Blahaj Lemmy Meta

Or should I leave it au natural? I never shave.

I saw this morning that firefish.lgbt has been shut down due to a total loss of data.

It is a tragedy and an unfortunate reminder that even though backups are successful, you don't have actually backups until you've tested a full recovery.

This is a friendly reminder to our admins (and other sysadmins), please test your backups and practice recovery protocol. 💖

I wanted to provide a brief analysis of the top comments on blahaj lemmy and compared to lemmy world (who defederated from hexbear preemptively). The red comments favored federation and the blue ones favored defederation.

Initially I was browsing Blahaj Lemmy and couldn't believe how many top comments favored federation.

When I started browsing from Lemmy World (who preemptively defederated) the top comments were way more favorable to defederation. On the top comment, it looks like 50 upvotes (more than half) came from hexbear users.

Whether intentional or not, this is brigading. I'm happy that they're defederated. I really don't think that individual/local blocking is good enough since this has the ability to steer the direction of a lot of discourse, and I'd just not see it, but it would affect our instance the same. The effects of brigading still happen. I'd still see the same number of upvotes that would imply sentiment different to the actual users of the instance.

Also, is there any proper way to see where upvotes come from? I feel like this would be a good tool to vet botting, trolling and brigading. Also instance only communities (though I'm on lemmy.ca rn lmao) would be good.

Lots of people who are seeing top-level postings about Hexbear. Net are probably confused about what has been going on and I want to give an SRD-style overview of the whole thing.
Note: As a user of Blahaj.Zone, I am not a neutral party in this and I do not pretend to be. This is how the whole thing has played out from my perspective.

Hexbear. Net is another Lemmy instance that had relatively recently started to federate with Blahaj.Zone and other Lemmy instances. It had previously been known as Chapo.Chat because it began as an instance for fans of the podcast ChapoTrapHouse.
Recently users from Blahaj.Zone (as well as other Lemmy instances) began to complain about the behavior of Hexbear users. The complaints were about rude, obnoxious behavior: Hexbear users calling people "libs" as an insult, denying crimes of Russia and China, denying the crimes of Stalin,...
Such behavior was not necessarily forbidden on Blahaj.Zone, but certain sub-Lemmys had their own rules on these subjects.
One of the threads about Hexbear: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1854795?scrollToComments=true

After an ever increasing number of users calling for defederating from Hexbear. Net, Ada (admin of Blahaj.Zone) opened a thread to talk about it. The thread was quickly inundated with Hexbear users, complaining in turn about being called out in this way. Though many of their comments exploited a current bug in the Lemmy code which resulted in emoji's being embedded as pictures which results in lots of image spam.
Ada responded by removing top-level comments in the thread which were not from Blahaj.Zone's users, because she wanted to get the feedback of her own community, not from anybody else.
This happened originally in this thread: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1959801

The discussion on Blahaj.Zone was a back and forth: Lots of people calling for "leftist and queer unity", others complaining about getting harassed by Hexbear users.

Meanwhile, elsewhere: Lemm.ee, a Lemmy instance operated and managed by someone from Estonia, also opened a discussion about Hexbear - at least partially motivated by the admin's increasing unease of the rampant denial of soviet atrocities and the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union. Russian propaganda in regards to the war in Ukraine was also an issue.
Lemm.ee was largely encountering similar problems as Blahaj.Zone, though the Lemme.ee admin admitted that the Hexbear admin was generally responsive to reports and complaints.
The thread on Lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/post/4543536

The thread was also flooded with comments from Hexbear users. The admin of Lemm.ee also responded by hiding most of the comments from Hexbear.
https://mastodon.social/@brooklynman/110911292961470110

Back on Blahaj.Zone, a tangent opens up: A Hexbear user complains about c/196, the new home of Reddit's r/196 which had relocated to Blahaj.Zone and has been its biggest community ever since. The Hexbear user complains about their comments being removed, comments that called out the use of the r-word and other call-outs. The user posts pictures of the removal notices.
Blahaj.Zone's admin Ada steps in and intervenes on behalf of the Hexbear user, having a stern word with the c/196 mod responsible for the removal of the comments.
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2136643

A Hexbear admin also gets involved and sends a message to the mods of c/196 demanding the removal of the sub-Lemmy's banner, because it contains "fuck tankies²", arguing that tankies is a slur. The c/196 mod refuses and publishes their message.
[²"Tankies" is a pejorative term for authoritarian socialists in the vein of Stalin and/or Mao.]
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1961004

While the discussion if Blahaj.Zone should defederate from Hexbear is still ongoing, the Hexbear admins defederated from Blahaj.Zone without warning from their side, because of...

unaddressed ableist removals from the /c/196 moderators, defense of chasers, no-quarter rules regarding our users, leakage of good-faith DMs from our admin team, and a general lack of initiative to punish these behavior

In her a response to these events, Ada points out in a comment that she never had the chance to adress the ableist incident (she was in bed) while other issues had happened in the past and had been adressed at the time. Thus she could not react before Hexbear defederated.
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2135406

TL;dr: Blahaj.Zone's users complain about ill behavior of users on Hexbear. Net. A discussion about defederation begins on Blahaj.Zone. Meanwhile Hexbear users complain about Blahaj.Zone in turn and Hexbear. Net defederates instantly and without warning.

