volubleAug 18, 2024

Is it just me, or does it feel like Lemmy is being hit with a wave of political spam?

https://lemmy.world/post/18781176

Is it just me, or does it feel like Lemmy is being hit with a wave of political spam? - Lemmy.World

I notice a large number of ragebait-y political communities being spun up by new users with thousands of posts & ai profile header photos. I notice comment sections are more acrimonious, and foreign disinfo talking points are circulating a lot more prolifically than before the US election started ramping up. Anyone else notice this? Any idea on how to combat it on this platform? Are there any communities built around creating block lists of obvious troll/ai/disinfo accounts & communities?

Show threadgigachadAug 18, 2024
Not really, but I am groß Europe so I don’t subscribe to communities connected to US news or politics. Can you give some examples?
Show threadvolubleAug 18, 2024
Communities like lemmy.world/c/independentmormonism, lemmy.world/c/independentcatholicism, lemmy.world/c/thirdpartynews, all created today, and modded by a 9 day old user account with 640 comments and 334 posts.
Independent Mormonism - Lemmy.World

Independent Mormonism includes those who identify with Mormon teachings and traditions but may not necessarily view Joseph Smith as a prophet or believe in the “golden Bible” narrative. We are inspired by the teachings of Mormonism but don’t necessarily accept all the more extraordinary claims of the Book of Mormon. This community is dedicated to exploring and discussing the concept of Independent Mormonism, a movement that embraces the beliefs and practices of Mormonism outside the official structure of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Our community also strives to be inclusive and LGBTQ-friendly, welcoming those who seek a more open and accepting approach to faith. Whether you follow a restoration branch, are part of a smaller Latter-day Saint denomination, or simply hold personal beliefs aligned with aspects of Mormonism, this forum is your space to connect, share, and learn. Join us in building a welcoming space for all who are part of or curious about this independent and diverse expression of Mormon faith.

Show threadLemminary
Don’t know if you know, but just a heads up for anyone unfamiliar, the proper formatting for linking communities is [email protected]. This helps users from other instances browse those communities without leaving their instance. It also prevents the mobile apps from opening the browser. It also supports autofill when typing after the exclamation mark so you can’t go wrong.
Independent Mormonism - Lemmy.World

Independent Mormonism includes those who identify with Mormon teachings and traditions but may not necessarily view Joseph Smith as a prophet or believe in the “golden Bible” narrative. We are inspired by the teachings of Mormonism but don’t necessarily accept all the more extraordinary claims of the Book of Mormon. This community is dedicated to exploring and discussing the concept of Independent Mormonism, a movement that embraces the beliefs and practices of Mormonism outside the official structure of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Our community also strives to be inclusive and LGBTQ-friendly, welcoming those who seek a more open and accepting approach to faith. Whether you follow a restoration branch, are part of a smaller Latter-day Saint denomination, or simply hold personal beliefs aligned with aspects of Mormonism, this forum is your space to connect, share, and learn. Join us in building a welcoming space for all who are part of or curious about this independent and diverse expression of Mormon faith.

Aug 18, 2024 at 9:47amWeb
Show threadbreakingcupsAug 18, 2024

Which, let’s face it, is dumb. Other clients should be able to recognize linked Lemmy instances and handle the click transparently.

Instead, now we have links that can’t be shared outside of Lemmy and links that should only be shared outside of Lemmy.

Show threadkopper [they/them]Aug 18, 2024
How do you expect for that auto-detection to work? Just a regex on example.com/c/community? What happens when some other instance software decides to use a different URL format? Or do you just assume Lemmy is the only thing out here?
Show threadbreakingcupsAug 18, 2024
Every Lemmy instance can see which other fediverse instances they’re connected to, I’d be satisfied if it scoped to those instance domains. It’s going to be very rare to have a link to a Lemmy/kbin/whatever instance that is not already being followed by one local user, and when it does happen, the first time any local user follows it, it’s fixed again. That covers the 99% of cases better than having to educate every user every time in every thread they innocently post a normal url instead of knowing how to even copy this special url from.
Show threadkopper [they/them]Aug 18, 2024

True, that will at least let you figure out what is a fediverse link and what isn’t. Most implementations I know either use the same URL for both the AP representation of a post and it’s HTML one (differentiated by the Accept header), or have a redirect from the HTML view to the AP representation when an AP type is requested, which means you can reuse code used for the “search URL to load community” feature in order to make this possible.

Given the list of fedi instances your instance is aware of is already present in the API, clients already have the tools to do this, I believe.

Show threadLemminaryAug 18, 2024
I think it’s fine if you provide a common interface across Lemmy with autocomplete. If you’re on a desktop, you can always copy the URL but if you’re on mobile you use the Share button anyway.
Show threadTodayAug 18, 2024
How do you do that? When i go to the community info page and click share, i get the http …
Show threadLemminaryAug 18, 2024

Just type “!” followed by the name of the sub. Make sure it’s the instance name and not the display name. You can find that on the sidebar as below.

Show threadTodayAug 18, 2024

On jerboa, when i click share (which is the only place i can copy the community name) i get lemmy.world/c/asklemmy

So, then i would have to delete, rearrange, and add ! and @

Show threadvolubleAug 18, 2024
Thanks! I was sure there was a nomenclature, I just forgot what it was. Cheers for the reminder.