Sooo, who wants to develop the open source hookup app based on the Fediverse?
It's fear of calcification. Lemmy is tiny, in terms of our user base.
If we don't get fresh blood, and most importantly the rare active contributors, we'll just get used to talking to each other, we'll get bored or burned out and leave.
You'd be surprised.
I have a RL friend who's on Reddit all the time, and he didn't even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I've been trying to sell it to him...
Re: The "We're elite" becomes "We're bored talking among the same old people" or "We're burned out", leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.
I've been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.
FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.
User count has plateaued at about 420K
Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K
Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts.
Maybe because they're tired of ads on reddit?
Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit?
I can see it now:
"Ads suck. We're ad-free forever. Join Lemmy."
and
"He'll never get us. Join Lemmy." or "Don't let him get you. Join Lemmy"
When I search for communities about animation on the web interface, I see one called !animation@lemmy.film
There has been no activity in the /c for 6 months.
It's not my native instance, but I can read posts and comments in the /c, and I can even create a post in the /c.
But when I try to visit http://lemmy.film in a browser, I get a "Web Server Is Down" page.
Is the content in !animation@lemmy.film a ghost of cached content on my native instance?
Or anything the devs can do to make it not look goofy.
A new post with 1 deleted comment shows as "comment symbol 0 (-1 New)"
... which looks goofy.
But not in this /c, maybe there's some kind of /c setting that shows quantities of new comments?
Maybe I made and deleted the comment too soon after I created this post?
It's part of the ol' Big Tech playbook:
If a promising emerging competitor emerges:
- Acquire the emerging competitor for cheap when it's still small
- Copy the competitor's best features to make them irrelevant
- Co-opt them with integration so the competitor's users won't see any advantage to staying with them
- Pollute the competitor's content to make your own offering look better
- Steal the competitor's best talent
Image rendering attacks and download tracking are well known, so it's not paranoid at all.
I'm not sure how extensive the spam wave was, nor how quickly the user was able to create an account, make the comments.
I doubt that the quantity in that I came across would be enough to take down a server, but that may be the point: To test lemmy's collective defenses and response without drawing too much attention.
A common IP address or address range ban file that's frequently updated and downloaded by each instance might be another way to boost security.
If this is actually an org attack, I'm guessing that we'll see botnet DDOS comment and post attacks next.
It looks like some kind of fix was implemented after my post, so I can't replicate the problem for you.
Whenever I edit one of my cross-instance posts, the language defaults to English, and I can save my edits with no issues.
Now whether the fix was on an instance basis, i.e. config changes, or in some Lemmy-system update, I can't tell you.
edit: Maybe my issue was solved along with the fix for the default languages: https://lemmy.ml/post/13410320
There have been a number of comment spam attacks in various posts in a couple of /c's that I follow by a user/individual who uses account names like Thulean*
For example: ThuleanSneed@lemmy.tf in !coffee@lemmy.world
and ThuleanPerspective2@eviltoast.org in !anime@ani.social
edit: Also ThuleanSneed@startrek.website in !startrek@startrek.website
The posts have been removed or deleted by the respective /c's mods, and the offending accounts banned, but you can see the traces of them in those /c's modlogs.
The comments consist of an all-caps string of words with profanities, and Simpsons memes.
An attack on a post may consist of several repeated or similar looking comments.
This looks like a bored teenager prank, but it may also be an organization testing Lemmy's systemic and collective defenses and ability to respond against spam and bot posts.
I disagree that people suck.
I think that enshittification on any SM platform, whether free and open, or built for commerce, happens when companies try to exploit it for commercial gain.
Take Usenet for example: At the beginning it was great, then spammers found they could post unlimited spam across the newsgroups for free, and it became shit, barring a few groups where mods had to work very hard to weed out the spam to keep them readable, but eventually collapsed, and people moved on to the new platforms.
Reddit, was built for ads and tracking its users to start with, so the gradual creep of enshittification was no surprise there.
And now we have nation-state backed disinformation campaigns to deal with in addition to commercial spam.
I could see Lemmy and the Fediverse in general taking a similar path to Usenet, if the devs, admins, and mods aren't vigilant about keeping bad actors out.
