sunaurus @ sunaurus @lemm.ee

Not active on Lemmy any longer. If you send me a DM, I won't see it. Sorry!

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Hey! Unfortunately, the errors on community creation are not currently properly displayed in the frontend. What name are you trying to create the community with?

The most common reason for failure is simply the community name already being in use.

Hey, you can check this post for more context: https://lemm.ee/post/493966

There is: if your search for the full URL of the source post or comment on lemm.ee, then a sync will be attempted.

Generally I would recommend against running RC builds. I was willing to take the risk in this case for lemm.ee, because:

• I feel comfortable with debugging and fixing issues in code as they crop up
• I have been working myself on stabilizing 0.18.1 and am pretty well aware of its current state
• The set of problems in 0.18.1-rc4 is a bit better than the different set of problems we had with 0.17.4 😅

At the end of the day, you have to acknowledge the risks and see if they're worth it for you.

I know what you mean! The good news is that there are some huge improvements for federation in 0.18.1. These improvements depend on instances at both ends being on 0.18.1, so we'll start seeing it kick in shortly as more of the network upgrades.

Awesome news! I did make a small fix to a localization bug in Lemmy-ui, which was causing some people to not see posts, so it could have been that. But in any case, I'm glad it's sorted for you!

The DoS was responsible for about 10-20% increased load on our system - it wasn't the root cause of the slowdowns, it was more like a nice cherry on top of the cake 😅 The bigger issue is the constantly increasing federation load.

It should be fixed now!

Hey, I have deployed a fix for a specific bug, can you check if it helped at all for you on iOS?

Awesome news, good luck with the work!

There's nothing inherently illegal about VPNs, P2P, seedboxes, torrents, software for torrents, etc - as a software engineer, I have no trouble understanding that these things all have legal purposes. There can be no realistic case made against someone just because they use (or discuss the use of) any of these things. You can post and comment about stuff like this all day long.

Also: discussing piracy topics in general (like commenting on the legality of it, just saying you do it, whatever) without actually using lemm.ee servers to host anything sketchy is fine as well.

On the other hand, telling people "go to coolpiracywebsite.com to download the latest avengers movie" is very sketchy - you're not directly distributing anything, but I think a case can be made that this comment is directly facilitating piracy, and if someone sends me a legal letter to remove such a comment, then TBH I will most likely just comply rather than deal with the hassle of trying to figure out how legal it is. Just being frank here - I don't want to create false expectations of lemm.ee servers being a safe haven for content with sketchy legal status.

When you say "posting about", do you mean actually distributing pirated content? That would definitely be illegal and I would certainly enforce removal of such posts, because even when posting on external instances, your posts will still be stored on lemm.ee servers.

If you're just commenting on piracy topics, and not distributing anything (or facilitating distribution), then that should be fine.

I really like the overall concept of Lemmy, so I decided to set up lemm.ee to support the Lemmy network with my skillset. I have previously had the privilege of being responsible for running large platforms online (end-to-end, everything from operations to software engineering), and so far, this experience seems to be extremely relevant for running Lemmy in its current state.

As for paying for hosting, my initial plan was to to just pay for everything myself as kind of a hobby, but the userbase at lemm.ee has been very gracious in first asking me several times to share costs, and then actually sending money once I set up donations. I'm not sure yet if this donations-based funding will be sustainable, or if it will fall off after the initial hype dies, but for now it's really awesome to see that there are several other people who believe in lemm.ee and want to share financial responsibility for it.

Nobody knows the future, but speaking as an instance admin, the ideal scenario would be a continued steady growth and not a huge sudden influx 😅

It wasn't intended as a thershold, just as a random example of an instance that would get defederated

Basically, if on any other platform you would be legally required to use something like #ad under your post, then such a post is not allowed on lemm.ee.

Sorry for the vagueness, but I've had experiences where strict well defined rules create loopholes which are actively abused, so I would rather have somewhat vague common sense based rules in general.

I agree! There's an issue tracking this feature here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397

Sure!

More context here if anybody is struggling with bots: http://lemmy.ml/post/1391903

Public posts and comments are, well, public (and there's no expectation from users that their posts and comments would be private, considering the nature of what Lemmy is).

The only way to not transport public posts and comments to the rest of the internet (including but not limited to other Lemmy instances) would be to completely disconnect an instance from the internet 😅