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Please check your DMs, you got unresolved reports from c/linux

For the last ~2 weeks the infrastructure team have been actively investigating performance with our server and actions are currently being taken. You should expect us to post an announcement with more detailed information soon™.

Not sure why, but lemmy.world keeps logging the bot out. I’ll look into it this evening.

The bot is up and running again

The bot should update very 30 seconds or so, if it doesn’t, there is likely some connection error that causes it to restart. I’ll have a look soon.

Which issues are you referring to? Instance shouldn’t matter as long as federation works properly, I think the bot has simply crashed and I don’t have access to restart the server before next week.

You can use @[email protected] in the meantime though.

Yes, I’ve noticed an uptick in connection errors from the lemmy.world servers, which is likely the reason. I am planning on rewriting the bot in Erlang/Elixir from python and will look into the fixing any potential issues once that happens. I don’t have access to the server at the moment as I’m away on holiday, so if the bot is down, I can’t restart the process unfortunately.

If you don’t have anything positive or helpful to say, it would be better to just not reply. If you think the post shouldn’t be posted here, use the report function instead.

Please don’t stalk/harass our users, it can and will lead to a site wide ban if reported.

It is a precautionary policy to avoid what is currently just a theoretical. You’ll be the first to create personal blog community so it will be interesting to see how it works out.

Nothing is set in stone of course and policies may be revised, I won’t make any claim that the current set of guidelines are perfect and immutable.

The intention of requiring a 3rd party to act as a moderator is to avoid mod abuse from the blog author such as deleting comments or banning people for unreasonable reasons. E.g. someone correcting an error in a blog post and then having their comment deleted and banned by the author in retaliation.

Ideally Lemmy would have more granular level of mod authorisation so that we could just remove access to deleting and banning people.

If someone makes a non-relevant post in the community, it would be removed. If it becomes a recurring problem, we can look into automating that process.

Huh, I wasn’t aware that the alternate frontends offered more utility. Looks pretty nice actually, thanks for the tip.

Programming.dev offers the tesseract frontend here: https://t.programming.dev/

The mod tools are unfortunately pretty poor on Lemmy. For adding/removing moderators via the GUI the person must first post/comment in that specific community. You can then via the context menu of that post/comment add someone as a mod.

The alternative is to interact with the Lemmy API directly via a script.

I’ve added myself as a moderator, although the whole admin team may operate as moderators, similar to [email protected].

If you got additional changes you want to make to the community, e.g. add additional rules like make it explicit that only you can post, or add a banner to the community you should do it now before you’re removed as a moderator. Otherwise you can always DM me/the admin team if you want to make changes to it.

Edit: As Blaze pointed out, you can use alternate frontends like https://t.programming.dev/ to gain additional GUI mod tools

Hi, we have now published official community guidelines as announced in this post.

Please let us now in the linked post if there is still something unanswered.

Yeah, we ban the spam accounts on the first report we receive.

Yeah, no problem. Funnily enough Nottingham Forest already had the alias nottingham stored.

Here’s every club alias for the bot:

If you can’t see posts you make on hidden communities that you are subscribed to on your profile, that sounds like a possible bug, and I’d encourage you to report the issue to the Lemmy repo

I don’t believe the system is that granular. If you’re posting in a community that is now hidden I would recommend you to subscribe to it if you want to continue to see it.