm doing."

When I try to login it gives an error, but I know for a fact the credentials are correct. Does Jerboa only support certain instances?

Same thing with the desktop site (using FireFox and ublock origin)

Is there anything I can do about this?

Any help is appreciated, thanks :)

Hey everyone, you may have noticed that some of us have been raising alarms about the amount of spam accounts being created on insufficiently protected instances.

As I wanted to get ahead of this before we're shoulders deep in spam, I developed a small service which can be used to parse the Lemmy Fediverse Observer and retrieve instances which are suspicious enough to block.

The Overseer provides fully documented REST API which you can use to retrieve the instances in 3 different formats. One with all the info, one with just the names, and one as a csv you can copy-paste into your defederation setting. You can even adjust the level of suspicion you want to have.

Not only that, I also developed a python script which you can edit and run and it will automatically update your defederation list. You can set that baby to run on a daily schedule and it will take care that any new suspicious instances are also caught and any servers that cleared up their spam accounts will be recovered.

I plan to improve this service further. Feel free to send me ideas and PRs.

Checked the fediverse observer and I see a lot instances with barely any activity skyrocketing to the top of registered users. I can only surmise they're being flooded with spam accounts and haven't noticed.

Example: https://cubing.social/

How much should we worry about this? Should we be taking pre-emptive steps to defederate them to avoid those spam accounts being utilized against the threadiverse?

The spam problem is already on our doostep and we need to seriously start considering how we're going to handle it ASAP. We need to take knowledge from how email dealt with it and find ways to quickly distribute knowledge about spam instances.

Currently, I get one copy of each notification from 'here' (where I happen to have this account) for each tab under https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ that I have opened.

This is a major inconvenience; and - I guess - at this time a not-yet implemented feature.

Beyond the issue tracker (or a PR), is there a forum/community (on Lemmy...?) to discuss such enhancements / dev/programming of and around Lemmy?

When you post or comment in some of the bigger communities like Piracy or ADHD Memes it might appear as if your post is hanging.

This is misleading! The comment or post still goes through after a second or two, but the UI is buggy at the moment. You can leave it "spinning" for a while and hope it returns, or just reload the page.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/151060

Someone recently asked if there was a neat way to see where all of the now broken down subreddits moved.

Some moved to Discord, some to Lemmy, and some are somewhere else.

This seems to be a good place to find your communities again: https://sub.rehab/

If you create a community and you invite a mod from another instance, and that mod edits that community description, then that community's local url will break. By local url I mean the one where you go to https:instance.tld/c/community_name. The community will also not appear in "local communities".

However the "remote" url will work. This is the one which is formatted like https://instance.tld/c/community_name@instance.tld

You can currently (19/06/2023) see this effect in !piracy@lemmy.ml (See working version)

The fix is pretty simple, you just need to set the "local" field in your postgresql DB to true. It's a single command inside your postgresql

update community set local='t' where actor_id='https://instance.tld/c/community_name';

If you don't know how to enter your postgresql DB in docker, this is the command

docker exec -it <postgres-container-name> psql -U <db user> -d <db name>

So for example, if I wanted to fix https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/flashcarts, I would write:

update community set local='t' where actor_id='https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/flashcarts';

Obviously try to avoid remote mods editing community descriptions if you can help it.

You know that little information thing below posts telling you which other communities a specific post has been posted to?

That one, won't appear if you crosspost a pure-text post. Sure you'll get a link in the body, but lemmy won't "intuitively" know the two posts are connected.

By using an image in the URL of the post, not only do you give your text post a thumbnail, but you allow lemmy to easier link them together when cross-posting.

If you're wondering "But where the hell do I find an image for each post", well, Generative AI to the rescue! I always just fire up Lucid Creations and use it to generate something fitting to the subject, or just something pretty at 768x512.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/276633

Been using this one for over a decade. Works with Firefox's bookmark keywords feature.

Make a new bookmark, set the link as follows:

https://lemmy.world/c/%s (or your own Lemmy instance)

And in the "Keyword" field, use "c" or "lemmy" or whatever.

Now, when you want to visit a specific Lemmy community on your home instance, you can simply type:

"c community_name" in the address bar, or "lemmy community_name" in Firefox and it will automatically open the community.

Literally the only community missing from reddit. I and many other unix users need to share screenshots or else we'll die from ligma.

I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this, but I'm having problems setting my profile picture. I get 2 different error messages:

• When I upload the picture and hit save: TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.

• When I upload the picture and don't do anything after: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

  (The console says the error happened in handleImageUpload)

Hey y'all I wanted to make something clear. While the lemmy.dbzer0.com allows anyone to create community because I feel there's a lot of creativity to be found by giving people this freedom, I also don't want a sea of flotsam in our communities list.

So while I'm not going to shut down community creation, I am planning to start curating the available communities a bit more from now on.

What it means for you is that if you plan to create a community, I expect you to actually have a plan to grow it. Not just register the name so that you squat on it and hope other join so that you end up the top mod other users built-up.

Practically this means that we expect to see some activity on those communities, a sidebar that explains what it's about, reasonable names and titles etc. Please also do the effort of adding a banner and an Icon. I've developed a free Generative AI art tool you can use even!

Communities which we perceive to be abandoned or squatting will be summarily purged. My plan for now is to purge empty communities within 1 week after giving a warning. I haven't decided how to deal with communities which have posts and subscribers yet, but if it's inactive long enough and the amount of posts is trivially small, I'll probably start purging those within a month. I do not think I'll purge communities with significant amount of posts and subscribers however.

I also plan to post a report about purged communities when we do so, so that people are aware.

Thanks for reading. Let's try to keep the quality of the divisions by zero sufficiently high.

Was a little confusing at first to get this app set up but I think I finally got it. It's messed up to hear what's going on with reddit for sure but I am here to support a fellow pirate anyway I can. Thank you good sir.

Y'all are blowing my mind rn

First post here from a new Lemmy user and Reddit refugee. Figured I’d try out a message that says “thanks” for setting up and running this cool instance for us - I bet it’s a lot of work. I never spent a penny at Reddit, but I donated here. To my fellow shipmates I’d encourage you to donate your time or money as well to our captain ;)

Pretty much the title just interests me which country.

Once the current surge of users due to me hitting the reddit frontpage I plan to upgrade to 0.17.4 and I hope this helps with the slow comment posts I've been noticing.

I'm not quite sure why the lemmy.dbzer0.com feels slow, even though my servers do not appear overloaded, so I'm going to try that out.

If you think something else might be the problem, lemme know.

Fitting that It's about me being demodded from reddit?