Don't let those shitheels from hexbear get you down. I joined in the 196wave but I've stayed because blahaj is the safe trans affirming space I need right now, and from what I've seen you've been a key voice in making that happen. Thank you for all the hard work you do!

Thoughts?

Hello Blahaj users,

Unfortunately we have been discussing defederation. I would like for this to be sorted out, but our trans and disabled users deserve to be protected from transphobia and ableism. We know these are behaviors are perpetrated by a minority of Blahaj users, but they are tolerated here in the form of the 196 community. Of course, most Hexbear users are willing to re-federate once this bigoted community is removed. The admin Ada has been very helpful and I have faith in her to do the right thing for the safety of her community members.

In the meantime, I would like to extend an invitation to all leftists here to make an account on Hexbear. As long as you are anti-capitalist, you will be welcome there. We are hyper-inclusive and are strict against all forms of bigotry. There has been much disinformation spread about us, so if you have good faith questions, feel free to ask. We are not “pro-Russia” as many of our detractors claim, we are anti-NATO, as they perpetuate the amerikan empire. Please ask us anything in this thread!

We hope this defederation is temporary, or better yet, never comes. We do not wish to split two large queer instances just weeks after federating, but we must do what we think is right.

Trans rights forever!

This is an admin post, intended for blahaj lemmy users. Top level posts from members of other instances will be removed.

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Edit - Hexbear announced plans to deferedate from us.

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~~After recent events, it feels to me that sentiment has shifted and more people are asking for defederation of hexbear than previously~~

~~I've been doing my best to try and mend bridges and keep us connected, as it's my hope that we can maintain trans solidarity and work with them, despite the friction, however, ultimately, I feel that this is an issue for the blahaj lemmy community to decide, not the admins alone~~

~~So here's what we're going to do~~

~~We're going to leave things as they are for a week. That will give time for things to calm down whilst we see if we can work together. After a week, I'll put up a vote and get a feel for where the community is at in regards to our continued federation with hexbear. That poll will run for a week. If there is a strong will to defederate (a clear majority), then that's what we will do~~

I figured since their admin has asked them to stop participating over here it may be worthwhile to get a new discussion going that is primarily blahaj. I'm almost certain they'll still be upvoting so keep that in mind as that may skew things. Worthwhile to check in from instances that have already defederated them. The previous thread definitely left a bad taste in my mouth but what do y'all think?

Old thread can be found here

EDIT: With regards to the post on new federation guidelines here: https://hexbear.net/post/352119

The current top comment is:

Every instance that has talked shit and got dogpiled should be thanking us for breathing some life into their dead and boring ass websites.

So somehow I can't change my display name. When I go to settings I can change the value, but when I click save and refresh, the old value is still there. I have this problem for a few weeks already, so I don't think I'm just too impatient. It seems to be similar for other settings like 2FA, but it'd especially annoying for the name, bc I now can't set my chosen name. Does anyone else have a similar problem? Do you know a workaround? Can I help fixing the problem?

I’m not sure what’s going on over there, but half the time I see a post from there or go into a comment section and it’s just…bad. Like old reddit the_donald bad. Constant trolling, etc. You TS just really bad vibes. I’ve been blocking the communities as they come up, but I’m not sure what else I can do.

Been trying to upload photos using both Firefox mobile browser & Liftoff app, but both do not appear to be working.

Does not work when attempting to upload both as a post and uploading in post body.

Checked in other instances, and I am able to upload images there.

Do I need special permissions or something? Please let me know!

I took some screenshots of error messages, but obviously I am unable to upload then, so.

User profiles and banners appear blank for me. No error or anything just blank. Both my own profile and other profiles seem to be affected. I've tried logging out, using another browser, clearing cookies and it doesn't seem to change.

Was it an update or a DDos attack?

The server will be briefly down while we install a new updated version of lemmy and restart it.

The maintenance window is 15 minutes, but should be much shorter.

This user is spamming the same comment over and over @googa@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Let me know if there is a more proper way to notify these issues.

kbin has an issue at the moment. As a software platform, it was not ready for the huge influx of users that came with the reddit migration.

As such, it doesn't have robust moderation tools, and one of the biggest issues is that an instance can only have a single admin. In the case of kbin.social, the admin is also the lead dev of the kbin software project as a whole.

