Why does shitjustworks have so many bots? I see certain communities [like this](https://sh.itjust.works/post/6317618) where brand new accounts just spam random images. I have a dozen new accounts blocked every day and it’s getting tedious. What is their purpose?

*Follow up on a previous post: [[DISCUSS] Recent momentary outages](https://lemmy.ml/post/4196612)* --- I've been working on a simple **opt-in solution**, primarily for Lemmy end users like me (but also helpful for admins), to easily check the status/health of their favourite instance. 🌎 [lemmy-meter.info](https://lemmy-meter.info) You can find the details of the implementation in [lemmy-meter github repo](https://github.com/bahmanm/lemmy-meter). --- ❓ @admins: would you be interested in adding your instance to lemmy-meter? You don't need to do anything except confirming - I'll handle the rest. It should only take a few minutes for your instance to show up in lemmy-meter. Out of the box it will send only 4 HTTP GET requests per minute to your instance. However that is totally configurable if it sounds too much or too little. --- PS: I wasn't sure how to reach out to the admins short of messaging them individually.

I couldn't find a way to contact the mods on here without having an account, so this is a second account I created just in hopes to get my primary account fixed. I've tried messaging TheDude from my Mastodon account, but never got a response, so trying this route. I tried to enable MFA on my other account at one point, to make it more secure, but it never confirmed that I had it configured properly, which apparently it didn't. Because of that, I can't get logged back in as the MFA configuration I have saved is apparently not what the site is expecting. Would it be possible to get MFA disabled on my other account so I can start using it again?

The sole moderator of this community has not visibily engaged on lemmy for 3 months, either in terms of moderating or contributing, and it's leading to an overall degradation in the community. I'd like to he added as a mod there, at least until the owner comes back, so that the community can be maintained at a decent level.

Using my throwaway in fear of backlash or getting banned for criticism. I YET AGAIN saw another (presumably) CSAM poster. I only saw a glance but the number of downvotes and the fact that it's posted on random communities makes me believe that this is another CSAM poster. I reported it and an hour later, it's still there? Please it's so sickening. I might actually stop using this website.

I'm cross-posting this to [!main@sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/c/main) in case Issue #2 below is symptomatic of a sync issue that the admins need to know about. * * * * * * * * * cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/5452780 > My main account is on sh.itjust.works, but I am a mod for some communities on lemmy.world. > > Issue #1: A few weeks ago I learned that user reports do not federate between instances ([Github issue #3781](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3781)). Therefore I cannot see reports from the .world communities. > > Issue #2: As a workaround for #1, I created an account on lemmy.world. From my sh.itjust.works account I made my lemmy.world account a mod in my communities. Unfortunately, it is not taking effect. See the attached image for one example. My lemmy.world account does not know that it is now a moderator account. > > Is issue #2 simply a sync issue between the two instances? Or is something else happening? > > Is issue #1 expected to be resolved in the near future?

Were famous!

I don’t like to see so many political posts in all and so many weird images in comment sections

