So I'm sure some of you have also gotten the spam DMs supposedly from "Nicole, the fediverse chick". She is notorious enough across Lemmy to even have her own community now. I think I've gotten like 6 Nicole DMs. While those may seem amusing on their own, there is the worrying suggestion that they might actually be a deanonymization attack. In light of that possibility, are there any measures the admins here could consider to prevent this kind of attack from happening? Other instances' solutions include for example rehosting external embedded images, filtering out external images from DMs entirely or trying to implement filters for preventing spam DMs from being sent. Especially one of the former two solutions would in my opinion be quite good options to protect the privacy of pawb.social users.

@[email protected] @[email protected]

So this partially seems to be an issue with anything from 'files.catbox.moe' such as this post https://pawb.social/post/20002623

I'm just getting a broken jpg image. Same deal in browser and using the Voyager app, so I can only assume it's something on the Pawb side.

And just today I noticed a similar issue with anything coming from lemmy.sdf.org. This could be either posts hosted on that site, or posts by users from the site. This community for example the recent posted images aren't loading: https://pawb.social/c/[email protected]

Unsure if it's just me!

Edit: appears to be ok now!

I'm sure you know, but I haven't seen any communication about it, so I'm bringing it up just to make sure. Performance tanked abruptly a few days ago and has only gotten worse in the following days.

Is it helpful to bring this up when it's observed, or would you prefer we just chill and wait?

Hello just curious as to when we could expect an update to 0.19.8 since it's a very recent and also stable update which fixes a lot of the bugs in 0.19.6 and 0.19.7.

I understand that an update is a big deal and takes careful consideration. Just wanted to ask about it, and also maybe let you guys know it's out in case you didn't.

Hugely improved performance! Great work! Thanks a lot!

Just... can we have a Pixelfed instance? I think it'd be a good way for users here to organize art and photos.

For the past 3 or so days, at least once per day, I will load pawb.social and discover that I'm not logged in anymore. I had the same problem for several days about 3 weeks ago

Page load times have been very slow for some communities, especially those hosted on other instances, and especially over the past few days. Not sure if this was related to the maintenance over the weekend. Here's some quick examples from a sample of 3 communities. I'm listing them in the order that I visited them (I'm not sure if images et. al. are cached across instances, but just in case):

• https://pawb.social/c/[email protected] - Load: 6.8s
• https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196 - Load: 655ms
• https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] - Load: 705ms

• https://lemmy.world/c/technology - Load: 705ms
• https://pawb.social/c/[email protected] - Load: 17.58ms
• https://yiffit.net/c/[email protected] - Load: 557ms

• https://yiffit.net/c/memes - Load: 557ms
• https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] - Load: 699ms
• https://pawb.social/c/[email protected] - Load: 587ms

Of these three tests, we performed fine on one, but the other two were markedly slower. Refreshing th

We can't set an avatar for ourselves! It gives this error:

{"data":{"msg":"exiftool Failed with signal: 13 (SIGPIPE)","files":null},"state":"success"}

Update: This applies to all images, not just account pictures. Also the community icon on the right is broken, too!

-- Frost

Profile images don't appear to be working correctly. I can't see any when viewing profiles, I can't change mine, and when I try to view the image I get a sled-error "IO error: Os { code: 5, kind: Uncategorized, message: "I/O error" }"

Edit: Fixed by Crashdoom. Thank you.

Hey, I recently received a 14-day ban from lemmy.ml for this comment:

While I suppose it wasn't the nicest thing I could have said, here's what bothers me. They cited rule 1 as the ban reason. Now, lemmy.ml's news community doesn't have its own rules section, so I was left to assume that they were applying the instance-wide "rule 1" which was, "no bigotry".

No Bigotry.

Apparently calling someone a tankie and a redfash accelerationist is bigotry? Are they seriously trying to equate being a tankie with being trans, gay, black and/or native american? Seriously? That's incredibly bigoted and offensive; and that's ignoring the fact that the common tankie idols like Stalin, Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un are deeply intertwined with things like nationalism, ethnic superiority, queerphobia and the like.

Meanwhile, their modlog shows that they've dealt

Been meaning to ask for awhile; especially relevant with the most recent Pawb outage apparently being due to lack of storage space.

A post from 6 months ago claims that Lemmy as a whole still doesn't support AVIF or JXL uploads; is that also true of Pawb?

Given the size the community has grown to and concerns around our current approach to maintenance, I’d like to get some feedback on when we should look to schedule maintenance going forward.

There’s two cases covered by the poll, so please choose the all options that fit your preferences.

Case 1: Non-interactive Maintenance This covers any maintenance where we don’t actively need to monitor the upgrade process; Copying data from one location to another, etc. (Usually, this could be left overnight and brought back up in the morning)

Case 2: Interactive Maintenance This covers any maintenance that requires us to perform a series of actions and continually monitor the process to ensure no issues; Upgrading Mastodon or Lemmy, database migration, or upgrading the Kubernetes cluster. (Usually, this would need to occur during the day due to time constraints)

To vote, please find the corresponding pinned comments and upvote them!

If you’ve got any questions, concerns, etc. please leav

Due to the recent spam waves affecting the Fediverse, we'd like to open requests for comment on the use of automated moderation tools across Pawb.Social services.

We have a few ideas on what we'd like to do, but want to make sure users would feel comfortable with this before we go ahead with anything.

For each of these, please let us know if you believe each use-case is acceptable or not acceptable in your opinion, and if you feel like sharing additional info, we'd appreciate it.

1. Monitoring of Public Streaming Feed

We would like to set up a bot that monitors the public feed (all posts with Public visibility that appears in the Federated timeline) to flag any posts that meet our internally defined heuristic rules.

Flagged posts would be reported per normal from a special system-user account, but reports would not be forwarded to remote instances to avoid false-positives.

These rules would be fixed based on metadata from the posts (account indicators, mentio

On Feb 14th we migrated Lemmy from its standalone Docker setup to the same Kubernetes cluster operating furry.engineer and pawb.fun, discussed in https://pawb.social/post/6591445.

As of 5:09 PM MT on Feb 14th, we are still transferring the media to the new storage, which may result in broken images. Please do still reply to this thread if your issue is media related, but please check again after a few hours and edit your comment to say "resolved" if it's rectified by the transfer.

As of 11:02 AM MT on Feb 15th, we have migrated all media and are awaiting the media service coming back online and performing a hash check of all files. Once this is completed, uploads should work per normal.

To make it easier for us to go through your issues, please include the following information:

• Time / Date Occurred
• Page URL where you encountered the issue
• What you were trying to do at the time you encountered the issue
• Any other info you think might be imp

Users can brute-force their way into reading private messages with Lemmy versions below 0.19.1. I know there was the question of federation issues previously, but it appears to have been largely mitigated with the later versions at this point. Are there any plans to upgrade pawb.social?

{"data":{"msg":"Too many frames","files":null},"state":"success"}

I tried uplading short clips at 30 and 25fps. The image above uploaded just fine so i don't know what to make of it.

Thank you for everything you do!

Getting a werid error when trying to upload a picture. https://imgur.com/mHoB4Ng

I've noticed that Pawb no longer seems to receive any new posts from any feddit.de communities. For example, if I view the "DACH" community through Pawb, the latest post is from 7 days ago, while on feddit itself, there were many posts in the last 7 days. Both instances still seem to be federated and aren't on each other's blocklists. Any idea what is happening here?

trying to upload an image returns the error {"data":{"msg":"Error in DB","files":null},"state":"success"} and i'm unsure of how to fix that