I like the Fediverse's guarantor feature for adding new instances, but we'll have to see how well it holds up under assault from spammers.
Someone just gave me a workaround for this:
Before saving the edits, select a language, other than "Undetermined".
After doing that, my edits to the posts saved normally
After I've saved a post to a /c hosted by another instance than the one that I'm logged into, I can open that post for editing, but I'm unable to save my edits to that post.
For example: I made a post to !ukraine@sopuli.xyz, while logged in elsewhere. Something or other in the webpage link is forcing a download, so I tried to edit the URL in the post, but I can't save it.
This also happened to a post I made to !coffee@lemmy.world where I was trying to edit the text in the post's Body after saving the post.
I can save edits to my posts to /c's on my native instance just fine.
I watched this Saturday.
There was so much good stuff artistically in this movie!
The changes to the story worked really well, IMO, towards updating it for modern cynical sensibilities:
I loved Zendaya's portrayal of Chani and her girl friend calling out Paul and Jessica's colonialist bullshit.
Jessica's "strange" behavior as a pregnant woman. I agree with others that having Jessica speak for Alia worked better than having a child actor like Lynch's version.
Stilgar's parody of religious fanaticism was hilarious!
Visually, making the worm riding look like some kind of extreme sport worked well
The Giedi Prime black and white/infrared sequences were brilliant, although seeing the Baron and Feyd in regular flesh tones afterwards felt strange.
The Atreides nuke missiles flying across the sky felt apocalyptic
The Sardukar ranks were notably not as rigidly disciplined as we saw in the first film.
Unlike others, I thought that Christopher Walken's emperor was good. Age decrepit on the verge of doddering, but with dark intelligent thoughts behind his sullen face. The only problem with casting Walken was that he's too recognizable.
The one part I didn't like was the climactic dagger fight. I would have liked to see the action better choreographed and coordinated with camera angles to make the sequence of thrusts and parries clearer. I also would have liked to see contrasting fighting styles between whatever Feyd does, and Paul's classical Atreides training mixed with Fremen savagery. I'm still not sure how Paul's knife wound up in Feyd at the end.
I also noticed unlike other adaptations, they didn't do the weirding modules, the Atreides-developed sonic weapons that give the Fremen some kind of combat advantage. But I didn't miss them.
Overall I was very happy with the movie.
US: "No ceasefire"
Also US (Trumpublicans): "No arms for Ukraine either"
Ukraine: "Hey, we're dying over here, we need ammunition"
It's like a giant robot trying to stamp out cockroaches for the last 5 or 6 chapters: Wrong tool for the job...
Bad bot
I'm trying to say report a bug and the steps to re-create the bug.
Before I begin, I have to say that this post includes links to an instance, ani.social, that has been defederated from this instance, lemmy.ml, because that's where I discovered this problem.
But in this case, I hope the admins understand that this is worth reporting and investigating, and don't insta-delete this post, because this problem appears to happen with more than that one instance, including sopuli.xyz, which is not defederated from here at lemmy.ml
Let us begin:
With Lemmy account setting “Auto Expand Media” turned on, when I’m viewing community https://ani.social/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz on my desktop browser, Firefox on Windows, one particular post, https://ani.social/post/1923262 , causes the /c view to ask me to download an .mp4 video from streamable.com:
After declining the download, the space where the thumbnail for the expanded media goes is just blank.
This doesn’t happen when viewing the same /c on .ml https://lemmy.ml/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
On .ml, I just get a clickable thumbnail of the video.
It’s just that one post.
On other earlier and later posts of links to streamable.com videos in the same /c, I just get the expected clickable thumbnail.
Maybe some kind of corrupted data as that particular post was transferring over?
When I asked about this on ani.social's meta /c, another user reported the auto-download request on ani.social, sopuli.xyz (the /c's home!) but not on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world
It's weird that this /c !anime@lemmy.ml doesn't show up on neither Feddit's Community Browser https://browse.feddit.de/ or Lemmy Explorer https://lemmyverse.net/communities when searching for "anime"
Instead anime@(the-instance-that-shall-not-be-named).social shows up first on Community Browser, and
I'm not sure what to make of that.
Is someone trying to shadow deprecate this /c/ ?