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce one more release before I take a short break. I have some other stuff starting up, so I won't be pushing out new features as fast, but I'll still be around to manage the project. (more at the end) Links: - [Firefox Add-on](https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant) - [Chrome Extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/mbblbalkjcikhpladidpimlfiapdffdh) - [Edge Add-on](https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/hnlndgeokcaocdklkbfjbfjplfnedehb) - [GitHub](https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant) --- ::: spoiler ❓ What is Instance Assistant? If you're new to Instance Assistant, it is a browser extension with a collection of tools and features to simplify your browsing experience on Lemmy and Kbin. It is available on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge; you can also install it from the releases page on GitHub. For a full list of features, please see the GitHub homepage: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant ::: --- ## ⭐ What's new in v1.2.5? - **Redirect posts to your home instance!**: Post pages now have a redirect button that will find the same post on your home instance(1). You don't have to hunt it down yourself anymore. - **Posts related to this webpage** buttons in popup & sidebar - **Make a post**: You can now create a post from any webpage! Click the 'Make a Post' button in the extension popup or sidebar to generate a draft post with autofilled `title`, `URL`, and `body` contents. Afterwards, just select a community and hit post. (This currently works for both Lemmy & Kbin, but custom frontends are untested while they develop). Try it here: https://lemmy.ca/post/4478560 - **Open Posts**: This will find any posts about the webpage/article/video that you are looking at. Use it to see if something has already been posted, or to find related discussions about it. When there are multiple posts, it will ask before opening them all. ([see note on risks and why it doesn't count automatically](https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/wiki#potential-risks-with-open-posts)) - **Post an image**: You can now right-click on an image, anywhere on the web, and hit "Post this image". It will open a new tab and autofill the `title`, image `link`, and add the `page URL` to the `body` as "Source: `URL`". Try it here: https://lemmy.ca/post/1282303 - Reorganizing popup: - I fixed the issue where the popup would still display a button after removing all instances from the list. - The number of default instances in the popup was reduced to 4 - Added settings: - You can now hide onboardining guides to make the interfaces less wordy - General styling changes, wording improvements, and bugfixes (1) This is an important feature to me because this little annoyance was part of why I set out to create the extension in the first place. Thanks to [some help from @zero_gravitas](https://lemmy.ca/comment/2259794), I was able to use the Lemmy API to grab the post details, and then run a search for it on your home instance. While most posts should only bring one result, there is a chance that there are multiple posts by the same user, in the same community, with the same title. If this is an issue, I'll make this search more specific. --- ## 🗣️ My questions for you: ### Improving 'post to Lemmy' - Right now the 'Post to Lemmy' button does a very basic search in the page meta tags for information. This works for most websites, but it is not perfect. **What websites do you usually post from, and is the extension doing a good job of replicating how you format the post?** Please share both good and bad examples, so we can fix what isn't working and keep what is. ### Improving Post search - Having the extension automatically count the number of posts and display it in the icon would be pretty nice, since then you would know about any posts for the news article / blog / video that you are looking at. However, there are privacy implications with this since it needs to send the URL to your home instance to do the search. - I would like to add the option to whitelist specific websites, so the user can choose what browsing data they want to find posts for. **Is this something you would list to use? What websites would you whitelist?** ### Anything else? Please share any issues that you find. Lemmy and Kbin instances have a lot of variation in how things are structured, so there are bound to be some bugs that I haven't found yet. If you have any ideas for new features, please share them too! I'm always looking for new ideas to add to the project. --- ::: spoiler 🔮 Cool ideas being discussed for the future - Account switcher & ability to save login info to extension - Reddit migrator tools - multireddit input should convert subscriptions to official Threadiverse replacements, or large related communities - embeds on Subreddit sidebars to search for similar community - button on post pages to cross-post to home instance - Prepping for Firefox Mobile app, now that they are [opening mobile up to all extensions](https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/)! - Keyboard hotkeys, possibly collaborating with someone that already implemented something similar For the most up to date information, see the [issues](https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/issues) or the [project road map](https://github.com/users/cynber/projects/1) ::: --- ## 💛 Finally Thank you for all the suggestions and feedback so far! I'm really happy to see that people are using the extension and finding it useful. I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do with it in the future. Like I said above, I won't be as active over the next few months in terms of getting new features out. The extension is now in good shape, and it covers most of the important use cases. There's still lots of cool stuff we can do with it, so please contribute ideas and expertise! When I get a chance, I'll pop in and grab a few more issues. Cheers :)

If so, was it polled somewhere?

