already did. it’s the same person running the infrastructure, although moderation of mstdn.party and mstdn.plus is handled by someone else.

we’ve since been in contact with the person running these services and the material has been taken down on lemmy.one, as well as lemmy.one closing down in three months.

we’re still discussing in our team how we will deal with this going forward and will be posting a new announcement about this in the coming days.

you can read https://lemmy.world/post/29550945 for our previous writeup about this.

it’s a combination of multiple issues.

lemmy federation has improved significantly over the past years, so if this was happening with lemmy instances today, especially online ones involved, this would be much less of an issue.

the original user posting this stuff was on a kbin instance. kbin/mbin still do not support federating bans of users. kbin is basically dead, mbin is tracking that here. when this was originally removed on kbin this never federated out to other platforms.

the next problem is that the original instance is no longer there, so attempting to address this with community bans from lemmys side is not working anymore if the user isn’t known to the instance anymore, as it can’t be refetched from the source. if the instances that the related communities are hosted on purged this user in the past they wouldn’t be able to federate out a community ban anymore.

another problem is that lemmy is typically configured in a way where it creates a local copy of thumbnails if no thumbnail url is provided by the source, which is what lead to a local copy of this material. in the end i consider this only a secondary issue, as while most people would rather not have this stored on their servers at all, if you allow media uploads you can never be 100% sure about the content uploaded to your server. this is therefore typically something where providers are expected to take action once they become aware of it. some providers are also taking preventative measures like scanning uploads, comparing to hash databases of known csam, etc. had the original instance ban or community bans been performed properly this would at least have removed public access to the stuff, as the media filenames are randomly generated and not guessable.

it’s generally not impossible to prevent stuff from returning to your instance once you have taken it down properly, but in cases where federation didn’t work, which could be for a wide range of reasons, including your instance being misconfigured during maintenance, your instance being defederated from an instance involved in the removal, and others, it may require local action. if i ban a user then no new content form that user is going to come to LW until they are unbanned again. this includes manually fetching posts or other content, so if i purge an old post of theirs the post wouldn’t be able to come back until the user gets unbanned.

the problem isn’t being able to see them in the thread but that you can’t open the user profile, so you don’t see if there are any comments.

it was already shared in an admin coordination matrix room as well

FYI PrivacyGuides is operated by a CSAM-friendly entity, they completely ignore abuse reports about CSAM hosted on their platforms.

I can only recommend everyone to defed from them.

edit: the material on lemmy.one has since been taken down, we will be providing an update post in !lemmyworld@lemmy.world soon with our future plans for dealing with these platforms.

certainly not something i’m willing to risk. defederated them now.

the stuff is still up on lemmy.one, months from the original report, with zero indication that they care about it in the slightest.

i’m tempted to add their domains to our automod (only removal), but i’ll discuss this in our team before doing so.

even if there are multiple people involved in the operation of this discourse forum, even this announcement is by jonah, who as far as i can tell is the head of these projects and also owner of the associated US companies. if this was something ran by a different team and they’d be able to separate themselves from jonah’s (in)actions then it might be a different story, but as it is right now, it seems that all these services related to PrivacyGuides are operated by the same entity.

Now for the other weird bit. If I enable secret mode, the website works fine.

most likely the bad 404 response was also cached in your web browser. try clearing your cache or doing a reload with ctrl+f5 or cmd+shift+r.

we had an issue related to incorrectly caching 404 responses earlier but that was a few hours before your post. it should already have been resolved when you posted this.

as this has since been clarified by @nutomic@lemmy.ml, i have updated my comment above and can confirm that it is in fact 0% of lemmy.world/fedihosting foundation donations that go towards the lemmy.ml instance rather than 0.05%.

i believe they were confused by the topic of this comment chain, as the main post is about donations towards lemmy development.

lemmy development accepts cryptocurrency donations: https://join-lemmy.org/crypto

lemmy.world/fedihosting foundation does not currently have an option for cryptocurrency donations.

