Please bear in mind I'm old, so will need it ELI5

There are a lot of articles posted from sourced I consider dubious so I wonder if there's a way to hide those.

I tried, but when I clicked create, it didn't proceed or give an error message, more details below.

I'm looking to create a new community, so i clicked on the 'Create Community' button on the top.

I entered in a community name (all lowercase, no spaces) and then a display name.

I added a short description and selected english.

I clicked create and got a hourglass like icon for about a second and then nothing. A new page didnt appear, i checked my profile and cannot see the new community name.

I checked a post a few hours ago in Lemmy World support and someone else is having trouble.

Ive also tried on two devices, desktop & mobile.

p.s. on mobile there is a issue that could result in butting heads where if you hover over the create community textbox it gives text of 'lowercase, underscores and no spaces' but these constrains are not listed in the ? next to Create community. When i was on mobile i wasnt able to get the hovertext and if it was my first time creating a community, i may not have been able to see this info.

Thanks.

Hi! I was wondering if there is a limit of communities I can create, I have created 3, wanted to create want more but I am unable to do so. And If someone is wondering yes, I read the start guide and the 3 communities I have created didn't exist before, well one already exists but it has been inactive for 2 years, so I decided to go ahead anyway!

I was banned from 196. Fine. I'd like to block the community from my feed. The button is replaced by the notice that I've been banned.

• I have been posting to !gothindustrial@lemmy.world for a couple weeks and realized the mod isn’t active
  • the mod hasn’t posted anywhere in a couple years: https://lemmy.world/u/aessedai
  • the mod apparently never made any mod actions: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&modId=426700

• I have been told that the mod hasn’t replied to direct messages. Sergio has now informed me of that.)
  

• therefore I would like to be a moderator

Doesn't look like there's any mods currently.

Lemmy world does not support streaming, can we get this fixed?

The only mod seems MIA and has never posted from what I could see. They have been inactive for almost 2 years. I don't believe they're coming back. I'd like to try to grow the community. Thanks for your consideration.

Is there some kind of rate limiting trick to mod report federation and LW? I have HackingNe.ws, but it seems like only reports generated from LW do not federate, not sure how to make the two instances like each other - comments/posts seem to federate properly.

Reports from other instances work fine btw, just LW reports. For example I created L3stest@sh.itjust.works - I am able to report fine between instances (account on SJW can report from there to HN or HN to SJW just fine). But I also mod LW/c/Technology, and reports to LW/c/Technology from HN works fine but on my instance it does not show reports to that community from other instances. I do not see receiving the reports in my logs that I can tell, nor do I see them visually on my instance.

Someone I talked to who had a similar issue mentioned LW rate limiting causing the same issue for them, is that what's going on?

Open to creating a bug report with Lemmy, but since it seems instance specific I figured I'd ask here first.

Feel free to DM me if needed, thanks

I thought I couldn't post to https://sh.itjust.works/ for days when I could before. I kept getting this error "Language not supported" and found that changing it from English to "Unsupported" makes the submission go through.

Any ideas for why that is?

I've noticed this for a while and I'm not sure what the word for it is, but the encoding of certain characters is broken for post titles in RSS/XML for me. For example the title for this post https://lemmy.world/post/26952497 in RSS is:

MMO scholar puts a $500 bounty on old versions of RuneScape as part of a community archive project: ＆quot;You might have ALL of the game**＆#x27;s lost versions!＆quot;**

I use FreshRSS but it looks like this in the raw RSS output which you can get from the RSS button on the homepage. Does anyone else have this?

1. The sorting method does not have a description in the help page (the little question mark link)

2. Sorting posts by Controversial doesn't show them by date, so I need to scroll through, looking at the date to find anything recent.

I like sorting by Controversial for entertainment purposes, and to make sure the comment I intend to make, which I expect to be controversial, hasn't already been made--which means I should just upvote the existing comment.

It's not like I make a ton of controversial comments, but sometimes my thoughts do run counter to the hivemind, and I want to say so.

It recently came to my attention that .world may be using the censor function of the Lemmy software.

https://lemmy.world/post/27005229/15775834

Is this a recent development? Regardless, I feel that it's counterproductive and unhelpful.

This post was deleted from !asklemmy@lemmy.world in the last few hours: https://lemmy.world/post/26997415

I can tell, because I have this in my inbox:

(the *Permanently Deleted* bit still has the link to the URL).

The post title was "what's your favourite book" or something similar.

But there's nothing in the modlog that shows this. How come?

Everything seems to have shifted to pipes instead of caching in almost all posts here on LW through the Alexandrite interface. Is this a permanent change?

I would like to request to take over moderation of the community: https://lemmy.world/c/virginia

The current mod "@gabowo@lemmy.world gabowo" has been inactive for 2 years and the last mod action for the community was also 2 years ago (https://lemmy.world/modlog/4102).

