MrKaplan
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Automod has a reply button, does it go anywhere? 1 day ago:
they’re generally not read. it’s just a bot account.
we need to update the text there to clarify that, it’s come up a few times already, including people reporting automod pms.
in most cases these pms are a result of community moderator actions, so it’s generally recommended to contact the community mods about this.
- Comment on What's wrong with lemmy.world federation? 2 days ago:
I’ve seen others report this before, it seems to be kinda random, as this works fine for most other users. Individual posts sometimes don’t get accepted by Lemmy, but I don’t currently know what is causing that.
- Comment on Mod only Matrix room 2 weeks ago:
it depends on what you’re looking for.
there is a room for lemmy moderation in general, not associated with LW, but there isn’t much activity: #lemmy-support-moderation:discuss.online
for LW we currently only have our mod coordination discord, which you seem to have joined already. you’ll need to use the
/verifycommand to link your lemmy account though before you get access to the channels. - Comment on How come I am now @patnou instead of Don_Dickle. I know I had to redo My whole account but would have liked to have my old account back since I had 80 unread messages there? Anyway to make this happen 2 weeks ago:
at least US SSN is 9 digit so I think it’s fake, otherwise I fully agree
- Comment on How come I am now @patnou instead of Don_Dickle. I know I had to redo My whole account but would have liked to have my old account back since I had 80 unread messages there? Anyway to make this happen 2 weeks ago:
you did just a few days ago when you sent that email.
- Comment on How come I am now @patnou instead of Don_Dickle. I know I had to redo My whole account but would have liked to have my old account back since I had 80 unread messages there? Anyway to make this happen 2 weeks ago:
no. you sent us an email from the address linked to the other account, which clearly proves that you still have access to that email address. control over that email address is how you prove that the account belongs to you.
you can use the forgot password link visible on the login page to receive an email to set a new password for the lemmy account as long as you have access to the linked email address.
- Comment on How come I am now @patnou instead of Don_Dickle. I know I had to redo My whole account but would have liked to have my old account back since I had 80 unread messages there? Anyway to make this happen 2 weeks ago:
please at least try to make an effort to understand technology.
after we received the email about account recovery from the email address linked to Don_Dickle we sent instructions there for how to regain access to that account.
- Comment on Lemmy.world is automatically logging me out after I login and press the refresh button. I have attached a video of this glitch to this post 2 weeks ago:
this is a known issue with Firefox that started several firefox versions ago. there has been a change in cookie handling in lemmy since then to address that. we’re currently reviewing our next steps regarding updating to a newer lemmy version and will post about that in the next days.
- Comment on What does deleting a post or comment actually do? 4 weeks ago:
Deleting posts or comments is a best effort attempt at removing it from public view.
Due to the federated nature of Lemmy, any time content is posted and sent to other instances, we lose control over what happens next. When content is marked as deleted on our end, this sends a “please delete this” message to other instances, but there is no way to enforce this, as that content is no longer stored on our infrastructure. Once content is publicly accessible on the internet, there is no way to ensure that it gets removed again. Even if all fediverse instances are cooperating and honoring deletion requests, there may be federation issues causing the deletion request being lost, or external actors that just scrape Lemmy or the larger internet to collect as much data as they can, with no chance of the original creator being able to get it purged. Depending on the data, this may no be legal in some jurisdictions, such as EU having the “right to be forgotten” and similar laws.
Additionally, the Lemmy version we are currently using has a bug, where under some circumstances contents of deleted and removed comments are still being displayed to users. While this is expected for mod-removed comments to be visible in the modlog, this is neither expected for deleted comments nor should the comments still be displayed normally. We are looking forward to address this with the next Lemmy update we will be deploying, but we will likely have to build some custom patch for Lemmy to ensure that this does not significantly reduce our moderation experience, as the solution implemented in Lemmy essentially prevents anyone, including site admins and community moderators from seeing removed and deleted comments entirely.
This is further extended by Lemmy having a scheduled task (already in the version we are using here), which runs daily to overwrite deleted posts and comments to remove their contents once they are older than 30 days.
As is right now, if you have sensitive information that you accidentally shared in a comment and post, we recommend editing the contents prior to deletion and removing that.
- Comment on When will LW be updated to something newer than 0.19.3? 4 weeks ago:
We will be posting an announcement explaining the current plans and issues in the coming days.
- Comment on It happened again just logged in and it put me under another users name this time it was Kappanna. Wanted to make sure I remembered it. Why does this keep happening ? Is it just me? 4 weeks ago:
at this point we don’t believe that this will allow anyone to act as someone else, but we are aware of the issue. it’s still unclear what is actually causing this, as the pages are not supposed to be cacheable when there is authentication attached.
are you sure about the username? i can’t even find a user remotely matching that name.
- Comment on When will LW be updated to something newer than 0.19.3? 4 weeks ago:
some of the issues introduced in 0.19.4 or 0.19.5 include
- actions of remote moderators not federating properly
- modlog filtering by acting moderator not working
- mastodon urls could no longer directly be resolved in lemmy
- admins can no longer see contents of removed or deleted comments
No software is ever free of bugs, especially not one starting with a zero version number.
nobody is talking about it being free of bugs, but we try to go for versions that at least don’t have any major bugs.
ther must be no avoidable delay in the deletion request of user data
is there a definition for “no avoidable delay” as interpreted by courts? your definition and mine clearly don’t overlap here.
That said, there is no communication of news and roadmaps. Maybe on proprietary Discord but not here.
there is no additional information about roadmaps on discord.
lemmy.world/post/20234434 is one of the places this was discussed previously.
we currently don’t have any announcements about this. afaik we’ve only been doing these for when we actually plan to do something with an actual estimated timeline, but i agree that it would be good to have this information more accessible by having a post in our announcement community rather than just comments on posts in other communities.