and just now there has been a PR merged in the upstream repo after i spent some time to get a fork properly set up…

@nnrx@lemmy.world @nnrx@lemmy.ca @nnrx@sh.itjust.works are you still reading on any of these accounts? are you planning to return to maintaining mlmym?

if people want to contribute code, they can check out the various repositories in the LemmyNet GitHub org to see which issues are looking for someone to pick them up.

the main repositories, by language, are:

• Rust
  • lemmy - backend of the application
  • activitypub-federation-rust - federation library
  • lemmy-ui-leptos - work in progress rewrite of lemmy-ui in Rust
• TypeScript/Inferno
  • lemmy-ui - the default lemmy web interface
• Kotlin
  • jerboa - the official Android app

additionally, there is a range of open source alternative web interfaces and apps that wouldn’t mind contributions. some of them are listed here: https://github.com/dbeley/awesome-lemmy?tab=readme-ov-file#alternative-front-ends

ethical ads are virtually non-existent. when limiting ads to ethical ads it’s unlikely you’re getting even remotely close to bringing in the necessary funds.

people promoting ads are typically those who expect others to suffer while they themselves are using ad blockers. there are some people who honestly turn off ad blockers, but i wouldn’t recommend anyone to do that for any site, as i don’t consider the majority of ads ethical and it’s also often used as a malware/phishing/scam distribution mechanism.

this is also a vicious cycle of more people blocking ads -> ads getting worse to offset the lost ad revenue -> more people blocking ads. this is what lead to the internet today, where the majority of the internet is basically unusable if you don’t use ublock origin or a comparable solution.

this would better be asked on the original post by nutomic: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005

nutomic previously also shared on matrix that he is not participating in moderation except for removing spam.

edit: commented this before refreshing, so i didn’t see nutomic already replied

our foundation is in NL, because that’s where @ruud@lemmy.world is located, but the active admin and infra team members are distributed across the world with members in Netherlands, Germany and USA currently.

lemmy.ml is not the primary test server.

there are multiple dedicated test instances that are used for development purposes.

testing on lemmy.ml is mostly happening for release candidates that require actual user activity to find remaining bugs, at the point where it’s getting close to a proper release.

instance admins were indeed asked to help promote the post, but this is nothing anyone was forced to do, and this is probably something we would have done without explicitly being asked about it. i don’t see anything that would need to be disclosed here, as it is in our own interest keep lemmy development going and we did not receive or were offered anything in return for sharing this post.

the draft for the original post was shared a few days ago in a public matrix room for instance admins, so admins had some time to consider if/how they wanted to help promoting this when it was published and maybe prepare some text for their own posts.

instance categorization requires someone to PR that to the joinlemmy-site repository, as those tags are not automatic.

HC is in fact present on https://join-lemmy.org/instances, but as there is no explicit tag it won’t show up if you search by tag.

there are a few instances excluded, you can find the list here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/5471b9cc7423fc51af3d72a464f740a1ee887489/recommended-instances.json#L16-L28

it’s around 2.5% of our monthly expenses that go to the lemmy devs. 2% of the stated minimum donation goal would be the hosting costs for lemmy.ml. with the assumption that the lemmy donation goals is met, that would mean around 0.05% of the donations to lemmy.world/fedihosting foundation are used for lemmy.ml hosting costs.

this was already explained in a few other places in the comments here, but in the end, even if it wasn’t directly going to instance operating costs, if you pay people a salary and they then take it out of their own pockets there is no real difference, as the money would still end up in the same place.

edit: it has since been clarified that only donations via Lemmy’s open collective account are used for lemmy.ml hosting costs. our donations towards Lemmy development are not done through open collective and therefore 0% of lemmy.world/fedihosting foundation donations are used for lemmy.ml hosting costs.

whether this is something that makes a difference in the end is something you have to decide on your own, but this is still the addressing the frequently mentioned topic of having donations explicitly for development rather than also supporting lemmy.ml operations.

at least via opencollective there is an option for yearly donations. when using a payment method other than paypal this will be yearly payments.