How has Cannonical support been recently? I used Ubuntu Server for a while, but never really needed to use my support contract, but my recollection is that it was fairly light.
It’s tough. The platform has minimal tools, at least from my limited mod permissions, or maybe anyone’s? Lemmy itself needs to mature the code-base to enable more granular and distributed functionality.
There has been an individual who flamed beehaw via our server. It happened fast and while we can moderate what this user does locally, we cannot moderate on other instances… as others have stated, there is not much moderation granularity, yet.
Before the APIs are shut down, if you want to wipe your reddit account, I found JavaScript-based account wiper to work quite well and is aligned with security best practices called 'PowerDelete Suite.'
Once logged into your reddit account, drag the [red button](https://codepen.io/j0be/pen/WMBWOW) to your bookmark bar and click it. That initiates the script that will work on your reddit account.
You have options to overwrite your comments before deleting them, just deleting them, downloading your data, etc. Very thorough.
**Boot Script Code**
`javascript:`
`(`
` function() `
` {`
` window.bookmarkver = '1.4'; `
` var isReddit = document.location.hostname.split('.').slice(-2).join('.') === 'reddit.com';`
` var isOverview = !! document.location.href.match(/\/overview\b/i); `
` if (isReddit && isOverview) `
` {`
` var cachBustUrl = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/master/powerdeletesuite.js?' + (new Date().getDate());`
` fetch(cachBustUrl).then`
` (`
` function(response)`
` { `
` return response.text();`
` }`
` ).then`
` (`
` function(data) `
` { `
` var script = document.createElement('script');`
` script.id = 'pd-script'; script.innerHTML = data;`
` document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);`
` }`
` ).catch`
` (`
` function(){alert('Error retreiving PowerDeleteSuite from github');}`
` );`
` } `
` else if (confirm('This script can only be run from your own user profile on reddit. Would you like to go there now?'))`
` { `
` document.location = 'https://old.reddit.com/u/me/overview';`
` } `
` else `
` {`
` alert('Please go to your reddit profile before running this script');`
` }`
` }`
`) `
`();`
**PowerDelete Suite Code**
[PowerDelete Suite GitHub Repository](https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/)`___`
The spirit is definitely here. I even hit ‘Top Blocked Users’ in the Top 10 of our security suite (out of globally 10,000 users) due to federating some porno feeds. I was like, 'Yo! I don’t even know lemmy.world, must have been some federation in my feed I didn’t even see. ’
I’ll chime in as a newly minted mod…. Well implemented enterprise infrastructure supported by a team of experienced infrastructure guys, mods, techies, etc.
Thanks @TheDude! Scaling systems like this is always a challenge and you really get to learn the performance quirks of the code. Thanks for all your work.
Gimping: A Primer