Advanced mod and spam mitigation tools for community moderators. The ability to force users to only post discussion posts, or link posts. Ability to block certain urls from being posted. Ability to stop certain keywords in post title or body. Ability to cooldown between posts, making it so specific users may only post X times over a period.

This is exactly what is needed.

Mmm, with recuring post, i can push this community on the frontpage

[Pleroma Theme Repository]
https://plthemes.vulpes.one

what other fedi software has such an abundance of themes?
I think every fediverse instance should be as unique as possible...

[posted in @fediverse@lemmy.ml, @fediverse@lemmy.world, @fediverse@piefed.social]

Last time I tried they also worked mostly with Akkoma (which is the nicer software).

Cross posted here as it was highlighted that the individual is a lead Lemmy developer, raising serious concerns about the direction of Lemmy, a leading Fediverse platform, and the impact on future user adoption.

Hi

There have been some rather concerning actions taken by an admin of the !privacy@lemmy.ml community, dessalines@lemmy.ml. Based on recent moderation decisions and a complete lack of communication, it seems like their account may have been compromised, or even more concerning if these actions are deliberate.

1. Erroneous Rule 4 Enforcement, First Instance: a guide posted to !privacy@lemmy.ml, despite receiving many positive votes and comments, was removed under Rule 4:

If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered

However, this post was a guide and not a question, so Rule 4 does not apply. Attempts were made to reach out for clarification but there has been no response, despite their account showing recent activity.

1. Erroneous Rule 4 Enforcement, Second Instance: an on-topic informational video also posted to !privacy@lemmy.ml, despite also receiving many positive votes, was again removed under Rule 4. This post was again not asking a question, so again Rule 4 does not apply. Again, no explanation has been given.

2. User Bans in Completely Unrelated Communities: user bans of over a month have been applied for not only !privacy@lemmy.ml but several completely unrelated communities:

• !emacs@lemmy.ml
• !personalfinance@lemmy.ml
• !linux@lemmy.ml
• !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
• !opensource@lemmy.ml
• !india@lemmy.ml
• !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
• !steam@lemmy.ml
• !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
• !degoogle@lemmy.ml
• !libre_software@lemmy.ml

This is especially concerning given that the above posts have no relation to these communities, and no recent activity has been made in any of them, meaning none of their rules could have been broken. Moreover, a public track record of positive contributions across Lemmy has been established, with many positive votes and comments received over a sustained period. Given all of this, the bans appear to be highly disproportionate, only adding to the growing concerns around moderation practices.

1. Repost with Disclaimer Removed: a repost of the guide, despite a disclaimer explaining the original removal appears to be in error and that attempts to contact the admin have failed, despite again receiving many positive votes and constructive comments, was once again removed. Again, no explanation has been given.

Given all of this, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that something is not right. Mistakes in moderation happen but the complete lack of communication, the disproportionate actions, and the ongoing bans from unrelated communities raise serious concerns. It seems as though the account is most likely compromised, or even more concerning if these actions are deliberate.

Has anyone else experienced similar issues with this admin, or does anyone have more insight into what might be happening?

TL;DR: Admin dessalines@lemmy.ml of !privacy@lemmy.ml appears to be making seriously concerning moderation decisions, including erroneous enforcement of Rule 4 in at least two separate instances, failing to respond to messages, and applying user bans in completely unrelated communities despite a long track record of positive contributions across Lemmy. This has led to speculation that their account is likely compromised, or even more concerning if these actions are deliberate.

Any thoughts or similar experiences would be appreciated.

Cross post with https://lemmy.world/post/43944126

My hometown have a few tower, but the most infamous is made in that ugly cheap brutalist style and is generally recognized as being an eyesore.

But one day i was invited to somebody who lived in the tower. And I was blown away, but I realized that the main advantage of living in the tower was that when you’re in it, you don’t see the tower.

My point is that on the so-called tankie instance, at least they’re not constantly whining about tankies.

Neither are they on the instances that defederate from them.

It’s also not like it’s an ideological thing. The instances that get defederate from are just filled with obnoxious tankies.

