I have now upgraded the Divisions by zero to Lemmy 0.19.0. I haven't seen any issues, but of course you will have to re-login.

Please check the new features here

I have also updated Pythörhead to be able to handle the new authentication (as well as the old), so if you're running a bot, make sure to update your Pythörhead dependencies.

Now is also a good time that you can support the running of this server. If you just want to support this instance, please use Ko-fi and you can get a custom emoji here. If you want to support my general development efforts as well (Lemmy, Pythorhead, Fediseer, Tagginator etc) feel free to use my liberapay

I don't want to be the judge here or anything. Just wondering if a religious sub belongs in an instance with nothing anti-science as a rule. If its fine by everyone and the admin, its fine by me. I'd just block the community. Just felt wrong to see a Catholicism community in local.

I won't go down voting the community or anything, we've got enough of those people here

As mentioned earlier, I have now finished upgrading lemmy to 0.19.6 which should bring massive improvements to federations speeds and a ton of other stuff. So many thanks to all the developers who made this happen! I love FOSS!

Fortunately the upgrade took less than 10 minutes and everything appears to have gone quite smoothly.

A little while ago, I disabled mlmym as it was not working and someone in the comments suggested I re-add tesseract, as it's still under active development and compatible with the lemmy API. I had initially removed it at the suggestion of its core developer, but since it's still working, why not, eh?

So you can once again use https://t.lemmy.dbzer0.com/ to browser using the tesseract frontend. Let us know how it goes

Finally, if you appreciate this instance, please consider donating to its running costs. We're only at ~35% for covering our bi-yearly budget so we could use the support.

Expect 30 mins downtime or so. You know how it is around here...

This is not a new issue, but we've had reports from some communities that they are experiencing a lot of repeated downvotes from the same set of people.

This is how it typically plays out, using AI images as an example:

1. A section of the lemmy user base really hates anything AI generated.
2. Instead of blocking AI generated image communities, they down vote those posts every time they see them.
3. The posts in those communities effectively have to overcome a "handicap" of down votes each time they are posted. This harms community growth and discoverability.

The admin team would like to know how our community would like us to handle this issue, since it isn't clear to us what is the best approach, and we would like a consensus view.

Some option for consideration:

1. Encourage/allow community mods to ban persistent down voters from their community (note that we currently have no specific rule in place for this, so it is currently allowed).

• Pros: prevents future down votes; essentially "unsubscribes" from the community on their behalf
• Cons: could potentially be abused by mods who want to eliminate all down voters and "game" the system

2. Have a policy of ignoring the persistent down voters

• Pros: allows people to continue to express their dislike of [insert topic]-type posts
• Cons: means that communities on topics that are not of interest to (or are actively disliked by) the majority of users will continue to be penalized in the lemmy post feeds.

3. Leave it up to the discretion of the individual community mods

• Pros: self-determination and community based approach (i.e. only applied when needed)
• Cons: potentially inconsistent approach to down voters across the instance

Feel free to come up with more options, but these are the three main alternatives I could come up with.

We are interested to get your thoughts on the topic so we can come up with a policy for the instance. Please leave your comments below on your preferred option and the reasons for your choice.

Edit: apparently community mods can't currently see the voting breakdown in Lemmy, only instance admins can, so this adds further complexity to the issue.

One of our hosts is doing some router maintenance which affects some components of this instance. As such expect downtime in the following range:

• Start: 2024-11-08 03:30 UTC+0
• Estimated end: 2024-11-08 05:30 UTC+0

Hey peeps, let's have a chat.

Do you have anything that you would like to see improved around the divisions by zero? I'm always up for enhancements I could implement. I can't change the lemmy source, but I can do plugins and other hacks.

You can mention anything, from tech stuff, to softer social stuff.

since the slow loading issues were resolved: using the default browser UI — every time i open dbzer0 in a new tab in Firefox — the page will appear as if i'm signed out.

i can fix this by hard refreshing, except on /posts. if i open a /post in a tab where i appear signed in, it loads correctly.

sometimes this happens on the subscribed feed page, where i seem signed out but i see someone else's subscriptions, but with my votes indicated. when i'm stuck like this, /unread_count is still polled for my account.

this doesn't happen to me on other instances.

