lodion
@lodion@aussie.zone
I also have backup accounts on these instances:
beehaw.org/u/lodion
sh.itjust.works/u/lodion
lemmy.world/u/lodion
lemm.ee/u/lodion
reddthat.com/u/lodion
- Comment on What Constitutes contravention of Rule 4, no ads/spamming? 3 days ago:
If you’re posting as an uninvolved third party about an event you’re interested in, it’s not an ad.
As for spam, if you post a ridiculous volume about such events it could be construed as spamming. So long as you’re manually posting this shouldn’t an issue.
Basically, don’t be trying to sell anything or abusing the AZ site.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 1 week ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy you posted this. If there are unvoiced concerns or issues, here is a good place to discuss them.
I’m not as active on lemmy as I’d like, so I’m likely not aware of issues unless they’re raised somewhere like this.
For potential meta issues such as age verification, I’ll be seeking input from the community when they arise and information around them is known and understood.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 2 weeks ago:
The volume of activity from LW reduced, and it also looks like they made some config changes on their side… at a guess more federation worker processes, allowing an almost constant stream of activity to be sent to AZ.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 2 weeks ago:
When the LW lag issue was previously discussed, my main constraint was (and still is) time. Longer term it would have been a financial concern.
Either way, the issue has cleared up now due to a number of factors, none of which required time or finances on our part. I call that a win.
Worth noting, LW have still not upgraded their instance to the version that introduced multiple sending threads to a remote instance. If their volume of traffic were to increase substantially again, we could “lag” again. - Comment on Annual General Thread 2 weeks ago:
I’m happy to hear feedback, but tbh you should think of AZ as a benevolent dictatorship rather than a democracy. So the analogy to a company AGM isn’t quite right 😃
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 3 weeks ago:
Sure.
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 3 weeks ago:
Finished.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on What's the deal with lemmy.world today? 3 weeks ago:
A minor Christmas miracle… AZ is no longer behind on LW content:
Hopefully this stays the case :)
- Comment on Pages randomly not loading 4 weeks ago:
Can turn it off and find out. I’ve done this a few times, each time I’ve ended up turning it back on… I figure better brief downtime at a low usage time, than random downtime that may require intervention to resolve.
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 1 month ago:
I’ll give as much notice as possible, whatever ends up happening.
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 1 month ago:
All good questions, that I don’t have any answers to. Plenty of time to figure it out… I’ll probably be looking at the larger players to see where this goes, and what clarifying information the government put out next year.
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 2 months ago:
Yeah I like it too… but it was generating an abnormal amount of traffic. I’ll see if I can figure out what is going on… but mlmym is pretty basic, doesn’t seem to have much in the way of configuration options.
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 2 months ago:
Yeah… I understood outgoing federation of activities was linear FIFO. The new feature in 0.19.6 allows N instances of linear FIFO, with related activities federated in sequence.
Our outgoing activities go out very quickly, aussie.zone has a very low activity rate so remote instances don’t tend to get behind at all.
How a LW user replied to a current AZ post and had it show up here in a decent timeframe is a mystery to me, seeing as they’re still running their custom version of 0.19.3
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 2 months ago:
I can only guess the order activities are federated in is random? Which doesn’t make much sense.
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 2 months ago:
It’s configurable… defaults to 1 thread. Given we’re slowly catching up with LW during low activity parts of the day, I think 2 should be enough.
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 2 months ago:
0.19.6 includes many fixes and new features… the biggest for me is “Parallel federation sending”. This allows instance admins to send multiple federated activities in parrallel, rather than singly in series.
Not that its a real issue for other admins with activities from AZ, but I have set this to 2 for our outgoing activities.
Hopefully the lemmy.world admins will upgrade to 0.19.6 soon and do the same, this should allow AZ to catch up with activities from LW, and stay up to date.
- Comment on Upgrade incoming 2 months ago:
Ok… DB migration was an offline my migration, my bad. Took longer I expected… but we’re back in action 🤓
- Submitted 2 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 17 comments
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 months ago:
Maybe AskAnAussie? Or something like that. Want to keep the communities here Australia focused.
Federation issues with LW have improved, and I expect to be eliminated with a future version of the lemmy server software.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 months ago:
Good, fwiw you’re banned here too now.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 months ago:
IANAL but believe the test of "support"ing a terrorist organisation has a higher threshold moderating a forum and silencing critics of such organisations.
Either way…
a. you’re not an aussie.zone user, so your commentary here in this thread is not required.
b. your comment history shows an axe to grind against lemmy.ml, it may be warranted… but again it is not relevant to this thread. - Comment on Why aren't vegan? 2 months ago:
This has more than run its course, I’ll give the benefit of the doubt as to whether this was in good faith or simply looking to argue and sealion.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 months ago:
Made some time at work, don’t tell my boss…
Think of lemmy instances as countries: when you visit a country/instance you’re expected to abide by their local rules, whatever they may be. And when users from other countries/instances interact with Australia/aussie.zone they’re expected to behave in line with our rules.
Not agreeing with the population of a country/instance doesn’t mean you can’t visit it. If/When you visit, you can’t expect them to adhere to your rules at home… or to apply their own rules consistently… just like the real world.
Defederation of an instance will only be done when:
**Legal **- the instance is generating content that may raise legal concerns for Aussie Zone. For example porn.
**Technical **- the instance is generating content that may cause performance/security issues for Aussie Zone. For example large volumes of automated traffic or malicious traffic.
**Trolls **- an instance whose users predominantly interact in bad faith with communities outside of their instance.
I don’t believe lemmy.ml meets either of these, their “quirky” politics are largely self contained on their own communities from what I’ve seen. If they’re crashing aussie.zone communities and posting outside of our rules, please report them.
To address some comments in this thread (paraphrasing):
we should defederate instances with bad admins or admins heavily moderating alternative views to their own
So far as their actions do not trigger any of the defederation criteria noted above, they can do as they see fit.
no incentive to create alternative communities
If there is no incentive, then it can’t be a large enough issue to enough users.pro-authoritarian bias
Given how simple it is for a user to block an instance for themself, I’d rather allow our users had the option to decide this for themselves. Some prefer to engage with people from an alternate perspective, for those that don’t they can block the instance.TLDR
Not defederating lemmy.ml at this point in time, if their user behaviour outside of their instance changes in future my stance may change too.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 months ago:
I’m at work, don’t have time to reply appropriately now. Will do so tonight.
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 2 months ago:
Thing is… I’m not sure if its abandonded, or there have been no breaking changes in recent versions of lemmy so no dev work has been required. Will do some more digging.
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 2 months ago:
It’s just a UI, all the content itself is in the same backend. It’s very light weight to host, so I’d only shut it down if it has issues… eg security or interop with future Lemmy versions.
- Submitted 2 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😵😵😵 Wednesday, October 30, 2024 2 months ago:
But… Offspring! Weezer!
- Comment on Nacc to reconsider whether to investigate robodebt after ‘apprehended bias’ finding against commissioner 2 months ago:
Good. Public office should not be a shield for objectively bad actions.
