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Nope - there’s no setting to change this behaviour.

If you imagine what it would look like without the merging, the one shown would be the one nearest the top of the screen - so if you’re sorting by ‘New’, then it’ll be the newest, by ‘Top’ and it’ll be the most upvoted, by ‘Active’ then the most active. Because of how much LW dominates, it’ll pretty much always be that one.

There’s a good chance that the person has automated the activity (it certainly doesn’t appear to be done with any thought), but they’re technically not a bot.

It’s a relatively new feature, but PieFed merges up crossposts that it sees into one post - whether the post you see within a topic is yours or not will depend on the sort type - there’s a ‘layers’ icon beneath relevant posts, and clicking that can get you to the other posts if the visible one isn’t the one you want.

That modlog entry is actually for the LW community - it’s a bit clearer here: https://lemmy.world/modlog/31408?page=1&actionType=All&userId=13663964

The posts being made to the LW community aren’t being made by someone who cares about this comic. They’re not genuinely providing anything, they just have a stupid tedious beef with lemmy.ml, and so mindlessly crosspost everything they see posted to an ML community to a non-ML community. This means that if you don’t post first, the comic is unlikely to appear at all.

What is the update delay for Fediseer?

I don’t know. It’s not something I’m familiar with - it might just default to saying ‘closed’ if it doesn’t have the data.

It’s interesting that the obvious bot accounts on those instances were set up in mid-March last year, so I’m guessing that these are somebody’s army that they’ve used before, but overplayed their hand when they turned it on the DonaldJMusk person. The admins can reasonably be blamed for setting up instances with open registrations and no protections and then forgetting about them, but I’d be wary of blaming them for being behind the attack directly. The ‘nicole’ person is unlikely to have used their own instance - it’s probably just someone with the same MO as whoever owns the bots, finding and exploiting vulnerable instances.

lemmy.world recently updated from version 0.19.3 to 0.19.10. This change - for Lemmy communities to federate out posts with the community name as a hashtag - was introduced in 0.19.4, so that might be the other reason why this has only just become an issue for you.

The attacker seems to be the admin of those two instances. Both instances have their registrations closed.

The alternative theory would be that these instances had open registrations, but rightly closed registration down after the admins noticed the bots. chinese.lol is on 0.18.4 with an admin with a 2 year old account, lemmy.doesnotexist.club has an admin with a 1 year account, and it was also that instance that the ‘nicole’ person has used before. This downvote attack would need to be a long time in the planning for what you’re suggesting to be true.

There’s an open issue for that kind of thing here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

It’s probably best to keep the first +1 for your own post or comment, as that’s what’s expected from people’s experience on other platforms, and that’s how it will appear on platforms that the content has federated to. Whether a user’s reputation score should give them an additional and visible +1 is debateable, but PieFed might be stuck with that decision now.

Nothing currently exists to help migrate DBs. Not yet anyway (other Lemmy admins have also expressed an interest in changing over).

It’s harder to detect, but wildly optimistic if they think that people are going to manually type URLs out. It feels like this latest manoeuvre is just to score a win in the arms race against them.

I think that’s what he meant, yeah (no existing DB migration scripts, etc). I don’t know much about it, but I imagine it was probably always going to involve someone more familiar with Lemmy diving into the trenches.

TV shows and movies are already compressed. If you try to compress something that’s already compressed, it typically ends up bigger if anything.

He’s mentioned this before, but I’ve never been able to find an actual PixelFed Group (it doesn’t appear to be the same thing as what they call Collections). I’ll have another look when pixelfed.social enables them this weekend (but I suspect parsing titles for the posts will be a nightmare).

Also, ‘smithereen’ is tagged but I’m not sure of its status (all I found was 1 private instance run by the dev, federated with 1 “explicitly-free-speech” Akkoma instance).

Clarkson has been trying to warn us for years, and we haven’t been listening. He punched a producer when his dinner wasn’t on time, to highlight the impending delays to food deliveries after Brexit. He left the BBC to work for Amazon, presenting a show that was a shadow of it’s former self, to illustrate how billionaires diminish everything they touch.

He couldn’t be clearer with his messaging, but the UK continues to ignore him.

Rimu has now added the option to ban users via the drop-down menu next to their comment.

It’s maybe not a good idea to make it too easy to ban people who haven’t created any content, as it’s the kind of thing that often causes a lot of boring fedi-drama. Though I realise that there still might be other reasons why mods might want to search through the subscriber list.

I once did some office work for a tobacco company, where you were allowed to smoke at your desk. I don’t smoke, but I had a few ciggies when I was there, because you realise that you’ve never really pointed at anything, until you’ve pointed at it with a cig in your hand. It’s just a better way to point at stuff (I don’t make the rules).

If they’ve made a post, there’s an option to ban them in the 3-dots drop-down menu. If not, you should be able to find them in the ‘subscribers’ tab of the community settings (‘ban’ is in the Actions drop-down). If they’ve not made a post and they’re not a subscriber, then I’m not sure.

That sounds like a better idea (when you’re looking for them, you realise how many people don’t actually cross-post stuff “properly”).