I'd forgotten all about C/FO because it had been such a long time since I'd heard of them.
It was really local groups who organized anime showings on college campuses who kindled me to take a more serious interest in anime.
Tape trading is where those groups from the 70s and 80s got their imported show from, but tape trading happened in all kinds of media, e.g. rock concerts.
Often we'd wind up watching 3rd or 4th gen VHS copies, i.e. grainy, washed out with bad sound, because we were so far down the chain.
...Aaaand the entries from the modlog concerning deleting my thread and post have been deleted.
Wonderful transparency there....
Fortunately, the bookwormstory.social entries are still there, so I could recover my scribblings.
Hahaha, the writer's joke was on us the viewers!
It starts out as a boring isekai "quiet life" scenario, then things get complicated...
The amount of twists that were thrown in to ratchet up the tension...
This is the best first episode I've watched in the new season so far.
CGDCT with mahjong.
Just a generic start.
There's nothing really standing out for me except the art: Those eyes look like they take ages to draw.
The comedy bits where they're imagining things while seated around the table aren't as funny as those in say "Sabagebu!"
Actually according to the modlog, some "mod" removed for "Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Episode 1 discussion" citing Rule 3 "No Porn"
I mean the show is risque, but we're starting to see nipples on Hollywood red carpets these days...
"mod" being in quotes because of the uncertainty elsewhere in this post...
Web interface, on Windows Firefox
I was trying to create a post with the title:
"Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyou Sugite, Isekai no Yatsura ga Marude Aite ni Naranaindesu ga. • My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Episode 1 discussion"
It let me paste this much into the title box:
"Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyou Sugite, Isekai no Yatsura ga Marude Aite ni Naranaindesu ga. • My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Episode 1 d"
Then, when I created the post, a red dialog saying "Error: invalid_post_title" popped up in the lower left of my browser.
I suspected that the pasted title was too long, so I removed some of the text, and sure enough, I was able to create the post.
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If it's going to automatically truncate the pasted text, it should truncate the text to an acceptable length.
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The error message should be more specific.
Probably obvious to anyone encountering this, and an easy workaround.
Thanks for your attention devs!
At first, Ukraine noticed its GPS-guided 155mm Excalibur artillery shells suddenly started veering off target.
Bad news. New Russian electronic warfare tactics are blocking HIMARS legendary accuracy, and drones.
Without further aid packages with military grade NATO electronics, the Ukrainian electronic advantage is over.
Republicans and Orban are literally killing Ukrainian soldiers.
I have a book scan that came back from a book scanning company.
The scan images were fine, but the OCR text in the PDF are whacky, due to eccentric fonts, dirt, etc.
So I'm going to have to go through this by hand and tidy up.
I have tried a lot of FOSS PDF editors on this particular PDF, but none of them work as well as an old copy of Foxit PhantomPDF (an old version of the product currently named Foxit PDF Editor) that I have on a dying laptop.
I've tried the following commonly recommended FOSS PDF editors without much success:
LibreOffice Draw - Many text fields in wrong layer order. Page images not visible.
PDFEdit - Loads the file as blank
Scribus - Won't load the file
FireFox - only allows annotation changes
Inkscape - It sort of works, but it's not oriented towards text editing, so looking and editing text is cumbersome.
NY Times gift article link.
Republicans are testing how far they can make unrelated demands in exchange for supporting Ukraine as the previously budgeted aid fund runs low.
Exploiting the lives of Ukrainians who are dying every day for political gain.
It's going to be a long war. If the D's cave in this time what will the R's demand next time?
In some posts, I see some comments are highlighted in yellow for no obvious reason that I can figure out. Example post here
It's not just the OP's comments, it's not just all comments, so ???
I haven't seen this before, so maybe this came in the new lemmy 0.19 update?
What does the highlighting mean?
There's no way to read replies to my comments and posts after they've been marked as read.
Also, when viewing replies to my comments from my profile menu, there's no way to go to my comment in the original post to view the context of the reply.
According to Ukrainian partisans, recruiting Russian officers to help plan the devastating missile attack on Russia's Black Sea Fleet was made easier by the fact many hadn’t been paid by the Kremlin.
Recruiting Russian officers to help plan the attack was made easier by many of them not being paid their salaries