Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day is probably the most accurate portrayal of me ever written.

I flat-out refuse to do business with any that requires I use an app. I won’t even scan a QR code for a restaurant menu; that’s my cue to go eat elsewhere.

Those truck nuts are clearly aftermarket / gender-affirming care. Someone should point that out to the truck’s owner.

If only there were some warning signs they could have noticed along the way to the edge of the cliff…

If one server is misbehaving, then they get defederated.

If the instance the spam is originating from is nothing but spam, yeah. Most instances only defederate from another as a last resort and/or if the offending instance is a total lost cause or dedicated to spam/trolling/etc.

Is there anything about Lemmy’s architecture that will prevent this problem?

Yes. Applications for new registrations assuming admins can be arsed to turn them on. It won’t 100% prevent it, but it will reduce it by probably 90%.

Most spam on Lemmy comes from instances with open registration (ones that do not require an application). Lemdro.id is probably the biggest offender and pain in my side. Email verification and CAPTCHAs are not effective barriers. They may slow down spam signups, but do absolutely nothing to stop them.

Instances that have 24/7 admin coverage do okay with allowing open signups (again, without application approval) and keeping spam to a minimum; some still slip through, but they’re usually quickly dealt with due to having an admin available 24/7. Instances with round-the-clock admin availability are rare, though.

Instances without 24/7 admin coverage (roughly 99% of them) should, IMO, NOT have open signups and require applications. Some spam may get through, but the admins can at least have eyes on new registrations.

Fucken dumb ass Dems dont know how to not corporate with a dictator

They didn’t. Not even one voted to confirm Patel.

From the article:

Democrats have unanimously considered Patel’s track record in the first Trump administration, his incendiary remarks criticizing the bureau he was nominated to lead and more generally his role in the classified documents case to be disqualifying.

[Patel] wins confirmation in 51-49 Senate vote

All Dems voted against as well as two independents and two republicans.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/20/us/politics/patel-senate-confirmation-vote.html

Intellectual curiosity: Encouraging critical thinking is essential. Without it, individuals risk being swayed by narratives that don’t hold up under scrutiny.

I’m convinced this is why “AI” is getting shoved down our collective throats so hard.

A good while. When did Weekly Wipe stop airing? lol

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All systems nominal for both IPv4 and 6.

Edit: I said that, and then lost power for 12 hours shortly after 😆

I think fry.gs is the main mod’s own instance.

Though best practice, as much as it exists in the Fediverse, would be to host the community assets from the home instance of the community.

Please upload the icon/baner to LW instead of from a 3rd party instance. This is the second recent time these have broken.

To my knowledge (as of 0.19.3 anyway), yes. Except for any images, naturally, though possibly the post thumbnail could have a local copy.

Is it still possible to interact with the communities (post, vote, etc.)?

Yes, but only locally.

If your instance already knows about the community, people on your instance can still post and interact with the community. However, anything submitted to it will not federate to other instances, so it’s analogous to a local-only community.

Unless the LW admins removed them already, there were some Beehaw communities that were still showing activity on Lemmy World from local LW users despite Beehaw not federating with LW. (Those communities were resolved prior to Beehaw defederating). The one I recall seeing no longer comes up, so they probably did remove them (admins were aware).

is it still possible to delete them if the ownership of the community (aka the top mod) belongs to an user from another instance

I don’t think so, at least not in 0.19.3. There are some operations that, if using a remote mod account (even if it’s top mod), throw a “not a moderator” error.

The DNC could have run an iguana wearing an offensive trucker hat, and we still should have voted for the iguana when Trump was the alternative or stood a chance of winning again.

It’s up to the voters to make smart choices, and some of them made the stupid choice.

You clearly have no idea how US elections work at that level. The single candidate with the most votes wins. “Not Trump” was not a candidate.

If Trump gets 49% of the vote, Harris 48%, and “other” gets 3%, that’s not counted as 51% against Trump and he loses. That’s Trump winning with 49% of the vote.

Anyone who didn’t vote (or didn’t vote for the only candidate likely to defeat Trump) is responsible for his win.

“But if the Dems ran a better candidate…”

“But Harris didn’t even stop in Dearborn, so it’s her fault not ours”

“Sure, everything Trump says is a lie, but at least he stopped here to lie to our faces. It’s the dem’s fault.”

“One of Trump’s first acts last time was a Muslim ban, but I can’t be arsed to remember that far back”

“I had to vote for this otherwise the dems wouldn’t learn anything”

/s

Block button.

And this is why every time a developer asks me for shell access to any of the deployment servers, I flat out deny the request.

Good on you for learning from your mistakes, but a perfect example for why I only let sysadmins into the systems.