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Quick post to answer some basic usage questions that can throw off new users.
Where should I register?
The age old question of fediverse. The answer is pick an instance that is not right-wing and you should be fine.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances makes this very easy. Once you find an instance, just go to its /signup endpoint. For the instance you're reading right now, it would be: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/signup. Another great option is to use the lemmyverse which provides a lot more info about potential instances and communities, including a trust score.
Do I need to create a profile for each instance?
No! Each instance can access each other instance, unless it's been defederated because its admins are toxic (this is why I told you not to join right-wing instances earlier).
I joined an instance, but the community I am interested in is in a different instance
No problem. Simply add the instance domain at the end of the url endpoint.
For example, say you're in lemmy.ml and you realized that stable_diffusion is in lemmy.dbzer0.com. To access it, simply add @lemmy.dbzer0.com at the end of the url after the community name. So:
https://lemmy.ml/c/stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Or to put it differently, you can access any community, in any instance by adding /c/ (The requivalet of reddit /r/) and then community_name@instance.domain
If this doesn't work, then it's likely this instance is not yet federated with yours. To solve this, you need to search for it. See the next section.
But how do I even find the community I want to if it exists in any of hundreds of instances?
One option is to use the lemmyverse, as it's very user friendly, if you specify which instance if your home, it will automatically convert all links to your own instance.
Alternatively use the use the built-in search.
Note that if you search for an community in an lemmy instance your own instance doesn't yet know about, it won't find it. You need to give it more precice instructions to find it, which require the whole "address". To follow our example above, you would put [!stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com](/c/stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com) in your search field.
When searching for a community in a new instance, it might take a few minutes to take effect. The first search will not return anything, but if you search again after a couple of minutes, it should appear.
How do I find my community from reddit?
https://sub.rehab/ allows you to search for any subreddit and see if its official community exists in the threadiverse. You can then search for it specifically to subscribe. If you've already registered an account somewhere, make sure you visit the settings in sub.rehab and set your home instance there, so that all links go through it.
Community? Instance?
An instance is a lemmy server hosted by someone. it has its own set of users and communities. lemmy.dbzer0.com is an instance. You can access (almost) every instance from any other instance.
a community is like a subreddit in reddit, or a channel in discord. It's a topic in inside an instance. stable_diffusion is a community inside the instance lemmy.dbzer0.com.
In more plain terms, consider a lemmy instance like a street, and a community like a number on that street. When you write [!stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com](/c/stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com) you are giving the exact address and number to search for.
I keep seeing the same posts
In you're in a smaller instance and you've subscribed to communities in other places, you might have set up your default visibility to not show them.
Switch your view to Subscribed/Hot to get a similar view like the reddit frontpage.
Switch to All/Hot to get a similar view to reddit /r/all
You can store this setting permanently as default in your user settings
Tips and PSA
- Protip: Use instance or relative links
- Upload images on your text posts
- Use Firefox' bookmark keywords to navigate quickly to a community
- Protip: Use the instance switcher script
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Hey peeps, the well-known spam problem in lemmy DMs is getting slightly worse, and the spammer in question is evolving their tactics to evade the very rudimentary options we have built-in to lemmy itself (or should I just call it,non-existent?). To get ahead of this, we deployed a DM-scanner directly in the DB, based off of this code but adjusted so that it's more difficult to pull off shenanigans.
At the moment we're only deleting messages based on the "fediverse chick" spam. However I want to point out that if for some reason you legitimately DM someone on dbzer0 with similar terms, you DM might get deleted, so do be aware about that. Them's the breaks.
Unfortunately I can't reveal the exact code I'm using atm, as this can lead to the spammer adjusting their tactics to evade it. However I plan to adjust threativore to also be able to manage your DB anti-DM-spam filters in the future, to make it much easier to handle this, even if you don't feel confident touching your DB. Stay tuned.
I do hope we get more robust anti-spam tech in lemmy and I did open two issues about this, but it seems this is not a prio atm.
If you realize that the anti-spam ate a DM. Do let us know. If you see spam getting through, also let us know.
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Hey peeps, 2 weeks ago we opened applications to onboard new instance admins. We had a ton of great people applying and just as we were getting ready to decide, I got struck down by the influenza b and completely flattened to my bed. Welp.
Well, no matter, I'm back now and decided to announce the new peeps we're onboarding to the admin team. Initially I was planning to just add one new person, but we got so many strong applications that I felt bad choosing just one.
So without further ado, our new admins are:
- @YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- @fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Both seem to have a history which appears to align well with our values and will provide fresh perspectives and experiences to our admin team. Peeps, feel free to introduce yourselves with as many details, pronouns, and/or fanfare as you prefer.
That out of the way, this brings our admin team to 6 members, which starts getting to the point where's the sheer amount of admins and users makes it more likely that conflict arises, either between admins, or between admins and the userbase. In most other forums, this kind of thing typically causes a closing of the ranks and/or internal purges of dissent with the site owner taking the role of the BDFL. We've seen it already with lemmy instances and the regular drama which hits meta-comms.
So, since I'm the actual owner and I hate nothing more than being a BDFL, I want to attempt something novel in this space. You see, one core concept of anarchism is instant recalls. As in, the people that represent any group for a specific project, are not representatives in the same way as in parliamentary democracy. Instead, they are there to follow the exact mandate given to them, and if they are seen as going against it, the people below them have the right to immediately recall their mandate. None of this "minimum a couple of years" and popularity contest shit which allows corruption in.
I want to attempt something similar in our instance. I don't quite know how well it's going to work, but I'm willing to give it a try. The way it's going to work, the admin team is considered to have a mandate from the userbase to do admin shit. We don't want to be calling a vote for every ban and improvement after all. However as a counter-balance, any stakeholder gets the right to initiate recall vote against any admin, including myself. The vote will be run at a 75% threshold to remove, using the governance community.
However due to the impact of such votes, the hope is that perhaps we can sort things out before it gets to it, so the expectation is that people will first open a "sense check" thread in governance to talk about it before taking it to a vote. But if things have reached a head, then a recall vote is there to check our instance admin power.
The remaining admins of course are expected to replace any removed admins to ensure the good instance operation.
I did say that you can even recall myself if you so voted, however there's indeed some hard realities we can't get around. I still control the servers and the domain, and it's not possible to enforce their management based on such votes. So I will still ultimately be able to interfere, but I promise that even if I'm removed, I will only step in to ensure the instance recall functionality is respected. Ultimately this is an experiment that I want to attempt so I'm willing to roll with whichever way it goes.
Now there's one more thing of concern, which is about someone gaming the system. This is not all set up to be super rigorous. I'm hoping our relative obscurity and super-low stakes will prevent anyone attempting to game the system. Likewise, if foul play is suspected, I am still as a failsafe to recover.
You might be asking yourselves: Why do this? Why even mess with this sort of radicalism when the BDFL approach is tried and tested. The answer is because...well, power corrupts. Having power over people does something to one's brain, mates. So many times I've seen well meaning people turn to shit because they felt they were the only ones who knew best and could protect people from themselves. I don't want that. Every BDFL approach eventually creates internal cliques, mistrust, "good ole boy clubs" and such. I base my life in trying to shed as much hierarchical power from myself as possible and it hasn't led me astray, and if we want to change this shit world we're living in, we need to try things that don't repeat the same shitty structures. So while I can't do something perfect, I'm willing to do something flawed and see how far it takes us.
So yeah, welcome the new mods and tell us what you think.
PS: We also upgraded to Lemmy 0.19.9.
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Just wanted to share for people who moderate communities that Tesseract lets you see who voted on a post or comment. This means that as moderators you finally have the ability to take action against users who downvote every post in your community or who vote with multiple accounts, or similar situations.
This might not be a new thing but it's something no one is talking about and I just wanted to let you all know its a thing.
It works on this instance: https://t.lemmy.dbzer0.com/
Or at the main Tesseract Frontent: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37235684
Obviously reporting transphobic comments to a transphobic mod isn't going to result in any action, so I'm wondering if the admins are going to do anything about it?
(if someone needs an image description, please ask)
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Instance policy update: Votes are in and Xitter links are now banned on this instance
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Ahoy mateys!
We are closing the voting on this topic a couple of days early as the result is already conclusive., Our threshold for passing the motion was for 2/3 of voting members in favor. We have far exceeded that threshold (see below) and have a good number of overall responses, so the proposed policy change has now been approved and takes effect immediately.
Our new policy on Xitter links
- No Xitter links are to be posted on this instance from the date of this announcement.
- Workarounds such as link shorteners and alternative front-ends that resolve to Xitter posts are also banned.
- Screenshots will still be permitted as per the overwhelming number of comments in support of this option.
- Exception: In rare cases there may be a need to verify the veracity of a Xitter post. If this need arises, then you may post a https://xcancel.com/ or https://archive.is/ version of the link. Please note this option should only be used sparingly and exclusively for fact-checking purposes.
We will begin communicating this instance policy change to all our users today.
Please try to be helpful to anyone who accidentally posts a Xitter link who may not yet be aware of the policy change, and/or feel free to report in the usual way.
N.B.: For the loopholers - by "Xitter links" we mean any links to content hosted on X (formerly Twitter). Alternative Xitter front-ends are also banned under this policy, unless exception #4 applies. Edit: The ban also applies to other Xitter-owned domains such as their photo blobstore (pbs) domain at pbd.twimg.com
Thanks to everyone involved for participating in the vote!
**The final tally is as follows: **
- For:
(2), 
(7), 
(5), 
(3), 
(2), 
(1) - Against:
- Local Community: +2.6
- Outsider sentiment: Very Positive
- Total: +22.6
- Percentage: 100.00%
To break this down a little differently:
- Home instance users voted 93% in favor of the proposal (284/307)
- External instance users voted 97% in favor of the proposal (70/72 note: these are not counted, but good to know)
- Donating and vouched for users voted 100% in favor of the proposal (20/20 votes).
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Hello once again peeps. As part of my work in categorizing and flairing users based on their registration application, I thought, "why not use the same code to have a constantly running script that checks for new applications and automatically flairs them. Then after I built that, I thought to myself "why not PM new users with their starting flair"? And, well, long story short, our instance now has a script that will automatically PM new users with a full welcome message.
The message will include the users starting flair, based on their stated favorite Anarchist, Pirate or FOSS Advocate and then will suggest some starting comms to join, based on those tags. You can see an example in the attached image.
I feel like this is a neat idea to simulate something like the bluesky starting packs. Of course since we don't quite have something like an onboarding screen, I can't finetune the suggestions too much, but at least we have something.
Let me know if you can think of any improvements to this process.
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