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Thoughts, feelings, discussion and erotic dream journals below.

Your hard work does not go unnoticed, thank you for attention on the recent spam and keeping it off the instance and feeds. Y'all are great

For those using Private message on Lemmy, there is a major vulnerability. It seems that this instance still runs 18.5

I know that our beloved admins are volunteers and busy, so I don't blame them for not updating, but while waiting for the update be aware that your PM are as public as your comments

Does this server have a maximum file size for image uploads? I've encountered the following error when trying to post an image:

{"data":{"msg":"Exceeded maximum dimensions","files":null},"state":"success"}

If a limit exists, is it set by Lemmy as a whole, or on a per-instance basis?

Was this server down in the past day? Seems to be back now, but for a while I kept getting a 522 error. Was this planned maintenance, unplanned outage, or just me? I can't find any mention of anything happening, but it seems like there was a ~4 hour period with no new posts.

On a related note, does a sh.itjust.works community exist on another instance? Might be useful for discussion and updates when this server occasionally goes down.

Hey mah shitizens, I went to make an simple OC image post on Noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works and the "browse" image upload dialog will not open. Tried logging out, then logging back in and restarted my phone. Android, firefox, all updated recently. I also tried uploadingcit from lemmy.world. checked my android and browser media permissions. Halp

This has been a fun adventure into the fediverse and I appreciate all of you here. From the admins, to fellow users at sh.itjust.works, and further to all other users I've interacted with from other lemmy instances and beyond.

I hope you all have happy and safe celebrations tonight (or had if you're ahead) and I look forward to growing our community further n 2024!

There's that weird place discussed by the other instance's admin here:

https://lemy.lol/post/17093789

It’s a small nitherlandian instance that automated posting of christian testimonies (30k+, basically a youtube crawler by keywords, updated hourly) in one community and others are filled with conspiralogical content. Maybe they had their place somewhere before?

Haven’t seen a direct bigotry at a quick glance (closing my eyes on muslims finding christian Jesus-posts), but it looks like spreading conspiracies and serving as an ad for a cult. Is that against our rules? They sometime showed in my feed too. And they are an outright spam entity having 30k posts for like 50 users.

I think that's either a sectarian indocrination or someone being very ill in the head.

I vouch for defederating them and maybe contacting them if they need personal support.

It's exactly what some of youtubers would do a write up about a year after.

As seen in the linked thread, a two-week old comment is visible via the direct link but is no longer listed under the post itself.

(I believe there’s also a deleted reply to the comment, but I expect that behavior will be addressed via upgrade.)

Out of curiosity. For starters I'm a bit of both

On my first page of comments, I said, "Your comment was removed, I wonder why." I wanted to see the context and I kept following it back and an entire thread was missing if I go back far enough. There was no wheel of death or "deleted by user" or whatever it says. There was no removal in the mod logs. I don't think this is malice, but why aren't they keeping up the thread and just saying "removed by mod" or "deleted by user"? It's super confusing and it makes some really interesting threads just disappear. Is this instance rules or Lemmy rules?

• This is the thread I was in: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11700498
• My profile: https://sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit
• As of this post, it was 14 hours ago

Playing around with my old laptop today. Found out that Browsers are about it for Lemmy. Even though I'm on Windows 7, I said old, and can't even use my vpn surfshark, on here, shitjustworks.

It says you'll be able to block instances on a personal level, I'd like that option.

I should also say thanks for all that you guys do, I'm just checking on the status.

Found threads from six months back on the latter: https://beehaw.org/post/594843 / https://sh.itjust.works/post/129725

Wasn’t able to comment an hour or two ago. Perhaps there’s a status page somewhere?

Great job for fantastic uptime, admins, btw!

~~how can i know the de/federation status of the instance? IIRC the instance subscribed to an auto-defederation program to auto exclude bot instances and such. is there a way to distinguish these from the manual defederations? like exploding heads, or hexbear (i thought we were defederated from them but i've just seen the old posts from their users here on /c/main)~~

~~i'm asking just to have a way of knowing wich parts of the fediverse are hidden from view, since it's not obvious to me~~

also would like to know if there is a plan on the instance about threads? i've scoured The Agora but found nothing. wouldn't mind creating a discussion there

EDIT: just found the answer to my first question on another post: https://sh.itjust.works/instances

The past couple of days, I've been getting some cryptic errors when trying to upload images. Anyone else encounter this problem?

Tried to upload a jpeg:

{"data":{"msg":"Failed with status exit status: 1","files":null},"state":"success"}

Tried to upload a jpg or a png:

{"data":{"msg":"Invalid status: 503 Service Unavailable\n\n<code>Service Unavailable</code>\nServer down for maintenance\n\n","files":null},"state":"success"}

Is this planned maintenance, or a different problem?

Hi,
If you know what spam I'm talking about, I'm sorry.
If you don't, don't bother looking for it, it's honestly not worth your time.
Either way, we've taken steps to reduce the impact of such an event.
As always, if you see any, report it.   Thanks,

Bonjour,
Si vous savez de quel spam je parle, désolé.
Sinon, perdrez pas votre temps, ça en vaut la peine.
Dans un cas comme dans l'autre, nous avons pris des mesures pour limiter l'impact de ce genre d'événement.
Comme toujours, si vous en voyez, faites un signalement.
Merci,

This is a follow-up to a prior post regarding un-moderated communities on our instance.

Of the 14 communities identified in the prior post, half have been adopted by new mods. Thanks to everyone who stepped up to volunteer! The remaining un-moderated communities fall into two categories:

Empty communities
!hotlinemiami@sh.itjust.works
!goodolmemes@sh.itjust.works
!afx@sh.itjust.works
!thegreatsatanatlarge@sh.itjust.works

Communities containing posts
!golf@sh.itjust.works
!politics@sh.itjust.works
!lounge_music@sh.itjust.works

The empty communities will be purged (deleted from the server). If anyone wants to recreate the communities in the future then they are free to do so.
The communities with content will be kept. They will be moderated by one of the admins until someone (hopefully) volunteers to take them over.

The next step is to identify communities that have absentee mods. During the Reddit exodus many new users joined Lemmy, created communities, and then apparently turned their attention elsewhere. I have started reaching out to mod accounts that have been inactive for several months. Once it is clear which communities need new mods, we will ask for volunteers.

The end goal of all this work is to have active users moderating each community. It increases the chances that spam, abuse, or inappropriate content will be addressed quickly.

That is all for now. Have a good day!