how did it happen

If you want a bit more detail, look at my edit. The functions to calculate the hot and scaled for content is now there.

No, it is not weird. Scaled, according to the docs, is like Hot, but less active communities’ posts get a boost.

Edit: here’s a bit more detail

The exact function to calculate the scaled rank is this one:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION scaled_rank (score numeric, published timestamp with time zone, users_active_month numeric)
    RETURNS float
    AS $$
BEGIN
    -- Add 2 to avoid divide by zero errors
    -- Default for score = 1, active users = 1, and now, is (0.1728 / log(2 + 1)) = 0.3621
    -- There may need to be a scale factor multiplied to users_active_month, to make
    -- the log curve less pronounced. This can be tuned in the future.
    RETURN (hot_rank (score, published) / log(2 + users_active_month));
END;

The hot rank is calculated like this:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION hot_rank (score numeric, published timestamp without time zone)
    RETURNS integer
    AS $$
BEGIN
    -- hours_diff:=EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timezone('utc',now()) - published))/3600
    RETURN floor(10000 * log(greatest (1, score + 3)) / power(((EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timezone('utc', now()) - published)) / 3600) + 2), 1.8))::integer;
END;

Frankly, I don’t like dansup and his cocky behaviour. But if Sup ever does become reality, then it will be a real alternative. And no, Loops is not federated.

Rust can be a pain in the ass when you are writing the code, but once you wrap your head around its concepts, the pain will ease and you’ll appreciate them.

yes

Sup is one. It’s fom the dev of Pixelfed. Unlike the other non-fediverse platforms the others mentioned here (XMPP and Matrix), it will use the ActivityPub protocol and will be E2EE.

She has been banned from the LW instance for being a “Nazi Apologist”. This is visible in the modlogs.

Really. I switched over a year ago. They’re much easier to manage.

Why would the video vectors be stored and calculated on the server though, let alone be federated? Let alone stored on the instance? These things can be calculated instantly on the device.

Looks cool. It’s pretty similar to how I thought of doing this as well. Do you have a prototype? You might be able to adjust the algorithm if you receive feedback from some PeerTube veterans.

Lemmy version 1.1.0 will include the ability for mods to remove votes. Hopefully also logged to the modlog, because we know some mods will use it for some other purpose.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5569

Some instances enable the image proxy, which should prevent this.

@TomMonkeyMan@chinese.lol @yassinsiouda@lemmy.doesnotexist.club

Voting here doesn’t influence your feed

It does when you use sorting algorithms that depend on it.

it might just default to saying ‘closed’ if it doesn’t have the data.

Nope. Fediseer displays unknown fields as N/A.

The admins can reasonably be blamed for setting up instances with open registrations and no protections and then forgetting about them

No, I don’t think they forgot. Would you forget about something you regularly pay for?

Well yeah, there is no concrete evidence that it is the admin (or the admins). But the hints I found seem to be pointing that they are the one behind this. Of course there is a possibility that it is someone else, but it baffles me why anyone would leave the registrations open for 2 years, keep the instance running, but never interact with the fediverse through it themselves. And this isn’t exactly like kbin.social, the admin eventually did respond and close down the instance (not to mention, the admin was still communicating with the people). This instance and its bots have been going on for over 2 years, with not even a single sign of activity from the admin(s).

Nevertheless, defederation is the right thing to do right now. Unless concrete evidence is found, we could put this aside.

The bots are from those two instances as you can see in the screenshot. Furthermore, lemmy.doesnotexist.club has had dozens of bots since at least 2023 (2 years after domain creation. found via the web archive). Since at least 2023, the admin hasn’t been doing anything, or even interacting with anyone. That account seems pretty much dead. But they keep hosting the instance for some reason. It is also a possibility that someone else indeed is using these two instances because they are “abandoned”, but it is highly likely that it is the admin. It is very suspicious that the registrations have been open unguarded against bots since at least 2023. These two instances have been invaded with bots long ago, so defederation is still the right thing to do.

I also don’t want to jump to conclusions, but I think the chances are pretty high that it indeed is the admin. It might lead us to whoever is behind the recent nicole spam.

Upon inspecting the actual websites, the registrations seem to be actually open for both instances with no email confirmation, captcha or manual approval as one user pointed out. I checked the Fediseer page for these instances. What is the update delay for Fediseer?