Just an explorer in the threadiverse.
Are you aware of the modlog? Post removals generally do have an explanation. There's a handy one in your case:
Discussion on how to pirate games is not allowed. We'll update the rules to be more transparent about this.
https://sopuli.xyz/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost&userId=1683334
OP is claiming that they agree with lemmy world's defederation choices driven by CSAM, which is unquestionably nonsense. Lemmy world admins have made several in depth posts explaining defederation decisions and none of them had anything to do with CSAM. In some jurisdictions, it would likely be illegal to give such an explanation as it would amount to creating a pointer to a source of CSAM that hasn't yet been taken down. By and large, these things are reported directly to law enforcement and cleaned up quietly, without showing up in modlogs... and in many jurisdictions the law REQUIRES handling CSAM in precisely that fashion in order to prevent it from being archived before it's taken down.
Is there a non-zero amount of CSAM in the Fediverse? Sadly yes. Once you achieve a certain scale, people do all the things... even the bad ones. This research paper (from Stanford, it's reputable and doesn't include or link to CSAM) discusses finding, in a sample of 320k Mastodon posts, over 100 verified samples of CSAM and something like 1k-3k likely adjacent posts (for example that use associated keywords). It's pretty likely that somewhere on Lemmy there are a non-zero number of such posts, unfortunately. But moderators of all major instances are committed to taking appropriate steps to respond and prevent reoccurrence.
Additionally, blahaj.zone defederated from lemmynsfw over the adorableporn community. The lemmynsfw admins take reports of CSAM very seriously, and the blahaj admins stopped short of accusing them of hosting actual CSAM. But they claimed that models of verified age "looked too young" and that the community was courting pederasts. These claims were largely baseless, but there was a scuffle and some of the secondary and tertiary discussion threw around terms like CSAM loosely and incorrectly.
I think OP is probably hearing echoes of these kinds of discussions 3rd hand and just not paying attention to details. There's certainly no well-known and widely federated CSAM communities, and all responsible admins would take immediate action if anything like that was found. CSAM doesn't factor into public federation decisions, because sources of CSAM can't be discussed publicly. Responding to it is part of moderation at scale though, and somewhere some lemmy admin has probably had to do so.
Why would you use LVM to configure the RAID-1 devices? Btrfs supports raid1 natively.
I also confirmed this as a long-standing bug.
https://blog.mastodon.world/ posts monthly-ish finance updates. I've never heard about formalizing as a non-profit, and their choice to do so or not is not something I'm concerned about given their track record with masotodon world and their voluntary transparency.
Two tips:
I have not tried running WINE yet but I plan on doing so soon.
Steam "just works" on Linux, you can install it via flatpak (which I use) or from their deb repo. It includes "Proton", which is a fancy bundle of wine and some extra open source valve sauce to make it nice and easy to use. Any game that runs on the steam deck also runs on Linux via proton, and there's no messing around at all. It looks and feels just like steam on Windows, and thousands of games just work with no setup or config beyond clicking the big blue and green buttons to install and run. Not EVERY games works, but tons do. I'd heavily recommend this over raw wine to a beginner.
The second tip is not to ask what you can do on Linux. The answer, to a first approximation, is that you can do everything on Linux that you can do on Windows or OSX. I daily drive all three, and mostly do the same stuff on them. Instead, ask YOURSELF what you WANT to do on Linux. Then Google and ask us HOW to do it... or what the nearest approximation is if the precise thing you want to do doesn't work on Linux.
cc @iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world, not sure if you get reply notifications on cross-posts, but some good advice a out your Jellyfin question over here.
I use postgres for my install and had a similar thing happen to me. I tried moving an org credential to a folder, which moved the folder to the org, and kicked all other credentials to "no folder".
Thanks for confirming with your DB. That saves me sweating whether I should rebuild on PG at least, and also makes me feel better that it's a folder bug and not generalized database corruption.
Having finished the heavy organizing, my rate of big org transfers has slowed and I haven't reproduced again yet. Hopefully this will be uncommon enough to be a non-issue. Thanks again for the info.
Thanks for the suggestion, but sync seems to be working ok... at least on the read side. I was able to verify the pre-existing good state and the bad state afterward from multiple clients. If sync played into it, it must have been on a write somehow.
