I think it’s not really on your side, most likely either just something wrong on kbin.social itself, OR a side-effect of the measures lemmy.world implemented against kbin.social recently.

They are basically local-only communities on lemmy.world at this point, unfortunately. There is no federation to any other instance for any lemmy.world user posts on those communities.

Regarding your question:

Lemmy federation basically works by copying stuff from their source instance to all other federated instances. So if I write a comment on lemm.ee, other federated instances will get their own copy of my comment. They will also all know that the “authority” for this comment is lemm.ee.

If an admin on another instance decides to delete their local copy of my comment on lemm.ee, then they are always free to do so (for example, some instances might want to moderate more strictly), but any actions they take like this are limited to their own instance - for the rest of Lemmy, lemm.ee remains the authority for this comment, so individual remote instance admins taking actions won’t have any effect on any other instances.

As for the original topic of modlog federation, basically it just boils down to this: just like with the comment example above, Lemmy instances also save a local copy of incoming federated mod logs. The Lemmy software does not yet have 100% coverage in terms of federating mod logs (for example, there are no federated logs yet for instance admins banning remote users), but this coverage has been increasing, and I expect this will eventually get to 100% (just needs more dev time really).

Also, if some instance admins try to tamper with their mod logs, then other instances can still see the real history, because there is no way for an instance admin to delete copies of their mod log from other instances.

Banning a local user from a local community does actually federate already

Most actions federate, any exceptions which aren’t federated yet are generally just there because the federation logic has not been implemented (but improvements are constantly being worked on).

Generally federating the modlog is mostly just there for informative purposes. As in, we can check what mod actions were taken on instance A through the modlog on instance B (and there is no mechanism in Lemmy for other instances to retroactively remove or hide federated modlog items, btw).

incorporated into the UI, rather than a piece of text in the post.

How would other instances (or other ActivityPub software) know about it if it’s not a piece of text in the post?

IMO, in practical terms, 3 key things should imapct instance choice:

1. Basic instance rules (including things like community creation policy, nsfw allowed, etc)
2. Federation policy
3. Instance infrastructure (hardware & how it’s managed)

Content specialization really shouldn’t matter IMO, because as long as the federation policy is OK for you, then you can participate in any communities, regardless of what instance they are on. In other words, even if you’re super interested in french cinema, there is no need to centralize all users interested in this topic on a single french cinema instance. Thanks to federation, users from all instances (accounting for federation policy) should be able to become fully fledged participants in any french cinema communities.

Of the points I listed above, #1 and #2 are easier to include in an instance introduction, I’m not sure how to properly and reliably reflect #3 in any kind of overview. At the end of the day, I think most users tend to figure out their long-term home instance a while after they first join Lemmy, and quite often, it’s not their original instance, so maybe it’s not that important to emphasize the initial instance choice too much?

Sorry if you were just making a joke, my sarcasm detector is not really working anymore (/s at the end would help). But if not, this comment really perfectly captures the entitlement in open source.

Now imagine you spend months (or even years) of your free time to build something for people to use freely, and the result is that you get endless comments from random strangers, telling you that you work for them and that you need to respect and be grateful to them. I honestly am impressed that open source still exists at all at this point.

I just want to add a counter-point to the argument that Lemmy devs are somehow opposed to contributions. In my experience, there has been no resistance to contributing any type of change (I have personally added niche features for running Lemmy in a distributed manner, optimizations, bug fixes, etc). In fact I would claim the complete opposite - I have received plenty of support and good code reviews from maintainers whenever I have wanted to contribute anything.

I think there is truth to the claim that Lemmy maintainers don’t have a lot of patience for people making demands and snarky comments, but that is very different from being opposed to contributions. Also, after running a big instance for a while now, I completely understand this lack of patience - when some of your users just keep being rude to you, it wears down your patience. It’s easy to patiently and kindly respond to the first 100 rude users, but at some point after that, it just becomes gradually more mentally exhausting, to the point where it’s basically impossible.

Even the example provided in the blog post: I don’t think snowe had bad intentions, but I do think they had clearly misinterpreted the situation with that issue, and their comments were needlessly condescending.

I think the OP is talking about Lemmy having both a content preview and a text area for link posts.

