Pawb.Social General Lounge

Hello everyfur <3!

For those of you unaware, Lemmy.World has a significant problem with a pro-Zionist, pro-Israel admin team. As one of the largest instances, they have a lot of weight to throw around, and they are acting extremely unprofessionally and counter to the ideals of the Fediverse by defederating with AN/db0 - which are broadly very well behaved and active instances.

More details are available in the OP. You can check this summary by Stamets, or sort the comments by Top, and check the top comments for the receipts of this recent issue.

As a pretty active, long standing member of this instance, I am calling for and advocating for Pawb.Social to join this action in standing against power-hungry instance admins acting according to their personal whims and vendettas, by agreeing to join in by pledging to defederate with Lemmy.world if the admin team refuses to back down from this behavior.

I would like to suggest that this is put to some kind of vote/referendum of Pawb users to decide how to approach this issue.

Thank you for reading! :3

Original post follows, cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67858553

🏴‍☠️ Hoist the Black Flag: Pledge to Boycott Lemmy World!

... if Lemmy World dares to defederate from any ship in the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/, https://anarchist.nexus/, and https://quokk.au/.

Mateys, we can’t let a mega‑instance captain bully the rest of the fleet just because their ship’s bigger. If Lemmy World tries to throw the FAF overboard, we’re calling for a show of solidarity: a fediverse blockade of Lemmy World in response, until the landlubbers see reason (i.e., there is an acceptable change in their leadership and/or this policy).

This is about mutual aid, not mutiny - standing together so no single admin gets to rule the seas unchallenged. A united armada of smaller instances can absolutely blunt Lemmy World’s outsized influence (and, let’s be honest, their ego).

☠️ A word to the captains: before hoisting colours or locking in a course, we ask ye to let your crew have their say. Run a poll, open the deck for discussion, and listen to the voices aboard your vessel. These seas belong to all of us, and decisions that shape our fediverse should be made together, not from the captain’s quarters alone.

If other captains be keen to chart this course with us, drop anchor and make the pledge public in the comments. The more hands on deck, the harder it is to sink any one of us. Let us know if you are holding a vote!

dbzer0 and AN members can vote on this pledge in !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com, and quokk.au will be holding their own vote.

🏴‍☠️ Solidarity forever, and fair winds to the Flotilla!

Hi everyone 👋 I’m new here. I’m a developer who’s been hanging around commission spaces for a while, and I noticed the same problems come up again and again in DMs:

unclear scope

approvals buried in chat

revision requests changing over time

“who confirmed what” disagreements

So I turned my notes into a small free Commission Safety Kit (SFW):

• Brief template (what to ask before starting)

• Revision policy checklist

• Milestone / acceptance checklist

Copy-paste ToS line (use it right away):

Work is approved per milestone (sketch / line / color / final). One minor revision per stage. Exportable record available on request.

Quick question for creators & clients here: Do you prefer approvals… A) only once at the end B) after each stage (sketch/line/color) → Comment A or B (or just KIT) and I’ll reply with a ready-to-paste version that fits your workflow.

Optional tool version (if you want an exportable logbook): Time-Shards 🔗 https://time-shards.skreeb.io/

Thanks! I’m here to learn how people actually handle commissions, so feel free to tell me what part of the process causes the most friction for you.

The only new posts that are coming up are from lemmit.online, or posts from a couple Mastodon users. This is the last exception I could find. Checking lemmy.world shows there should be new posts coming in, but they're not showing up.

In at least tickling and shinyyiff there is no easy way to toggle or set nsfw using the default web interface. The checkbox either doesn't load, or disappears immediately. For creating the post, nsfw=true can be manually added as a variable. I'd have to dig into the api to see if there is an easy way to toggle a post that has already been created. I don't know if this issue is a problem on apps or other front ends.

From the big announcement post:

Caused by a child process ending without properly cleaning up

Put the child process in time out for their bad behavior. And if it continues to act up, no more cookies!

I'm noticing some errors on images hosted on pawb. https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/b89180dc-38dd-4fe0-8104-65491ef6a177.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256 fails with a sled error, IO error: Os { code: 112, kind: Uncategorized, message: "Host is down" }, but the raw image https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/b89180dc-38dd-4fe0-8104-65491ef6a177.png works. the avatar on my profile page is broken, but is present on comments and such. @crashdoom@pawb.social

For most of the morning, it seemed that pawb.social and pawb.fun were having issues loading/resolving. Did something change?

There is a default page there now, and whois seems to indicate the registration was updated today (Feb 20).

edit: whatever was up seems to be resolved. Its working again for me.

federation for yiffit has been turned off. if the fediverse was unaware of pawb before, Kolanaki will spread the word.

