The current mod of c/gamedev hasn't been publicly active just under a year. I tried messaging them months ago about joining, and more recently about taking it over if they weren't interested in trying to develop it. So now I'm asking here, with the assumption that they're just not that into it.

Figured I'd ask now in case you wanted to look into the person making such a request. If granted I'd probably start putting a little work into it the weekend after this one.

I want to create a space for r/Bangladesh. The government in the country has shut down the internet and I want to make decentralized options more accessible for them. I plan to see if the moderators want to join here too. If a good community forms, I am happy to hand off the moderator role.

There are about 6 pages.dev domains spamming lemmy.world communities

The volume is definitely inorganic, and is across a wide range of communities

pages.dev is Cloudflare's site hosting which can be used for free - there are likely many legitimate sites that use that domain, but the current flood is suspicious

chronicleresolve.pages.dev

thefreedomproject.pages.dev

versarch.pages.dev

dailypulse.pages.dev

newssphere-6fu.pages.dev

iniko.pages.dev

miniza.pages.dev

orino.pages.dev

I promise I searched first!

Community:
[email protected]

Attempted to post from the website and a mobile app. To test, successfully posted a text post and subsequently the same post with the image uploaded directly to Lemmy.

Guessing some spammer or worse was abusing the feature… did think image proxying was coming which might help…

If this was intended behavior, hope someone can link relevant documentation and perhaps it’ll be more easily found by others in the future. (Used lots of keywords in the title for that purpose!)

As per your guidelines here https://lemmy.world/post/4505404 I'd like to request to care for this sub.

Basically I need help moding and who to edit the community and promote it.

What's going on? Everyone interacting with Lemmy world seems to be getting banned for "URL Blacklist" and lots of comments are being "Removed by mod". Communities are being removed also.

You can see content, but comment sections all say "there doesnt seem to be anything here."

This behavior is not the same on old.lemmy.dbzer0.com.

...it has the same amount of upvotes as one of the posts I made today.

What's the issue here? Why won't the last post show up at or near the top of the page?

*The posts I made today are marked by green rounded squares

So since I joined in early May, that Raj zone community or whatever its called was the highlighted community. That ran for about 2 months that I know of. It's a very active and popular community.

Today I see it's finally changed. Now it's comic strips. Which ALSO looks like an active community. So my theory is, and I may be wrong, but my theory is that these spotlights drive huge amounts of traffic. Which is great......but it's spread so thin. One community for 2 months is waaaay too long.

What if it became the "community of the day"? And maybe it could focus on smaller, lesser known communities. And if that days community ISN'T for you personally, just wait until tomorrow.

And then there's the trending section. More often than not, I see a community in the trending section, click it, and theres zero posts. One time I even saw zero posts, and moderator locked so only moderators can make posts.....which they hadn't.

So whats the point of saying they're trending, if theres zero to little activity? I say to become a trending community, you should have minimum 10 posts in the past 30 days, and 30 comments the past 30 days.

So, site admins, can we make this happen? New community spotlight everyday, maybe it's a dead community, and a trending community section which has been trending lately.

And as I think of this, I just realized the trending communities will only be the same most popular ones. So maybe trending communities can only appear once per month?

I'm a mod of [email protected], although my user is on discuss.tchncs.de. I mainly asked to be made a mod to remove an old sticky post, but I've seen it come back after unfeaturing it a couple of times. Today I tried to unfeature it again, about an hour ago. Currently it does not show up as featured on my instance, but it still does on lemmy.world. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Here is the post in question on each instance:

https://lemmy.world/post/6104535

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/4076675

Posted this to AskLemmy (https://lemmy.world/post/17088629), but thought it worth posting here:

I use old.lemmy.world as my interface and I've noticed that roughly every month I'm:

• Forcibly logged out and have to do the re-auth dance for no apparent reason.
• Everything I've set in Settings is forgotten: Default Listing reverts to All, Default Post Sort reverts to Hot, and so on.

My browser is set to retain cookies and such, so it's not PEBKAC/PICNIC. Why is Lemmy doing a nuke-from-low-orbit every month (roughly) despite me using it as recently as the day before? Why aren't my preferences being retained between logins?

I suspect the recent update (https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld/112706805419064266) explains the latest event, but the questions still stand.

If I bring up things like mail or a post in a new tab, I have to go into Login/Manage Accounts and choose my account to do anything in that tab.

Ok, so I've been here almost two months now. And I'm a frequent commenter. What I have noticed is that almost every single comment I make gets exactly 1 downvote. Regardless of where, regardless of content. Doesn't matter what I say. I could say "Puppies are snuggly!" and it would get one downvote.

This leads me to believe there's a bot (or maybe a series of bots) who go around and make sure everything gets downvotes. I don't see the point of that.

Look, sometimes I make comments that people ACTUALLY don't agree with. I made a joke comment about trump and biden being young unheard of up and comers in the political world that haven't reached drinking age yet. I thought it was funny, but last I checked it had more downvotes than upvotes. Ok, fair enough. That joke bombed. I'll take the L on that one.

But to downvote everything across the board? It's hard to tell when my material is just barely landing, or just barely not landing........as opposed to now assuming the downvote is a bot and I can't trust the negitive reaction.

So, maybe this post could serve as a brainstorm session for how to combat this very minor problem. I'm not a techie with any knowledge of how bots operate, let alone how to stop them. But I'm sure others on this forum do. So lets hash this thing out!

I'm unable to post with my .world account, because it throws a 401 error. I'm able to vote on posts and comments just fine.

It happens with both Connect and Jerboa. I've tried logging out and back in with Jerboa, but it doesn't help.

This happened about a week ago too; I waited a few days and I was eventually able to post again.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

I am locked out because reset password doesn’t do anything, well guess what? Im not registering in lemmy.world anymore!

Mod has been inactive for a year, and I’d like to take it over and help it generate more traffic.

Honest question about the acceptance lines, not trying to trigger a response

Personally, I feel this is misogynistic and derogatory. But maybe I'm the one out of line

Btw, is there some other way to flag a whole community to the mods?

Hi :)

All mods on [email protected] are inactive, and it'd be useful going forward if we could get an active mod. I'm on a different instance, obviously, but I don't mind doing it. If you'd rather make someone with an account on this instance mod that's fine and I'll ask if there are any volunteers.

Is that possible?

I have a friend who is trying to set up an account on Lemmy, but they don't like to use their real email, so they use aliases from Proton. Are such aliases allowed for making accounts on Lemmy.World?

I deleted it when it didn't gain enough traction, and I'd like to revive it.

The sidebar is full of links and the user has zero posts.

Communities

https://lemmy.world/c/sdfsgsdgsdhg https://lemmy.world/c/dfhdkjfdgfdhg https://lemmy.world/c/amnbjsdgsg

Users

https://lemmy.world/u/carolinamobe https://lemmy.world/u/nilssyacaloni https://lemmy.world/u/susuganan

So I do NOT understand what makes a community trend. I thought I'd use it to discover communities I didn't even know I wanted. Instead, I've found a few communities I have no interest in, and thats fine. Not all communities are going to cater to everybodies tastes.

But the real puzzler for me, is when I click a trending community, and theres 2 subsubscribers, 0 posts ever. What exactly qualifies that as a trending communities???

I don't know if everybody sees the same trending communities, but if you do, theres one right now with a jumbled bunch of letters as the community name, no posts, 2 subscribers And the sidebar is a bunch of imdb links.......

What am I supposed to do with that information? Why is THAT trending??? Is this a case of mods of that community (all one of them) are also the developers of Lemmy, so they program it that way? Or is this some algorithm thing that I don't get???

What is going on here?