Just curious how many of you are cool with this deeply racist image being the header for one of your comms

I didn't want to make an announcement about this but since there seems to be some confusion (to say the least), I feel that I must. You have almost certainly started seeing posts and comments from hexbear.net users in the past day or so. Long story short, when hexbear originally federated into Lemmy a few weeks ago, they left SJW off the list of instances they wanted to federate. A few days ago, hexbear users had a vote where they agreed to add SJW to their list of federated instances. Myself and TheDude were informed of this vote by the hexbear admins while it was in progress. We agreed that if hexbear voted in the affirmative, we would be amenable to federation and seeing how it turns out. Now, here we are. Hexbear is a Lemmy server that was created about 3 years ago as a new home for the former users of r/chapotraphouse. CTH was banned from reddit because they were openly calling for the deaths of slave owners, which reddit considered hate speech 🙄 Hexbear is composed of leftists of all shapes and sizes, and they also have a special sensitivity to the struggles of marginalized groups, including but not limited to LGBTQ folk, the disabled, and gingers. Some things to know about hexbear: they removed downvotes from their platform. Therefore, they tend to make a lot of comments, because the only way to respond to something you disagree with is by commenting. This can give the impression of being brigaded, but that's not necessarily the case. Also, their custom emojis are displayed very large on other instances. This is a technical issue that will eventually be fixed. Of the major instances, Lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, feddit.de, and beehaw.org have defederated hexbear. SJW, Lemm.ee, and lemmy.ml are still federated with hexbear. I hope we can all get along, but obviously that's not going to be the case. I recommend that users from either server make use of the block function as necessary. More importantly, don't intentionally go to communities on the other server and attempt to antagonize them because you have a differing political stance. Some political debate is well and good, but there is a time and a place, and if you're not sure, it's probably best to keep it on your own server. We will be banning hexbears **liberally** if they come in here trying to start shit, and their admins will do the same regarding our users. Pun intended. Bottom line: we will not be defederating from hexbear in the immediate future. I personally believe they are a valuable asset to this platform, and I urge you all to give them a chance to contribute positively. If you find them annoying, just block them and/or report them; they are subject to the same rules of conduct as everyone else. Please direct any comments and concerns to this thread, or to the Agora. https://sh.itjust.works/post/4188546

One of the things that annoyed the shit out of me when I was on Reddit is when users would sift through the post/comment history of your account to use as ammunition in an argument they are having with you now. Is there a way to block or limit access to my account history?

I use sync and connect on mobile, but it's not functioning properly at all. Other instances works fine on these apps. Any fix?

So I've a few friends signing up to this instance and neither receive any emails. Managed to get activated but the password isn't working. since last night there's no sign of a forgotten password email. Have checked spam folder.

