Yes, this is the current plan. Note where I said about making the sub “restricted”, this is read-only. Even so I would probably only do that to trigger it being archived by the Internet archive and then make it private again. The entire point is to remove the draw for users to browse reddit and cast eyeballs upon their ads, making reddit revenue. But yes, there is a lot of information there that ought to be archived and indexed by search engines. IIRC Google has ways to go straight to archived versions of pages that show up in the results.

I’ll be looking to migrate the wiki I started on the sub elsewhere, probably gitlab or something like that.

Hall-effect fediverse client when?

If the fix is applied, does it break again if a remote mod makes a change again? Or is it a one-time fix?

Do toy have a link to the bug report for this bug so I can track it and/or help. That’s a pretty major bug given the recent influx of users (myself included). I just broke my community by doing this exact thing.

I could find a bug report so I created one: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3198

I recently bought RIF golden platinum just to give back to the dev, knowing that very soon the app will stop working. I’m hoping the dev could reuse his code and swap out the backend to make a lemmy client of the same caliber. It really is a good app.

you can simply mutate the url from https://other.instance/c/community to https://your.instance/c/community@other.instace but yeah, it’s a pain. It’s a good opportunity for a simple browser extension or script that does some URL rewriting.

I found that on mobile, Jerboa has some instance url associations for major instances and that means that links can open in that, where you’re logged in to your account on your home instance, and it handles it. but it’s been hit-and-miss for me as to whether it’ll open in the app or continue in mobile browser.

Yeah, this is it. I had this happen to the community I moderate today. The fix can only be applied by admins.

A good place to start is our wiki, you’ll find there a small list of some popular keyboards as well as links to other databases of keyboards what hopefully will help you. some obvious ones: Corne (crkbd), Kyria, Iris, Lily58, Sofle, Sweep.

If you search, the open-source ones linked generally are being sold as kits in a few places, so have a look around. you can see a list of vendors in our wiki too, it may not be exhaustive but it’s pretty comprehensive.

From my cursory inspection of how things are working, all the the content is replicated between instances but things like images are just links, the UI and the back-end provide a means to upload an image but what that is doing is uploading an image to the user’s instance and then putting the link in the post. Pretty standard stuff for a link aggregator. The important thing here is that the image itself is not replicated around the fediverse, but stays where it was uploaded and is linked to. Of course, thumbnails seem to still be locally generated as you’d expect.

So the legal issue is diminished by that, but not illuminated. Something like loli hentai that is illegal in the UK won’t be hosted on these servers even if posted on a federated server, though I’m not saying it wouldn’t be reasonable to defederate from that instance on other grounds than legal liability. However the thumbnail is a very low resolution image of illegal content, and I don’t think lemmy has some kind of “grey list” where content is still available through your instance but nothing of consequence gets replicated locally, thumbnails not generated, etc. I’m not sure what the legal situation is surrounding outlinks to illegal content not thumbnails thereof. Furthermore I don’t know what kind of protections platforms have when it come to liability for user-generated content, like the US Section 230, but I don’t think there is much.

It might be better to host the actual servers for this instance outside of the UK as a result, that could very well be the case anyway.

Anyway IANAL and I’ve only done some cursory poking around into how lemmy handles the replication of content between instances so there are almost certainly things I’m overlooking.

It appears this instance straight-up has NSFW disabled, you can’t opt-in to seeing NSFW posts on your feed nor make posts marked as such. I might be wrong about what it being disabled means. So that issue may be moot and not require defederation.

One the flip side I do wonder if a blanket disabling of “NSFW” is too much, there are plenty of things that one might reasonably wish to mark or be marked as NSFW that is not porn, gore, or other such content. This could have the effect of either stifling some of the communities on this instance or people posting things in the grey area without marking them NSFW, even if they would have if the button to do so we’re present and people scrolling may have preferred that they did.

Food for thought.