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I have just created a new community in Lemmy about Generative AI like GPT or Midjourney. The subjects are diverse: from news to development

I have become aware of an instance with widespread posting of pornographic drawings of cartoon characters that look like minors. I have added the instance to our block list.

If any user from this instance would like to discuss this action, I'm open to talk about it in the comments.

If not, great. I would prefer not bring any attention to this at all, but I want to be transparent about de-federating actions.

If you do enjoy this content and would like to visit the instance, you can find it at: burggit.moe

Mander has been upgraded to v0.18.4.

The most noticeable change appears to be the fixing of a bug that would cause some comment trees and comment reference links to not load properly. But if you notice something else, please let me know - or, even better, create an issue for it on github!

Lots of thanks to the developers 😀

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3021118

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Major Changes

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly. It also fixes a couple other bugs.

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.

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Upgrade instructions

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. There are no config or API changes with this release.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

TL;DR for anyone from Mander:

Small mander logo: in the bottom right quadrant, between the EU flag and Ramona Flowers. Seems like this one was done by @[email protected] very early on in the event. Much later, near the end of the event, I just added the text above it.

Big Mander logo: check in the top half, near the center, to the right of the Swedish flag. Was planned out by yours truly (not knowing we already had the small logo), though @[email protected] / @[email protected] came by and helped out actually placing the pixels (thank you!). The outline/background around the text was done by various other users, including @[email protected] , @[email protected] , and @[email protected] -- thanks for coming by to help beautify our logo!

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cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/288913

Thanks for joining in! The canvas is now finished!

I’m going to be leaving the canvas up and read-only for a couple days, but not too long.

This was incredibly fun to host, thank you all for participating! ♥

Future Events

I’d love to make this a yearly event. Expanding from just Lemmy to the entirety of the fediverse aswell!

I’ll reuse this Lemmy community & the Matrix space for that event

If you have suggestions for future events, post them in a comment on this post, each suggestion as it’s own comment so people can vote on them

Timelapses:

• First 24h
  • Raw File
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • YouTube
• 24h - 48h
  • Raw File
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • YouTube
• 48h - 72h
  • Raw File
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • YouTube
• Start to finish
  • Raw File
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • YouTube

Data:

• Pixel Placement Logfile (timestamps, usernames, coords, pallete index, no ip addresses) (42mb)
• Pallete Indexes (eg 0 = black, 1 = dark gray, etc)
• Final Canvas PNG

I reproduced our logo in pixel art, added our domain name in text, and I'm gonna start adding this to the Canvas.

The bottom right corner (where I'm starting) is located at 646, 205.

Come join me! And decorate this further if you'd like!

(How to join: https://mander.xyz/post/1767323 )

Edit: look like the picture is a little small because it's pixel art. You may want to download it and open it up in MS Paint or something then zoom in a lot.

Edit2: I found a mistake in my template: there's one extra gray pixel on the right side, diagonally up/left from the uppermost black pixel of the...uh...chelicera I guess.

Edit3: There are actually three extra gray pixels, the other two are to the right and above the one I just mentioned.

Hello all, I'm sharing this here because I think it is a fun and interesting initiative that users might appreciate knowing about.

The instance https://toast.ooo/ is running an event similar to Reddit's /r/place. Here you can find their post announcement. The canvas can be reached here: https://canvas.toast.ooo

If you are not familiar with /r/place: the idea is that every user gets to place pixels on a canvas. After placing a pixel, there is a 1 minute cool-down before you are able to place the next pixel.

To log-in, you fill-in your instance's name and username, and you are sent a code as a private message which you then use to authenticate. So the method of authentication does not expose your username and password combination to a third party.

I find it cool how third-party events like this one can be integrated into the decentralized Lemmyverse without requiring active input from instance admins.

I have been looking for one for a few day. I've got no result nor answer.

I thought that on an instance dedicated to nature and science, I would find one. But I'm starting to dispair. Where do you go to talk about food waste ?

(URL goes to /c/houseplants )

Where's the pixel art in the sidebar from?

Actually, where's all of the art from? But I'm specifically mentioning pixel art because I really like pixel art and I think this stuff is really cute!

EDIT: I did not expect the preview snippet to be so extraordinarily lengthy.

Is there a way to make opening links in new tabs a default behaviour?

This is a new problem for me that started a couple days ago. Using Jerboa and Firefox, I'm unable to post images on this instance. I am able to post images to the same communities using a different instance account. I am getting "network error" and Java errors (I'm unable to see the full error) while using Jerboa. On Firefox, I get an "image too large" error for 12 MB (edit: not GB, that'd be a huge image) images (not sure the limit) but "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data" at smaller image sizes. I was able to post images on this instance before this. My Jerboa app is up to date. Any solution?

Anyone else get kicked from the instance? I had to sign out due to api errors and now I can't get back in.

Web UI is all messed up, upvotes and OP's name and some other things. Works well when you are not logged in.

Just created [email protected]

Hoping there are some fig lovers here that want to join the community!

