MeanwhileOnGrad Blaze • 18h ago • 97%

A member of the French instance Jlai.lu suggests to defederate hexbear due to their problematic behaviours, including calls to violence. Hexbear members arrive, call for the destruction of Paris

Example (others have been removed as that person has been banned) 

New Communities Blaze • 2d ago • 81%

Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?

Asking as there has been a few comments mentioning this with the new [!stardewvalley@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/c/stardewvalley) taking over [!stardewvalley@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/stardewvalley) [!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/yepowertrippinbastards) for additional context on those recent events if you are interested Also, an older post for more context on how lemmy.ml is managed: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417 Curious to hear other thoughts about this, as I'm trying to keep [!simracing@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/simracing) active, but might suggest to move it elsewhere if a lot of people prefer not to interact with lemmy.ml communities

Ye Power Trippin' Bastards Blaze • 4d ago • 93%

!world@lemmy.world mod states that the MBFC bot is pushed by the instance admins. Instance admin and bot creator denies. Users ask for clarification. Mod ignores.

Disclaimer: The issue here is not completely related to the bot presence, but more about the justification used. People would probably be less annoyed if the mods stated "this is our decision, and it is final", rather than to try to use admins as an excuse. As usual, for people looking for other world news communities - !globalnews@lemmy.zip - !world@quokk.au (warning: single instance admin) https://lemmy.world/comment/12825224 https://lemmy.world/comment/12834553 For other threads about the MBFC bot: - https://lemmy.world/post/19665956 - https://lemmy.world/post/18073105  

Fediverse Blaze • 5d ago • 95%

Alright guys, who shut down their farmbot yesterday? Loss of 70k users (5%), graph might be misleading

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

To discover new communities: - !newcommunities@lemmy.world - !communities@ponder.cat - !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl For a community dedicated to community growing - !fedigrow@lemm.ee

Ye Power Trippin' Bastards Blaze • 7d ago • 95%

!moviesandtv@lemm.ee power trip, and how it lead to !movies@lemm.ee and !showsandmovies@lemm.ee

