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#### Important Update We’re going to be setting up a fork to maintain some separation, add additional features, and remove references due to raised concerns. So, **we will not be changing software**, and will be continuing business as usual. We've forked the repositories and they can be found at these URLs: https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy and https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy-ui. You can follow the instructions at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/02-local-development.html for setting up a local development environment. ---- [ original post continues ] Hey everyone! We received [feedback](https://pawb.social/post/9090) that raised concerns regarding the apparent moderation and censorship issues around lemmy.ml, and [allegations made by Feditips](https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379) about the Lemmy developers. We'd appreciate some feedback from users of our community (users here, or on the Fediverse), furry.engineer, and pawb.fun. As it stands, we have defederated from one of the more prominent problematic instances, lemmygrad.ml, but haven't taken any action against lemmy.ml. So the question stands: **Should we continue running Lemmy, or swap to an alternative?** The currently considered alternative would be kbin.pub (example instance: kbin.social) which shares being a FOSS project with full ActivityPub support. If we continue to run Lemmy, we wouldn't be opposed to having a forked version that removes certain elements from the UI, such as the donate icon, but, we would require community assistance to maintain this fork. ---- Receipts: - Beware by Feditips (recently reposted): https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379 - "Expressing concerns about moderation policy on lemmy.ml" - https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199 - Comments in https://lemmy.ml/post/1150805
Just a small issue I have with the comments on posts. [This post](https://pawb.social/post/63739), which is about current internet practices and such, *supposedly* has 14 comments. However, for me at least, only 10 are visible. I have no language selected and I've refreshed multiple times. Does anyone know why this might be? (oh btw selecting the "Undetermined" option on the languages section only shows you undetermined-language posts, not English-language or other-language posts.) If anyone has any idea on why this could be, please let me know. Dankojn pro aŭskultontajn, Kamarada Felano
Heya, with recent news of beehaw.org defederating from a few instances, I noticed that we also recently defederated from sh.itjust.works. I'm not in-tune with whether they deserve it or not, but I have noticed that it does have some impacts on our users. I happened to see this post from a fellow furry, expressing frustration with picking the 'wrong' server. They can also no longer see pawb.social posts/communities.  I also recently posted my little heart script over there because they had a general scripts community, and I've only just noticed that the edits/updates I've been doing on that post are not actually going anywhere - it's similar to being shadowbanned. The pawb.social version of that post gets updated as normal, but we never sync that version to their server (and subsequently no other server ever gets the updated version). This makes sense now that I know we're defederated, but nowhere in the UI does it indicate that I'm just shouting into the void. As a side effect, I'm no longer able to keep tabs on that scripting community for tool updates. - Pawb version: https://pawb.social/post/43513 - sh.itjust.works version: https://sh.itjust.works/post/89693 I suspect that this is a big problem right now because people are migrating and joining servers at random, and they don't know that the server they're joining has bad admins. Communities are rapidly getting created, growing, then getting shadowbanned by half the lemmyverse. I'm not petitioning for anything to change at pawb.social at the moment, and I'm sure that there were good reasons to defederate sh.itjust.works, but it does make me a bit wary that eventually I too might feel like I picked the 'wrong' server if a defederation culture becomes common in the lemmyverse. It's not something I thought I had to think about when making an account. I really doubt anyone reputable will ever defederate us, so it's really just a matter of who we choose to defederate. Thoughts?
Hi, suddenly it started doing this, I'm not sure if this is on my side but I haven't changed anything. It does this in desktop mode but I haven't tried an actual desktop
Not entirely sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I figured it was the closest fit. I've been thinking about creating one or possibly a few communities, mostly due to missing some that were on Reddit. Before creating any, I wanted to be sure of a few things: 1) Do communities have to be created on the instance one logs in to (ie, does the fact my lemmy account is from pawb mean that communities I make have to be made here?) I kinda assume it would since going to another instance's page loads their site, which I obviously am not logged into, but given my second question I feel like I should ask if there's a way to make one elsewhere. 2) Given pawb is a furry instance, do communities made here have to be furry related, or could one make, say, a community for some specific game for example that isn't explicitly a furry game? 3) Would creating a fetish-related community for one that is popular with some furries be allowable, or should I go to a different instance for such things? I noticed one or two on pawb already but I was unsure if they got any special permission to be created or not.
I said I'd delete one of my test posts, and I did - from Pixelfed. However it's still in the test forum, because I can't delete it because it wasn't posted by this account... [It's this one](https://pawb.social/post/44327). I haven't tested to see if this happens with Mastodon cross posting. Is Lemmy supposed to delete posts that it was tagged into?
Heya Crashdoom, wanted to make you aware of this. There's currently a bug with 0.17.4 that makes the feed not refresh. A fix has been found but is getting rolled into the next release. Currently, they say the workaround (per the linked comment) is to restart the server regularly.
I've noticed that communities from sopuli.xyz aren't showing up in the search. Is Pawb.Social having issues federating with that instance? Or is it just that the instance might be overloaded?
Hello, I've noticed that when the web UI for pawb.social is loading, or if scripting is disabled, nearly all community and user identifiers become `[email protected]` even though they are not email addresses. Would it be possible to disable this?
Now I noticed the donations link to Lemmy but is their one for Pawb. I know to run this server isn't free. Is there anyway as a community we can donate to help keep this up?
github.com
Would be nice to have Lemmy Lite as a UI option for people who don't super like the default UI. The Github says it's not intended for use in prod yet so I don't expect it to be installed here right now or really any time soon, but I figured it'd be good to mention anyhow
It might not be possible now, but this is an urgent priority if there's any future development or forks :blobfoxbongo:
Sorry if I'm off topic. I've read the code of conduct, and it says something about content warning policy. I know how content warning works on Mastodon, but how do you enable content warning on Lemmy?
Hey there, I just tried to check out what the Content Warning policies were for here, but the link loops back to the main Code of Conduct page. Just thought I'd let you know!
Probably nothing you can do about this but it would be handy if when I click on a link to the article in a post it would open up in a new tab by default. Just one of those little nags but not a real big deal.
The creators of Lemmy are tankies and have some pretty despicable views, maybe we shouldn't advertise giving them money. I like the software, it feels cozy outside some communities from lemmy.ml, and I hope someone forks it eventually, but for now removing the link should be easy to do. Relevant thread: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
Tried to join https://lemmy.ml/c/patientgamers from the search box and it failed.