Zamboniman

Uh…there are a lot of people with 5 day old Lemmy accounts, there was literally just a mass influx.

Yup. Me included.

But that doesn't address my point in responding to the question which was wondering about tankies and had the implication this may have come from an established tankie poster on that instance.

Your account is one week old.

Exactly.

Hell, most of the active users of Lemmy before the past week were posting content like this.

Exactly. Hence my remark.

When it breaks the rules, yes.

Isn’t Radio Sputnik Russian state media?

Yes.

This isn't news, it's propaganda, and is misleading to say the least. And the person that posted it is new to Lemmy with a 5 day old account. Probably just a troll.

This:

Article summarized by AI below

and this:

The article argues that artificial intelligence (AI) is not a threat to humanity

is a rather funny juxtaposition of statements. Of course, an evil AI that was a threat to humanity would summarize the article that way!

Hahah, that's awesome. And probably the people who wanted things to stay as normal will begin to get annoyed at all the wolves being posted and maybe go somewhere else.

It's coming. You said that 'it's been fixed in a recent release', but no, it's been fixed in latest version they're working on right now that hasn't been released yet. There is a release candidate being tested, but it has a few bugs still so there will be at least one more release candidate that has to be tested for a bit before being released.

I'm a bit skeptical of 23k real new accounts in the last hour. If true, it's quite something. But, it could be bots, it could be some bug inflating the numbers, it could be somebody taking advantage of the account creation bug someone mentioned earlier.

We'll see.

Yes, it does indeed work okay from here.

User migration as well as community migration in case of instances going into a black hole would indeed be useful features.

The developer isn't using the API. They're scraping according to my question and their response to this above. However, the moderation question is a really good point. The easy workaround for this is just set every new community as 'only moderators can post' and then it's just content read-only.

Use the search function in your instance, and you'll likely have to click the 'search' button twice to bring it in. Put the original URL from the developer's instance in the search, like this:

https://lemmit.online/c/IdiotsInCars

Then you should get a link for it.

You get the 404 because your instance doesn't know about that community yet. It has to be made aware, and then connected to it via you doing the search.

Well, as the bot is the moderator, and as the person running the bot is responsible for it, I suppose that's technically the answer. But it's an excellent question if there are hundreds of communities created and people start posting comments in them. The easy workaround is for the bot to set each new community to read-only (by checking 'only moderators can post'). But, that would be a bit unfortunate as then that limits opportunities to easily chat about it. I suppose cross-posting by someone that wants to comment on it is a solution.