All moderators have been inactive for more than a year. The information contained in sidebar and pinned guides could use some updating. Its important that newcomers can access the latest relevant information in our quickly evolving hobby.

I have been a somewhat active poster and commenter of this localllama community for approximately half a year. I am the moderator of Lemmy.world/c/metaldetecting. I would like to help actively maintain another community I feel passionate in growing. I understand the responsibility that comes with the role.

I also understand that as a potential moderator of another instances community, I would be limited in certain actions. I am prepared to make a local instance account in the scenario that ever becomes a issue.

I've been appointed as a mod 3 times now.

The action shows up in the modlog straight away, but it always takes a couple of hours until it actually works. Then, serveral hours later it seems to just reverse itself.

I suspect it has to do with ongoing federation issues on the side of lemmus.org (the instance of the head mod account). All post from lemmy.world are delayed by about 12 hours on that instance.

Maybe the delayed federation somehow messes with the mod appointments?

And no, I am not alt of anyone here, so I'm not just trying to inflate the numbers of the defense. The admins of lemm.ee can attest to this if they have my IP address, as admins in the days of old forums used to have (I would be really, really surprised if they didn't and couldn't provide it). Neither do I use a VPN. I am too poor for those. That hasn't, however, stopped me from being dragged into this mess for good by the peoples' infamous chancellor Davel, who it seems isn't new to doxxing either (though the random lying is new, if that is to be believed), or LGBT-phobia, which I would like to expose because me and the subject previously discussed the suicide of someone else who recently was dragged into this mess, all because people didn't like that they, too, were defending (which they expressed with empathy towards his transphobic boyfriend), so as long as everyone wants to expose LGBT-phobes.

It disheartens me this is the info I will be starting with, assuming I get to be questioned. As someone who is LGBT, would I be wrong in saying people potentially have blood on your hands here (it should be noted people have been asking everyone to defederate from lemmy.ml for a long, long time, and there were many chances for everyone to do so, and if there's anyone here I feel uncomfortable around, it's Davel and the people he is now helping)? Ironically this person who died was someone the accusers didn't mind using to attack ShinigamiOokamiRyuu when it suited them (and still suits them as long as people aren't smart enough analyze things, which is why those who get dragged in use so many links that Ganondorf would be scared) when it made them look bad, with nobody wanting to acknowledge they forgave ShinigamiOokamiRyuu until they died from transphobia at the hands of the same accusers, who were censoring him for defending ShinigamiOokamiRyuu and siding with the transphobic boyfriend, which weighed on him because his mother recently died too. Some people totally do have blood on their hands, and these kind of impulses by the people can be manipulated to serve something undesirable.

These "exposés" come from a triad of new users (suspicious much? The second person mentions a previous alt somewhere but I forgot the name.) who have been known to engage in this smear campaign against this person, ShinigamiOokamiRyuu, all across the web, for things that happened a long time ago on websites far, far away. I actually wasn't interested in this conflict until I got dragged in and saw the death of a fellow trans person, and I certainly wouldn't want to be mixed in with these types of accusations just for talking to someone a certain way. The moral of the story seems that if you want innocent people to be accused of things, accuse them of being people who are already accused of things. Then it's alright, right? Right? People who actually ethically analyze what is going on will be bothered by this, and someone mentioned @EllaSpiggins@lemm.ee had told @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee at one point that the best thing to do is to leave these matters up to the people in charge, but clearly this hasn't helped anyone except those willing to take advantage of that.

There's an issue where trolls will "@" people who blocked them because it will still send a notification.

Sometimes it's just people who always do it, so it's likely unintentional.

But it's pretty obvious from a post history glance when they're only doing it with people who never respond to them. And definitely obvious after someone tells them about it

Example:

https://lemmy.world/comment/15711438

Is there anyway to make mention notification abide by the blocklist?

If not should we be reporting harassment to our admins or the admins of the account doing it?

!llm@lemmy.world community and @zazule@lemmy.world moderator appear inactive.

I've played some games for which I want to make comms, but I'd rather make them on a gaming-related instance like Lemmy.zip rather than my registered one. Is this possible or would I need to make and manage a second account on the target instance?

Or could someone there just make /c/FTL and /c/SliceandDice? Lol.

Requesting !united_launch_alliance@lemmy.world, current mod @ethan829@lemmy.world is inactive.

I would like to request to mod !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world

The current mod @FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world has not had activity for several months now and the last mod action was 11 months ago

Also their bio is: "I am planting the seeds of the future of this site and giving Reddit Migrants escape pods to go and recreate their communities unhindered by corporate or political influence."

So I'd think they expect this at some point lol

BPT was one of my fav subreddits and I'd like to institute proper rules and get a nice logo and banner for BPT Lemmy

Thanks!