Monthly Active Users^[1]^:
| Software | Current | Yesterday[1D] | Last Week[7D] | Last Month[30D] | 3 Months Ago[90D] | 6 Months Ago[180D] | 1 Year Ago[365D] | All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 5493 | 5414 | 4926 | 4732 | 1813 | 1704 | 311 | 6179 |
| Lemmy | 37557 | 37428 | 39050 | 36481 | 35038 | 37360 | 53225 | 72618 |
| Mbin | 785 | 779 | 793 | 799 | 728 | 852 | 910 | 3967 |
| Threadiverse | 43835 | 43621 | 44769 | 42012 | 37579 | 39916 | 54446 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 783003 | 784227 | 777825 | 751208 | 681829 | 692007 | 898815 | 2737163 |
| Pixelfed | 116530 | 119015 | 128333 | 102040 | 83562 | 113407 | 166192 | 338813 |
| Peertube | 41058 | 40962 | 41062 | 29807 | 27682 | 22596 | 36571 | 41545 |
| Loops | 6009 | 6026 | 6476 | 7635 | 2008 | 26259 | 0 | 29821 |
| Bookwyrm | 1573 | 1557 | 1541 | 1464 | 2815 | 2935 | 8323 | 9429 |
| Friendica | 2492 | 2487 | 2531 | 1569 | 1289 | 1720 | 3888 | 4734 |
| Forgejo | 103 | 111 | 110 | 513 | 411 | 398 | 622 | 1168 |
| Funkwhale | 303 | 301 | 300 | 239 | 196 | 226 | 474 | 1114 |
| Flohmarkt | 30 | 29 | 38 | 33 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 994936 | 998336 | 1002985 | 936520 | 837382 | 899464 | 1169331 | |

Difference^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[7D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 79 | 567 | 761 | 3680 | 3789 | 5182 | -686 |
| Lemmy | 129 | -1493 | 1076 | 2519 | 197 | -15668 | -35061 |
| Mbin | 6 | -8 | -14 | 57 | -67 | -125 | -3182 |
| Threadiverse | 214 | -934 | 1823 | 6256 | 3919 | -10611 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -1224 | 5178 | 31795 | 101174 | 90996 | -115812 | -1954160 |
| Pixelfed | -2485 | -11803 | 14490 | 32968 | 3123 | -49662 | -222283 |
| Peertube | 96 | -4 | 11251 | 13376 | 18462 | 4487 | -487 |
| Loops | -17 | -467 | -1626 | 4001 | -20250 | 0 | -23812 |
| Bookwyrm | 16 | 32 | 109 | -1242 | -1362 | -6750 | -7856 |
| Friendica | 5 | -39 | 923 | 1203 | 772 | -1396 | -2242 |
| Forgejo | -8 | -7 | -410 | -308 | -295 | -519 | -1065 |
| Funkwhale | 2 | 3 | 64 | 107 | 77 | -171 | -811 |
| Flohmarkt | 1 | -8 | -3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | -10 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -3400 | -8049 | 58416 | 157554 | 95472 | -174395 | |

Change (%)^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[7D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 1.5% | 11.5% | 16.1% | 203.0% | 222.4% | 1666.2% | -11.1% |
| Lemmy | 0.3% | -3.8% | 2.9% | 7.2% | 0.5% | -29.4% | -48.3% |
| Mbin | 0.8% | -1.0% | -1.8% | 7.8% | -7.9% | -13.7% | -80.2% |
| Threadiverse | 0.5% | -2.1% | 4.3% | 16.6% | 9.8% | -19.5% | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -0.2% | 0.7% | 4.2% | 14.8% | 13.1% | -12.9% | -71.4% |
| Pixelfed | -2.1% | -9.2% | 14.2% | 39.5% | 2.8% | -29.9% | -65.6% |
| Peertube | 0.2% | -0.0% | 37.7% | 48.3% | 81.7% | 12.3% | -1.2% |
| Loops | -0.3% | -7.2% | -21.3% | 199.3% | -77.1% | 0.0% | -79.8% |
| Bookwyrm | 1.0% | 2.1% | 7.4% | -44.1% | -46.4% | -81.1% | -83.3% |
| Friendica | 0.2% | -1.5% | 58.8% | 93.3% | 44.9% | -35.9% | -47.4% |
| Forgejo | -7.2% | -6.4% | -79.9% | -74.9% | -74.1% | -83.4% | -91.2% |
| Funkwhale | 0.7% | 1.0% | 26.8% | 54.6% | 34.1% | -36.1% | -72.8% |
| Flohmarkt | 3.4% | -21.1% | -9.1% | 172.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -25.0% |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -0.3% | -0.8% | 6.2% | 18.8% | 10.6% | -14.9% | |

