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  • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninjatoLemmy@lemmy.mlWhat does Lemmy lack?
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    1 year ago

    As a site admin, I really wish it was easier to modify the content on the front page. We’ve had some interesting ideas over here, like linking to some simple online games and posting high scores for the site, or maybe just adding some analytics boxes to the site. But for us that’s difficult.

    A lot of our ideas come from a shared experience in BBSes from the 90s, where they had game doors, ascii art, and other fun site-specific elements. Technology has changed, but there are modern equivalents to all of those things that we wish we could implement.



  • However, I’m surprised to still see my posts there. I would have thought you deleting them on your instance would propagate out to my instance.

    Well, I purged them from the database. Maybe if I had removed the post instead of purging, that would have propagated. Right now the posts don’t exist in our database at all.

    But I bet the more likely scenario is that once a post gets propagated, it persists forever on the instance it gets propagated to unless someone purges it there.


  • Assuming I am correct, this could end up being a bit of a problem. That means, users on my instance could go about spamming the fediverse, and I would never see reports of their activity unless they are spamming communities on my instance. The only way I have to know that they’re being bad users is if I notice we get defederated, if an admin of another instance specifically reaches out to me, if another user on my instance reports them, or if I manually monitor my users.

    This is actually consistent with something that happened to us in the early days of lemmy.ninja. We had a few thousand bot accounts get created on our site. Some other sites defederated from us, but it took us weeks to notice that this happened. One of them happened to be a Mastodon instance, and that person indicated a ban reason that indicated that a user was an edgelord. Well, this was back in the beginning of our site, so we knew all of our users personally. If we had not been really on top of things and really plugged in to what was happening across a lot of the Lemmy instances, we would never have known that the bot users interacted with anyone. We still don’t know how many posts or comments they made before we deleted them all.




  • Resolving the report on your side seems to have had no effect on our side. In Lemmy UI, there is a very subtle color difference in the checkmark before and after it is clicked, so I took a screenshot of the report.

    Before:

    After:

    I guess there’s a chance that it may take time for the change in state to propagate to me, so I’ll watch it over the next 20 minutes or so to see if it changes.

    I am now reporting the second test post.








  • I was just thinking about this.

    I’m also old, having gotten into the internet back in the BBS days in the late 80s and early 90s. Lemmy is the first platform I’ve been on that resurrected those feelings of friendly competition, community, and variety. In those days, each BBS had its own character. There was plenty of duplication of content, but it didn’t matter because each server you connected to was like looking at that content through a different lens. Users didn’t get notoriety from collecting upvotes; they got it by being willing to travel to different servers and make a name for themselves by participating in many communities.

    It’s good to have that feeling again!