- Comment on When will LW be updated to something newer than 0.19.3? 4 weeks ago:
your calculations seem to be off.
0.19.7 is only 4 versions ahead of 0.19.3, not 8.
there were significant issues with 0.19.4, which resulted in 0.19.5. there are still some issues that are important for us, although they may not be as important for smaller instances, that were an issue in 0.19.5.
0.19.6 was released 10 days ago and already had a followup release 0.19.7 to fix some new issues that were introduced in 0.19.6. there are still pending issues like github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5208, so i imagine it might not take too long for a 0.19.8 release.
we’re aiming to provide a stable experience and also try to avoid regressions resulting in reducing moderator capabilities.
most of the issues we saw reported for versions above 0.19.3 however have been fixed in the newer versions since, so there aren’t as many issues remaining that would prevent an upgrade to 0.19.8 or a 0.19.7 with extra patches, but at this time 0.19.7 hasn’t seen widespread use yet, which tends to be what brings up more bug reports if there are new issues.
LW is currently still violating privacy laws because users cannot delete uploaded media.
this statement is ridiculous. while you cannot currently delete them yourself, this is in no way violating any laws. if people want to have their uploaded media deleted they can just raise a support ticket or send a message to @lwadmin@lemmy.world and we’ll take care of it.
if there are any laws stating that this is required to be possible as self-service i’d love to see references for that, because for all i know this is not the case.
- Comment on Can I make my community light-mode by default, for all readers, instead of dark-mode by default? 1 month ago:
no, there are currently no options to customize the viewing experience, such as custom css.
as others already mentioned, forcing light mode on people is generally not well received anyway.
- Comment on How are trending communities calculated? 1 month ago:
trending communities are going away in the next release iirc due to the current implementation not really being useful.
- Comment on Why is my post hidden from lemmy.world instance? 1 month ago:
as long as you’re logged in the option should always be shown.
we do however recommend messaging @lwreport@lemmy.world instead of specific admins: lemmy.world/post/17422981
- Comment on Why is my post hidden from lemmy.world instance? 1 month ago:
I’ve checked our server logs and it seems to have been an issue with a timeout.
This might be something that is fixed once we update to a newer Lemmy version that performs metadata processing in the background instead of while receiving the post.
- Comment on Sort by "Most Viewed?" 1 month ago:
lemmy does not track post views, especially not via federation.
you could try bringing it up at !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml but i wouldn’t count on this becoming a feature.
technically, posts can be marked as viewed if this is not disabled by the user, which would be the closest thing possible, but there is also no time decay on that. this information is limited to users on the local instance, so this wouldn’t be that representative unless used on one of the larger instances.
- Comment on Don't know if it was a glitch or what but when I just logged in it logged me in to another users account. 2 months ago:
which browser and OS are you using? i haven’t seen this yet with firefox, only not being logged in while it’s loading
- Comment on How can I unmod a user? 2 months ago:
it doesn’t work from the post listing, but if you go to the post directly the option should show up
- Comment on Can we get it to where the trending communities aren't just new ones that are created but the most active one? 3 months ago:
This section is fully removed in the next Lemmy release: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2639
- Comment on Unstickied post in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml still stickied on world 3 months ago:
thanks, fixed on our end. i believe there was a change in one of the newer lemmy releases that should improve this if the activity of unfeaturing got lost somehow.
- Comment on Mods of !news are now banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot? 3 months ago:
calling other people pedophiles is not trolling.
such allegations can be life-ruining and should not be done lightly.
- Comment on Did I just get banned from Ask Me Anything? If so why was I banned? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Is there an update schedule somewhere? 4 months ago:
see also lemmy.world/comment/11567457
- Comment on I love Lemmy.world but can someone who is higher up than me delete or fix why it shows 18 messages when I only have two. If an admin wants I will log out give them my password so they can see for them 4 months ago:
I believe I found the root cause, as you have configured your account not to show bot accounts.
the lemmy version used on lemmy.world does not currently filter those out, even though they are not shown in the actual message view.
this was fixed for a newer lemmy version already, but it should be a rather simple backport.
i’ve put it on my list of potential backports.
meanwhile you can try enabling showing bot accounts in your account settings and you should see all those messages. feel free to disable it again afterwards.
- Comment on I love Lemmy.world but can someone who is higher up than me delete or fix why it shows 18 messages when I only have two. If an admin wants I will log out give them my password so they can see for them 4 months ago:
We’ll never login to your account and never ask you for your password.
We can check these things in a different way, but it would save time to just have this information provided by you, so we can see which area to look at. The notification number in the top right takes 3 different numbers as inputs and only shows the sum of all of them, and each one of them has different logic working behind it.
- Comment on I love Lemmy.world but can someone who is higher up than me delete or fix why it shows 18 messages when I only have two. If an admin wants I will log out give them my password so they can see for them 4 months ago:
There is only a single link. If you’re currently using an app you might need to do this from a browser.
- Comment on I love Lemmy.world but can someone who is higher up than me delete or fix why it shows 18 messages when I only have two. If an admin wants I will log out give them my password so they can see for them 4 months ago:
if you visit lemmy.world/api/v3/user/unread_count (in a signed-in session) you can see where these numbers are coming from.
if you could share these numbers in a pm to me i can take a look at where the difference may be coming from.
it would also be useful which 2 messages you are seeing, at least the type of them (pm, mention, reply).
- Comment on How can I delete a community I created by accident? Also how come communities are disappearing from my subscribed list? Also why when in some communities it shows subscribe pending? 4 months ago:
you can find your community bans here: lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCo…