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Awesome project and the tool looks great - nice work!
There was an existing tool which was similar: https://federation-checker.vercel.app/
Yours is definitely nicer.
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Our mascot woke up today as an octopus
(lemdit.com)
You may have noticed that our mascot has changed. As Lemdit grows into its identity, I wanted to find something a bit more original to represent it.
I hope you like our new octopus mascot!
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A couple of days ago a newcomer started a new community called "Controversial ideas" and began posting content.
I originally took it at face value, however it quickly became apparent that the "controversial ideas" were all just different angles of trying to normalize relationships between adults and under-age teenagers, under the guise of pseudo-intellectual debate on age of consent laws, brain development, etc.
A bit of digging made it clear that this was an individual with an agenda. He had started similar communities on several other instances using different usernames, all with the same objective and approach. His multitude of other social media accounts told a similar story and included real hot takes such as this one:
This individual has been banned and the community removed.
I don't know how much clearer I can make it that this kind of shit isn't and will never be tolerated here.
Seeing as this was the second pedophile that tried to set up shop here in the past month, I've become a bit concerned that there may be something about our previous mascot that is giving off the wrong impression. Maybe the mouse is too childish? Maybe it looks too young? I really don't know, but I've decided to change it just in case.
Our new mascot is much more aggressive, hopefully it sends the right message. I welcome your feedback on it.
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Lemdit defederation tracker
(lemdit.com)
This post keeps track of all instances that Lemdit is no longer federated with and the reason why they were blocked.
The Lemdit ethos sets out our stance on federation, notably:
Defederating from other instances is an absolute last resort and we will only do so under the following circumstances:
- If their content has the potential to get us into legal trouble
- If they are acting as an attack vector towards us
10 July 2023
burggit.moe / lemmy.burger.rodeo - Defederated due to legal concerns. They host loli porn (cartoon porn depicting underage characters).
01 August 2023
lemmy.comfysnug.space - Defederated due to legal concerns. They host loli porn (cartoon porn depicting underage characters).
08 August 2023
detroitriotcity.com - Defederated due to legal concerns. I don't even know where to start with this one, they appear to host a suite of things that are illegal, among which loli porn (cartoon porn depicting underage characters).
Defederation explained
All Fediverse instances talk to each other. When you search for a community, for example, you will get results from any instance that has a community that matches your search terms.
If you subscribe to a community from another instance, then all content posted to that community will automatically be "federated" (shared) with our instance. In practical terms, this means our server downloads and stores a copy of that content so that it can display it to you and everybody else on our instance. This is the content you see when you click on "All" from the menu at the top:
To "defederate" is to ban an instance from sharing content with us. This means that when you search for content, you will not get any results from them. There is no ability to subscribe to their communities and anything they post on their instance will not be shared with our server.
I consider this to be an extreme measure, which is why we reserve it for servers that purposefully allow content that is illegal in our country of jurisdiction (New Zealand). Not doing so would put us at risk, since our server can potentially store a copy of content that is illegal.
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We're hosting Photon (alternative web client for Lemmy with the UI of Xylo) - Access it at https://p.lemdit.com
(lemdit.com)
An alternative web client for Lemmy with the UI of Xylo
The Lemdit Photon instance can be accessed at https://p.lemdit.com
You can find more info on Photon here: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon
It's just a play on words: Le(mmy) + Stat(us) or Le Stat(us)
I think it's short and easy to remember, the fact that it's also the name of a famous vampire is just a bonus.
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cross-posted from: https://lemdit.com/post/408034
I like keeping across what is happening with other Lemmy instances so lestat.org was born out of this curiosity.
URL: https://lestat.org
It's similar to lemmy-status.org but with a few notable differences:
- Lestat is running Uptime Kuma
- Lestat monitors all instances listed on join-lemmy.org
- Lestat has a public Discord server where it automatically feeds notifications: https://discord.gg/R8zY7fM5Z8
Criteria for adding instances to Lestat
I will add any instance to Lestat based on these prerequisites:
- The instance is listed on join-lemmy.org
- The instance doesn't host anything illegal in New Zealand
Free services for admins
If you are an instance admin, I can set you up with the following:
- Automatic e-mail notifications when the status of your instance changes (e.g. it goes up or down).
- An uptime badge for your instance in this style:
Send me a message if you'd like any of the above.
I hope you find Lestat useful!
Edit: Added clickable URL and expanded on free admin services to include badges.
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I like keeping across what is happening with other Lemmy instances so lestat.org was born out of this curiosity.
It's similar to lemmy-status.org but with a few notable differences:
- Lestat is running Uptime Kuma
- Lestat monitors all instances listed on join-lemmy.org
- Lestat has a public Discord server where it automatically feeds notifications: https://discord.gg/R8zY7fM5Z8
Criteria for adding instances to Lestat
I will add any instance to Lestat based on these prerequisites:
- The instance is listed on join-lemmy.org
- The instance doesn't host anything illegal in New Zealand
Notification service for admins
If you are an instance admin and want to get automatic e-mail notifications from Lestat when your instance goes down, message me and I will set this up for you.
