crashdoom

Over the past 48 hours, we've received a lot of discourse regarding the upcoming "Project 92" platform created by Facebook and the anti-meta fedi pact.

While we're still in early days of the request for comments, a clear pattern has emerged that users of Pawb.Social services unequivocally do not want their data to be abused by corporate interests, such as those of Facebook.

Over and above the corporate interests, Facebook has also demonstrated a repeated failure to enact meaningful moderation changes to avoid abusive content on their platform, especially misinformation.^[^^1^^][^^2^^][^^3^^]^

"I do wonder if this discussion is a little academic, because I feel like Meta instances are very likely to get defederated for some reason under the current rules, like poor moderation, spam, or generic abuse." ^[^^4^^]^

As pointed out above, excluding the corporate interests, the discussion is somewhat moot due to the concerns regarding moderation which would lead to a Facebook operated instance being inevitably suspended.

For these reasons, Pawb.Social (including furry.engineer and pawb.fun) will suspend any and all Facebook owned, operated, or affiliated instances in the interests of protecting our users and communities.

owo

• Instance: lemmygrad.ml
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social (Lemmy) only
• Reason: Trolling, disruptive behavior, tankie instance

• Instance: seal.cafe
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
• Reason: Trolling, no moderation policy

Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the lack of transparency we've had on Pawb.Social, compared to our usual standards with the Mastodon instances.

We should ensure that all of our users are well aware of when we make important decisions that may affect their abilities to view content from other instances.

So for that, I'm sorry.

Secondly, we've now created an additional community over at /c/adminlog which will document all of the administrative-level decisions taken by the Admin team which won't show up in the Modlog.

These decisions will include: Defederation, removal of community images (banners / icons), addition / removal of moderators, and addition / removal of instance admins.

We'll prefix each post with tags to identify what type of action it is at a glance followed by the instance or community name, and detail in the post what action we took and why we took it.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can leave them here or post them in the feedback community as many of you already have done.

Thanks, Crashdoom

After reviewing a recent post by the administrator of sh.itjust.works and comments from the community, we've decided to revoke the defederation action.

We're hoping that proactive moderation strategies and development to Lemmy's moderation tools help us avoid the need to defederate from instances like sh.itjust.works in the future.

Original defederation info:

• Instance: sh.itjust.works
• Type: Defederation
• Affects: Pawb.Social (Lemmy) only
• Reason: We defederated from sh.itjust.works due repeated abuse from users and the open-registration policy permitting this.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16351

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15953

Hi all!

So, I'm assuming everyone has seen links like https://beehaw.org/c/news and clicked through to find it doesn't work right because it's a different site (I'm assuming a different instance here).

Well, I just stumbled across an interesting feature: if you enter a link in the following format, it works for everyone regardless of instance of origin:

[News](/c/news@beehaw.org)

News

[My User](/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev)

My User

You're welcome!

Important Update

We’re going to be setting up a fork to maintain some separation, add additional features, and remove references due to raised concerns.

So, we will not be changing software, and will be continuing business as usual.

We've forked the repositories and they can be found at these URLs: https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy and https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy-ui.

You can follow the instructions at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/02-local-development.html for setting up a local development environment.

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Hey everyone!

We received feedback that raised concerns regarding the apparent moderation and censorship issues around lemmy.ml, and allegations made by Feditips about the Lemmy developers.

We'd appreciate some feedback from users of our community (users here, or on the Fediverse), furry.engineer, and pawb.fun.

As it stands, we have defederated from one of the more prominent problematic instances, lemmygrad.ml, but haven't taken any action against lemmy.ml.

So the question stands: Should we continue running Lemmy, or swap to an alternative?

The currently considered alternative would be kbin.pub (example instance: kbin.social) which shares being a FOSS project with full ActivityPub support.

If we continue to run Lemmy, we wouldn't be opposed to having a forked version that removes certain elements from the UI, such as the donate icon, but, we would require community assistance to maintain this fork.

Receipts:

• Beware by Feditips (recently reposted): https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
• "Expressing concerns about moderation policy on lemmy.ml" - https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199
• Comments in https://lemmy.ml/post/1150805

Maintenance on both instances has concluded!

• 11:32 AM MST: All feeds on pawb.fun have been regenerated, and maintenance is now concluded.
• 11:25 AM MST: pawb.fun is back online! Feeds are being re-generated so this may take a little while and you may see a blank timeline until the system re-generates yours.
• 11:12 AM MST: pawb.fun data has been transferred and is being loaded into Postgres.
• 10:57 AM MST: Maintenance on pawb.fun has begun.

• 11:09 AM MST: All feeds on furry.engineer have been regenerated, and maintenance is now concluded.
• 10:54 AM MST: furry.engineer is back online! Feeds are being re-generated so this may take a little while and you may see a blank timeline until the system re-generates yours.
• 10:37 AM MST: furry.engineer data has been transferred and is being loaded into Postgres once more.
• 10:00 AM MST: Maintenance on furry.engineer has begun.

On June 10th, starting at 10 AM MST, we'll be migrating furry.engineer and pawb.fun back to the main server infrastructure.

We expect the transfers to take no longer than an hour each to complete, starting with furry.engineer and following with pawb.fun.

After the maintenance, it may take up to an hour for the feeds to be regenerated so your timeline may appear blank or be missing posts -- Don't panic!

The Lemmy instance, pawb.social, will remain online throughout the transfer and we'll be updating this topic with the status as we progress.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.anji.nl/post/7961

Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.