Just checking if any in our instance want to organize something for our presence, feel free to do it in this comm .

Trying to login with the MLMYM interface just goes to a blank screen for me. Is anybody else having issues with it? Is there anything I can do to get it working?

Edit: I have no idea why a simple help post is getting this many upvotes / downvotes

Firefox latest on Android 14, web front-end

Images seem to work fine now after the 19.4 upgrade.
Except when posting images via direct upload. I've tried to post an image with body description a couple times now to another community and as soon as I hit submit, it just instantly removes the image and doesn't post anything, leaving me on the create post page.

Edit: Pretty sure this is a front end bug as I had to hit submit twice to make this post. When you hit submit it jumps to the top of the page first.

Ahoy all you pirates, anarchists, neurodivergents, prompters and other assorted weirdos.

It is now officially 1 whole year since I got pissed off enough by Reddit's enshittification to set sail in my own ship, and what a journey it's been!

I never figured that I would ever run my own social media instance and when I started it, I assumed it would be something small for me and some people from reddit who knew me, ergo why I didn't invest in a new domain at the time (which I low-key regret now).

But the amount of people who joined immediately was extraordinary, catapulting and keeping this instance to the top 10 lemmies around, which is honestly wild to see for an inherently political and opinionated instance whose leading principles might as well be YOLO and FAFO. 😅

In fact I got so deep into lemmy and fediverse in general that since the past year, I started and am running 8 different fediverse FOSS projects. I keep thinking of new things to add or improve. I love the freedom I have in social media I can hack and that nobody will ever take away from us!

If you haven't yet, take a look at these:

• Fediseer: The Fediverse chain of trust
• Fedi-Safety: Protection against CSAM for fediverse administrators
• Pictrs-Safety: Protection against CSAM for pict-rs administrators
• Threativore: An automod bot to combat spam on Threadiverse
• Pythörhead: Python-Lemmy SDK
• Pythonseer: Python-Fediseer SDK
• Lemmy-Tagginator: Improves Lemmy-Mastodon discoverability
• Fluxa Avataria: Rotate your user avatars automatically using the AI Horde.

I believe our instance's success and how many people are subscribed to /c/piracy making that effectively that 2nd most subscribed community after /c/[email protected] goes to show that if reddit admins were more principled on moving their communities 1 year ago, a lot more niche communities would have flourished as well. But alas, I couldn't even get the /r/anarchism peeps to make an effort :S

On top of that, I am really happy to see our meme culture is strong with [email protected] and [email protected] leading the pack. Not taking things seriously is a good principle to have, so keep it up!

Finally I like that we're still the only GenAI-focused instance while not being completely uncritical of the capitalist techbro hype-machine around this technology.

I also want to post a huge shout out to our instance admins who joined early and have been invaluable in keeping things under control while I'm focused on infrastructure stuff and other projects.

@RandomLegend, @unruffled, and @d1tt0 take a bow please!

But I would be remiss if I didn't let our admins who want to, say a few words for themselves

A few words from your admins

@RandomLegend

I'm very happy with how our community is standing together and remains a friendly and open place for many people.

Our mod & admin team made me really enjoy this whole lemmy journey. Being able to discuss things in a constructive manner, coming to agreements and being able to have compromises without feeling like anyone "lost" is really awesome!

I hope our community stays exactly the way it is. We are truly a community, we stand for each other and always help others to sail the high seas 😉

I plan on getting more involved with the different communities. Currently i mostly just lurk and moderate from off-stage but i hope i can show myself a little bit more and bring some engaging topics to our flag-waving crew!

@unruffled

This year, for me, involved quite a bit of learning about Lemmy and the Fediverse, after making the move from Reddit. We’ve had a few large waves of new incoming users to deal with over the past 12 months, often due to what was happening with Reddit at the time. It has been satisfying to be one of the few larger instances that has continued to manually review every application, to ensure we aren’t allowing bots, while still responding to new applications quickly. And it’s been great getting to know the rest of the admin team better and working collaboratively on any issues that arise.

I was involved in setting up the Community Edition (CE) of the Megathread on the db0 wiki, based on the Rentry version. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to make edits/updates.

In the past few months, we’ve successfully pushed back against many trolls who seemed intent on turning every post into a political shouting match. Given that most of our users are here for the piracy community, not politics, I think that our ongoing efforts to mitigate this issue have delivered a net positive for the majority of our users’ experiences with Lemmy. If you haven’t noticed any of this stuff occurring, that’s great, because it means we have stayed on top of the issue. While not every moderation decision will please everyone (to put it mildy, lol), we are more interested in doing what’s best for the majority of our users, without resorting to defederation.

Looking forward into the next 12 months, I hope that our community continues to grow and prosper. With the ever-increasing “enshittification” of online services, piracy is one of the few effective ways we can resist and fight back against corporate greed. I'd also love to see more piracy-related communities still on Reddit or alternative platforms to make the leap over to Lemmy, or at least to start mirroring their communities here.