I hope you find Lestat useful!
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Defederating from lemmy.comfysnug.space due to legal concerns and a note on "loli porn" instances in general
(lemdit.com)
It was brought to my attention that lemmy.comfysnug.space also hosts "loli porn". This content is illegal in New Zealand as well as many other countries.
Needless to say they have been defederated and all their communities purged from our server.
I'm mostly posting this in the spirit of transparency as I don't think this affects anyone here.
Please let me know if you do come across another similar instance, there are simply too many of them out there for me to check proactively.
I sincerely hope that this was the last of them, but if there are more, I also don't think it's worth me making an announcement every time we defederate one. I may instead create a generic defederation post where we keep tabs on who we defederated and why, but I welcome your feedback.
As a reminder, the Lemdit ethos sets out our stance on federation, notably:
Defederating from other instances is an absolute last resort and we will only do so under the following circumstances:
- If their content has the potential to get us into legal trouble
- If they are acting as an attack vector towards us
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We're hosting Alexandrite (beautiful desktop-first alternative web UI) - Access it at https://a.lemdit.com
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Alexandrite is a beautiful desktop-first alternative web UI for Lemmy.
The Lemdit Alexandrite instance can be accessed at https://a.lemdit.com
You can find more info on Alexandrite here: https://github.com/sheodox/alexandrite
That's entirely up to you, it can be the same username if you want. Speaking as an instance admin, there is no problem with users creating multiple accounts across instances, even if they're the same username.
Spam would be creating as many usernames as you can on any given instance (e.g. trying to register 100 users on lemmy.world because reasons) - there's obviously a problem with that. Creating you@instance1, you@instance2 and you@instanceN is perfectly fine.
Not at all, it's perfectly fine to have accounts on multiple instances.
The DB migration at the end of this upgrade is significant, I was surprised how long it took when I upgraded my instance. Lots of room for things to go wrong considering the size of their DB.
In practice UPC will probably have some kind of fair use policy buried in its terms of service - your best bet is to go through those terms and see what you find. Fair use typically means they will start throttling you beyond a certain point. Most ISPs keep this reasonably vague (e.g. if your usage is in excess of what they deem to be reasonable, but no actual data amounts defined).
Not all ISPs have a fair use policy though, and typically you're better off on large ISPs where your usage doesn't really stand out that much.
It's not a mass exodus. There was a sizeable influx of people from Reddit to Lemmy/kbin, sure, but that's measured in the (low) hundreds of thousands. Reddit has hundreds of millions of active users.
The reality is it's not even close to a mass exodus, not yet.
I have a Pine phone that I bought some time ago.
I tried a couple of distros/environments:
- Mobian
- Manjaro + Plasma Mobile
- Manjaro + Phosh
My experience: As a basic phone, it mostly works. Everything else is pretty bad. The Pine phone is underpowered, the environments are not very well optimised and polished, basic browsing was almost unusable, things didn't work properly, I had to use the CLI to get around UI issues (which is very sucky on a phone), etc. Battery life is bad, the camera is a joke (if it works), the screen has dead pixels after less than a year, it's not a great picture.
I fully support what Pine phone is trying to do, in fact I bought 2 of them and I don't regret buying them, but know what you are getting into. It's nowhere near ready for mass adoption. If you're a hobbyist then it's a fun toy to play around with.
Purism is more expensive/better hardware and uses the Phosh graphical shell. I haven't tried it but I imagine the experience is a lot more polished. You could probably use that as a daily driver if you were happy to give up most of the apps / quality of life stuff your spyware phone currently does for you.
If you're not, then going the degoogled route is probably your best choice.
lemmy.world was briefly back to normal and there had been a post saying that everything was fine now - it's not.
The site has just started doing the same thing again.
Please do not try using lemmy.world for the time being.
My 2 cents:
Simple, no domain required stuff:
- Pi-hole for self-hosted DNS: https://pi-hole.net/
- Navidrome for self-hosted music server: https://www.navidrome.org/ (best to pair this with an external portable HDD/SSD for music storage)
- Set up syncthing on it and use it for automatic file back-up: https://syncthing.net/ (that external HDD/SSD will come in handy again).
More advanced, should pair with a domain:
- Nextcloud for your own personal cloud/calendar/etc: https://nextcloud.com/ - it won't be blazing fast but it will work well, I had it running on a pi for a while.
- Simple web hosting - the pi is great for hosting low traffic stuff like blogs etc.
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I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 that is by now almost 10 years old, it runs perfectly on Linux and is a fantastic choice even today. It's built like a tank and that Intel i5 powering it is immortal. DDR3 RAM is dirt cheap now and it takes up to 16Gb, you can swap its HDD to a SATA SSD (if not done already) and batteries for it are still cheap and plentiful.
If you're looking for something affordable for software dev, I can't think of a better choice for $200-$300
https://www.lenovo.com/lt/lt/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t430/
They really built this one right, they don't make them like this anymore.