Lemmy Support

No body, all title

edit: actually, I can access other communities on .world, which means I'm probably banned? How to check and contact mods about it? Pretty sure I haven't broken any rules

edit 2: found the modlog and I haven't found anything about mods banning me

I filled out a form to crosspost to [email protected], clicked create, and the create button turns into a spinner. Forever.

F12 » console gives:

Source map error: Error: request failed with status 400

Resource URL: https://links.hackliberty.org/css/themes/darkly-red.css

Source Map URL: darkly-red.css.map

#lemmyBug

seems my account banned in lemmy.ml

but did i do anything which unrespect or what?

i did not get any messages can explain this situation. really confused.

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

I was made moderator of the /c/TrueAnon on the lemmy.ml instance a while ago, and none of my actions have ever federated to lemmy.ml, so I gave up. Thought I'd try again after this upgrade and still no dice. The response I'm getting back from the API when I try to add my lemmy.ml account to moderator status is "not_a_moderator." Is this a transient federation issue or are there more fixes required for this scenario to work correctly?

When a Lemmy search finds the keyword(s) in the comments, it doesn't show the title of the original post (thread title). You have to open the thread and jump to the top to get that context. Could the thread title be listed in the results somehow? Maybe the result "listing" could be expanded to a second line, but it would probably work just as well to tuck it behind one of the links you can hover with a mouse.

Ive been hosting a lemmy Instance for about 2 months and it grew to about 50 gigs. A lot of that storage seems to come from image cache. Whats the best way to only delete cache and keep my uploaded images?

The problem:

The web has obviously reached a high level of #enshitification. Paywalls, exclusive walled gardens, #Cloudflare, popups, CAPTCHAs, tor-blockades, dark patterns (esp. w/cookies), javascript that makes the website an app (not a doc), etc.

Status quo solution (failure):

#Lemmy & the #threadiverse were designed to inherently trust humans to only post links to non-shit websites, and to only upvote content that has no links or links to non-shit venues.

It’s not working. The social approach is a systemic failure.

The fix:

• stage 1 (metrics collection): There needs to be shitification metrics for every link. Readers should be able to click a “this link is shit” button on a per-link basis & there should be tick boxes to indicate the particular variety of shit that it is.

• stage 2 (metrics usage): If many links with the same hostname show a pattern of matching enshitification factors, the Lemmy server should automatically tag all those links with a warning of some kind (e.g. ⚠, 💩, 🌩).

• stage 3 (inclusive alternative): A replacement link to a mirror is offered. E.g. youtube → (non-CF’d invidious instance), cloudflare → archive.org, medium.com → (random scribe.rip instance), etc.

• stage 4 (onsite archive): good samaritans and over-achievers should have the option to provide the full text for a given link so others can read the article without even fighting the site.

• stage 5 (search reranking): whenever a human post a link and talks about it, search crawlers notice and give that site a high ranking. This is why search results have gotten lousy -- because the social approach has failed. Humans will post bad links. So links with a high enshitification score need to be obfuscated in some way (e.g. dots become asterisks) so search crawlers don’t overrate them going forward.

This needs to be recognized as a #LemmyBug.

In this comment my use of the “b” word was overzealously suppressed, silently without telling me. I only discovered it when re-reading my post.

There are THREE #LemmyBug cases here:

1. when the “b” word is used as a verb, it’s not a slur. And when it’s used as a noun, it’s only a slur if not literally referring to a dog.

2. my post was tampered with without even telling me. Authors should be informed when their words are manipulated and yet still presented to others as their own words.

3. The word “removed” cannot simply replace any word. It makes my sentence unreadable. In the very least, the word should be “REDACTED”, and there should be a footnote added that explains /why/ it was redacted.

Hey! So I posted today with my main account, @[email protected], to [email protected] but after an hour it showed no signs of activity. No upvotes, no downvotes, no nothing. So I checked the modlog just in case and there seemed to be no sign that anything was removed or that I was banned. So I made a post to this community on that same account detailing the issue. Post also vanished. I checked with a fellow poster from Startrek.Website and he couldn't see my posts but his went through.

I was just wondering if there was a federation problem going on or something else? If I was banned then I'm not sure why but I would accept it. I'm just not sure what's going on. Help?

Edit: Well, nevermind I guess. Evidently I've been banned. It would have been really nice to know what I did wrong though or to at least been given a warning. Sorry for whatever I did wrong. Take care.

Censorship is absolutely rampant on Lemmy. I don't post particularly controversial stuff, but I am an active commenter and I've noticed that mods will just wipe my comments or those of others on a whim. I think this is a huge issue and one of the biggest downsides about switching from reddit. I very rarely had comments removed on reddit and when I did I received a notice at least. This seemingly secretive wipe of comments sometimes a full day later feels very oppressive. Anyway, I know they show up in the mod log, but that's certainly not a place I want to scour on a regular basis. Is there any easy way to setup a monitor to at least alert me if one of my posts or comments are removed? I think mods should be required to contact users and provide an explanation - right now its way too much power for mods to be curating content so heavily.

I made the mistake of trying to use 2FA for the lemmy.ml account. Please can the lemmy.ml admin contact me via email to arrange a fix. I'm guessing you'll have to turn it off. I've tried just doing a password reset but it didn't turn off the 2FA so there is no way to recovery from this.

Looks like the same this as this person experienced: https://lemmy.zip/post/117311

No info on who, what or why

Modlog finds my account but doesn't link to anything to find out more:

mod Banned @boredtortoise from the community World [email protected]

reason: Sinophobia

expires: in 5 years

Edit: as the larger issue, when incorrect mod actions happen, shouldn't Lemmy have a system for handling those? Both transparency to the users, and ways to forward the action for an admin to fix

follow up from: https://lemm.ee/post/9562431

I ended up starting over on a t2.medium with Ubuntu and Lemmy 0.18.5.

Still following: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/from_scratch.html

I had to make a few adjustments but that got me as far as:

nginx -s reload

But when I try to point a browser at my host, I don't get a config screen, just a JSON doc. I haven't been able to find anything in the logs that seems suspicious.

The only thing I did notice was that "id", "inbox", and "outbox" all have the wrong value. They all use:

https://lemmy.[mydomain]

instead of

https://lemmytests.[mydomain] (which is the correct name)

@[email protected] Was super helpful on my last post. I hope I can invoke their favor again.

In case anyone is wondering, it's rqd2.

The definition of paraphilia is "a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities.", which can inclde pedophilia.

It has recieved 4 censures from fediseer due to the content contained on that instance

Not a good look for Lemmy to be promoting any instance like that.

You can see for yourself here

Update: A pull request was sent to remove the sus instance. It should no longer show up soon

Actually I have an account in another instance but i have trouble logging in, I think I may have enabled 2FA for login but i dont remember any token number for 2FA. Is there any possible way to disable the 2FA and Login into account. Note: I also used email id for the login but didn't receive any token number in mail.

Let's say I'm interested in all kinds of Technology, but literally in nothing that is being published by www.theverge.com.

Is there a way to block all posts with links to that site?

Preferably on Firefox, as I don't use an app.

Hi, I have a bot that I use to mirror posts from one of my favourite Reddit communities onto Lemmy ([email protected]), since there are not enough active users on lemmy for the community to be self-sufficient just yet. Still, it seems it was popular as the reposts were getting upvotes.

My bot got banned from lemmy.ml 3 days ago so I just wanted to ask why. Is there a rule against Reddit reposters (and where)? Is this a lemmy.ml policy or a Lemmy-wide policy?

Thanks

Go to Settings > Scroll Down > Tick Show Read Posts > SAVE

Solution:

Without being logged in:

PS: I also have an account on sh.itjust.works and this shit just works over there.

When creating a post, is there an instance-agnostic way to do that, or is best practice just to put the [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) in the text field?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/9588905

Lemmy is licensed under the AGPLv3. I don't want to rely solely on my own legal interpretation of the license, so I'm wondering if anyone has any explicit knowledge on the matter.

As an aside, am I correct in assuming that, if someone does make changes to the source code, they must host, and link to it?

EDIT (2023-09-27T22:22Z): I am just now seeing that at the bottom of a Lemmy instance's site, there is a link that says "Code". It appears that this is handled automatically.

нужна реализация языка постов в лемми (и клиент-приложениях)

need a language implementation at posts in lemmy (and client applications)

I'm working on an idea to improve comment sorting and I need to be able to get Lemmy running from source so I can implement and test it.

Right now I'm stuck on a fairly basic (I hope) problem.

I'm mostly following https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/from_scratch.html I'm running it on Debian instead of Ubuntu but I don't think that's the problem. (specifically a t2.small with the AWS Debian image). I'm also using 0.18.4 instead of 0.18.2. I also haven't (yet) done the possibly optional step of editing postgres config to allow password authentication instead of peer authentication.

Everything seems fine until I start Lemmy. After I run

systemctl enable lemmy; systemctl start lemmy

I try

curl -I localhost:8536/api/0.18.4/site

But I get:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
content-length: 0
vary: Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers
date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:51:51 GMT

When I check

journalctl -u lemmy

It does contain:

Starting http server at 127.0.0.1:8536

There are still a bunch of things I'll be trying but I wanted to check if this is a well known problem with a simple solution.

EDIT: I was able to solve this by going into the "change password" screen, right-clicking the "old password" field, clicking "inspect", and changing maxlength="60" minlength="10" to maxlength="60" minlength="1", thanks to the tip provided by Dandroid in the comments.

When I try to login, the following message appears: "Please use at least 10 characters (you are currently using # characters)." Ditto when I try to change my password.

This issue affects me when trying to log in from Firefox and Chromium, in Linux. When trying to log in from Firefox in Android, I can't but no message is given. It does not affect Jerboa or Voyager, but I can't change my password from either.

Any idea on how to solve this? When I created this account 2y ago I was just checking Lemmy out, so I didn't bother with a strong password back then, but this has become a ticking bomb. I'm currently able to access Lemmy from Firefox due to saved credentials, but I'm worried about them eventually expiring.

Pictures showing the issue:


(My actual password isn't 6 chars long, but the error message is the same.)