Finally, it would be amazing if a few more people could make a small monthly donation https://ko-fi.com/dbzer0 https://liberapay.com/db0/ to support our server costs, if you can afford it. I personally donate a few dollars each month, because I can’t ever see myself going back to Reddit now, and it really does feel good to support this endeavour. We don't make any profit from this project, and everyone in the admin team volunteers many hours of their time each week to keep things up and running smoothly.

A few prominent events

So much has happened in the last year so I thought it would be interesting to reminisce in a few of them relevant to our instance as our second year begins. Feel free to post your own in the comments

• /c/piracy gets banned by lemmy.world. We shrug. It get unbanned a few days later, only to be once more banned half a year down the line. We shrug again.
• I piss off hexbears by publicly rejecting "left unity", this causes a spiral or subsequent bad faith events that culminates with them banning the /0 admins from their instance. We laugh.

Upgrade to 0.19.4

Also, as it happens, I also just finished upgrading to 0.19.4 today and it really did not go as smoothly as I would have liked. Due to a leftover configuration from the very first lemmy deployment I did, I had big troubles getting pict-rs to migrate to 0.5 and that burned almost all my day yesterday troubleshooting. The problem is that the issue didn't appear immediately, but I had to wait 30 minutes every time to get the failure again.

Eventually I decided to go through with the update of 0.19.4 before pict-rs finished, but that by itself run into a bunch of other bugs, but fortunately nothing too disruptive. Eventually I was able to leave the pict-rs upgrade to run overnight and it's been stable since I woke up.

But nevertheless, the new version brings a ton of improvements and stability fixes. So huge props to the lemmy devs for doing the good work!

Funding

Thanks to everyone who donated in the past 5 months, we're now 80% to closing our half-year funding goal for paying for the server infrastructure. I would still fund this instance even out of pocket, but I really appreciate you all for assisting in this way.

Ko-fi	Liberapay

Listen lads, lasses and lassless, I got a long day ahead of me, having to upgrade pict-rs, postgres and lemmy, so there might be some intermittent downtimes. You know how it is around here...not professionally at all.

Just a heads up.

Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

I used to have an account on feddit, which is a german lemmy instance. For three months now I am only getting "Server error" when trying to visit it. Can anybody reach it? Is there any site where I can check the state of instances? Or was I banned?

Thanks for any help :)

I can access c/world on lemmy.world without problem:

lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/[email protected]

But I cannot access c/whatstheword:

lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/[email protected]

It seems unlikely that this specific and innocent community is blocked on either instance.

What's going on here?

~500 comments about our instance and admins in the past week. Talk about needing to touch some grass...

Hello, and sorry beforehand if this is not the correct place. I found a matrix support channel that doesn't work and I looked almost everywhere. Is there a way I could get in contact with somebody that can change the email?

Thanks in advance.

This time the issue was on the lemmy.world side where their federation worker responsible for lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.blahaj.zone and lemmings.world among others b0rked and was sending 1 federation per minute at best. Unfortunately it seems just that single federation worker borked, which affected us again, because we're cursed apparently. Fortunately this meant that from our previous problems I had enough experience to know where to look. Unfortunately many people were thinking that existing issue along with some mbin spam was the problem, but it was a red herring in this case.

Anyway @[email protected] restarted their federation workers and now we're catching up again. Will take like a day for that to happen.

@[email protected] @[email protected] you should see your queues catching up quickly now.

/c/[email protected] is the second biggest community on Lemmy.World and yet on /0, there is nothing newer than two days.

/c/[email protected] has two posts from today but based on the vote count, I think it's only showing votes from this instance

I've been having a bit of trouble loading the lemmy site today. It times out and takes ages to load quite often. I tested with other websites (Wikipedia, a school website, google) and while my mobile data is... not fast, it is not as slow as db0 is running.

I started thinking about it and I feel like loading performance has been slower than usual for a few days even...

Can anyone else confirm degraded performance today or am I trippin'?

Edit: using latest Firefox running uBlock origin on Android 14 if that matters. S21 Ultra.

Fairly tired of the lemmy.world crowd and their.. interesting moderation style.

Lemmy hasn't implemented instance blocks yet, so here is my question:

Any scripted way to block-all for the LW bot-fest?

Is there any consideration of a de-federation with LW?

Or is the entire point of a more anarchy-leaning instance to have 0 moderation db0?

Fine with either outcome/method; just sick of going through every single community any time they spin up a new neolib/cia shithole.

Picture above: "Text with 'Top Hour' as the search function" followed by a comment from 2 months ago

I'm willing to give this my best college try to code around.

Categorizing a particular user's posts manually is far more work than its worth, but I also have a script for user-lookups that I might suggest adding as well.

This site logs me out every few [hours/days] after leaving the site. It's as if the cookies get deleted, but they're not.

Is this intentional? Do other people also experience this?

