Yeah, I thought it must be a Reddit repost instance, thanks for pointing to the right one.

i apparently cannot figure out ascii shrugs, nvm

¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ => ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just so we’re clear, what this crawler does is go through all servers that use ActivityPub known to it, and congregate that data to a list of known services (Lemmy, Mastodon, Piefed etc.). How is does that is by querying a standardised end point to get the instance info (.well-known/nodeinfo which will then point to a different path to get the actual info).

For instance, here’s what it will collect for feddit.uk:

// curl -s https://feddit.uk/nodeinfo/2.1 | jq
{
  "version": "2.1",
  "software": {
    "name": "lemmy",
    "version": "0.19.10-feddit",
    "repository": "https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy",
    "homepage": "https://join-lemmy.org/"
  },
  "protocols": [
    "activitypub"
  ],
  "usage": {
    "users": {
      "total": 4184,
      "activeHalfyear": 718,
      "activeMonth": 485
    },
    "localPosts": 25750,
    "localComments": 122835
  },
  "openRegistrations": true,
  "services": {
    "inbound": [],
    "outbound": []
  },
  "metadata": {}
}

The important stat here is the localPosts, which is all the posts made by local users in any community, local or remote. It does not include posts by users from remote instances made in local communities. You can also see this data on the instance sidebar in lemmy-ui.

lemmy.zip going down will only reduce aggregated stats for total posts by 47,280, as that’s what they report for their localPosts.

But zip has < 50K posts.

You shouldn’t expect anything else from the Torygraph, it’s all nostalgia bait and hate mongering to comfort their snobby readership (and to prop up his links to fossil fuel companies).

The amount of things learned from the comments under memes is probably a bit high, but I’ll send a commit to fix this in a minute.

Who needs an issues tracker when you have a meme tracker, eh?

Does Lemmy look at the mods URL again when it decides to refresh a community (or when it receives an Update / Group)

Yes to both. Updating a community and fetching a new community are identical operations in Lemmy.

It’s because Piefed is returning the wrong Content-Type for moderator collections specifically. You’re returning application/json not application/activity+json.

curl -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' -v https://piefed.social/c/50501/moderators 2>&1 | grep content-type
< content-type: application/json
< x-content-type-options: nosniff

I assume this is why MBin also doesn’t report any moderators for that community https://fedia.io/m/50501@piefed.social.

SJW doesn’t have an application question and this from Sunaurus in the parent comment seems to imply they manually approve applications as well:

We have a custom question on our sign-up page asking people to state they agree to our rules, and it’s relatively common that people just don’t read the question and write something random in there - we generally don’t accept such applications to try and weed out bots, but I’m pretty sure we also end up rejecting a bunch of legit users this way who just didn’t read the instructions.

I’d be interested to know how World automates their sign up process. Guessing from their application question they might just look for the phrase “I agree to the TOS” in answers, which would be fairly simple to implement but I wouldn’t personally feel confident in it.

Hm, that’s far from typical so I’m not sure how a generic dialogue would accommodate both. World might want to hide the dialogue on web front ends, though I’m not sure how to also get that reflected in apps like Mlem.

But that doesn’t make it clear that the application needs to be approved before the user can use their account.

Sure, you’d just have to change this line, though I’m no sure what would be better.

Not yet

I thinks it’s fine, it’s not breaking the spirit of the rule.

Every time someone suggests the EU should make their own social media platform, a little part of me dies. You know it would be slow, have weird Guidelines, have 100k downloads and a 3-star rating before disappearing in six months. It would scream “official and out of touch.” What we actually need is private investors, devs who’ve worked on real stuff before (bonus points if they’ve been at US companies as they’d already have experience), and a sane CEO. That’s it.

Democracies are dying because most people now get their information from social media companies that have every incentive to push misinformation. There’s a reason the only profitable social media companies* (Meta, ByteDance, Google) are all evil and it’s not because they’re not European.

* Apparently Pinterest is profitable and I don’t know enough about them to call them evil

We need a solid alternative to X or Reddit (first) — not another Instagram clone.
Pics are cute, but people wanna talk first. We need a clean, simple, centralized app that’s actually nice to use, has clear but not overbearing rules, and doesn’t try to shove privacy/eco stuff in your face as a personality trait. And keep the EU out of it. Let actual devs with experience run the show and let the platform evolve like a normal product.

Instagram has 2 billion MAUs, this is purely OP projecting their own preferences. Twitter and platforms like it are actually very niche, they just hold a disproportionate sway over online culture.

Going to lock this. I’ll remove future posts that use the ‘tankie triad’ pejorative. Please keep it to meanwhileongrad or tankjerk, it’s needlessly divisive and we have more than enough posts here bemoaning the tankies.

Only 5 communities called ‘Fediverse’? That’s child’s play, here on feddit.uk we have 14 communities called that.

Nah, OP on Reddit has a bunch of posts in alt-right subs (KiA, Asmongold, JordonPeterson), their definition of far left is not going to be remotely serious.

I spent a couple hours trying to create an account on pds.flamingos-cant.xyz that uses a did:web following the instructions here and the account at the end ended up with a did:plc, so IDK how you create a PDS with a did:web but it’s clearly not something they put a lot of effort into supporting.

Oh, so when you make baseless assumptions about people it’s just you rationally arriving at a conclusion from context, but when someone else says your personality sucks based from your diatribe about women and dating, it must be because they’re an irrational, emotional wöman.

You’re literally attacking personality of someone you don’t know in that comment.