Hey everyone, I have been forced to disable the mlmym frontent which you would have reached from old. and mlmym. simulating the old reddit interface. Something has been broken in it for the past months and it's been causing me headaches. My inquiries to the developers have gone unanswered.

I will consider re-adding it when issues are resolved.

Just wondering if it would be possible to enable the instance on LemmyFederate since then we could more easily distribute communities from here to elsewhere since as it is it's kind of hard to grow communities or even just have them be discoverable on other instances.

Uh for those who don't know LemmyFederate is a service that allows communities to be distributed to other instances via a bot that subscribes to them, then unsubscribes once a real user joins. It's helpful because communities don't become visible on remote servers until someone from that server searches and subscribes to it. Due to a limitation of how the Activitypub system works.

I regularly post images to lemmy.world communities but that instance also regularly seemingly fails to actually federate the post on their side.

What do I do when this happens? I can easily tell when it happens, because I can just look at my websites log and see that it isn't being spammed by lemmy requests.

Do I delete it and repost it later?

Does it eventually sort itself out?

Something third entirely?

One example is this post, which does not (at time of posting) exist on lemmy.world https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27691379

We saw a sudden influx of new account applications recently, so we were collectively wondering if any specific event brought you all here, or it was just a coincidink.

In any case, welcome!

Dbzer0 is working perfectly for me for the first time in nearly a month. Did something change or was it a me problem?

Hi, i didn't find anything using the search, so i just wanted to know if any issues are known causing those error messages, which need a few reloads to resolve; additionally, voting on an post often takes 2, sometimes 5 or more tries.

i already tried:

• logged in/out
• with my VPN(Mullvad, on by default) and without
• Firefox / Vivaldi / Edge
• wired / wireless

and before i get into the weeds with the abyssmal support of my ISP i wanted to know if any of you have encountered the same issues.

I'm not sure if this is the issue.

I've tried other accounts on eternity and they seem to work fine.

I've used a jerboa for this account and still seem to be slow. The reason I'm not sure if this is an issue is bc it isn't always slow, everything seems to be working just fine. But very slowly.

Am I the only one?

Many newer Lemmy users still don't know they can block users, communities, and even whole instances they may not want to see in their feed or interact with.

This is a very basic guide to doing this on lemmy.dbzer0.com using the default web UI.

1. Open your profile Settings page:

!

2. Switch from the Settings tab to the Blocks tab

!

3. From this page you can block by User, Instance, or Community

!

That's all there is to it.

Edit: No offense to !truecomics@midwest.social for appearing in my community block list. It's just there as a (hopefully) inoffensive example.

The past few days I've noticed occasionally dbzer0 loads extremely slowly, or even hits a gateway timeout.

Is it just me or is the instance having some trouble keeping up?

Seems like it's only the front-end that has trouble loading, as I could still navigate next pages just fine while a different tab was busy timing out on load.

Also another thing I noticed is sometimes while it's still loading, the title of the page will be about a different post altogether. Not sure if that's related, sounds like just a caching issue to me.

Preface: Love this instance, happy to be here and this isnt a complaint just an observation.

OK so I mod a few communities across several instances, big and small. 3 on this very instance, I have noticed a pattern that posts on this instance tend to get a consistent early downvote count.

This might be my bad observations or the type of posts I see so I'd love to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.

Continued from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24026515

Oof, what a journey this was. It took us a while to finally reach the Void. We had to fight and finally compromise with the trans flag folk who thought we were vandalizing when we were trying to pass through, then our planned path ended up being blocked by the massive English flag which setup shop in the middle forcing us to take the long way around, then we took a little detour to setup a naval battle and show England who's boss, at which point some cheeky Spanish bastard, stepped in and stole our ship's pirate flag. Then as we finally were nearing the Void, a cat butler (catler?) and yet another flag manifested and...

...well long story short, by the time we reached the Void, let's just say it's not anymore what it used to be, we touched one of its tendrils and it started popping leaves, so we left it at that!

I'm now focused on thickening the Haidra tendril to at least 2 pixels everywhere, and once that's done I'm starting a new path towards the bottom left to see what else we can touch.

Join me, or start your own journeys and remember to spread our pirate ships wherever we go!

PS: Thanks to @Nithanim@programming.dev for the rubber duckie on the factorio cog. Very cute!

Continued from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23970292

Great job mates on touching the piracy banner made by @Depress_Mode@lemmy.world. I planted another little pirate ship on top of it (feel free to improve the scene).

I have a new quest and a sidequest for y'all now.

First, let's go touch tendrils with the void and plant a pirate ship on it as well. Optimally I'd like to see a little tendril helix develop.

Sidequest: the Factorio gear now has a nice little "lake" where we've passed. Anyone up to drawing a little rubber duckie in there?

!

Continued from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23924353

I started the little pixel ship yesterday on top of the haidra extremity, and today I found out it encountered a kraken. Well done to @Depress_Mode@lemmy.world for adding that.

In other news, we managed to touch the center of the board, and now the canvas has extended, so it's time to move to the other side as well

!

I would like to try and get a tentacle going up from the right, to touch the piracy banner @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com created! Feel free to add more doodads on the line as well! Likewise, if you have ideas about how the haidra should behave, just go ahead and do it, this is a bottom-up design and I love to see how it extends organically as well.

I cannot subscribe to many communities from feddit.org (especially newer ones), both in raccoonforlemmy and on lemmy.dbzer0.com (lemmy-web).

Has anyone else similar problems?

Re: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23907738

We got a cute little garden in the process too!

Next objective, start drawing a 2 pixel line from our central head towards towards the center where the void and the pony rays meet. I want us to be the fourth connection.

Do not overwrite other creations and feel free to curve around like a tentacle as needed.

As always if you feel there's any improvements you can make on the centrale logo pixel wise, let us know. I would love a little pirate ship somewhere.

Just checking if any in our instance want to organize something for our presence, feel free to do it in this comm !pirate captain giving the thumbs up.

Trying to login with the MLMYM interface just goes to a blank screen for me. Is anybody else having issues with it? Is there anything I can do to get it working?

Edit: I have no idea why a simple help post is getting this many upvotes / downvotes

Firefox latest on Android 14, web front-end

Images seem to work fine now after the 19.4 upgrade. Except when posting images via direct upload. I've tried to post an image with body description a couple times now to another community and as soon as I hit submit, it just instantly removes the image and doesn't post anything, leaving me on the create post page.

Edit: Pretty sure this is a front end bug as I had to hit submit twice to make this post. When you hit submit it jumps to the top of the page first.

Ahoy all you pirates, anarchists, neurodivergents, prompters and other assorted weirdos.

It is now officially 1 whole year since I got pissed off enough by Reddit's enshittification to set sail in my own ship, and what a journey it's been!

I never figured that I would ever run my own social media instance and when I started it, I assumed it would be something small for me and some people from reddit who knew me, ergo why I didn't invest in a new domain at the time (which I low-key regret now).

But the amount of people who joined immediately was extraordinary, catapulting and keeping this instance to the top 10 lemmies around, which is honestly wild to see for an inherently political and opinionated instance whose leading principles might as well be YOLO and FAFO. 😅

In fact I got so deep into lemmy and fediverse in general that since the past year, I started and am running 8 different fediverse FOSS projects. I keep thinking of new things to add or improve. I love the freedom I have in social media I can hack and that nobody will ever take away from us!

If you haven't yet, take a look at these:

• Fediseer: The Fediverse chain of trust
• Fedi-Safety: Protection against CSAM for fediverse administrators
• Pictrs-Safety: Protection against CSAM for pict-rs administrators
• Threativore: An automod bot to combat spam on Threadiverse
• Pythörhead: Python-Lemmy SDK
• Pythonseer: Python-Fediseer SDK
• Lemmy-Tagginator: Improves Lemmy-Mastodon discoverability
• Fluxa Avataria: Rotate your user avatars automatically using the AI Horde.

