Hey,

I don’t there’s much more you can do other than to get in touch with that instance’s admin. I suggest sending them a direct message, they should be able to help by modifying stuff directly in the database.

The 2FA implementation is unfortunately pretty buggy still.

Hey that’s awesome, thanks for starting it, I look forward to see what comes next!

Good tip, thank you.

I’ve changed it, I hope you like it!

The offer is still there for you to play with the colors.

Anything illegal, porn, shit promoting pedophilia (even when it tries to be cute and do so vaguely). Those are the things I have no tolerance for.

Can you tweak the colors in photoshop or something and repost it here? I’ll just use them to update it properly when I get a chance later.

How about this?

Alternatively, do you want to have a play with the colors yourself? I’m open to anything.

Alright I’ll try it!

Hey welcome, I look forward to seeing them grow!

https://lemdit.com/c/stuff is for anything, general chat, etc.

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 that is by now almost 10 years old, it runs perfectly on Linux and is a fantastic choice even today. It’s built like a tank and that Intel i5 powering it is immortal. DDR3 RAM is dirt cheap now and it takes up to 16Gb, you can swap its HDD to a SATA SSD (if not done already) and batteries for it are still cheap and plentiful.

If you’re looking for something affordable for software dev, I can’t think of a better choice for $200-$300

https://www.lenovo.com/lt/lt/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t430/

They really built this one right, they don’t make them like this anymore.

It will get better, take it from a stranger on the internet.

Start with the little things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBAqF00gBGk

This is a Lemmy-ui bug, not related to CDN/cache.

I had submitted a bug report for it some time ago but it’s not that urgent in the great scheme of things so they didn’t get around to it yet: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1865

(the report speaks about this happening after you log in, but it’s the same thing).

This is insanely bad. I don’ t know how they can recover from something this catastrophic.

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So they likely have business customers that lost all of their e-mails, business files, servers, etc. Now that is a bad day at the office.

hey, I’m the admin of lemdit.com, thought I’d offer you my 2 cents.

Generally speaking anyone is welcome on Lemdit. We’re not a political instance, nor are we a strictly ‘free speech’ one. What this means is any ideas are welcome irrespective of political lean, but slurs, attacks or calls for violence are not. To give you a concrete example, disagreeing with government covid policy is fine, calling people fags is not.

Lemdit is indeed a tiny instance. This isn’t really an issue as far as content and engagement is concerned thanks to federation, but it does mean we’re a very small fish that can be easily killed if we get defederated. We’re not big enough to survive under our own content steam, so if you do join, please try to keep this in mind.

The only instances we’ve defederated are ones that host loli porn. In general, anything that can get us into legal trouble is gone on the spot (I don’t mean the lemmy.world interpretation of legal). Otherwise I don’t live in the US and I make it a point not to get involved in politics one way or the other, so you will not see me defederate or block anything based on politics.

Lemdit is also self-hosted and costs me very little to run, so this isn’t a donations grift, we’re not looking to grow at all costs, etc.

You can find more info here: https://lemdit.com/post/2915 https://lemdit.com/post/13

If this sounds like you, then feel free to sign up.

Awesome project and the tool looks great - nice work!

There was an existing tool which was similar: https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

Yours is definitely nicer.

Hey, thanks for your feedback.

Good point on the Admin account potentially not being e-mail verified, I’ll add that bit in there.

Lemmy stores a record of users in two places:

• local_user is where local accounts are stored. Each entry has an id and a person_id.
• person gets an entry for every user@instance that your Lemmy instance learns about, including users which were created on your instance. local_user entries are mapped to person entries using the person_id.
• local_user doesn’t actually keep track of user@instance - it’s all stored under person and referenced via the person_id.

This means that to free up the user names, you would also need to delete the respective entry from person. There are a few ways you can achieve this:

• You could grab a list of all person_id numbers where email_verified=‘f’, then use this list to delete from person.
• You could just delete the specific username you want to free up from person (where name=‘username’).

Edit: This also explains your confusion around the id of the Admin username - id would’ve been ‘1’ and that’s the one that matters. person_id was ‘2’ because your instance likely learnt of another user before the Admin somehow. I just checked mine and person_id is also 2, so it seems like the standard thing it does.

I didn’t worry about this too much since these were all randomly generated junk usernames that nobody would ever miss and I didn’t think it was worth the extra hassle to try and delete them from person too, since it would be a bit cumbersome especially if there’s a lot of them.

Anyway, to free up those usernames just delete them from person using one of the options above.

I hear you on the need to delete junk data, my hope is the devs will eventually include some decent tools for that. It’s a good suggestion, I may put something together when I have a bit of time.

A solution you can try meanwhile is to use an admin account to ‘purge’ the stuff you want to delete - purging does remove everything from the server. Annoyingly you don’t get the option to purge your own posts as the admin, but you can use a second admin account to work around this.

Oh hey, thanks!

I also don’t subscribe to the lemmy.world interpretation of what is legally compromising, so we are not going to follow in their footsteps.

I thought I’d mention this since it’s a hot topic recently and people might be spooked.

I made a post about his exploits: https://exploding-heads.com/post/722127

I think you’re right, he probably ended up here by chance. I didn’t see any problem with the old mascot either, but maybe soft and cartoony is misinterpreted by some people so I thought I’d send a message with the new one.

He’s certainly trying hard to find a place that will take him.

It’s very disappointing. They seem to be testing the waters, for example this guy won’t outright promote pedophilia, instead he’ll make arguments such as:

• teenagers over 14 are fully developed young adults
• it’s bigotry to treat them like children
• it harms and infantilizes teenagers over 14 to treat them like children
• the brain is fully developed by 14, the rest is just a myth
• power imbalances between adults and teens are a myth
• puritans are to blame for the hysteria against age difference in sexual partners
• hysteria around pedophiles today is the same as the witch hunts of the past
• child beauty padgents are just kids playing dress-up and harm nobody
• punishment for adults who have sex with teenagers over 14 is disproportionate for a crime that hurts nobody

…etc. Nothing he says is technically illegal so he’s banking on everyone going along with it on this technicality. At the end of the day, this is a 50+ year old dude with a squeaky voice that is trying to make a case for how he should be able to have sex with 14 year olds. He is (somewhat) indirectly promoting pedophilia and can fuck right off.