Edit: Problem solved. This post can be ignored. I was made a mod of [!mapporn@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/mapporn) but my account here on SJW doesn't seem to have gotten the memo. I don't see myself listed as a mod when I view the community through this account. However, if I view the community from my alt on another instance I do see my SJW account listed as a mod. Are there any known sync issues happening with lemmy.world? Or do I just need to be patient until things sync on their own?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3232301 --- ### Status & Download Links: | [Firefox v1.2.4](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/) | [Chrome v1.2.4](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/mbblbalkjcikhpladidpimlfiapdffdh) | [Edge v1.2.3](https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/hnlndgeokcaocdklkbfjbfjplfnedehb) | | ---------|---------|-------| Download from source: [release v1.2.4 (github.com)](https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/releases/tag/v1.2.4) * While Edge and Opera are awaiting approval, you can install v1.2.4 from here, or through the Chrome store ---  Hi everyone! On the surface, this update brings a handful of features integrating the extension with other tools and services. We have the first of many features from the LemmyTools userscript, as well as the support for Alexandrite and Photon frontends. You can also directly search for communities through Lemmyverse.net and for posts through search-lemmy.com, among other small changes. The biggest change was behind the scenes. I've completely refactored the code throughout the extension. Now that we have a clearer plan for the extension, I simplified all around, such as consolidating most functions to a central `utils.js` file. I also reworked the settings, and **unfortunately this means you may have to add your home instance again**. Moving forwards, it should be a lot easier to maintain the extension and for people to collaborate, which brings me to: #### Want to help? ::: spoiler Get started: I've put together [some notes on how the extension is structured](https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/wiki/Development-Process) for those that want to help. The extension itself is fairly simple, and it doesn't use any particular framework or anything. It should a great first project to work on, even if you are just learning or new to web development. Having more people add to one place would make it easier for users that are juggling many extensions and userscripts. That's why I've been focussed on having a more intuitive structure for the project and leaving detailed notes and comments. I'm also likely not going to have as much time starting next month so I'm trying to do what I can now to get everything rolling. If you don't know where to start or just have an idea, let me know and I'll see what I can do :) As always, you can add new ideas and issues here: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/issues ::: --- ### All new improvements with v1.2.4 ::: spoiler New Changes - search for communities through Lemmyverse.net or for posts through lemmy-search directly from the popup or sidebar - You now have the option to hide the default Lemmy sidebar (more LemmyTools features to come!) - Replaced non-functional 'subscribe' button on foreign `/communities` pages (only when no account is signed in, so not to replace something functional) - Support for Alexandrite & Photon frontends. Test them here: - Alexandrite: https://a.lemdro.id/c/lemdroid - Photon: https://nu.lemdro.id/c/lemdroid - New 'communityNotFound' button to account for alternate frontends: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemdroid@nu.lemdro.id - Fix for generated link on CommunityNotFound pages - Completely refactored the code to move repetitive functions to a utils.js file ::: ::: spoiler Future Plans: - Exploring a 'Reddit migrator' tool, similar to the mobile tool in Voyager, powered by lemmyverse.net - Adding more features from [LemmyTools Userscript](https://github.com/howdy-tsc/LemmyTools), with help from /u/howdy@thesimplecorner.org - Prepping for Firefox Mobile app, now that they are [opening mobile up to all extensions](https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/)! - Keyboard hotkeys, possibly collaborating with someone that already implemented something similar - Adding icons and simplifying the design, as the menus are getting very wordy - settings to limit onboarding / help instructions - Ability to have multiple 'home instances' - Finishing the setup so that people can contribute translations / other languages to the extension. :::

Is anyone else having problems logging in with Jerboa? It was working just prior to an update to 0.0.44. Edit: tried to login with Voyager and want able to so I think the problem is server-side. I did notice I had to do a Cloudflare human check to log in on Mull.

Hello, I am trying to sign up on sh.itjust.works, and I filled out the sign up form, but when it told me it would send a verification email, it never actually sent it. I tried signing up again and am told the email already exists. I try to sign in and nothing happens, I dont get an error it just doesnt do anything. I have checked my spam folders and got nothing. I signed up on lemm.ee and instantly got the verification email, so it is clearly an issue with this instance in particular. I'm not too concerned about the account being created here, as my goal was just to move away from lemmy.world due to it never being up, and since I did get an account created on lemm.ee I suppose I dont NEED multiple accounts across instances, but I wanted to bring it up in case anyone else is having this issue as well. I didnt see any sort of support contact information for the instance, just a link to lemmy.ml official support, so if there is a better way to communicate this issue to the admins/people in charge, please let me know.

Hey all, Similar to the [lemmy.world announcement](https://sh.itjust.works/post/2286694), we have defederated from Rammy. Want to discuss this more? I created a [[Discussion] post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/2295462) for us to do just that.

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Someone set up canvas.toast.ooo, a site like r/place but currently only open to Lemmy users. Does anyone want to help plaster our favorite satisfied seal on there? Canvas is open now through the weekend. See [!canvas@toast.ooo](https://toast.ooo/c/canvas) for info. One you get logged in you can setup a template. Use the sh.itjust.works seal logo, width 200px, horizontal position 400, vertical position 0. Here's the image URL: [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/4c082497-060b-40ba-a95b-67d668638629.webp?format=webp](https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/4c082497-060b-40ba-a95b-67d668638629.webp?format=webp) **Edit:** I think I bit off more than I can chew with a 200px image width. New plan: update and complete the doodle started by [@larktreblig@sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/u/larktreblig). If you want to use the image as a template, size it to 50px wide and place it at horizontal position 48, vertical position 821. It lines up pretty well with the existing artwork.

