MrKaplan
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can you guys remove @irelephant@lemm.ee as a mod from !guineapigs? 6 hours ago:
removed from all 3
- Comment on Request to unban ip address 15 hours ago:
we don’t ban individual IP addresses, but we restrict posting/commenting/media uploads from some VPN/data center IPs.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 22 hours ago:
afaik the decrease in users has mostly been on mastodon.world, where the suspected reason is to a large degree requiring registration applications to prevent spam bots. this seems to scare off a lot of users unfortunately. i’m not involved in the mastodon stuff, but afaik there is currently no system similar to what we have on lemmy or piefed to automatically accept applications after certain checks were successful.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 22 hours ago:
they’re referring to Lemmy developers, not someone using/running .world
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 day ago:
I’m assuming that you’re referring to the Lemmy developers. FHF supports Lemmy development with a monthly donation of €50, same as we do for Mastodon development.
If it makes you feel better, there are enough other people donating who don’t mind some or all of their donation amount going towards Lemmy development to offset your donation not being used for Lemmy development contributions.
It’s not worth the effort to set up independent purpose-bound donation pools to separate donations from people unwilling to support certain people/organizations, as the end result would be the same, except a lot more maintenance/accounting overhead. Calculating with the current expenses of €1,700/month, this is less than 3% of the total donations we’d need to cover our bills.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
that’s not a thing on lemmy. it’s probably just the user setting to hide bot accounts.
- Comment on Cannot edit my posts nor save the posts of others. 6 days ago:
which client are you using?
- Comment on Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments? 6 days ago:
The account was already banned 10 days ago, if you look at lemmy.world/u/NoMoreTrds@toast.ooo you’ll see it’s gone with no content remaining.
Looking at the account on toast.ooo, toast.ooo/u/NoMoreTrds, it seems that the home instance ban may not have removed all content, that’s something @grant@toast.ooo should be able to fix by banning the user again with content removal selected.
Additionally, the bans/removals don’t seem to have properly federated to reddthat.com as seen on reddthat.com/u/NoMoreTrds@toast.ooo. This should either get fixed once the user gets properly banned from toast.ooo or can be fixed by a ban from reddthat.com e.g. by @ticoombs@reddthat.com, @example@reddthat.com or @Nankeru@reddthat.com.
- Comment on How do I make someone the moderator of the community I created? 1 week ago:
if they’ve posted or commented in the community, visit the post/comment and it’ll be in the menu, same place where you’d be able to report/remove/etc.
if they haven’t posted or commented, it’s not possible in the default lemmy ui, but you can use e.g. tesseract or photon to do so in the community settings.
- Comment on Video Uploads Fails Quietly Without Giving Notice 1 week ago:
when there are errors returned they should be getting displayed to users, if that isn’t happening that’s a lemmy bug.
the timeout indicates that the upload was too much to be processed in a timely manner. shorter or smaller videos might work better.
- Comment on iCloud private relay 2 weeks ago:
can you describe your problems in more detail?
- Comment on Cant save or unsave posts on old.lemmy.world 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cant save or unsave posts on old.lemmy.world 4 weeks ago:
nothing changed on our end
- Comment on Is there a way to remove a mod from my community? 1 month ago:
mods can remove other mods if they are below them in the moderator list. for moderators higher up admin intervention is required.
as the default lemmy ui doesn’t exactly make it easy to manage moderators in a community if they haven’t posted or commented there recently i recommend using tesseract for this, where you can easily do this and much more in the community settings.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
we currently have a Referrer-Policy that doesn’t share the referrer with third party sites, so your observation is correct.
it’s a mechanism to reduce potential for user tracking.
this is similar to the default behavior seen on mastodon: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/33214
- Comment on !peoplebluesky appears to be unmoderated 2 months ago:
are you requesting to take over moderation?