[Bug] Gifs don't upload on the instance

I tried to upload a gif but I get this error message when doing so:

{"data":{"msg":"Failed external validation","files":null},"state":"success"}

I can upload any other type of image but gifs always fail for some reason.
Does anyone have any clue what could be going wrong? There's obviously something wrong with pictrs but I'm not sure what.

@div0

Mentioning admins for visibility
@Db0
@RandomLegend @Flatworm7591

#error #lemmy #support #db0 #dbzer0

This update is more applicable to new users, however existing users might also want to check out the updated signup page. Note that existing users will have to sign out or use incognito mode to view the page. A copy of the updated text is included below for easy reference.

Our application process is mostly the same as before, and has so far proven very successful in screening out bots and other problematic users.

The main change is the addition of our Golden Rules to the signup page. These rules were already in place for our instance (in the sidebar), however we wanted to ensure that they are foregrounded for new users, since the sidebar is not visible on the signup page. That's the main rationale for the update.

We have also added a line asking people to ensure they verify their email, because it's fairly common for people to skip that, and then we don't receive their application.

If anyone wants to suggest any further edits or improvements, please comment below and we will take your feedback into consideration.

Thank you for your interest in joining our community. Note that this is primarily an anarchist server, but you don't have to identify as an anarchist to join. Please take the time to read the Golden rules before applying, to make sure our Lemmy instance is a good fit for you.

Golden rules

1. Don’t be shitty to each other. For clarity, calls to violence and/or telling people to kill themselves is strictly prohibited.
2. Follow the Anarchist Code of Conduct. This code forms the basis of all our moderation decisions.
3. No posts promoting cryptocurrency, blockchain or NFTs.
4. No advertising or self-promotion without prior approval from the community moderator or site admin.
5. No extreme-right-wing bullshit. This includes conspiracy theories, SovCit, Copoganda, AnCaps etc. We’ll know it when we see it, don’t test us!
6. No anti-science or pseudoscientific bullshit.
7. No Tankie bullshit.
8. No TERFs.
9. This instance is proud to be an ally of LGBTQ+ people and communities. If you're not cool with that, then please don't apply.
10. When going to other communities, respect their rules AND our rules when they are more restrictive. Do not give cause for others to de-federate our instance please.

Application instructions

For your application to be approved, you'll need to include all three items listed below:

• Please include the following words "I agree to follow the 10 golden rules" in your application.
• Tell us the name of your favorite anarchist, pirate, or open source advocate.
• Mention one public event or news story that happened in the last month.

Incomplete applications will be rejected. Profanity is encouraged. Thanks for understanding.

Note: Please be sure to verify your email when applying, or the application will not be processed.

Appeals process

If your application is rejected, you can appeal the decision in matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#div0-appeals:matrix.org and we will be happy to reconsider your application.

Follow-up from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15792108

I've spent a ton of hours trying to troubleshoot why lemmy.dbzer0.com is falling behind lemmy.world in federation. We have a good idea where it's going wrong, but we have no idea why.

The problem is that once I receive an apub sync from l.w and send the request to the lemmy backend, it takes about 1 second to process an apub sync, which is way too long (is should typically be < 100ms).

We had a look at the DB and it was somewhat slow due to syncing commits to disk. OK we disabled that, and now it's much faster (and less safe but whatever) but the sync times have not improved at all.

I've also made a lot of tests to ensure the problem is not coming from my loadbalancers and I am certain I've removed them from the equation. The issue is somewhere within the lemmy docker stuff and/or the postgresql DB.

Unfortunately I'm relying solely on other admins help on matrix, and at this point I'm being asked to recompile lemmy from scratch or deploy my own docker container with more debug instructions. Neither of these is within my skillset, so I'm struggling to make progress on this.

In the meantime we're falling further and further behind in the lemmy.world federation queue, (along with a lot of other instances). To clarify, the problem is not lemmy.world. It takes my instance the same time to receive apub syncs from every other server. It's just that the other servers don't have as much traffic so 1/s is enough to keep up. But lemmy.world has so much constant changes, 1/s is not nearly fast enough.

I'm continuing to dig on this as much as I can. But I won't lie that I could use some help.

I'll keep you all updated in this thread.

Very active post on LW: https://lemmy.world/post/12747897

Empty thread on db0: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15749604

I had initially assumed it was a problem on LWs end... but other instances seem to be federating just fine:

https://lemm.ee/post/25817431

https://lemmy.ml/post/12793895

Just wanted to bring it to your attention. Not sure if this is on LWs end of db0's end.

It seems I am unable to view this post https://lemmy.world/post/10613192

on this instance lemmy.dbzer0.com, even though lemmy.world is not deferated.

How is this possible? I tried injecting the /post/10613192 into the URL: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/10613192 but this page does not exist

Follow up from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14287556

Apparently contabo has a hidden limit on total amount of objects in the object storage, which they've now quintupled for me. Given our growth, this should hopefully last us a couple of years before I need to poke them again.

I just checked all the available frontends and it seems like none of them have some of the new sorting options available. Am I doing something wrong?