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I‘d like to know who owns monero.town. Is it a single individual? Or ist it multiple people?

I am more and more (and almost always now) only receiving 1 year old posts in my Lemmy feed for this instance on mobile, even with the "New" filter.

The issue is independent of the exact mobile app used as I have it with Jerboa and Thunder. The monero.town website is working fine though.

Anyone else got this?

I was coming here less and less often since the DDOS because Jerboa wasn't working anymore to show posts from here.

It seems to be working now. Is the ddos over and the annoying cloudflare captcha (this is the ddos protection that was causing issues with the mobile apps) gone?

Otherwise I was going to suggest a kuno so that the admins can implement something better.

Lemmy without federation is kinda pointless. Please look into what causes this issue

For the last couple of days we were offline due to a DDoS attack originating from Tor.

We are now behind cloudflare (💀) but at least we are online.

We might switch to a different CDN in the future.

I prefer building

Some of my friends are going against me because "you're monero shiller always pessimic". OK, but guys. I could be happy to see gains in my wallet.

But seeing all these non-sense with brc/ordinals/ETFs & one of my friends extradited to the US, I simply can't feel right.

I tried to warn them about if they had samourai XPUB leaked coins, they should have swapped them for monero and get back for a bigger UTXO.

And yet again I'm called of 'shitcoiner', but if it's to see them in jail the next year.

I can't mentally profit of life by seeing people going out of my life trough prison & suicides. I even started to take benzos to calm down dark toughts.

I noticed a lot of down-vote attack on whatever topic about Monero.

If down-vote spam continues, I have more than 800 trash accounts to suppress your unindexing attempts, I could even put posts in trending.

Don't make me "evil" (by starting botting activities) please, because I'm a winner in this domain.

Hello guys.

In about 50 days the 1 year hosting runs out for the current server. Fitting, since it has only a 100 GB disk that can't easily be expanded and we currently take up about 40 GB of that.

There will be an announcement post once everything has been prepared for the migration and I'll attempt to restore the entire instance on the new server. Ideally the instance should come back up after minimal downtime and all the content remains exactly like it was before.

Consider joining the matrix channel to stay up to date even while the site is potentially down :)

Patchnotes.

For some reason posts on our instance have recently gotten more downvotes from outside instances than usual and many posts look like this:

I personally don't like the idea of disabling downvotes but if the feature is mostly going to be used by outside users because crypto is "le bad" we might as well turn it off.

The instance is now over half a year old and so far we've experience decent growth and minimal downtime.

I'm quite happy with it. Even though most content is still on r/Monero, we do get a handful of posts every week.

Since this was primarily set up as a fallback for the subreddit without any spam/scam bots thanks to strict whitelisting I think the initial goal has been more than fulfilled :)

What do you guys think?

I was posting on other instances (lemmy.world) and checked their modlog to make sure I'm not banned or defederated. Know most people here probably just follow Monero news, so it's fine if it's better to for me to just make an account on a larger instance.

Anyways, it's been a while since I've seen a meta discussion. How have you all been this year, and what do you all think of the fediverse from these past six months?

I made one post, that's it. I never wanted to mod that community and never agreed to it. It seems like the original mod appointed me somehow and then left?

If anyone is interested in modding this very quiet community please speak up, otherwise I'll close it by end of year.

Edit: If you want to take over this role, please comment on [Meta] Looking for new mod to take over

Patchnotes.

Here are the patchnotes :D

I notice that monero.town is not accessible via ipv6.

On the front page of monero.town, sm.ms and catbox.moe are recommended as image hosting services. Unfortunately both are not Tor-friendly, esp. Catbox blocks Tor.

The Cock.li guy comes up with a solution.

1. Solution about Catbox: Just change cat in the URL to fat and the image is viewable for Tor users!

Example https://monero.town/post/1025717 where
https://files.catbox.moe/6z3p3z.jpg is not viewable via Tor
https://files.fatbox.moe/6z3p3z.jpg would be viewable via Tor

2. How to use an inline image (in general, not only Catbox)

The syntax is ![](URL) so…
![](https://files.fatbox.moe/6z3p3z.jpg)

Result:

3. How to make it a Clickable thumbnail

Text link would be [Text](URL) you can replace Text with an inline image, URL with the image URL, i.e.
[![](URL)](URL) so…
[![](https://files.fatbox.moe/6z3p3z.jpg)](https://files.fatbox.moe/6z3p3z.jpg)
Result

Note: Optionally you can put Alt text in ![] as in
![Monero-chan is happy](https://sample.net/happy-monerochan.png)

Another hosting service imagebam.com is iffy but Tor friendly, easy to upload images there from Tor Browser & you can direct-link to the uploaded full image.

Using 3rd party image hosting services has privacy implications, but it will save the server resource of monero.town.

I have been having long load times and a number of APIException errors lately when trying to use an app.

Lemmy.ml is now testing lemmy 0.19.0-rc8 which means that lemmy 0.19 should be released soonish.

https://monero.town/post/1144305

Bicoin Black Friday: BusKill (Open-Source Hardware Dead Man Switch) Announces 10% Discount

There are 4 reports saying this is spam, and it is indeed cross-posting link spam, and feels slightly excessive but not extremely so (?).

The thing is, Monero.town doesn’t forbid ads, and freedom of speech is important even if what is said is unpleasant for me or for someone else. Thoughts?

Edit: Since someone has appointed me as a mod in !privacy, where https://monero.town/post/1144305 is, I can remove it, except I don’t want to remove anything unless really necessary. The lack of guidelines about ads in monero.town means, the OP didn’t do anything against the rule(s).

I couldn’t remove the new one in !moneromarket https://monero.town/post/1142415 Not sure if @[email protected] thinks it’s bad enough, either. Monero is censorship-resistant, meaning we tend to hate deleting someone else’s speech/expression just because it’s subjectively disagreeable.

Given that Monero is money after all and some for-profit services are useful for its users too, probably commercial posts (ads) should be allowed in general, if not excessive. And BusKill ads are not excessive in terms of frequency, like only once a month.

Perceived link spamming (self-promotion) advertising SimplifiedPrivacy has been also noticed by many including myself, which has been like once or twice a week, and explicitly questioned here ( https://monero.town/post/1085883 ); but many (including myself) think these posts can be useful nevertheless, the poster being knowledgeable.

For example "3 (1 New)" is understandable: there are 3 comments, of which 1 is new. But I sometimes also see things like "6 (-3 New)", "5 (-1 New)", where the number of new comments is negative. Is this some kind of known bug, or is it by design actually meaning something? It's totally harmless, but weird...

Title. I had a fantastic experience with a company that accepts monero and wanted to post about it. I am not sure if /c/monero is the correct place for that.

Why did you remove the “How do I start mining monero?” post?

Because the OP may have been a child? Or simply because it should have been asked in Monero Mining rather than in Monero? Or perhaps because the question was trivial (too basic)?

While I do feel (a few more) rules are necessary here, I’d like them to be explicit and transparent, if possible. Thank you.