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 2 months ago:
probably, this caching is just affecting the default lemmy web interface.
other apps or web interfaces may have their own caching implementations, though for web based stuff it’s typically fine to leave it up to the browser, as long as there are suitable cache-control headers sent by the server.
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 2 months ago:
there were some caching issues in lemmy-ui where it would unnecessarily eat up disk space for caching without even making use of it properly. there was a change done in 0.19.12 that was supposed to mitigate this, but for users who have already collected this it won’t automatically delete the unnecessary cache until they logout: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3150
even when clearing this manually though i still see this take longer than you’d expect to load, it seems that the image cache is still slowing things down.
i also had some delays on images on the front page before all media loaded. i was able to speed things up again by executing
await window.caches.delete(“image-cache”)in my browser dev tools console, but that is certainly not something to expect from regular users.i’ve raised a new issue about this now: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3195
meanwhile, you can also work around this by deleting cached data for lemmy.world in your browser, at least until it fills up again.
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 2 months ago:
how long does it take in an incognito browser window?
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 2 months ago:
where are you located? do you have an example of things loading slowly? for me things are loading instantly, but if you’re not within the EU you’re likely dealing with latency across the globe
- Comment on There is a user that shows up even though they are blocked. 2 months ago:
yay, database inconsistencies.
looks like kbin.earth has a broken setup at some point where their user profiles were using http instead of https urls and that results in random breakage in lemmy:
- Comment on There is a user that shows up even though they are blocked. 2 months ago:
something doesn’t seem to be right there. i can reproduce it with this comment but not with other comments they created. also, the comment doesn’t show up on their profile.
- Comment on How can i remove MIA mods? 2 months ago:
probably. the check for higher modes was changed for 0.19.6 in github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4860, but before that it seems like all mods could remove other mods.
- Comment on How can i remove MIA mods? 2 months ago:
I’ve removed both other mods now
- Comment on How can i remove MIA mods? 2 months ago:
they can, but only those that were appointed after them
- Comment on was made a moderator of community without asking and against my preferenc 2 months ago:
internal team discussion relating to that request. searching by trump was not really an option, but searching for the username did bring it up.
- Comment on was made a moderator of community without asking and against my preferenc 2 months ago:
you requested this here: midwest.social/comment/12017524
you can leave the mod team by using the “Leave mod team” button on the community page
- Comment on Request to moderate c/television 2 months ago:
done
- Comment on old.lemmy.world no longer works without javascript, defeating its purpose 2 months ago:
Would you say the old “mlmym” design is more attractive than the new design?
anything that is plain html and doesn’t need js is more attractive for crawlers than things that aren’t plain html.
historical comparison
this doesn’t provide much historical context, it’s just for the last 7 days
Are you saying most of the blue requests are bots?
one way or another, yes. we definitely don’t have that many legitimate users trying to access it and then stopping when they get a cloudflare challenge.
Can you estimate how much it would cost to serve all the bot requests
currently no. this was a quick fix implemented when it got to the point that we couldn’t handle the traffic anymore and lemmy.world was getting outages from the load caused by these criminals. the amount of crawler traffic we see also gets spikes here and there, so what might be enough today might not be enough tomorrow. they just don’t care about anything but themselves.
- Comment on old.lemmy.world no longer works without javascript, defeating its purpose 2 months ago:
we’ll have to see. when you’re logged in you’ll have that cookie anyway.
due to the structure of the page it’s a very attractive crawler target for those that don’t care about robots.txt and pretend they’re real browsers. they’re hitting it from a range of different countries that even our initial attempts of limiting the challenge to certain countries was not useful.
even after implementing this challenge we’re still getting lots of requests on this domain that all fail the challenge, 42k challenges issued within the last 24h and only 371 (0.89%) solved.
mlmym also doesn’t seem to be that efficient with its api call usage per page load, so it would likely also need some investigation there if that can be optimized to reduce the server load from mlmym pages compared to other clients.
criminal ai crawler operators are killing the (public) js-free web.