I wrote up a comment to a post on Mander, and there shouldn't be any blocks (unless for some reason I'm blocked from /c/palaeoecology for some reason which I see why I would be but please inform me if this is the case), yet when I click the Reply button to post my comment the little spinny animation never ends and if I refresh the page my comment is absent.

On the Mander homepage I see a number of options for showing what is displayed, but none of them are to just see activity for the communities I am subscribed to. Is this possible?

You guys may want to avoid it until they can sort it out.

When going to All, I don't see any posts from beehaw. I'm still very new to the fediverse and wish to understand more. Can anyone explain why this is the case? Thanks!

Meta has launched a twitter alternative called "Threads". The application allows Instagram accounts and followers to be migrated directly. From what I can find, there are already over 90 million users using threads.[1] It is Meta's plan to allow Threads to interact via ActivityPub with other platforms in the fediverse.

Mander has a generally open federation policy. I don't want to prevent users from accessing specific content through the fediverse purely on ideological grounds, nor do I want to block our information from being accessed. There is a very strong argument to be made to remain federated with Threads in the spirit of having an open and accessible network.

But, after seeing the rushed, non-transparent, and non-EU compliant way that Threads is being deployed, it is obviously not wise to remain federated during the deployment phase. I would be willing to re-federate once it is proven that we can federate with them safely, it is demonstrated that a good amount of value to the users is added by doing so, and that at least a portion of the users is interested in doing so.

Reasons to defederate:

• The fediverse already lives in a legal gray zone in many respects. Threads was not released into the EU due to regulatory concerns.[2] My server is based in the Netherlands. It appears like no one is sure about what the legal implications are, but I consider federating interactions with Threads to present a new liability with a larger amount of risk. The added risk is related to the fact that Meta is often being looked at by regulators, and instances could be pulled into a Meta-related investigation. A hypothetical example - and I don't know if this is accurate or not - federated comments from EU users that end up saved in Meta's servers could be construed as a GDPR violation due to the transfer of EU user data. These are risks that are already present in the fediverse, but interacting with Meta may increase the likelyhood of being pulled into a Meta-related legal problem.

• Threads is being released in a very hurried manner to capitalize on the unpopularity of Twitter at the moment. They are deploying these tools at random times without first informing the world about how they work. As far as I can tell, they have told us nothing about how they will actually use ActivityPub. All that we know is that suddenly hundreds of millions of people will be able to take actions that in some way interact with our servers. A likely scenario is that this will be similar to mastodon, their users will be able to make comments to a Lemmy server, and this won't cause a problem. But they may choose to do something differently, or they can make a mistake in their implementation. A mistake at the scale of hundreds of millions of users would easily deal catastrophic damage to a small instance.

• The developers of Lemmy have strongly encouraged instance admins to defederate with threads. They develop this platform and know it much better than I do. I respect them and trust their judgement, so a strong encouragement coming from them is something that I take very seriously.

• Most users who have commented on this topic here and in other instances want to defederate. While I do prefer to take a stance in favor of a more open federation policy, I do think that the case of a giant corporate entity deploying a potentially destructive platform into the fediverse is a special case.

Generally I prefer to assume good faith and only defederate as a last resort in response to a practical problem. In this case, we are dealing with a commercial for-profit entity that has a strong record of not acting in good faith. The massive scale of this thing is such that we could lose the luxury of being able to easily respond to a sudden practical problem.

I don't love Meta, and they are most likely not joining the space because they are passionate about helping us create privacy-centric decentralized social networks in which profit and growth are not the motives. But this is an opinion. In the future, if users actually want that, I am committed to re-assessing and potentially re-federating once the dust settles. But I can't justify taking this level of risk at this time.

If no one asks for it, I wouldn't actively try to re-federate.

As per my linked Masto post:

Hey guys, I am sitting on the #PeerTube (#Federated #YouTube) domain peertube.science - I want to gauge how much of an interest in this for me to set up. Is there anyone interested in a non commercial video service like this for the sciences? Humanities are welcome too. :)

I've updated the instance to the most recent versions (UI: 0.18.1-rc.11, BE: 0.18.1-rc.10)

This update brought with it some unexpected changes to the CSS and broke the theme, so I've changed the default theme back to the darkly theme until I have time to study and fix the stylesheet...

Sorry if any of you noticed a very broken site a few minutes ago!

EDIT: Ok, I think I've mostly restored the original default stylesheet. If you were using a non-default theme, that might still be broken.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.studio/post/188937

I appointed myself as a moderator of my community [email protected] and it shows on the page on Mander but not on lemmy.studio, and I am not able to moderate the community from my lemmy.studio account.

Just wondering, not calling for one to be created if it doesn't exist. I don't want to overwhelm @Sal with more moderation and work ;)

Has anyone else encountered this? I can log in on my phone just fine (browser and Liftoff app). But when I try in Chrome or Firefox on Windows it says things like "Unexpected token O, Origin is... not valid JSON" and "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data".