I believe our instance's success and how many people are subscribed to /c/piracy making that effectively that 2nd most subscribed community after /c/technology@lemmy.world goes to show that if reddit admins were more principled on moving their communities 1 year ago, a lot more niche communities would have flourished as well. But alas, I couldn't even get the /r/anarchism peeps to make an effort :S

On top of that, I am really happy to see our meme culture is strong with !adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com leading the pack. Not taking things seriously is a good principle to have, so keep it up!

Finally I like that we're still the only GenAI-focused instance while not being completely uncritical of the capitalist techbro hype-machine around this technology.

I also want to post a huge shout out to our instance admins who joined early and have been invaluable in keeping things under control while I'm focused on infrastructure stuff and other projects.

@RandomLegend, @unruffled, and @d1tt0 take a bow please!

But I would be remiss if I didn't let our admins who want to, say a few words for themselves

A few words from your admins

@RandomLegend

> I'm very happy with how our community is standing together and remains a friendly and open place for many people. > > Our mod & admin team made me really enjoy this whole lemmy journey. Being able to discuss things in a constructive manner, coming to agreements and being able to have compromises without feeling like anyone "lost" is really awesome! > > I hope our community stays exactly the way it is. We are truly a community, we stand for each other and always help others to sail the high seas 😉 > > I plan on getting more involved with the different communities. Currently i mostly just lurk and moderate from off-stage but i hope i can show myself a little bit more and bring some engaging topics to our flag-waving crew!

@unruffled

> This year, for me, involved quite a bit of learning about Lemmy and the Fediverse, after making the move from Reddit. We’ve had a few large waves of new incoming users to deal with over the past 12 months, often due to what was happening with Reddit at the time. It has been satisfying to be one of the few larger instances that has continued to manually review every application, to ensure we aren’t allowing bots, while still responding to new applications quickly. And it’s been great getting to know the rest of the admin team better and working collaboratively on any issues that arise. > > I was involved in setting up the Community Edition (CE) of the Megathread on the db0 wiki, based on the Rentry version. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to make edits/updates. > > In the past few months, we’ve successfully pushed back against many trolls who seemed intent on turning every post into a political shouting match. Given that most of our users are here for the piracy community, not politics, I think that our ongoing efforts to mitigate this issue have delivered a net positive for the majority of our users’ experiences with Lemmy. If you haven’t noticed any of this stuff occurring, that’s great, because it means we have stayed on top of the issue. While not every moderation decision will please everyone (to put it mildy, lol), we are more interested in doing what’s best for the majority of our users, without resorting to defederation. > > Looking forward into the next 12 months, I hope that our community continues to grow and prosper. With the ever-increasing “enshittification” of online services, piracy is one of the few effective ways we can resist and fight back against corporate greed. I'd also love to see more piracy-related communities still on Reddit or alternative platforms to make the leap over to Lemmy, or at least to start mirroring their communities here. > > Finally, it would be amazing if a few more people could make a small monthly donation https://ko-fi.com/dbzer0 https://liberapay.com/db0/ to support our server costs, if you can afford it. I personally donate a few dollars each month, because I can’t ever see myself going back to Reddit now, and it really does feel good to support this endeavour. We don't make any profit from this project, and everyone in the admin team volunteers many hours of their time each week to keep things up and running smoothly.

A few prominent events

So much has happened in the last year so I thought it would be interesting to reminisce in a few of them relevant to our instance as our second year begins. Feel free to post your own in the comments

• /c/piracy gets banned by lemmy.world. We shrug. It get unbanned a few days later, only to be once more banned half a year down the line. We shrug again.
• I piss off hexbears by publicly rejecting "left unity", this causes a spiral or subsequent bad faith events that culminates with them banning the /0 admins from their instance. We laugh.

