Yesterday I was banned for six months from HilariousChaos’s conservative community by [email protected] for ‘Trying to create drama.’

This was the original post the mod removed.

I created a post on PTB about the removal of my post which lead to them issuing me a six month ban

When I asked the mod why I was banned for six months without breaking any rules they told me it was because ‘You want drama by whining in other places about our rules. You made your choice, see you in six months.’

I think an important part of moderation i

1. 📰 Released 42 years today on April 13, 1983, The Violent Femmes self-titled debut album (direct link) (👍45 👎0)

from Classic Rock: A Journey Through Timeless Music ([email protected])

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

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2. 📰 45 years ago today, The Cure released “A Forest” (1980), the only single from the band’s second album. #80s #80smusic #gothrock #TheCure (direct link) (👍46 👎3)

from Goth Industrial Music (!

This community could use an icon and banner! I suggest looking through the artwork available on TheTVDB, as there are some good options there: https://thetvdb.com/series/dark-matter#artwork

In addition to that, I created a few options of my own by basically just cropping Dark Matter wallpapers

::: spoiler Banners

So I had a clip I wanted to upload to a lemmy comment:

• Tried it as an (avc) mp4... Failed.
• OK, too big? I shrink it to 2MB, then 1MB. Failed.
• VP9 Webm maybe? 2MB, 1MB, failed. AV1? Failed.
• OK, fine, no video. Lets try an animated AVIF. Failed. It seems lemmy doesn't even take static AVIF images
• WebP animation then... Failed. Animated PNG, failed.

End result, I have to burden the server with a massive, crappy looking GIF after trying a dozen formats. With all due respect, this is worse than some aging service like Reddit that doesn't support new media formats.

For reference, I'm using the web interface. Is this just a format restriction of lemmy.world, or an underlying software support issue?

Let's celebrate any and all progress we make! That's all.

Link to former post: What are the objectives of our Fair vote community?, which also tracked community metrics.

Update time! I'll put the tl;dr up front:

• The bot can now include links to related communities on the fediverse for shows that it makes posts for. So, please share with me the related communities that should be included in rikka's posts.
• Sequential episode discussion threads made by rikka should no longer show up as crossposts.
• There is a discord server here that @[email protected] is nice enough to run and extend an invitation to the rest of the community.

Bot Updates

There are two main things that I have recently added our resident bot, @[email protected]:

Inclusion of Related Communities

rikka can now include links in her posts that link out to other fediverse communities that are relevant to the show/movie that the post is about. A recent example is that The Apothecary Diaries episode discussion posts now include a link to [email protected] in the body of the post. Neat! Go forth and spread activity through the

Alright everyone! Hope everyone is well!

Following on from the post made around 20 days ago I reached out to the namesake bot owners to ask them if they would mind editing its posting parameters to make it so they post links properly to clean up this sub and make the links appear properly. I have received no response regarding this issue either here or other platforms where I have reached out.

So going forward what would you good people that browse and post to the community like to do?

I can either leave the bots posting as they are or bans the bots with a reasoning in the hope that the bot owners will see the reason and reach out and rectify the issue.

I am going to sticky this thread and I'll post two comments, one for each option. That way you can just upvote your preferred option. I won't lock the thread entirely so please feel free to also give your opinion if you'd like.

I'll leave it up for a week or so to give everyone time to see it and vote before taking any action.

Does anyone think it would be a good idea to have a rule to prevent race spoilers on this community till 24hrs after a race?

Given the nature of races being in a different part of the world every time, time zones vary greatly and it's not always possible to watch a race "live".

Personality I would like to stay subbed to this community, so I can get f1 news and posts when I browse Lemmy. But if it isn't possible to make a rule like that and I'm likely to get a spoiler I would have to either stop using Lemmy for 24hrs (oh the horror) or unsub from this community.

Just a thought.

Let me preface this with a few remarks. I love this instance. I'm generally in favour of topic-specific instances, and I would like to extend my gratitude and appreciation to @[email protected] for creating and maintaining diagonlemmy.social.

However, there are a couple of drawbacks to diagonlemmy, and I think it is worth considering whether this community might be better served elsewhere.

This instance has only one admin, and they are not in a position where they can regularly monitor this instance, nor have they recruited any additional admins or even moderators. As an example, it took ~4 months for my local account to be manually approved.

This has not been a major problem so far, but it is risky. As this community grows, we could see a higher frequency of situations where prompt admin/mod action is necessary. We also run the risk of the instance going offline indefinitely with no way to know when (or even if) it might be fixed

[email protected]

It could identify when they were feeling worthless or helpless or like a failure, and [Meta] would take that information and share it with advertisers

the company was letting advertisers know when the teens were depressed so they could be served an ad at the best time. As an example, she suggested that if a teen girl deleted a selfie, advertisers might see that as a good time to sell her a beauty product as she may not be feeling great about her appearance. They also targeted teens with ads for weight loss when young girls had concerns around body confidence

From the big announcement post:

Caused by a child process ending without properly cleaning up

Put the child process in time out for their bad behavior. And if it continues to act up, no more cookies!

Lemmy.World is running a charity event running for the month of April, and I’ve signed up our community to participate.

Details in this post.

The gist of it is that you comment !LemmySilver under posts or comments you think deserve attention, and at the end of the month, the users with the most awards will have money donated to a charity in their name.

Let’s spread some positivity in this community, and good luck!

Update - Fixed. Thanks @[email protected] for pointing out the wayback machine!

I thought it would be fun to change the community icon and banner for April Fool's Day. But I forgot to save the old icon and banner and can't change them back.

Long story short, if you happen to have the old icon or banner cached or saved, please let me know. Otherwise, we might be having a new icon/banner contest.

Sincerely,

Jenny, Class-A Moron

Er is recentelijk een post hier geplaatst waarvan ik in ieder geval zelf vind dat hij niet in deze community past. Dat is niet het einde van de wereld, en er wordt hier sowieso niet zo enorm veel gepost, maar deze bescheiden community is toch de belangrijkste Nederlandstalige. Daarnaast is het één van de communities waarin ik het meeste post, dus ik vind het wel fijn wanneer we hier een actieve moderator hebben. TonyQuark heeft in twee jaar niets meer gepost, dus ik zou graag mezelf opwerpen die rol op me te nemen.

Als jullie dat goed vinden, wil ik @[email protected] vragen mij moderator van deze community te maken. Ik had in ieder geval begrepen dat de admin de mogelijkheid heeft gebruikers te modden.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/rationalkat on 2025-04-01 12:16:32+00:00.

I noticed the only moderator hasn't been active on Lemmy for 10 months. I'll ping them in the comments.

[email protected]

• LW has a 3 days delay with aussie.zone https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40460535
• lemmy.ml is known for arbitrary instance bans: https://feddit.nl/post/16246531
• [email protected] has a single mod, and not willing to create meta posts to call for more
• other fediverse communities are inactive

One thing to note is that this community being on Piefed allows us to use some unique Piefed features, such as only subscribers to the community being able to downvote.