freamon @ freamon @endlesstalk.org

aka freamon@lemmy.world, freamon@feddit.nl, and any username from lemmon.we

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I've compiled lemmy a few times - it's fairly straightforward. I've tried to compile kbin before, but gave up bored and pissed off with the instructions - they seem endless, and like a big list of 'edit this file' (with no indication for whether you're adding or updating info), 'now edit this file', 'now go back and edit the first file again'. I know mbin isn't kbin, but the instructions are the same.

I was trying because someone from there subscribed to a community I made just using ActivityPub, but nothing I've sent there has actually appeared. If you send the wrong stuff to lemmy, it errors. It's not always the most useful message, but it's at least a '400 Bad Request', not the '200 OK {}' you get back from kbin. What does it want? Does it not like 'Create/Page'? Is there a problem with the content? I don't know, because I can't [be bothered to] compile it, and the tech specs for these 'bins lead to a 404.

Sorry. Link on post changed to nbcnews. Knew there was something fishy about Business Insider but it looked normal I viewed it.

I changed the link to nbcnews rather than businessinsider - I tested it but the paywall on there is sneaky.

The full memo is:

Dear Vice Team,

As we navigate the ever-evolving business landscape, we need to adapt and best align our strategies to be more competitive in the long term. After careful consideration and discussion with the board, we have decided to make some fundamental changes to our strategic vision at Vice.

We create and produce outstanding original content true to the Vice brand. However, it is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously.

Moving forward, we will look to partner with established media companies to distribute our digital content, including news, on their global platforms, as we fully transition to a studio model. As part of this shift, we will no longer publish content on vice.com, instead putting more emphasis on our social channels as we accelerate our discussions with partners to take our content to where it will be viewed most broadly.

Separately, Refinery 29 will continue to operate as a standalone diversified digital publishing business, creating engaging, social first content. As you know, we are in advanced discussions to sell this business, and we are continuing with that process. We expect to announce more on that in the coming weeks.

With this strategic shift comes the need to realign our resources and streamline our overall operations at Vice. Regrettably, this means that we will be reducing our workforce, eliminating several hundred positions. This decision was not made lightly, and I understand the significant impact it will have on those affected. Employees who will be affected will notified about next steps early next week, consistent with local laws and practices.

I know that saying goodbye to our valued colleagues is difficult and feels overwhelming, but this is the best path forward for Vice as we position the company for long-term creative and financial success. Our financial partners are supportive and have agreed to invest in this operating model going forward. We will emerge stronger and more resilient as we embark on this new phase of our journey.

Thank you for your continued dedication to Vice and support during this time of transition.

Together, I am confident that we will overcome any challenges and achieve our shared goals.

Bruce

2 kids in Japan are spamming Mastodon due to some disagreement between them - we got this 'cos unitedkingdom was tagged in it

OK. Bit mad, but whatever, I've emailed them. Thank you both for letting me know.

Oh. Do the admins not read this community?

Oh wow. That really illustrates it. Your approach to a social media site is very admirable (so much modern stuff assumes that just throwing more CPU cycles / RAM / bandwidth at the problem is a solution).

Flippin' eck. Seeing a familiar Lemmy post on there, clicking it and seeing the whole thing render instantly was a bit of a shock after getting used to Lemmy's more pedestrian loading of stuff.

Regarding the 'Unresolved questions' part, the ActivityPub activity for Reports is:

    
{
  "actor": "http://ds9.lemmy.ml/u/lemmy_alpha",
  "to": ["http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/main"],
  "audience": "http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/u/main",
  "object": "http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/post/7",
  "summary": "report this post",
  "type": "Flag",
  "id": "http://ds9.lemmy.ml/activities/flag/98b0933f-5e45-4a95-a15f-e0dc86361ba4"
}

  

From this page. I imagine it's up to lemmy where this actually gets sent (in the sense that if a community has 1 moderator, it goes to 1 inbox, but if it has 2 moderators, it goes to 2 inboxes).

Can confirm. Just looked at Boost and there they all are. Pretty neat. (Boost is the only app I've seen that notifies you of comments too)

In Lemmy terms they're at 'RequireApplication'. Open is completely open. PixelFed have automated something that lemmy.world did for feddit.nl a while ago - defederate from them until they changed their application policy.

Manual approval isn't the only alternative to Open Registration - the main one involves requiring an email address, and/or solving a captcha

It's not a one-click solution, but lemmy admins can check other instance's registration policy. e.g.
curl https://lemmy.world/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.registration_mode

Other Fediverse apps will reveal it in different ways of course. Nothing to stop an instance that was set up just for spam from lying about it of course.

It seems a very optimistic viewpoint that, actually, Lemmy would have more content, it's just that all the people who would be making it are, like, really busy with other stuff right now.

Oh right. I didn't realise that removed posts still got votes (and comments too, by the looks of it). No rush for the update, obvs (I thinks there's only one actual subscriber from programming.dev)

Thanks. I can see that a new post from 'nixCraft' has made it, when the previous one got removed. I know it's not important, but pls can the removed posts be restored?

Hello. My community !tails@lemmon.website is getting caught by this. It posts stuff from Mastodon users, so they won't have any karma. I've been trying to figure out why posts to programming.dev have been hit or miss, and the answer of course is that the missing posts are sat in modlog!

If poss, can tails be added as an exception? It's me that's deciding whether a post is made or not, so no spam or weird stuff will ever get sent.

Thanks.

Ooof. That makes me feel better about that time I accidentally brought 'Test Post 1' into production by commenting on it.

It's me deciding. Recommendations for interesting people on Mastodon to follow are welcome (either in this post, or the sticky 'About this community' post).

Or perhaps: