From Troubleshooting:

How can I check the logs?

You can use this command to see a live feed of logs docker compose -p lemmy-easy-deploy logs -f

need to cd ./live first

There’s a surprising amount of subscribed users even. They are all just very quiet :/

OTOH, discoverability sucks and requires using external tools, so I’m not sure exclusion really helps.

While I’m at it, in case any folk metal fans read this: Please join !folkmetal@discuss.tchncs.de, I’m feeling very lonely 99% posting by myself ;)

But I would be lying if I didn’t mention that at least part of my reason for being here is to have a chance at being a part of something that has a positive impact on the world. Wanting to spite reddit is definitely a part of it, but there is also a large part of my motivation that comes from my fantasies about what Lemmy could one day become, which don’t really have anything to do with reddit.

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Very well said and some much-needed positivity after my dark POV :D You are, of course, right. It’s not all bad and horrible, and there are a lot of things I enjoy here as well, and there are good discussions.

There are quite a few fair points in there, it’s not as if this is some dumb nonsense.

Another impression I have is that on Reddit, idiots are mainly in large communities. But on Lemmy there is far less content, so they also troll through the all feed, which has all kinds of small communities where those people then have an outsized effect. I think that is part of the reason why the general level of discussion on Lemmy feels closer to big reddit communities than to small ones.

Additionally, if they got to experience the fascists from hexbear (not quite sure what lemmy.world does, www.hexbear.net is federated, hexbear.net is blocked…), that also doesn’t exactly make for intelligent discussions.

And finally, smaller reddit subs have far saner voting. Here on Lemmy there’s a lot more “I don’t understand this, so I’m downvoting because replying would require using my brain”.

Lemmy has a lot of issues and the only reason I persevere, is because I’m a glutton for punishment and simply hate Spez even more.

Changelogs on chat systems make people chat less, not more.

I don’t see how. People can be assholes with or without editing. And I absolutely disagree that it would make Lemmy less inviting, people being assholes does, not accountability.

I actually disagree with almost every point of your post.

The increased hosting cost is a drop in the bucket unless you expect people to heavily edit posts all the time, I don’t think only 1 in 10,000 edits is more than a typo. It neither invites normal users nor mods to abuse anything, and I don’t see an important feature as clutter.

Editing a post may be to remove the password you accidentally copy pasted in

With federation even more than normally, anything you accidentally posted is now public. Not only can’t you be sure your edit federated anywhere, any server can just decide to keep a history even without this feature being in mainline-lemmy.

It was closed by a maintainer/dev of the Lemmy repo

But it’s open?

edit (heh): Ah, I think you meant the backend issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3803

Okay, I finally understand what you mean. Reverse DNS entries are not required for the internet to work, it works perfectly well without DNS at all. Though I guess you could block all those IPs as well. This would essentially be geoblocking by another mechanism.

I really don’t understand what you are talking about. DNS is the Domain Name System, why would every person have a DNS entry?

But how is that related to DNS? That would be geoblocking.

You mean their IP? And restricting things to IPs is a) not that easy while having federation still work and b) IPs change.

Also, in that case you might as well close registration and only have limited accounts like most of us self-hosters have.

I think that might be it, it will work without it commented out, but your path would not exist anymore when it is, so there should be no need to manually set it to 404.

Just out of interest, had you also commented out the pict-rs volume? Otherwise, I guess it’ just some nginx thing where caddy chose the sane default, once again ;)

Hm, I use caddy, and it just worked, why would you need to 404 it? That should be the default behavior if there’s nothing there.

I’m surprised and delighted that this simply works :D

Yeah, I kinda hate it as I can’t easily post pictures anymore, now, but I have been worrying recently that some idiot would bring the police to my door. Just disabled pict-rs for my instance :/

What would you whitelist? And what would that help?

I’m an instance administrator, what the fuck do I do?

You forgot: Don’t allow others users but yourself ;)

I only listen to music while doing other things.