They don’t appear to have federation enabled yet.

Early on we were experimenting with trying to offer everything on the fediverse from a Lemmy instance. A lot of changes and tweaks were made to try to make that work before it was abandoned. There’s a lot of leftover bloat from that project that we’ve been trying to deal with without too much impact to the Lemmy instance but for the size of the instance it makes more sense to start over than to spend even more time trying to undo the wrongs of the past. There isn’t a specific cautionary tale here besides “don’t go public with things that you hope to fix later.”

More recently we’ve had issues with our registrar or DNS pop up that no one seems to have answers for yet, so sometimes the domain itself isn’t reachable. One problem or the other might not be a huge deal in the short term but together they make for a miserable time trying to sort things out. Moving the traffic to a known good config will help me maintain sanity while dealing with the issues at WG.

Lemmy has mangled that script a bit.

Lemmy seems to mangle a lot of links that aren’t basic urls. SimpleX chat links break for some reason here too.

Thank you for the suggestions. At this point it seems the best option may be to just shutter this instance and start over with a fresh database instead of dealing with a bunch of nagging problems from previous experiments. I’ve done plenty of testing in production because for most of that time it was only me being affected by the consequences lol.

By the time Black Sabbath are due on stage it’ll be past their bedtime.

Very nice. Thank you for the continued work.

Technically you still haven’t.

Maybe it’s part of your instance image policy?

Edit - Need coffee and weed before getting on Lemmy. I can’t read apparently and missed that you tried this on your own instance as well. My bad.

MIKE JONES!

Throw the URL in tor and it should work fine.

The odds of someone only behaving that way in certain communities is probably slim to none. I’d just make sure you have clear rules in place so that if you ever have to take action against those types of people you aren’t immediately put on blast for power tripping or whatever.

Are you the sole moderator of whatever comm you’re talking about? Maybe you should talk to some of the other people who are active in the community, see if they are interested in helping mod, and decide together what the right course of action is.

Alternatively this is your chance to lay a few ground rules and then point to them when this behavior comes up again. Make it clear that human decency isn’t optional and that you won’t allow others to be trampled on just for a little bit of traffic in the community. This gives whoever may need it a chance to curb that behavior instead of immediately lowering the boom on them, and shows the rest of the community that you aren’t going after people on a personal vendetta.

I’m going with Oscar mostly because I’m constantly finding weed bits all over myself. I also really enjoy the idea of the “grouch” toking away in his little hideaway while everyone thinks he’s angry.

Relevant Dave Chappelle-

https://youtu.be/aVW-FB1q8FM

Very interesting, thanks for sharing this with us!

Do you find that others notice it regularly in your daily life? I feel like I only notice other people’s shoes/feet if they are wearing something flashy or if they make a lot of noise like flip flops.

Yeah that would do it lol. Thanks for that info.

Apologies OP, I don’t keep up with who’s blocking who on Lemmy.

It could be that LBZ hasn’t discovered the community yet. If that’s the case you may have to try a couple times before it actually populates. One of many federation quirks. Here are some other links to try.

!mutual_aid@hexbear.net

https://hexbear.net/c/mutual_aid

There’s !mutual_aid@hexbear.net which I believe allow GoFundMe links.

Reddit is not a “good” company but at least they are doing the right thing here.

mailbox.org

For anyone else who was confused about the context, the translation of the text accompanying the OP helps. Emphasis mine.

Here’s someone’s hand, here’s someone’s head, here’s someone else’s head, here’s Denchik resting peacefully, we’ll cover his heel so as not to hurt him. And here’s my squirrel and Frol chilit, in my place, asshole." This is more shocking than a horror movie. A Russian serviceman with the call sign Sam showed how with one comrade he survives in position in a narrow irrigation pipe where the corpses of 6 other Russian servicemen openly lie and decompose. A resting bed is at the back of the pipe and they have to crawl over the corpses to observe. Such “movement” is filmed by the Russian military to confirm their position, otherwise they will be shot by their commanders as they withdraw. Obviously, the assault group was sent to an area that is shot by Ukrainians, it is impossible to go forward or backward in clear weather, a wounded man who tried to leave was immediately eliminated. Under such conditions it should not be surprising that Russian fighters commit suicide en masse. Please help identify the area - very similar to the area of the village of Spirne.

Translated with DeepL https://www.deepl.com/app/

Don’t know, I don’t engage with that nonsense.

Editing to add:

Let’s not pretend there aren’t shitheads on every side of every argument. If people are behaving in ways that aren’t what the home instances want, they should be dealt with by their instance admins and moderation. Doesn’t matter if you eat meat, plants, or paint chips. We don’t have to be like this, it’s a choice.