calling other people pedophiles is not trolling.
such allegations can be life-ruining and should not be done lightly.
the bot has been marked as bot since the very beginning and is also clearly marked as bot in the screenshot, so your comment does not apply here.
Hi,
this was unfortunately an error on our end.
Please bear with us while we work on resolving this situation.
deleting a community: right side, click the trash icon:
communities disappearing from your subscribed list typically mean that you have been banned from that community.
subscribe pending can have different reasons. it might be that this includes getting banned from an instance, but it can also be the result of some other technical issues.
it was a significant part of the brand of a spam/advertisement campaign several months ago
it's removed from our slur filter now
This is addressed in the upcoming Lemmy release 0.19.4 where contents will no longer be included in API responses. Until then it's up to clients to actually hide it. Content is kept for a few days to allow you to undo deletion, but you can also edit your content before deleting it to remove that. There is also a scheduled task running once a week I believe that will replace contents of deleted comments with something like PERMANENTLY DELETED.
Regardless, as Lemmy is a public platform, you should be aware that people may be storing this information on linked platforms regardless and may not respect the edits/deletions at all.
so far this has been a single case with kbin.earth and lots and lots of cases with kbin.social.
no other instances have been observed behaving like this yet.
see https://lemmy.world/comment/8961882 for now.
we've been spending a bunch of time already during the last days to get a solution in place on our end that will allow us to selectively reject federated activities from kbin, such as allowing comments and posts while rejecting votes, which seem to be the main issue currently, but we're seeing some stability issues with this currently.
we're planning to unban the affected users from the communities once we have this stabilized, as we currently have to pick between
- defederate from kbin.social (and other kbin instances when they are affected)
- reject all inbound activities from affected instances
- temporarily ban affected users in the communities associated with the issue
- drop all activities with certain characteristics, such as votes, when coming from a specific instance
- drop all activities with certain characteristics, such as votes, when coming from a specific instance and exceeding a rate limit
1-3 are all options we can do with existing tools, 4 and 5 require a custom implementation on our side. as 3. has the least overall impact of those we decided to go with 3 for now, which seems to work out rather well so far, except for the individual user experience of affected users.
4. has been our primary focus to implement currently, but it takes time to ensure this works as expected, as we're essentially building this from scratch. 5. may be implemented afterwards if we want to spend additional time on it.
Lemmy.World is legally primarily bound by the countries listed here.
If we get a request, of course we will evaluate that request.
When it comes to taking down content, such as copyright infringing content, we may err on the side of caution to reduce the legal risk we're exposing ourselves to.
When it comes to handing over data that is not already publicly accessible, such as (not-really-)private messages or IP addresses of users, we will not "err on the side of caution" and hand out data to everyone, but we must follow the laws that we're operating under. See also https://legal.lemmy.world/privacy-policy/#4-when-and-with-whom-do-we-share-your-personal-information.
it's mostly !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, !asklemmy@lemmy.world, !opensource@lemmy.ml, and !selfhosted@lemmy.world, though some of the latest spam also started arriving in !warframe@dormi.zone.
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we do not consider feeding a cat vegan food as animal abuse, provided there are no health issues arising from this.
most of the research i've looked at seems to point out that there are various pitfalls, e.g. just feeding a cat vegetables will result in malnutrition. having synthetic additives for this can be one way to address that problem. just because something is sold as vegan cat food that doesn't necessarily imply that it's healthy for the cat, as some of the articles were pointing out that some of the cheaper ones were lacking the right ingredients.
as an example, "my cat now only gets potatoes and apples and nothing else" would be considered animal abuse.
additionally, if moderators were to remove arguments pointing out the risks of e.g. missing nutrients in a civil discussion and leaving the other side that just argues "vegan cat food works" without any arguments as is then we would also consider this animal abuse.
in this specific incident the conversation was certainly not civil, which is unfortunate, as this situation would likely have gone a very different way if it was.