Whenever I try to respond to Mastodon comments with this account, I only get an endlessly spinning loading circle. From my lemmy.world backup account however I can send the response no problem. Any clue why that is?

Hello all! I would love to bring my old subreddit /r/cybiko over to sh.itjust.works but can't figure out how to create a community! Is the ability to do so currently closed off or something or am I just being daft? For some context, the Cybiko is this weird games console PDA thing from the early 2000s that was forgotten about almost immediately. I took over the subreddit around 4-5 months ago and had around 200 members that were somewhat active, but I privated that subreddit and nuked my account, so that's gone.

It says it sends an email, but the email never arrives. Tried a couple times over the last few days.

So, what happens if you're modding a few communities and you want to change instances? Do you add mod roles to the new account on that instance? Would people keep the old account, and would they keep the mod status on the old account too? Just wondering, since I'm considering moving to keep Lemmy sustainable as well as because of *preemptive* concerns at my own instance's implementation of implicit, untransparent policies.

Hello, Just looking for a bit of help... I don't want to clutter the other person's thread about this, but I'm not getting a confirmation email after signing up, so my account is created, but I can't activate it or sign in. I checked my spam folder a few times today and I'm not seeing the email.

So I decided to try 2FA and of course I screwed up something. Luckily I’m still logged in on the Memmy app to make a post. Could one the admins please turn off 2FA on my account?

Earlier today I made a comment that someone must have found controversial, because I noticed that all of my posts and most of my comments made in the last month have received about a dozen downvotes each, all happening today. Has anyone experienced anything similar and is there anything that can be done to combat that sort of thing from happening? I think that reddit used to only shadow downvote when voting from a user's profile. I'm assuming Lemmy isn't that advanced yet.

As many of you already know Lemmy has a new version. [V 0.18.3](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.3) This brings quite a few features, notably : - reducing database size by around 80% - new logic for determining comment default language (no, this doesn’t remove ‘undetermined’ as the default language but does mention it may be a possibility in the future.) - infinite scroll user option (opt-in not enabled by default thankfully.) Full changelog [here](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md#changes). First of all, thanks to the admins for keeping the server up and allowing us to have the awesome experience. Secondly, it would be great to have some updates on when we are upgrading, thanks. [@TheDude@sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/u/TheDude)

This is an update to my previous post about suspicious inactive accounts on a handful of instances: ([https://sh.itjust.works/post/998307](https://sh.itjust.works/post/998307)). I ended up messaging the admins at the 16 instances show in the attached image. I pointed out their wild user numbers, and referenced the lemmy.ninja post detailing how that instance scrubbed suspicious accounts from their user database. 6 admins responded. They had all noticed the odd accounts and either thought the numbers were wrong, or weren't sure how to purge the suspicious accounts without nuking their databases. In the end they managed to delete a combined total of about 338k dormant accounts from their instances. (One of the instances seems to have gone down since then.) I never received a reply from the other 10 instance admins, though 8 of those 10 instances appear to be down (as of 27 July 2023). 2 instances are still up and unchanged. Between the actively removed accounts and the downed instances, this represents a loss of 930,004 inactive Lemmy accounts! You can see the drop in the graphs on [The Federation](https://the-federation.info/platform/73). The total number of Lemmy accounts has been cut in half over the past 3 weeks, from a peak of 2.18M to today's 1.09M. The change is mostly from these 16 instances. I have to admit, I did not expect such a large change when I started this! Hopefully this bodes well for Lemmy's future as a place where actual humans interact, rather than a cesspool of automated comments and upvote/downvote brigading. That's all I have for now. Keep your stick on the ice; we're all in this together.

I have tried to sign up an alt on this instance because of various outages on mine, but it ain't sending the verification email.

I see many posts here about the outage but no statement from the admins about what happened. Anybody know?