• Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtsEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      Sorry if this has already been discussed but is anyone else worried that “Nicole’s” pictures are from the webcam on a compromised computer? They’re always from the same angle and she’s not really posing for most of them

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        9·
        5 months ago

        I believe someone found an account she did livestreams on somewhere, and the pictures are most likely screen grabs from those. The odds of the person in the pictures being behind the spam are pretty much nil.

    • Zentron@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      Wuuut ? Everything mentioning nicole or just posts from “her” accounts ?

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    96·
    5 months ago

    It may have been lemmy.zip

    It did in fact go down for about 48 hours… prompting me to make this new account on dbzer0.

    Basically, the admin attempted to update to a newer lemmy version… and it failed, multiple times, and they just rolled back, restored the old version, posted an explanation and apology, and they’ll be further looking into … exactly what went wrong.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        i apparently cannot figure out ascii shrugs, nvm

        I don’t know exactly how that post counter … actually, technically counts posts, but:

        1:

        Zip going down could have uncounted all posts anywhere made by zip accounts.

        2:

        There could have been some kind of… propogating post count negation effect, as various other instances reacted differently to zip users posts on their instances could not pull them anymore, on different time scales.

        3:

        If a zip user had a … top level comment, on another instance, its possible all lower level comments responding to that comment may also have poofed out of existence, in some respect.

        …

        I may be misusing some terminology here, and this is just spitballing, but yeah.

        Almost all of my .zip account’s posts/comments… are not on zip itself, and its possible that that is fairly common amongst .zip users.

        • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          9·
          5 months ago

          i apparently cannot figure out ascii shrugs, nvm

          ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ => ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          Just so we’re clear, what this crawler does is go through all servers that use ActivityPub known to it, and congregate that data to a list of known services (Lemmy, Mastodon, Piefed etc.). How is does that is by querying a standardised end point to get the instance info (.well-known/nodeinfo which will then point to a different path to get the actual info).

          For instance, here’s what it will collect for feddit.uk:

          nodeinfo json 
          // curl -s https://feddit.uk/nodeinfo/2.1 | jq
{
  "version": "2.1",
  "software": {
    "name": "lemmy",
    "version": "0.19.10-feddit",
    "repository": "https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy",
    "homepage": "https://join-lemmy.org/"
  },
  "protocols": [
    "activitypub"
  ],
  "usage": {
    "users": {
      "total": 4184,
      "activeHalfyear": 718,
      "activeMonth": 485
    },
    "localPosts": 25750,
    "localComments": 122835
  },
  "openRegistrations": true,
  "services": {
    "inbound": [],
    "outbound": []
  },
  "metadata": {}
}

          The important stat here is the localPosts, which is all the posts made by local users in any community, local or remote. It does not include posts by users from remote instances made in local communities. You can also see this data on the instance sidebar in lemmy-ui.

          lemmy.zip going down will only reduce aggregated stats for total posts by 47,280, as that’s what they report for their localPosts.

    • tisktisk@piefed.socialEnglish
      201·
      5 months ago

      Is divide by zero becoming the most based instance? How did a single bro make best lemmy?!?

  • example@reddthat.comEnglish
    41·
    5 months ago

    I think this is zerobytes.monster, one of the reddit mirror instances.

    the post count fits and it also matches with the user count not significantly dropping.

    that instance has been using rather strict waf blocking rules from time to time that likely also affect the crawler for fediverse.observer.

  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
    421·
    5 months ago

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…

  • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    28·
    5 months ago

    It’s probably just some technical issue. I’m sure the post didn’t actually go anywhere.

  • Oskar@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    5 months ago

    “I felt a great disturbance in the Force…as if millions of posts were routed to dev/null and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”