I love kbin, I love the project and what it stands for, and I think ernest has created an amazing platform that I has more potential than lemmy. But in the here and now, kbin.social is woefully under moderated. It has been a large source of spam, and harbours active transphobes and transphobic communities that are effectively unmoderated.

So, Blåhaj Lemmy folk, I'm seeking your feedback. Would you rather we defederate until the kbin moderation tools are improved, or stay connected and deal with the bigotry and spam on our end as best we can?

See this thread on kbin.social for a ongoing discussion about the issue https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/304907

Edit - So far, it seems that most of the spam etc isn't making it through to people, which is great! It means we can keep things going as they are without it impacting people too much. Please use this thread to let me know if that changes though

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Please note, this discussion is intended for Blåhaj Lemmy users to provide feedback. Top Level comments made from instances other than Blåhaj Lemmy will be removed. If you are from an external instance, you are welcome to engage in the discussion, but I request that you do so in reply to other comments.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/298905

Communist Party USA on the foundation of the multi-racial working class and the organizing and activism behind it as it relates to party-building.

Video is about an hour long.

Check it out.

I just got this error message when trying to upload my profile picture. Like, really?

I'm trying to report a post that's an obvious ad over on !196 but the submit button is just spinning forever

Title, also I'm not sure if this post will even work if the instance is down but I figured it was worth a shot.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1596703

Total number of pixels placed by each instance. This includes ones that have been overwritten.

Edit: Added undo section

Undo	Placed	Domain
5673	264489	lemmy.world
890	56092	feddit.de
704	35315	lemmy.blahaj.zone
510	28312	lemm.ee
369	23844	sh.itjust.works
312	22568	lemmy.ml
224	15470	lemmy.ca
223	13954	toast.ooo
165	12916	programming.dev
194	12106	lemmy.zip
218	10057	beehaw.org
92	9109	lemmy.nz
129	8186	discuss.tchncs.de
131	7039	aussie.zone
20	5980	pawb.social
82	5896	mander.xyz
21	5571	jlai.lu
62	4973	feddit.nl
10	4492	nano.garden
84	4450	lemmy.dbzer0.com
119	4413	sopuli.xyz
97	3703	startrek.website
49	3246	lemmy.fmhy.net
33	3214	feddit.ch
68	3101	ani.social
26	3100	feddit.nu
18	2906	monero.town
30	2692	lemy.lol
18	2577	lemmy.sdf.org
80	2526	feddit.it
27	2446	infosec.pub
5	2294	lemmy.henknet.org
6	2213	lemmynsfw.com
17	1941	reddthat.com
4	1820	kerala.party
24	1731	lib.lgbt
12	1726	no.lastname.nz
20	1726	lemmy.mariusdavid.fr
12	1571	slrpnk.net
38	1347	feddit.dk
2	1332	bookwormstory.social
9	1269	discuss.online
2	1239	lemmy.sidh.bzh
36	1232	fl0w.cc
9	1211	lemmy.eco.br
38	1170	geddit.social
3	1122	szmer.info
11	1118	social.dn42.us
30	1104	lemmy.one
2	985	postit.quantentoast.de
38	982	lemdro.id
1	924	burggit.moe
22	921	midwest.social
3	851	lemmy.pt
1	838	mtgzone.com
6	704	lemmy.federated.club
0	663	casavaga.com
1	603	pornlemmy.com
0	570	lemmyrs.org
20	568	yiffit.net
0	513	lemmy.shtuf.eu
0	467	lemmings.world
10	455	lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
5	444	red.cyberhase.de
9	434	lemmy.atay.dev
1	350	lemmy.ananace.dev
24	325	monyet.cc
12	269	lemmy.johnnei.org
0	254	wired.bluemarch.art
1	233	lemmy.myserv.one
0	221	l.antiope.link
15	219	lemmy.fan
2	213	lemmy.today
1	208	pricefield.org
1	208	lemmy.douwes.co.uk
0	194	fost.hu
2	181	dubvee.org
1	158	lemmy.jigoku.us.to
0	146	lm.bittervets.org
2	136	waveform.social
0	134	lemmy.name
1	129	discuss.as200950.com
2	128	lemmy.shinomoroll.net
0	121	lemmus.org
1	119	nebu.land
0	112	lemmygrad.ml
1	107	thegarden.land
0	102	lemmy.tf
0	101	lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com
0	99	endlesstalk.org
0	95	czech-lemmy.eu
3	92	lemmy.dcmrobertson.com
0	89	lemmy.cat
1	86	lemmy.horwood.cloud
0	84	ttrpg.network
0	70	lemmy.comfysnug.space
	69	lemmy.dormedas.com
	56	etaorion.org
	55	compuverse.uk
	49	lemmy.sdfeu.org
	44	jemmy.jeena.net
	39	outpost.zeuslink.net
	38	rabbitea.rs
	37	lemmy.place
	37	lemmy.lukeog.com
	29	lemmy.studio
	24	orbiting.observer
	23	lzrprt.sbs
	13	thelemmy.club
	12	lmmy.net
	12	feddit.jcm.re
	9	lemmy.federa.net
	9	lemmy.dynatron.me
	7	lemmy.stuart.fun
	6	lemmy.felixperron.com
	6	lemm.live
	3	l.henlo.fi
	3	lemmy.tiebe.dev
	3	i.d0ntknow.me
	2	sha1.nl
	2	l.rickebo.com
	2	lm.paradisus.day
	2	lemmy.secnd.me
	2	lemmy.potatoe.ca
	2	leminal.space
	1	prxs.site
	1	lmmy.dk
	1	lemmy.timwaterhouse.com
	1	lemmy.run
	1	lemmy.loomy.li
	1	lemmy.kde.social
	1	lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