A very common DDoS attack uses UDP services to amplify your request to a bigger response, but then spoof your src ip to the target.
Having followed many reports of denial of service activity of Lemmy, I don't think this is the common mode. Attacks I'd heard of involve:
- Using regular lemmy APIs backed by heavy database queries. I haven't heard discussion of query rates, but Lemmy instances are typically single-machine deployments on modest 4-core to 32-core hardware. Dozens to thousands of queries per second to the heaviest API endpoints are sufficient to saturate them. There's no need for distributed attack networks to be involved.
- Uploading garbage images to fill storage.
Essentially the low-hanging fruit is low enough that distributed attacks, amplification, and attacks on bandwidth or the networking stack itself are just unnecessary. A WAF is still a good if indeed OPs instance is getting attacked, but I'd be surprised if wafs has built-in rules for lemmy yet. I somewhat suspect one would have to do the DB query analysis to identify slow queries and then write custom waf rules to rate limit the corresponding API calls. But it's worth noting that OP has provided no evidence of an attack. It's at least equally likely that they dos'ed themselves by running too many services on a crappy VPS and running out of ram. The place to start is probably basic capacity analysis.
Some recent sources:
There's https://lemmy.world/legal for a variety of instance policy things, but it doesn't cover privacy and I don't believe there is an official statement on that.
Having one would be nice, but my sense from how admins handle transparency in general is that the privacy practices here are best-in-clasd compared to commercial social media giants. That's speculation of course, but semi informed by watching how the admins have handled a wide variety of issues.
If this is true, what is the admin of the reporting user even supposed to do
Decide what instances to defederate. They can check up on:
- Mods of other instances to see if they take appropriate action on reports.
- Admins of other instances to see if they take action against bad-faith mods.
- Admins of other instances who generate a disproportionate number of reports per capita, to address structural, cultural, or policy issues that lead the offending instance to be a bigger source of pain/reports than others.
And finally they can defederate if they don't like what they find.
- Subscribe to some communities you DO like and use your subscribed feed more often. It's easier to subscribe to what you want then to block everything you don't.
- There's some app that does have this feature. I don't remember which, but you should be able to search it up. The normal way to do this is blocking at the server, and that's a frequently requested feature that hasn't been built yet... but apps can fetch the posts and just not display them... client-side blocking. A non-zero number have this feature to block an instance.
- Some day this will likely get built into lemmy itself and all clients will get it.
I think a couple things are in play:
- Very few people consumed these comics as we are... reading each one in sequence. You'd more likely sporadically encounter them in the funnies section of a physical newspaper. Which was a pretty hit/miss proposition to begin with. No one expected every one to be a winner, and people would routinely skip over stuff that didn't interest them without thinking about it too hard. You're operating under the assumption that Far Side is a classic, but at the time people would just cruise by and think "that comic is stupid, just like 60% of the other stupid comics on this page". And folks were pretty happy to have 40% of comics be a bit funny.
- What made Far Side a classic was not its consistency. Rather, there were a few strips that became cultural phenomena. Basically a handful of hits that were breakout memes of the 80s and 90s. Colleges used to sell t-shirts of the school for the gifted strip with the kid pushing on the door that says pull, which is pretty accessible and one of those breakout hits.
- Because of those breakout hit strips, some folks got into Larson's style of humor enough that fewer of his strips were inscrutable to them and he had a lasting market.
- Other comments point about topical references and those are also a big deal. If someone sees a beans meme with no context 30y from now, it ain't gonna be funny. But a few weeks ago on lemmy, it was part of a contextual zeitgeist that was more or less about "these idiots will upvote anything, I'm one of the idiots... I'll upvote this!" and it kind of captured the exuberant excitement of not knowing what lemmy was but wanting it to be something. Similarly, these strips often weren't intended to last multiple generations. They assumed you were reading the newspaper RIGHT NOW... and so could reference current events very obliquely and still be accessible.
TLDR: Like a stupid meme, many Larson comics require shared transient context we're missing now. Some are also just fukin weird, like cow tools. But some were very accessible and became hugely popular. These mega-star strips cemented Far Side's popularity, and which gave Larson the autonomy to stay weird when he chose. Now we waste time trying to figure out what they meant.
