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What's the oldest video game you still find yourself playing? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 6 points 5 days ago

Factorio 2016

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HiliariousChaos - Request for evidence (hackertalks.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by jet@hackertalks.com to c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip
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HilariousChaos.com is a instance started 2 years ago. 250 registered users, with 25 monthly active users.

Adminsteam :

  • @alice@hilariouschaos.com
  • @splinter@hilariouschaos.com

admin action modlog :

Published Code of Conduct:TOS which they post under their legal section

You may not transmit any Content that is unlawful, offensive, upsetting, intended to disgust, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable. Examples of such objectionable Content include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Unlawful or promoting unlawful activity.
  • Defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups.
  • Spam, machine – or randomly – generated, constituting unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, chain letters, any other form of unauthorized solicitation, or any form of lottery or gambling. ....
  • Violating the privacy of any third person.

Censured by 7 instances

https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/hilariouschaos.com

2 of the censures are n/a, 4 of the evidence sections are n/a, 1 censure is from a offline instance (dubvee).

Blocked by 13 instances

Checked with lemmy-federate.com

  • discuss.online
  • feddit.org
  • fedia.io
  • hexbear.net
  • lemmy.blahaj.zone
  • lemmy.ca
  • lemmy.nz
  • programming.dev
  • quokk.au
  • sh.itjust.works
  • sopuli.xyz
  • startrek.website
  • lemmy.dbzer0.com

personal disagreements with a instance admin

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone (one of the censure issuers) points out they have a beef with one of the instance admins https://piefed.blahaj.zone/comment/895309

A single user behaving badly shouldn't be enough for a mass defederation, it should be a user ban/block not a instance censure.

If the admin team is not enforcing their COC, not policing their users when they go into the fediverse (like hexbear), not responsive to escalations - that would be a good reason for censures or defederation

Why bring this up now

Someone made a YPTB post, and people were using the censures as a reason the mod behavior was justified, so I started to dig into it and I haven't seen the evidence for the censures and hate.

https://lemmy.world/post/34135214

Can someone show me content on hilariouschaos itself that makes them bad fediverse neighbors?

The censures on fediseer point to what they might do, or behavior on a different lemmy instance - since the instance has been up 2 years its reasonable to expect bad behavior to be observable on hilariouschaos.com itself now. Blank censures are not reasonable. It looks like vibe based censures

I personally think if a group keeps their crazy into !crazythoughts@instance and then goes out into the fediverse acting as good citizens and respecting posted community rules… then thats fine, they are good fediverse neighbors. Hexbear is a example of a bad neighbor, they go out into the fediverse and antagonize others in their home communities.

The published code of conduct looks reasonable, and speaks to points they have been censured for. The admin mod log shows they are actively policing their instance.

  1. Can we update the censures to point to bad neighbor activity from hilariouschaos.com itself - the instance has been up 2 years.
  2. If we can't do 1, can we remove censures that are not relevant in the past 2 years of demonstrated fediverse behavior?
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LemVotes to identify suspicious activity for your communities (hackertalks.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by jet@hackertalks.com to c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip
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Original introduction - https://lemmy.world/post/28787892

https://blog.gregtech.eu/posts/lemvotes/

https://lemvotes.org/

I think this is great tool to identify vote manipulation accounts.

Thanks @cm0002@lemmy.world for making me aware of this.

And thank you @Lena@gregtech.eu for developing it.

Just be aware it lists all downvotes first

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Piefed.social and Lemmy federate (hackertalks.com)
 

Right now Lemmy federate says piefed.social isn't registered. I went to their matrix and asked the admin about adding lemmy-federate. They said they had attempted to do so but the Lemmy federate bot didn't recognize their account as an admin account.

With the end of lemm.ee and the piefed.social migration tools we are going to see a lot of communities pop up on piefed.

Would it be possible to either add piefed support or manually flag the piefed social admin account as validated?

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Lemmy-Federate doesn't subscribe if there is a local subscriber already. (hackertalks.com)
 

Report of the same issue in lemmy support - https://hackertalks.com/post/9701951

If a user is the only subscriber on a instance, and gets banned, and unbanned, then unban wont federate.

If lemmy-federate would subscribe even if there are already local subscribers, then this lemmy issue would be moot for lemmy-federated communities (there would always be at least one subscriber on the instance with the lemmy-federate bot, so the unban gets federated).

Publishing Revenue in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 1 year ago

This isn't a meme, it's a crime

Why did Lemmy change from post/comment score to count? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3393#issuecomment-1779400639

Public karma counts and karma farming are one of the things we really don't want to replicate from reddit, there was a discussion about it for lemmy-ui, and it was decided to stop showing them because of how psychologically harmful it is.

We should've removed these a long time ago from the API. As a substitute, you can show the post_count and comment_count instead of those scores.

Torrenting over Tor in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm one of those opsec bros. I tunnel all of my traffic through a VPN, that I can pay with anonymously. That means my local ISP does not get direct view into the traffic I'm creating.

When I browse tor, it is on top of that always on VPN. It is sufficient for my threat model, I have thought about it, and I am happy with that trade-off.

In my circumstances my local ISP, is less trustworthy than mullvad. My local ISP is required by law to keep a record of all traffic flowing through it, so I lose nothing by using my VPN. In fact my VPN is strictly better, because they say they don't log all the traffic... And even if they do, it just falls back to the same level of crappiness that my ISP has.

Torrenting over Tor in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For more reading https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/TorPlusVPN

You can route Tor through VPN/SSH services. That might prevent your ISP etc from seeing that you're using Tor (VPN/SSH Fingerprinting below). On one hand, VPNs are more popular than Tor, so you won't stand out as much, on the other hand, in some countries replacing an encrypted Tor connection with an encrypted VPN or SSH connection, will be suspicious as well. SSH tunnels are not so popular.

Once the VPN client has connected, the VPN tunnel will be the machine's default Internet connection, and TBB (Tor Browser Bundle) (or Tor client) will route through it. This can be a fine idea, assuming your VPN/SSH provider's network is in fact sufficiently safer than your own network.

Another advantage here is that it prevents Tor from seeing who you are behind the VPN/SSH. So if somebody does manage to break Tor and learn the IP address your traffic is coming from, but your VPN/SSH was actually following through on their promises (they won't watch, they won't remember, and they will somehow magically make it so nobody else is watching either), then you'll be better off.