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SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•I don't enjoy the Internet any moreEnglish
2·4 天前Thanks for your detailed post.
I’ve bookmarked many of the links to various tools you mentioned and will put them on my todo list to look into.
upvoted for referencing Cory Doctorow’s enshittification.
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca Support / Questions@lemmy.ca•Differences in the sitewide instances blocked between lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works
1·4 天前My pleasure.
I looked into fediseer and am happy to see it also offers a documented REST API. I compared the blocked and censured list for sh.itjust.works and created this post requesting SJW to to review their mismatches: https://lemmy.ca/post/69562789
FYI - here’s current counts of blocked instances and reported censure to fediseer for the top 10 lemmy servers:
Blocked Censured lemmy.blahaj.zone 312 228 lemmy.ca 91 2 lemmy.dbzer0.com 214 158 lemmy.ml 210 0 lemmy.one 4 0 lemmy.world 204 203 lemmy.zip 9 0 programming.dev 324 132 sh.itjust.works 100 94 ttrpg.network 0 0
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Majority of Canadians oppose government support for AI data centres, poll shows
2·5 天前That’s right by highways 401 & 407 so it’s likely noisy there already. I don’t know enough if that is a good location or not but that looks like suburban sprawl style development.
Ontario has greenbelts. BC has Agriculture Land Reserves to preserve farmland for agriculture purposes.
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Majority of Canadians oppose government support for AI data centres, poll shows
3·5 天前There’s a big news release today about an additional 14GW of clean electricity projects for Eastern Canada:
https://lemmy.ca/post/69504197
So Quebec looks like a good place for many new data centres with cheap and clean power.
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Majority of Canadians oppose government support for AI data centres, poll shows
4·5 天前That’s a very informative CBC news article data data centres in Canada.
96 proposed hyperscaler DCs is excessive. Especially for water stressed regions like Alberta.
I believe we do need some more DCs for Canada’s own sovereign needs. With appropriate care for noise impact and power/water usage to avoid causing undue problems. AI is a bubble but there is a demand for it so better to use Canadian AI (cohere.com) hosted in Canadian DCs.
lemmy.ca itself is hosted in an East Vancouver data centre:
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Majority of Canadians oppose government support for AI data centres, poll shows
1·5 天前Canada is thankfully not Texas and is not proposing hundreds of large data centers in dry arid water stressed climate zones. A reason there are so many proposals for datacenters in the desert is to be able to use evaporative cooling which is not applicable in our situation.
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•N.L., Quebec to sign new Churchill Falls agreement worth billions — with help from Ottawa
2·5 天前From the CBC article:
“Just put this in context. Tripling the current generation capacity of Churchill Falls to that 14,000 megawatts of renewable power — that’s more than the entire generating capacity of B.C. Hydro, it’s more than double the output of Bruce Power, the largest nuclear plant on this continent,” said Carney.
Here’s the Federal Government’s News Release :
Prime Minister Carney announces the largest clean energy investment in North American history
Hydro Electricity and Wind Generated Electricity are a great combination:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca Support / Questions@lemmy.ca•Better documentation/visibility for blocked instances
2·5 天前3 years ago the bot had a bug on lemmy.world which created some comment spam and then it was banned. The bot’s error message about “Something went terribly wrong” is funny given my username.
You don’t need to re-federate with lemmit.online just for me as the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. I’m just requesting improved documentation/visibility about blocked instances to reduce confusion for this and other instances that get blocked in the future.
Digging into lemmy’s handling of blocked instances has been an interesting “journey of discovery”. I have another low priority related request about blocked instances: https://lemmy.ca/post/69461640

SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca Support / Questions@lemmy.ca•Differences in the sitewide instances blocked between lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works
3·6 天前Ah cool, I wasn’t aware of dbzero’s Fediseer. Looks like a good way to identify problematic instances to block.
I’m just an end user of lemmy trying to use it more and went down a rabbit hole about blocked instances when I came across something that impacted me.