Some users tend to write their own summary in the text area, so when opening up a post, the result will be:

• Large title written by the OP
• Automatic preview of the page, generated by Lemmy
• Text summary of the page, written by the OP

I agree that this is a bit clunky in terms of UX

Honestly… it’s not great. I would not recommend it unless you’re playing with somebody who is not put off by constant bugs and general jank.

In terms of bugs, I’ve had several occasions where one player can no longer open the map - it just starts opening the quest log instead of the map. I’ve also had a few occasions of the screen just going completely white. Also, I’ve had a player just become locked in a dialogue with no way of exiting.

For an example of jankiness, one key aspect of the whole game, dialogues, is just completely awful:

1. Both players can begin separate dialogues at the same time, one just gets muted
2. It’s impossible to automatically begin a dialogue with two players, one player has to start it, and the other has to “listen” to it as an additional step
3. It’s impossible to switch control of dialogues during a dialogue. This is constantly an issue, because sometimes, dialogues are triggered when you walk past some invisible checkpoint. Basically you’re forced to always have your high charisma player to walk in front and hope they end up triggering all the dialogues.
4. It’s impossible to contribute to dialogues in any way as the “listening” player. Even if you have some aspect to your character that might provide an interesting line, you are just locked out.
5. If both players speak to a character in succession, the exact same dialogue gets repeated. It’s jarring and completely breaks immersion.

There’s more, but I’m kind of getting more and more annoyed at the game as I write this, so I think I will just stop here, you probably get the picture 😅

I think the co-op is a complete afterthought in this game, and I will probably be replaying it in single player for a hopefully better experience at some point.

Damn, even $11.99 sounds like a lot - I only pay 12.99€ for a family plan in Europe.

I think it works best if you have a lot of screen real estate. My sweet spot is around 5120x1440p (either ultrawide or two monitors) with about 5 desktops. I never overlap windows and it works amazingly for me.

I used to do this with Gnome, nowadays I use the exact same workflow in Mac OS, and I feel super productive with it. I haven’t used alt tab in about a decade now 😃

For me, it only works with good keyboard shortcuts for the following:

1. Quickly moving between desktops (for example, super + <desktop number>)
2. Quickly moving windows between (for example, super + shift + <desktop number>)
3. Quickly snapping windows to areas in the current desktop (for example, super + arrow keys)

My post predates the new versions, but I am editing the post now!

This is not the general way of doing things in Lemmy. It was just a mistake that unfortunately did not get caught in code review. These things happen from time to time (even in projects which are FAR bigger and better funded than Lemmy)

This does not mean your instance was affected. You’re just cleaning up comments which may or may not have successfully worked on other instances by abusing the emoji bug there.

Under normal circumstances, they are only visible to:

• sender (and whoever has DB access on the sender’s instance)
• recipient (and whoever has DB access on the recipient’s instance)
• in case a private message is reported, all admins of the reporter’s instance

It is still considered a breach of user data if such messages are leaked.

Nice work!

This is just pure speculation, but there was a recent DDOS against some Lemmy instances. Perhaps whoever was doing the DDOS was using “kbinbot” as their useragent, and this block was just a mitigation?

Hey buddy, I understand you’re frustrated, but I just want to make a few points:

1. I have personally seen many instance admins and Lemmy contributors note many times over the past weeks that Lemmy is unoptimized and not ready for the current traffic
2. I have myself mentioned it several times in announcements to users of my own Lemmy instance
3. Lemmy maintainers have asked for help with optimization in several channels
4. Lemmy maintainers are clearly working hard at fixing Lemmy issues and improving performance - just look at the work that went into 0.18 - the fact that it’s far from perfect is clear to everybody, but progress is constantly being made
5. Lemmy maintainers have mentioned multiple times that their inboxes are full of notifications and DMs - it’s not that they’re brushing anything under the rug, it’s just that they’re not physically able to keep up with the volume of communication that is being thrown at them

I really believe that you have some useful insights and can be very helpful for Lemmy, but I’m afraid that if you take this accusatory tone and blame people for not doing enough then that will overshadow anything helpful that you’re actually saying.

Having said all that, if you would like to take a look at some stats about queries on lemm.ee (a Lemmy instance with 4k users - definitely much smaller than lemmy.ml), I have put together a spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSPpqM6QCZYAAvnWe8p-xxN553ukRIquHw71j3nB763x7TNeqeUO-Oss51yPC7zVaT2x4jll39NCeMu/pubhtml#