Tracker Comparison^[1,2]^:
| Software | Fediverse-Observer^[1]^ | FediDB ^[2]^ |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 5493 | 5647 |
| Lemmy | 37557 | 48518 |
| Mbin | 785 | 1408 |
| Threadiverse | 43835 | 55573 |
| | | |
| Mastodon | 783003 | 1021700 |
| Pixelfed | 116530 | 114852 |
| Peertube | 41058 | 38112 |
| Loops | 6009 | 6085 |
| Bookwyrm | 1573 | 3832 |
| Friendica | 2492 | 3210 |
| Forgejo | 103 | 1416 |
| Funkwhale | 303 | 760 |
| | | |
| Fediverse | 994936 | 1245540 |

• Source: [1] Fediverse-Observer, [2] FediDB
  

Notes:

1. Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by Fediverse-Observer.
2. Fediverse-Observer provides daily MAU back to 20221130. FediDB only provides a current snapshot (snapshot within the last 15 minutes, no time series data) and doesn’t track all software.
3. FediDB seems to use unclear math to get there counts and overestimate the MAU on most software (see previous post, if interested in learning more).
4. Weirdly Loops has a ~3 week gap in data about a year ago (should be last week of gap).
   

Takeaways:

• Positive Daily Growth (last 7 Days): Piefed; Bookwyrm close (⁶⁄₇ days)
  
• Weekly Growth (>10%): Piefed
  
• Lemmy appears to still be jumping around with a relatively large server (~4k MAU) coming in and out.
  
• Loops seems to be close to stabilizing after drop-off following large gains. Possibly stabilize soon around 2x what it was 3-months ago.
  
• Overall middling week for the Fediverse.

No idea. There isn’t an instance at ~4k on fedidb (nothing even in the range: 14k then next is 2k).

I’ll try figuring it out next time it “jumps” into fediverse-observer.

As usual, thank you for the post!

#Madblog now comes with support for federated author replies and reactions too. All from #Markdown files, as usual.

Needing to create a file for every like, comment, or post one makes seems extremely tedious.

Webmentions is a massive spam vector, sadly.

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2022/06/09/the-spam/

https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/05/why-i-retired-my-webmention-server/

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/45160218

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/45160073

I’ve been working on Habitat for the past two years. It all stemmed from this idea that I posted in April 2024.

Habitat is a free open-source, self hosted social platform for local communities. It is aimed at fostering local community discussions and discovery of areas of interest. This is why it is built primarily around location. A Habitat instance centers on a specific area, and the local community can make generic posts about that area, or they can make posts about specific locations in that area. More about what I’ve been building and the future plans here.

Features

• Habitat specification of location and size - enabling posts related to the local area
• Home feed - Displays the most recent posts
• Nearby feed - Displays posts sorted by proximity to the user
• Create posts - Upload photos, set locations, comments
• Categories - Location rules
• Amazon S3 image storage option
• Personalisation - Overrides Habitat defaults per user: kms/miles, hidden categories
• Moderation tools - User, post, comment moderation, block email addresses
• Announcements - Scheduled announcements
• Public moderation log - Keep moderator actions visible for 30 days

If you’re interest in this at all, please give it a spin and let me know how you get on. I’ll keep an eye here on Lemmy, but you can also post to the Habitat discussion board on GitHub.

You’re welcome… But it doesn’t appear to be zoomable? At least not in Firefox on Android

Yeah I’ll be making some changes to it at some point.

wrong comm?

Can’t check if it is or at least seem legit rn, but going by the premise it is legit, I’d imagine there are better places to post it.

heck if anything, the Fediverse, as it is right now, is more susceptible to this. You can spin up spam instances on new domains, with spam users, and have them federate to existing instances, faster than volunteer run instances can ban/defederate.

So you end up with not federating by default, but having some trusted web of instances that federate and maybe an approval process for new instances to federate with? But that’ll still lead to centralization with “trusted” instances and new instances having a hard time to join the club (there’s also the scaling problem of the fediverse, but that’s besides the point). So you end up with a few very big instances and the owners of those instances having all the power. Or maybe small isolated islands of mutually trusting instances? Still better than tech oligopoly, but also a far cry from the original dream.

I miss the mid-2000s YouTube when there was no monetization incentive. People just made videos and posted them because they believed others would enjoy them. That was it.

Good times.