Tl;dr: - these are old events, 9 months ago. - we have since then mostly moved on, but I still thought it could be interesting to document those in this community - the power trip was a single mod not wanting to discuss how a community should be run and banning people wanting to discuss it - the new communities we created following this power trip (!movies@lemm.ee and !showsandmovies@lemm.ee) are now more active than the initial one Hello everyone, I added the summary of the event in the tl;dr above. If you are here, you probably want to know the details of what happened. #### Starting point As you may remember, there used to be a movie focused instance called lemmy.film. Following its shutdown, a few users were looking for a new movies and TV shows community that would not be on Lemmy.world (if you want to know why some people are against overcentralization on Lemmy.world, you can have a look here: https://lemm.ee/post/30444527 and https://feddit.uk/post/18336398 ) While I was contacting the lemm.ee admins to become mod of the at the time abandoned movies@lemm.ee, another mod (I'll just call them "The mod" in this thread) created !moviesandtv@lemm.ee. We contacted the other people who were on the old lemmy.film communities and started posting. I posted a lot over there, if you sort by Old, you'll see a lot of my posts from back then: https://lemm.ee/c/moviesandtv?dataType=Post&sort=Old - https://files.catbox.moe/vrnv1t.png I was also trying to set up discussion threads as they were things who were missing on Lemmy at the time, and a lot of people were complaining about that - https://files.catbox.moe/75zkck.png I also started asking for a weekly thread "What have you been watching": https://lemm.ee/post/13386100 which was denied. It wasn't a big deal for me, I was mostly focused on growing the community, I assumed that we could revisit that topic later. That was on 31 October 2023. #### Success for the community 12 November, we celebrate our 300 subs: https://lemm.ee/post/14621123 17 November, I start a weekly thread: https://lemm.ee/post/15176837. 7 comments, reasonable success for a first. 26 November, I am appointed as mod: https://lemm.ee/modlog/408863, and start pinning the weekly threads. 4 December, I am removed as mod. I ask the mod to make me mod again (purely because it's easier to pin threads), they never answer. 10 December, I open another thread on how to handle movie discussions: https://lemm.ee/post/17546624 I let it go for 6 weeks, I keep posting, after all, this is more or less okay. By then, the community has around 1100 subscribers. #### The power trip 30 January, I open a thread to discuss with people in the community how they wanted to handle movie reviews: - https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/dc0a56ca-bcca-466b-b351-8815c8ab34c9.png - https://lemm.ee/modlog/408863 The post get removed I open another thread "Are we not allowed to discuss the way this community is managed?" - https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/c1c8fa89-8cad-4914-aec0-c2c30ab70405.jpeg I get banned I use an alt to comment > Hello, As you banned my other account, I am now commenting with this one. I'm not going to comment on this that much, the modlog is public, people interested can have a look at make their own opinions. For history, the two removed posts: (screenshots) I guess we can just conclude that we disagree on how to manage this kind of communities, which is mostly fine, that's what Lemmy is about after all: freedom. I'll probably contact the people interested in review threads (and there seems to be a few, based on the removed threads and the 200 upvotes on the other post) and see it we can offer an alternative for people looking for a more structured community. Good luck Comments gets removed: https://lemm.ee/modlog/408863 The mod then posts how they want to address the community issues: https://lemm.ee/post/22459747 My alt gets banned. Please not that those are permabans. Up to this day, I am still banned on those two accounts from that community. #### The aftermath Let's be honest here, I was a bit annoyed. I had been actively posting to a community, helping building it from scratch from months, to get banned just for asking how we could manage this community better. I reached out to sunaurus, the lemm.ee main admin, who told me that he couldn't do anything, as his admin policy was to not interfere with mod decisions. It's a fair policy that I could understand (even though I was still annoyed). They made me mod of movies@lemm.ee, and I thought I would take it from there. I built !movies@lemm.ee with the same energy I had put in the previous community. I found other people who had seen the drama happening on the other side and wanted to join forces in building another community. I appointed all of them as mods, because why not. Over time, our community became more and more popular, and now has 2.97k monthly active users, while !moviesandtv@lemm.ee has 1.52k The mod had promised to add other mods to the community. They did for 4 months (https://lemm.ee/modlog/408863) but then removed them in June 2024. In the meantime, they also banned another user in April 2024 for similar reasons to the ones used for me: https://lemm.ee/post/30754133 They also removed the AMA we organized in May 2024 on !movies@lemm.ee (https://lemm.ee/post/31335226) because "Unvarified AMA not organized by this community - seems like spam" (https://lemm.ee/modlog/408863) More recently, we started a !showsandmovies@lemm.ee community, which now has 2.35k monthly active users. That's it.

Reddit Blaze • 1w ago • 95%

"It feels like the group has much more to gain from being linked to the subreddit than the subreddit does being linked to group" mod from a local subreddit, when asked to link a non-profit local group

I'm still a mod in my city local subreddit. One of the other mods is also involved in a Whatsapp group which, over time, has evolved to a quite active community, with subgroups dedicated to several topics to help people settling in the city (housing, finance, parenting, etc.) The Whatsapp group has recently requested to add a link to their website in the subreddit sidebar. The mod who is also involved in thee WhatsApp group brought the topic in the mod chat. One of the oldest mods (who isn't even modding that much these days, it's mostly another one single person, poor them btw) replied with the statement in the title. Seems so weird to me to want to gatekeep the FAQ of a subreddit that much. The objective is to help newcomers to the city integrate, why make it difficult to have all pointers in the same place? In addition, this is probably the kind of reactions you'll get when trying to talk about a Lemmy community on a subreddit.