Upgrade to 0.19.4

Also, as it happens, I also just finished upgrading to 0.19.4 today and it really did not go as smoothly as I would have liked. Due to a leftover configuration from the very first lemmy deployment I did, I had big troubles getting pict-rs to migrate to 0.5 and that burned almost all my day yesterday troubleshooting. The problem is that the issue didn't appear immediately, but I had to wait 30 minutes every time to get the failure again.

Eventually I decided to go through with the update of 0.19.4 before pict-rs finished, but that by itself run into a bunch of other bugs, but fortunately nothing too disruptive. Eventually I was able to leave the pict-rs upgrade to run overnight and it's been stable since I woke up.

But nevertheless, the new version brings a ton of improvements and stability fixes. So huge props to the lemmy devs for doing the good work!

Funding

Thanks to everyone who donated in the past 5 months, we're now 80% to closing our half-year funding goal for paying for the server infrastructure. I would still fund this instance even out of pocket, but I really appreciate you all for assisting in this way.

| [!Ko-Fi](https://ko-fi.com/dbzer0) | [!Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/db0/) | |:--:|:--:| | Ko-fi | Liberapay |

Listen lads, lasses and lassless, I got a long day ahead of me, having to upgrade pict-rs, postgres and lemmy, so there might be some intermittent downtimes. You know how it is around here...not professionally at all.

Just a heads up.

Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

I used to have an account on feddit, which is a german lemmy instance. For three months now I am only getting "Server error" when trying to visit it. Can anybody reach it? Is there any site where I can check the state of instances? Or was I banned?

Thanks for any help :)

I can access c/world on lemmy.world without problem:

lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/world@lemmy.world

But I cannot access c/whatstheword:

lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/whatstheword@lemmy.world

It seems unlikely that this specific and innocent community is blocked on either instance.

What's going on here?

~500 comments about our instance and admins in the past week. Talk about needing to touch some grass...

Hello, and sorry beforehand if this is not the correct place. I found a matrix support channel that doesn't work and I looked almost everywhere. Is there a way I could get in contact with somebody that can change the email?

Thanks in advance.

This time the issue was on the lemmy.world side where their federation worker responsible for lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.blahaj.zone and lemmings.world among others b0rked and was sending 1 federation per minute at best. Unfortunately it seems just that single federation worker borked, which affected us again, because we're cursed apparently. Fortunately this meant that from our previous problems I had enough experience to know where to look. Unfortunately many people were thinking that existing issue along with some mbin spam was the problem, but it was a red herring in this case.

Anyway @ruud@lemmy.world restarted their federation workers and now we're catching up again. Will take like a day for that to happen.

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone @rikudou@lemmings.world you should see your queues catching up quickly now.

/c/news@lemmy.world is the second biggest community on Lemmy.World and yet on /0, there is nothing newer than two days.

/c/technology@lemmy.world has two posts from today but based on the vote count, I think it's only showing votes from this instance

I've been having a bit of trouble loading the lemmy site today. It times out and takes ages to load quite often. I tested with other websites (Wikipedia, a school website, google) and while my mobile data is... not fast, it is not as slow as db0 is running.

I started thinking about it and I feel like loading performance has been slower than usual for a few days even...

Can anyone else confirm degraded performance today or am I trippin'?

Edit: using latest Firefox running uBlock origin on Android 14 if that matters. S21 Ultra.

This site logs me out every few [hours/days] after leaving the site. It's as if the cookies get deleted, but they're not.

Is this intentional? Do other people also experience this?

[Bug] Gifs don't upload on the instance

I tried to upload a gif but I get this error message when doing so:

{"data":{"msg":"Failed external validation","files":null},"state":"success"}

I can upload any other type of image but gifs always fail for some reason. Does anyone have any clue what could be going wrong? There's obviously something wrong with pictrs but I'm not sure what.

@div0

Mentioning admins for visibility @Db0 @RandomLegend @Flatworm7591

\#error #lemmy #support #db0 #dbzer0