Multi-reddits are a frequently requested feature and there's a GitHub issue for them: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
Core devs for the most part are focused on existential issues like performance (slow DB queries are responsible for the denial of service attacks that are taking lemmy world down daily) and moderation tools (lack of which are responsible for major instances defederating with each other rather than moderating more aggressively). Unless a community dev steps up to work on multi-reddits, it's likely to sit at the back of the line for a few months.
It's also possible that some app will jump the like with client-side-only multireddits. If that's a thing, I haven't heard about it yet. Maybe someone else will chime in if they have.
I haven't been playing any quake recently, but am glad to learn about the championship from this post... thanks for making it.
Any advice on where to catch up on the scene and who the favorites and rivalries are? Or are the commentators doing a good job setting context to for noobs like me?
Very true and good points, and when it comes to snap I mostly agree with you. I would guess the "war on Ubuntu" going on is more due to Ubuntu's history of making controversial decisions that go against the grain of what most other distros are doing at the time (creating and dropping Mir, creating Unity instead of using GNOME and then switching back to GNOME when they finally got Unity working well, installing an Amazon app out of the box in one version), many of which angered a lot of Linux community members before who are still angry despite Ubuntu rolling back most of those decisions, and they've found snap a great current scapegoat issue to use to vent their long-standing frustrations with Ubuntu at.
I agree with just about every word here. I lived through all this stuff. Mir and Unity were hugely disruptive to the OSS desktop community beyond Ubuntu and I was as salty about them as anyone. If someone is aware of this history and just fucking done with Ubuntu's bullshit they'll get no flak from me. I rarely see this coherent an argument made though, it's much more often "snap bad, use this other distro that's downstream of Ubuntu and shares all the same foundations but has a different default desktop and disables snap by default", which I think is pretty nonsense and is rampant in the comments of this post.
But I've done my share of distro hopping and if someone wants to use something else for any reason or no reason... more power to them. I will make the counterpoint that no one has to care about snap specifically and if you just pretend it doesn't exist then your life will be no different. And if history is any indicator, snap has about 2y left before they abandon it anyway.
Imgur, for instance, lets me filter in and out loads of specific tags from my feed (also specific use posts).
It's relevant to note that Imgur doesn't have a communities/subreddits equivalent. Images are the rough equivalent of a post, and tags are the closest they get to communities. I'm quite certain that there are tags for both Art and Drawing, and following the Art tag doesn't mean that you won't miss out on posts that are tagged as a Drawing and not as Art. The result is really not that different than Lemmy, you still have to discover all the different tags you want to follow.
Not to be flippant about your tag examples, but those exact communities already exist (edit: ok, admittedly the search for art returns a bunch of unrelated junk):
- https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=%22Science%22
- https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=gaming
Now, of course... those are not the only communities addressing those topics. There's retrogaming as a subset of games, there's photographyas a subset of art, etc. But as previously noted, that's true of tags as well.
A whitelist based subscription method DOES work, and is implicitly what everyone uses on very large community sites like reddit and also very large tag-based sites like Twitter/imgur. Of course you miss out on some stuff, but when you find something you're missing... you add it to your list. It's ok not to find every last post you care about and doing so is an impossibility.
Those doors are insanity. Weird find, love it.
Citation needed. All the admins of lemmy world ever purported to do was host a well-run general-purpose (aka not topic-oriented) lemmy instance. It was and remains that, and part of being a well-run general purpose instance is managing legal risk when a small subset of the community generates an outsized portion of it.
Being well run meant that they scaled up and remained operational during the first reddit migration wave. People appreciated that, but continuing to function does not amount to a declaration of being a super lemmy.
World also has kept signups open through good times, and more recently bad. Other instances at various times shut down signups or put irritating steps and purity tests along the way. Keeping signups open is a pretty bare-minimum bar for running a service though, it is again not a declaration of being a super-lemmy.
Essentially lemmy world just... kept working (until recently when it has done a pretty poor job of that). I dunno where you found a declaration that lemmy world is a super-lemmy, but it's not coming from the lemmy world admins, it's likely randos spouting off.