I’m not trying to be overly self-promotional, but rss.ponder.cat + piefed.social’s “feeds” could probably do this very well. I actually really like the combination of having aggregated RSS feeds I can control, along with other people voting on them so particularly interesting stuff from them get surfaced more than other stuff.
Hm, I would try just changing it back first. Use geekroom.tech. Any community or anything that federated or went into the database, with one of the other hostnames, is probably cursed now, and best just deleted and never looked back on. But, if you try to reinstall, you won’t be able to keep geekroom.tech as the domain at all, you’ll have to pick a new one (or just use a subdomain like lemmy.geekroom.tech).
Once stuff is federated out from one install under some given domain name, it’s pretty much immutable from that point forward. It probably shouldn’t be that way, but that is the current state of things with ActivityPub being the way that it is unfortunately.
It says: The server returned this error: couldnt_find_community. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error.
rDataHoarder also doesn’t show in the list of local communities.
Did you change the domain of your host, after it had already done some federation and created databases, or something like that? I do see the rDataHoarder community in the list of non-local communities, which is a real bad type of error to be seeing. You didn’t do any hacking around in the database to fix things or anything did you? That should never be that way as far as I know.
Hm, I saw no posts on your instance for !rDataHoarder@geekroom.tech, so I tried to make one on my instance to see if it would show up, and now your server’s giving me an internal error viewing that community. Do you know what’s up with that?
I think the time period during which whatever-it-was was making things not work, may have left your federation of communities in a borked state. One thing you can try: Unsubscribe from some particular remote community from all users on your instance (so your instance will request to stop getting updates). Then, resubscribe, and see if you start getting updates again. The initial request to get updates might have gotten swallowed by the brokenness.
This might be a good question for the devs, also. Both because they can help more and because they should know about it as an issue (whether or not it was caused by some Cloudflare thing and whether or not it was your “fault” in setting it up, both of those questions I have no idea.)
It might be just an actual real person, who’s chosen this method not realizing that it is abusive to talk with everyone with their pitch for money and friendship, on a network this large. Or, more likely, it’s a scammer who is figuring that it’ll work better to use a photo of a real-looking person instead of an obvious catfish hot girl.
(I’m not actually convinced, I would assume that the same type of person who falls for this stuff is also more lizard-brain-driven and will react more strongly to a hot person texting them regardless of how much sense it makes.)
I think you answered your own question. It’s spam from a bot user called Nicole.
The issue is anonymous account creation + open access for new anonymous accounts to do whatever they want until it’s “proved” that they’re up to no good.
Definitely seems like it works now. I can see your communities, and I did a test post and it went to your instance (then I deleted it).
I would tend to guess that it’s the Cloudflare config that was the issue.
What is your instance? It sounds like your instance is unreachable or otherwise not federating right, when others try to reach it.
If you DM or comment with what your instance is, I can do some checking on whether your instance is accepting federation traffic as it should be.
That was actually what inspired me to post this here. We’d been talking about it in the comments over there.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/substack-changes-its-mind-will-remove-pro-nazi-content-after-all
I asked this dude to show me some Nazis on Substack, because he was extremely upset about it. Guess who they insisted should do their own research, instead of him having to show them?
Inb4 “Substack Nazis boo Nazis Nazis Nazis.” That is incorrect. There were only like 3 neo-Nazis, with about 10 followers apiece, but anyway they kicked them all out some time back now, because the entire internet was yelling at them.
I think it’s highly likely that someone who is screaming at you about how Substack is full of Nazis and officially “bad” probably is either just looking for an opportunity to yell and virtue-signal about how their purity test is more pointlessly pure than yours is, and not up to date on anything about the reality they’re talking about, or else they’re motivated by not wanting you and I to read Tim Snyder and Robert Reich. Either way the Nazis are mostly just an excuse.
I’m not planning to post any Nazi blogs. Everyone can relax.
Makes sense. Meaning code changes to the Lemmy server? Additional scripting added in that would take work to remove if you want things to keep working? Federations out in ways that weren’t compatible with Lemmy and are now written into someone else’s DB and unchangeable?
I’m just curious about the details, I like to hack on my little toybox Lemmy server as well is why I am asking these things. You’re welcome to go into as much detail as you have time for, if you feel like.
What were the problem-causing changes that were made to the test instance before it starting hosting users? Code changes / DB migrations that were then hard to undo?
It might serve as a useful cautionary tale for other admins, to know the specifics so people know how to avoid painting themselves into the same corner.
Check the profile on their home instance, too. Both of these situations can happen: Either your admins have banned them from your instance specifically, or else their home instance’s admins have banned them from everywhere.
I’m using an LLM architecture that’s better suited to summarisation meaning it won’t invent false facts like traditional gpts do.
What architecture is that? If you have an LLM that doesn’t hallucinate, there will surely have been papers written about the breakthrough.
The ai has no more misinformation than a human journalist.
And that dear reader was when the work of foolishness became something much more sinister.
Humans, and trust in humans, are important. The internet divorced the human face and the accumulation of trust from the news, which has allowed engineered alternative facts to enter the mainstream consciousness, which might be the single biggest harmful development in a modern age which has no shortage of them. I am not trying to tell you that your summarizer project is automatically responsible for that. But be cautious about what future you’re constructing.
If u don’t like this please just block the community no need to complain or downvote.
Best of luck with that!
I’m actually not trying to poop on some cool new thing you’re setting up, but I think it is pretty clear at this point that building a system that uses an LLM to produce factual information for people, is a recipe for your system getting well-deserved criticism.
Also, pay your journalists. Anything that takes them out of the equation will at some point lead to X and Youtube being the only sources of news, sending everybody anything that somebody feels like paying to produce and distribute for “free.”
Nginx and Lemmy both absolutely log IPs by default. sudo journalctl -u lemmy -f.
I assume that most admins of server big enough that they have to worry about abuse should check IPs to detect ban evasion, although you can get around it reliably by switching instances, and whether they actually do that or not would be a crapshoot, I think.
I like the community but it’s @lemm.ee, not @lemm.ee.com.
Ah, I got it. Yeah, it makes sense, WP.com is moderately likely to keep working fine probably, it’s just that it would make me nervous at this stage. I just don’t think he can do anything to really “punish” Bluehost if they’re using his software in some way that displeases him. WPEngine’s mistake was getting tangled up into a business relationship where they were depending on listings and APIs and things. Although, it probably seemed like a good idea until their business counterpart went off the deep end.
Yep. You are 100% correct. ActivityPub has some significant flaws.