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca Support / Questions@lemmy.ca•Differences in the sitewide instances blocked between lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works
3·6 天前Thanks for the context.
Your the request/intent to join link doesn’t appear to go where it should be.
Email has been doing the “whack-a-mole” battle with spammers for a long time and have tools like https://www.spamhaus.org/blocklists/ to quickly block the latest bad actor.
The Fediverse will likely need to do something similar in identifying and quickly blocking bad actors.
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca Support / Questions@lemmy.ca•Differences in the sitewide instances blocked between lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works
2·6 天前shell commands to gather data about blocked instances across multiple lemmy servers
# create an empty directory to work in to avoid clutter # suggest running this to create a directory for today's date: DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`; mkdir $DATE; cd $DATE # loop through list of lemmy servers to download json files of blocked instances # and extract the blocked domains to a txt file for site in lemmy.ca lemmy.ml lemmy.world lemmy.zip sh.itjust.works do echo $site site_base_fname=`echo $site | tr \. _` curl -s --request GET \ --url https://$site/api/v3/federated_instances?kind=blocked \ --header 'accept: application/json' > blocked_${site_base_fname}.json cat blocked_${site_base_fname}.json | jq -r '.federated_instances.blocked.[].domain' | sort -u > blocked_${site_base_fname}.txt done # number of common blocked instances for both lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works comm -1 -2 blocked_lemmy_ca.txt blocked_sh_itjust_works.txt | wc # instances only blocked on lemmy.ca but not on sh.itjust.works comm -2 -3 blocked_lemmy_ca.txt blocked_sh_itjust_works.txt > only_blocked_for_lemmy_ca.txt # instances only blocked on sh.itjust.works but not on lemmy.ca comm -1 -3 blocked_lemmy_ca.txt blocked_sh_itjust_works.txt > only_blocked_for_sh_itjust_works.txt # instances blocked across at least two lemmy servers # h/t DDG Search Assist AI awk '{instances[$0]++} END { for (instance in instances) {if(instances[instance]>1) {print instances[instance], instance }}}' blocked*.txt | sort -k1,1nr -k2,2 # instances blocked on at least one lemmy server awk '{instances[$0]++} END { for (instance in instances) { print instances[instance], instance }}' blocked*.txt | sort -k1,1nr -k2,2
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca Support / Questions@lemmy.ca•Differences in the sitewide instances blocked between lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works
2·6 天前Instances blocked for sh.itjust.works but not lemmy.ca
9kb.me aethy.com archaeology.social beehaw.org besties.com bigballchunkyverse.online bondsdogs.com botsin.space bunnyanarchy.org channels.im cherryberry.pink cryptodon.lol cum.salon cunnyborea.top dubvee.org eda.social educhat.social forum-lucifer.com fun.with.kyun.li groupsebelah.com h5q.net imouto.pics jenny.nya.pub kbin.burggit.moe kernkraft.social kids.0px.io kitsui.life kokuusa.club kommunismus.social lawsocial.org lemmy.byrdcrouse.com lemmy.fediverse.jp lemmy.nebtown.info lemmy.staphup.nl lolison.top m.corduba.tech masost.one mastadon.astuto.cc mastodon-ero.xyz mastodon.integrata-stiftung.de mastodon.snmsoc.org mastodon.svgun.ru mentalhealth-masto.com mirr0r.city misskey.doujin.games mitra.anon-kenkai.com moar.cachapa.xyz mstdn.business mstdn.jp nasface.cz neuroscience-mastodon.com niederbayern.social nnia.space owo.town pedo.school posting.lolicon.rocks puls.social red.computersforpeace.net redlemmy.com scfzfilm.org seda.social sfw.community shota.house social.cutefunny.net social.tcpcat.net startrekshitposting.com tambayan.us thoughtful.social transforthe.win waterlily.tokyo youjo.love
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca Support / Questions@lemmy.ca•Differences in the sitewide instances blocked between lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works
2·6 天前Instances blocked for lemmy.ca but not sh.itjust.works
alien.top annihilation.social api.clubsall.com baomi.tv bbs.9tail.net bbs.darkwitch.net bolha.social clatter.eu clubsall-api.appcafe.workers.dev clubsall-api.renchesterjramos.workers.dev clubsall-api2.appcafe.workers.dev clubsall-api2.renchesterjramos.workers.dev clubsall-api3.renchesterjramos.workers.dev clubsall-api4.renchesterjramos.workers.dev clubsall.com cubing.social cum.estate cunnyborea.space decayable.ink demotheque.com detroitriotcity.com dot.surf enterprise.lemmy.ml eveningzoo.club fasheng.ing freeatlantis.com freespeechextremist.com gameliberty.club granitestate.social http://api.clubsall.com/ lemmit.online lemmy-mormonsatan-u23030.vm.elestio.app lemmy.almostadatacenter.social lemmy.cloudsecurityofficehours.com lemmy.easfrq.live lemmy.fedi.bub.org lemmy.fyi lemmy.jtmn.dev lemmy.org lemmy.podycust.co.uk lemmy.primboard.de lemmy.shwizard.chat lemmy.tedomum.net mindshare.space news.deghg.org nicecrew.digital nightshift.social noauthority.social oceanbreeze.earth poa.st pravda.me rebased.social rebelbase.site shitposter.world thediscussion.site tummy.town ussr.win veenk.help voyager.lemmy.ml wolfballs.com wumbo.buzz
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca Support / Questions@lemmy.ca•Better documentation/visibility for blocked instances
2·6 天前I posted https://lemmy.ca/post/69414850 in the main community about whether to unblock lemmit.online and the comments are mostly negative.
Was a little journey of exploration as while most peer lemmy servers don’t block that instance many of them have banned the bot@lemmit.online user based on lack of recent posts.
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca's Main Community@lemmy.ca•Time to unblock lemmit.online?English
2·6 天前Thanks for the information!
Need to be an admin on a lemmy server to view the banned users using the lemmy API:
https://lemmy.ca/api/v3/user/banned
https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/user/banned
Looking at https://lemmy.zip/u/bot@lemmit.online I see the last post was 10 months ago so it looks like it was banned around then.
So instead of just looking at whether the lemmit.online instance is/isn’t blocked but looking if there are recent posts from bot@lemmit.online across the top 10 lemmy servers I see:
lemmy.world ❌ lemmy.ml ❌ sh.itjust.works ❌ lemmy.dbzer0.com ✅ lemmy.ca ❌ programming.dev ✅ lemmy.zip ❌ lemmy.blahaj.zone ❓ ttrpg.network ✅ lemmy.one ✅
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Some Alberta separatists embrace the idea of becoming the 51st American state
9·7 天前That article was painful to read about some people’s lack of critical thinking skills. There exist people who believe only Donald Trump can save them from the Epstein class of global elites!!?? 🤯
When the separatist leaders were meeting (plotting) with the American State Department in a SCIF didn’t they say they would get $500 Billion if Alberta became independent? And then in the future if an independent Alberta would join the USA it would make more sense for Alberta to become an American Territory rather than a State?
So their end goal is to become a future Norte Rico.
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.caOPtoLemmy.ca Support / Questions@lemmy.ca•Better documentation/visibility for blocked instances
2·7 天前Here’s a suggested starting point for contents:
Sitewide Blocked Instances
lemmy.ca blocks instances at a sitewide basis due to them having inappropriate content. The list of blocked instances can be viewed at:
Discussion about blocked instances of note:
- lemmit.online https://lemmy.ca/post/1380644
SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Evacuation orders expand into Peachland as entire community of Summerland flees wildfire
4·14 天前The BC Provincial government has declared a province wide state of emergency:
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7300648
B.C. Premier David Eby says the entire province is now under a state of emergency as crews grapple with dozens of out-of-control wildfires that have forced thousands of people to evacuate.




Here’s the post in question without having to directly go to truthsocial:
https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/41006