MrKaplan

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

essentially start by identifying the accounts posting links to the domain in question, then analyze the voting behavior of the accounts upvoting these posts. you can start by sorting out accounts that have legitimate activity and then narrow it down further and find common patterns that only apply to these accounts.

most of them were also created in similar time frames.

edit:

to extend on this, once you have something to go on with it's fairly easy. the hard part is finding something that applies in a more generic way to identify this happening before someone else discovers unusual voting patterns and reports them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

thanks for flagging this, i just banned 346 accounts involved in this scheme from lemmy.world :|

(unbanned at the time of creating the report) accounts posting links to the same domain:

  • 4x sh.itjust.works
  • 2x ani.social
  • 1x thelemmy.club
  • 1x lemmy.ca

accounts i'm highly confident were involved in vote manipulation here:

  • 172x sh.itjust.works
  • 22x ttrpg.network
  • 21x lemmings.world
  • 20x discuss.online (banned by me)
  • 19x lemmy.wtf
  • 18x lemmy.myserv.one
  • 18x leminal.space
  • 18x ani.social
  • 16x endlesstalk.org
  • 7x lemmy.ca
  • 4x lemy.lol
  • 1x toast.ooo
  • 1x startrek.website
  • 1x lemm.ee
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (5 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

as this has since been clarified by @[email protected], 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%.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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...

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] are you still reading on any of these accounts? are you planning to return to maintaining mlmym?

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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:

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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