All actions:

spoiler

Actions	Instance
270946	lemmy.world
57002	feddit.de
36019	lemmy.blahaj.zone
28898	lemm.ee
24286	sh.itjust.works
22880	lemmy.ml
15694	lemmy.ca
14630	toast.ooo
13081	programming.dev
12300	lemmy.zip
10275	beehaw.org
9201	lemmy.nz
8324	discuss.tchncs.de
7170	aussie.zone
6000	pawb.social
5978	mander.xyz
5592	jlai.lu
5035	feddit.nl
4534	lemmy.dbzer0.com
4532	sopuli.xyz
4502	nano.garden
3800	startrek.website
3371	lemmy.fmhy.net
3247	feddit.ch
3169	ani.social
3126	feddit.nu
2924	monero.town
2722	lemy.lol
2606	feddit.it
2595	lemmy.sdf.org
2473	infosec.pub
2299	lemmy.henknet.org
2250	lemmynsfw.com
2038	reddthat.com
1824	kerala.party
1755	lib.lgbt
1746	lemmy.mariusdavid.fr
1738	no.lastname.nz
1583	slrpnk.net
1383	feddit.dk
1355	discuss.online
1334	bookwormstory.social
1241	lemmy.sidh.bzh
1238	fl0w.cc
1220	lemmy.eco.br
1208	geddit.social
1134	lemmy.one
1129	social.dn42.us
1125	szmer.info
1093	lemdro.id
987	postit.quantentoast.de
943	midwest.social
925	burggit.moe
854	lemmy.pt
839	mtgzone.com
710	lemmy.federated.club
663	casavaga.com
604	pornlemmy.com
588	yiffit.net
570	lemmyrs.org
513	lemmy.shtuf.eu
470	lemmings.world
457	lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
449	red.cyberhase.de
443	lemmy.atay.dev
351	lemmy.ananace.dev
349	monyet.cc
281	lemmy.johnnei.org
254	wired.bluemarch.art
234	lemmy.myserv.one
234	lemmy.fan
221	l.antiope.link
215	lemmy.today
209	pricefield.org
209	lemmy.douwes.co.uk
194	fost.hu
183	dubvee.org
159	lemmy.jigoku.us.to
146	lm.bittervets.org
138	waveform.social
134	lemmy.name
130	discuss.as200950.com
128	lemmy.shinomoroll.net
121	lemmus.org
120	nebu.land
112	lemmygrad.ml
108	thegarden.land
102	lemmy.tf
101	lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com
99	endlesstalk.org
95	lemmy.dcmrobertson.com
95	czech-lemmy.eu
89	lemmy.cat
87	lemmy.horwood.cloud
84	ttrpg.network
70	lemmy.comfysnug.space
69	lemmy.dormedas.com
57	etaorion.org
55	compuverse.uk
49	lemmy.sdfeu.org
44	jemmy.jeena.net
42	rabbitea.rs
39	outpost.zeuslink.net
38	lemmy.lukeog.com
37	lemmy.place
29	lemmy.studio
24	orbiting.observer
23	lzrprt.sbs
18	lemmy.federa.net
13	thelemmy.club
13	feddit.jcm.re
12	lmmy.net
9	lemmy.dynatron.me
9	lemm.live
7	lemmy.stuart.fun
6	lemmy.felixperron.com
3	l.henlo.fi
3	lemmy.tiebe.dev
3	i.d0ntknow.me
2	sha1.nl
2	l.rickebo.com
2	lm.paradisus.day
2	lemmy.secnd.me
2	lemmy.potatoe.ca
2	leminal.space
1	prxs.site
1	lmmy.dk
1	lemmy.timwaterhouse.com
1	lemmy.run
1	lemmy.loomy.li
1	lemmy.kde.social
1	lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

Thank you to everyone!!

Link to canvas: https://canvas.toast.ooo

Last 11hrs as of now!