If there are any future updates, I will update here.

Edit: I have been logged out...

When creating or viewing posts from youtube, the site_metadata endpoint returns nothing. I think this might be a lemmy bug, and not specific to this instance. lemmy.world shows the same behavior, lemmy.blahaj.zone and yiffit.net both return data.

When I replied to a comment, nothing seemed to happen except a 502 error with a flash banner in the corner that said "toastify is awesome". Assuming the comment didn't get posted, I tried again and had the same result. Refreshing the page showed all attempts at posting the comment were successful. This was on the standard desktop interface. @crashdoom@pawb.social

Just thought I would mention over here that Wander just announced the termination/archival of yiffit at the end of the year. I guess this will no longer be my backup account.

Kind of falls under the 'Too Afraid to Ask' category, I guess, but I've been curious about this for a while. Did something actually happen at some point, or was this just a procedural thing that wasn't ever followed up on?

It's mildly annoying given how large they are.

Edit: It's possible that this isn't a federation problem at all (as discussion is bringing to light) but something else entirely. Regardless, though, something is going on.

It's also possible that the site I link below is out of date, so maybe don't take that as gospel. I bookmarked it a year ago and just hit it up to check on this a few minutes before posting, so I haven't been keeping up with it.

Doing a little more digging in light of the above, it's possible this is related to this issue, and there's just an extremely long delay before we get content from lemmy.world. Weirdly, though, it doesn't seem to be the case with other instances - maybe because of their size? Either way, looking at the same posts on our instance and 3 or 4 others, we seem to be the only ones not getting the replies. So something's fucked, maybe.

If you're on lemmy.world and happen to see this, drop a reply in here, maybe - I'd be curious to see how long it takes for us to see it (or if we can at all).

I recently saw a couple posts on techtakes and holy shit their members are, well, awful. Is this some kinda metajoke or running gag? Their members tend to have positive comment scores despite being massive assholes. That seems out of character for Lemmy which is why I'm confused and wondering if there's some kinda running gag I missed.

Is anycritter else unable to stay logged in? Every new page I go to (a post, a community, a user) shows me logged out. I can log back in, but only for that page.

If it's on my end, advice would be nice ':3
Thankies squeek 🐭

Edit: Switching to Floorp seems to have fixed it 😅 Idunno if it's specific to this browser or I had some specific issue with how I had Firefox configured ooorrrr 🤷 That squeaked, apparently the adminicritters around here are updating to a fresh Lemmy version that deals with this issue. Neat! :3

Hey! I was thinking now.... As I have some stuff to keep posting and I don't see that big posting activity in furry community I don't want to flood the timeline with my stuff. Would you recommend me a prudential time between posts?

Oh my! I have forgotten Lemmy for a while, I'm sorry 😅

I just wiped my laptop and all config info with it. I've made some new stuff, it is not "fresh from the pen" but I hope you guys like them. I'll start posting some tomorrow.

Thought I should do a quick introduction of myself.

I'm Alyx, but you can call me Ashcat. It's an old slang term from the steam engine era from the time to talk about the person that put the coals into the engine itself.

I'm from around Pittsburgh, been to anthrcon and wpafa. i'm trans and disabled.

I'm bluesky, mastodon, matrix, and reddit as well as cohost. will gladly give links out if asked.

Hiya guys im new to lemmy (and never used reddit •-•) can anyone help me get accustomed to this platform? :3~

Hi guys, I've got a Bluesky code to give away, and I figured some of you guys would like it. Just a few requirements:

• You must have been a member of pawb.social for at least two weeks.
• You must have commented or posted on something in pawb.social in the past two weeks. Doesn't matter if you're doing so after this post either, though hopefully you'll keep being active.
• To be entered, you need to reply to this post (which will not count toward the past two weeks' activity requirement).

I'll be randomly picking someone after 48 hours, and I'll likely delete this post after another 24. Best of luck!

Edit: It's been 48 hours, and of the 3 people who commented, only one actually didn't have Bluesky already, so DraconicNeo has been sent the code. I have to say the response has been surprising. I offered a free giveaway, and got the post downvoted to hell and nothing but negativity for it. I absolutely won't be repeating this again. Screw deletion, I'd just as soon leave this up so the next person doesn't try to make my mistake.

Any chance we'll get one of the newer Lemmy versions? We're a couple versions behind and the bugged-up comments are kinda annoying. Dunno if an update schedule or something is mentioned anywhere.

I'm so new to lemmy lol.