Spyke
Squorlple
lemmy.world

Believe it or not, they’re all Nicole posts removed by Lemmy.World /s

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Bobby Turkalinoreply
lemmy.yachts

Sorry if this has already been discussed but is anyone else worried that “Nicole’s” pictures are from the webcam on a compromised computer? They’re always from the same angle and she’s not really posing for most of them

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Squorlplereply
lemmy.world

I think that is the general consensus — that she is likely an unwitting victim

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Coelacanthreply
feddit.nu

I believe someone found an account she did livestreams on somewhere, and the pictures are most likely screen grabs from those. The odds of the person in the pictures being behind the spam are pretty much nil.

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Zentronreply
lemm.ee

Wuuut ? Everything mentioning nicole or just posts from "her" accounts ?

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Zentronreply
lemm.ee

Tnx for the info , i meant the repost bots by "her"

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Squorlplereply
lemmy.world

Repost bots? Do you have an example, either by way of link or screenshot?

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Zentronreply
lemm.ee

No, not rly , i just hear about it from other people getting messages/seeing posts but i never recieved any

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Squorlplereply
lemmy.world

The spam DMs are real, but I think the “reposts” are scuttlebutt based on people not understanding the screenshots of the DMs that they’ve seen in their feed

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sp3ctr4l
lemmy.dbzer0.com

It may have been lemmy.zip

It did in fact go down for about 48 hours... prompting me to make this new account on dbzer0.

Basically, the admin attempted to update to a newer lemmy version... and it failed, multiple times, and they just rolled back, restored the old version, posted an explanation and apology, and they'll be further looking into ... exactly what went wrong.

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sp3ctr4lreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

i apparently cannot figure out ascii shrugs, nvm

I don't know exactly how that post counter ... actually, technically counts posts, but:

1:

Zip going down could have uncounted all posts anywhere made by zip accounts.

2:

There could have been some kind of... propogating post count negation effect, as various other instances reacted differently to zip users posts on their instances could not pull them anymore, on different time scales.

3:

If a zip user had a ... top level comment, on another instance, its possible all lower level comments responding to that comment may also have poofed out of existence, in some respect.

...

I may be misusing some terminology here, and this is just spitballing, but yeah.

Almost all of my .zip account's posts/comments... are not on zip itself, and its possible that that is fairly common amongst .zip users.

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flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)reply
feddit.uk

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:

::: spoiler nodeinfo json

// 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.

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sp3ctr4lreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Huh.

Well, I appreciate the info and shrugging magic, but uh... hrm.

I dunno then.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I Cast Fistreply
programming.dev

Do comments count as posts? Because losing all comments from an instance would probably explain such a huge dip

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tisktiskreply
piefed.social

Is divide by zero becoming the most based instance? How did a single bro make best lemmy?!?

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tisktiskreply
piefed.social

That's the most based thing I've heard all year--where can I learn more about this decentralization endeavor?

That's it--I'm making an account now. This comment sealed the deal

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gruereply
lemmy.world

Db0 is super into decentralization! Everybody should make their account there!

...wait.

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CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]reply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I'd say dbzer0 is probably the most leftist, at least from what I've seen. I personally don't go as far as being an anarchist but can appreciate the philosophy. I probably have more in common with anarchy than democratic/plurality governance, if I'm being honest with myself.

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sp3ctr4lreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

If I were to pronounce it outloud, I would say:

D. B. Zero.

Like D. B. Cooper, lol.

the... zer(o), 0 swap is... basically old school l33tsp34k... like uh... l00tb0x, pr0n, type of ... dialect? syntax?

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moakleyreply
lemmy.world

Lately I've been seeing a lot of comments coming from that instance that are indistinguishable from the ones I see from .ml.

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db0reply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

The admin db0 does have a distrust in democracy

Clarification: Representative/Capitalist democracy. Not all types of democracy.

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Hubi
feddit.org

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...

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example
reddthat.com

I think this is zerobytes.monster, one of the reddit mirror instances.

the post count fits and it also matches with the user count not significantly dropping.

that instance has been using rather strict waf blocking rules from time to time that likely also affect the crawler for fediverse.observer.

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sp3ctr4lreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I missed your reply weeks ago, and I know upvotes are worthless, but you deserve most of mine from this thread =P

Its been a long time since I have actually seen crowd sourcing actually work in a non exploitative way to solve a problem, be productive.

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Oskar
piefed.social

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of posts were routed to dev/null and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

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