New Communities Blaze • 1w ago • 93%

!dragonball@ani.social, for Dragon Ball discussions, including the new show Dragon Ball Daima!

!dragonball@ani.social

New Communities Blaze • 1w ago • 96%

!simracing@lemmy.ml, for all simulation racing fans!

!simracing@lemmy.ml The community already has 852 subs, but still worth promoting it as it some people might be unaware about it

Reddit Blaze • 2w ago • 98%

Reddit reached the point where AI generated comments are Top Comments

web.archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20241009152430/https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1fzq991/we_reached_the_point_where_ai_generated_comments/ Comment in question 

[@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/The_Picard_Maneuver) [@PugJesus@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/PugJesus) [@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/FlyingSquid)

For the context: https://feddit.org/post/2374543 TL;DR: Aussie.zone has been experiencing a 7-days delay with LW since quite a long time due to the way Lemmy manages federation, and the distance between LW and aussie.zone. Lemmy.world is the only one having such delay, even Lemm.ee which is the second most active instance is up-to-date (same for Lemmy.ml with a lot of active communities) Graphs: * https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=aussie.zone * https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=lemm.ee * https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=lemmy.ml The issue has been solved in 0.19.6 (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4623) which hasn't been released yet. Explanation by [@Nothing4You@programming.dev](https://programming.dev/u/Nothing4You) > lemmy’s current federation implementation works with a sending queue, so it stores a list of activities to be sent in its database. there is a worker running for each linked instance checking if an activity should be sent to that instance, and if it should, then send it. due to how this is currently implemented, this is always only sending a single activity at a time, waiting for this activity to be successfully sent (or rejected), then sending the next one. > an activity is any federation message when an instance informs another instance about something happening. this includes posts, comments, votes, reports, private messages, moderation actions, and a few others. > let’s assume an activity is generated on lemmy.world every second. now every second this worker will send this activity from helsinki to sydney and wait for the response, then wait for the next activity to be available. to simplify things, i’ll skip processing time in this example and just work with raw latency, based on the number you provided. now lemmy.world has to send an activity to sydney. this takes approximately 160ms. aussie.zone immediately responds, which takes 160ms for the response to get back to helsinki. in sum this means the entire process took 320ms. as long as only one activity is generated per second, this is easy to keep up with. still assuming there is no other time needed for any processing, this means about 3.125 activities can be transmitted from lemmy.world to aussie.zone on average. > the real activity generation rate on lemmy.world is quite a bit higher than 3.125 activities per second, and in reality there are also other things that take up some time during this process. over the last 7 days, lemmy.world had an average activity generation rate of about 5.45 activities per second. it is important to note here that not all activities generated on an instance will be sent to all other linked instance, so this isn’t a reliable number of how many activities are actually supposed to be sent to aussie.zone every second, rather an upper limit. for example, for content in a community, lemmy will only send these activities to other instances that have at least one subscriber on the remote instance. although only a fraction of the activities, private messages are another example of an activity that is only sent to a single linked instance. > to answer the original question: the week of delay is simply built up over time, as the amount of lag just keeps growing.

Fedigrow Blaze • 2w ago • 100%

Looking for posters on !showsandmovies@lemm.ee

Hello everyone, [!showsandmovies@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/c/showsandmovies), the non-LW alternative to talk about TV shows, is quite successful (2.08K users / month) It's still mostly me posting the content (by the way, thank you [@realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club](https://thelemmy.club/u/realcaseyrollins), [@reef@lemmy.ca](https://lemmy.ca/u/reef) and [@BrikoX@lemmy.zip](https://lemmy.zip/u/BrikoX) for posting too), so I'm creating this thread hoping that other people interested in the topic would come to post about their favorite shows there too! For mods, we are currently two, so if you want to join feel free to comment on the relevant pinned thread. I created it 1 month ago and never had any comment, but who knows

- [!reddit@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/reddit) - [!reddit@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/reddit) - [!watchredditdie@sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie)