Just posting to nag you about this: can !tails@lemmon.website be added as an exception to the automod?

No settings page (as far as I’m aware), but you can use the API to get everything (posts, comments, etc):

step 1: get login token -

curl --request POST \
     --url https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user/login \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "username_or_email": "2br02b",
  "password": "YOUR-PASSWORD"
}
'

step 2: use login token (big long string starting with ‘ey’) to get data -

curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user?username=2br02b&page=1' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR-JWT'

Increment page number until you have everything. source: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_user

Voyager has a setting for “No subscribed in All/Local” that does this. It’s better on than off, obviously, but it doesn’t turn All or Local into some kind of goldmine.

I get the sense that, unless you’re willing to do it yourself, feature requests for Lemmy don’t have much chance of being realised.

Regarding the ‘Unresolved questions’ part, the ActivityPub activity for Reports is:

{
  "actor": "http://ds9.lemmy.ml/u/lemmy_alpha",
  "to": ["http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/main"],
  "audience": "http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/u/main",
  "object": "http://enterprise.lemmy.ml/post/7",
  "summary": "report this post",
  "type": "Flag",
  "id": "http://ds9.lemmy.ml/activities/flag/98b0933f-5e45-4a95-a15f-e0dc86361ba4"
}

From this page. I imagine it’s up to lemmy where this actually gets sent (in the sense that if a community has 1 moderator, it goes to 1 inbox, but if it has 2 moderators, it goes to 2 inboxes).

Can confirm. Just looked at Boost and there they all are. Pretty neat. (Boost is the only app I’ve seen that notifies you of comments too)

In Lemmy terms they’re at ‘RequireApplication’. Open is completely open. PixelFed have automated something that lemmy.world did for feddit.nl a while ago - defederate from them until they changed their application policy.

Manual approval isn’t the only alternative to Open Registration - the main one involves requiring an email address, and/or solving a captcha

It’s not a one-click solution, but lemmy admins can check other instance’s registration policy. e.g.
curl https://lemmy.world/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.registration_mode

Other Fediverse apps will reveal it in different ways of course. Nothing to stop an instance that was set up just for spam from lying about it of course.

Oh right. I didn’t realise that removed posts still got votes (and comments too, by the looks of it). No rush for the update, obvs (I thinks there’s only one actual subscriber from programming.dev)

Thanks. I can see that a new post from ‘nixCraft’ has made it, when the previous one got removed. I know it’s not important, but pls can the removed posts be restored?

Hello. My community !tails@lemmon.website is getting caught by this. It posts stuff from Mastodon users, so they won’t have any karma. I’ve been trying to figure out why posts to programming.dev have been hit or miss, and the answer of course is that the missing posts are sat in modlog!

If poss, can tails be added as an exception? It’s me that’s deciding whether a post is made or not, so no spam or weird stuff will ever get sent.

Thanks.

Suggested setting: give up after X number of days if no real person from that instance subscribes. Whoever added the community is free to try again.

The short answer is that you have to ask blahaj.zone to resolve it. lemmy.ml has it as post id 11470168, but it’ll be different for other instances - whatever the next number was in their database when the post was announced.

You get different answers depending on whether you’re logged in or not though.
From endlesstalk.org, I can search for that post in the web-ui: Communities -> paste the post url into Search -> Change the Type from ‘communities’ to ‘posts’
Alternatively, using the API, I can resolve it with
curl --header 'accept: application/json' --header 'authorization: Bearer MY_LOGIN_TOKEN' https://endlesstalk.org/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https://lemmy.ml/post/11470168

I’m not logged into blahaj.zone though, so it won’t resolve it. The web-ui only gives me this post as one that mentions the thing I’m searching for, and the API returns ‘not found’

Yeah - this community, like some others, only supports ‘undetermined’ (aka unspecified) as a discussion language. You can see by running:

curl https://lemmy.kde.social/api/v3/community?name=kde | jq .discussion_languages

This gives an array with just ‘0’ as a value. Most other communities would give an array like [0,37] (for Unspecified and English), or [0,47] (for Unspecified and French), etc.

It can be fixed by a moderator - going into the community’s settings and using the CTRL key with the mouse to click both Unspecified and English.

I just saw the same user on the star trek instance, accusing them of being into ‘nerd shit’

It’s doubtful they posted to .world with genuine concerns. They just seem like an agent of chaos.

For Music, I’ve started using Navidrome on my server and Feishin on my desktop (a SubSonic server and client respectively). The music has all been tagged using Beets so there’s a nice display.

For Video, I second the AppleTV 4K with Infuse app recommendation. Just accesses my library using NFS, and gets all the metadata from wherever to show an organised library, with a player that can handle anything.

Will do. Hope they use it, having all that junk in the JSON file is no use to anyone.

Lemmyverse is great - I use it to generate the lists at Trending Communities.

Re: the “thousands of spam/bot communities at lemmy.world?” question in your source, yeah there’s about 6k. A user tried to create about 2000, all called “serverhold” if you want a way to exclude them, got banned, and in retaliation created about 4000 with that junk string.
The admin of lemmyworld said it’ll take time to remove them, but I don’t know why (there seems to be the functionality in the API)