Admiral Patrick @ ptz @dubvee.org

I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

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Last post to their announcement community said there was scheduled maintenance:

Guessing maybe that went Tango Uniform? It was edited 17 hours ago, and while there's no revision history, it looks like they tagged it "Ongoing" so perhaps there's a process taking longer than expected.

Tesseract did that a couple releases ago. All images in DMs are disabled by default and you have to hit a switch to show them (like how email clients work when you have images disabled.). Not sure if others have done similar, but that feature was a direct result of this (before it took a dark turn).

Or a domestic one (though only this POTUS).

Give it a week.

Nevermind. (Replied to the wrong post)

I use SnappyMail. It's a fork of Rainloop that's actually maintained.

https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail

And unlike Rainloop, the Sieve filter editor actually works.

Ain't that the sad truth.

With that question alone you've already put more thought into this than the person declaring these brain-dead tariffs.

Yep. Literally state history for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

Sadly, we here seem to have forgotten our history.

I mean, my example is over-simplified and slightly exaggerated (though not by much), and it just got old FAST. No idea if it's still like that or if they've toned down as an instance, but I've been happy without them, so not gonna rock that particular boat.

(Takes a deep breath, clears mind, gets into character)

This meme format is a product of capitalism, posted to a capitalist instance, and you should be ashamed. Instead of posting an image of a capitalist pig, why aren't you out in the streets burning shit down??/? There's no good capitalist. If you're not out in the streets overthrowing capitalism and burning everything down, RIGHT NOW, you're part of the problem! Rabble Rabble Rabble, guillotines, violence violence violence.

In a nutshell, anyway. Or at least that's how it was from users there on every 3rd post/comment before my instance finally defederated.

Doritos and chocolate milk.

Don't ask me why or what it reminds me of, but the nostalgia portion of my brain goes haywire with that combo (maybe a good memory that's locked away with some bad ones? I dunno).

Things that, ironically, enhance silence.

• Heavy raindrops on a metal roof
• Leaves rustling in the wind
• Campfire

Because the Electoral College has worked out so well for us here in the US. /s

As someone who's actual real life votes have been watered down all my life, I really don't want to apply that logic elsewhere.

Why not just make new account's votes only count for 3/5 of a vote and send those in aggregate? /s

The real solution is to be aware of unmoderated / malicious instances. Vote manipulation is something I actively watch for, and I didn't even see this campaign because I'd already defederated from both of the identified instances as they were already frequent sources of spam. After looking into them, neither seemed actively moderated and both had open signups. Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out how that's going to end up.

It seems only the first Lemmy community URL gets crossposted (I was able to post to when it was the first Lemmy URL).

I hope to god that's intentional on Lemmy's side as a spam-prevention measure.

I had to explain it generally / "in a nutshell" since OP didn't provide any example data.

Fake bans aren't a thing, but banning from an instance doesn't necessarily ban them from all communities (just the ones they've interact with up to the time of the ban).

This means someone on instance B, who is banned from instance A, can still interact with communities on instance A via instance B if instance B was not informed the person was banned from the community.

However, a user from instance B, banned from instance A, interacting with a community on instance A via instance B will not have their content federated via instance A (the home instance of the community). Thus, only other users on instance B should be able to see that user's submissions.

Clear as mud?

Edit: Maybe I can clear it up with an example.

Let's say you and your friend are both on lemmy.cafe. I see your friend around in the Lemmyverse from my instance, and they're violating a bunch of my local rules to the point they merit a ban. Your friend has not interacted directly with any communities on my instance, so when I ban them, no community bans are federated.

You and your friend are both subscribed to, say, !30rock@dubvee.org. Even though your friend is banned from my instance, they can still post/comment there from lemmy.cafe since that instance has no idea they're banned from mine; non-local bans aren't federated, and since they hadn't interacted with that community prior to me banning them, no community bans were sent out.

However, none of the posts/comments they make to lemmy.cafe's local copy of that community will be federated by my instance (where the 30 Rock community lives). Thus, only users on lemmy.cafe can see what the banned user has posted.

FYI: You're just posting thumbnail images without the article links to go along with them.

(After turning 40, every time I safely step out of the shower)

Whew. Fuck.