[–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

First some context... I don't want to be too prescriptive on what is or is not allowed on various communities here on AZ. I'd like them (communities) to find their own voice and audience, and self-determine what is acceptable... within the confines of the global AZ rules.

Having said that... due to the nature of it, this specific community could probably do with some guard rails.... but more importantly, an active moderator to advance the development of the community itself. To that end I've made Gorgritch_Umie_Killa a moderator, will remove the two idle ones shortly.

My advice.. moderation should remain as neutral and unbiased as possible. Allowable content from one political viewpoint, must be allowed from others. ie links to stickers from Getup being allowed means a similar link for HON promotional should also be allowed.

As for AI generated content, personally I don't want to view/read it at all. Not sure exactly how to manage it across AZ, this will need further discussion and thought. I'd like to ban it outright, but that doesn't seem feasible. Some sort of mandatory tagging in thread titles perhaps...

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    Dunno about the mods, but the AZ admins are 100% happy to continue to platform racists>

    Untrue. Starting with a statement of "fact" like that immediately has me questioning if you are posting in good faith.

    When alerted and given information, they’ll maybe remove one or two offending posts but do absolutely nothing about the user despite a repeated history of it.>

    The information you've previously compiled was either moderated already, or deleted by author when I saw most of if. What remained were ambiguous, possibly offensive comments if interpreted in particular ways . Either way... I didn't see anything warranting further action than had already occurred. That and your actions at the time, harassing said user in every thread they posted in, had me take your input with a large grain of salt.

    As far as I’m concerned the instance is run in very very bad faith.>

    I don't think there is anything I can say to convince you how wrong you are on this one. We do the best with the information available to us, and we're only human.

    As for your edit:

    why you refuse to take meaningful action>

    I'm not. I'm happy to ban users when it is warranted.

    why you refuse to take meaningful action against racism towards Aboriginal peoples>

    Can you point me towards any such content on AZ?

    allow said racist to continue to operate on your platform?>

    I've not seen any unaddressed reports for them that warrant action on my part. I'm not online 24x7 though, so often reports are addressed by other mods/admins before I see what was reported.

    Looking over comments from this user, I see plenty to dislike. But I won't ban a user because I dislike them, their opinions or necessarily how they express them.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    Yes.. no response in the sub 1 hour timeframe since you messaged me.

    I consider editorialised headlines to break global rule 0 of AZ, especially when being deliberately antagonistic in attempting to provoke a fight from those with differing opinions to you. ie don't be a dick. If you want to pick a fight, do it elsewhere.

    In this case, I agree with the broad strokes of your opinion on the topic of the article you linked. Repost it with the original published title and it will stay. Add your own commentary to the post, not the headline.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (3 children)

    I know of multiple people who have reported this user previously, so what would my report achieve? >

    Mod/admin actions are typically per comment/post, except for the most egregious issues which can result in actions taken against user accounts.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    If a comment/post breaks the community or instance rules, report it and move on.

    Posting this in unrelated threads where no rules have been broken can be construed as spam and/or harassment. Please do not do it.

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  • Go Private? (aussie.zone)
    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    Lemmy 0.19.11 (which I've just upgraded AZ to) has a new feature to allow regular federation, but require users be logged in to view content.

    I'd like to gauge feedback from users on this. It will not add privacy, or limit the propagation of posts/comments etc. But it will limit AZ server resource consumption by bots or users that are not logged in.

    Thoughts/concerns on enabling this feature?

    Update: thank you all for your thoughts and feedback on this. We'll leave AZ as it is, though may use this feature in future if we need to mitigate attacks or other malicious traffic.

    Issues 23/3/25 (aussie.zone)
    submitted 1 year ago by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    Not entirely clear to me what is going on, but we've seen a large influx in traffic from oversea today. This has lead to high CPU and performance issues.

    I've put in place a block to what seems to be the source of the traffic, but its not perfect and may cause other issues. If you see/hear of any please let me know here.

    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    I'll be working on upgrading aussie.zone to lemmy 0.19.6 today. All going well disruption will be brief, but there may be some performance issues related to back end DB changes required as part of the upgrade.

    I'll unpin this once complete.

    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    I've spun this up for fun, to see how it compares to the base lemmy UI. Give it a whirl, and post any feedback in this thread. Enjoy!

    It could go down at any time, as it looks as though the dev is no longer maintining it...

    edit: using this https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

    UPDATE Tuesday 12/11: I've killed this off for now. Unclear of why, but was seeing a huge number of requests from this frontend to the lemmy server back end. Today it alone sent ~40% more requests than all clients and federation messages combined.

    submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    Its been 6 months or so... figure its time for another of these. Keep in mind there have been some major config changes in the last week, which has resulted in the oddities below.

    Graphs below cover 2 months, except Cloudflare which only goes to 30 days on free accounts.

    CPU:

    Memory:

    Network:

    Storage:

    Cloudflare caching:

    Comments: The server is still happily chugging along. Looking even happier now that I've properly migrated pict-rs to its integrated object storage config, rather than the bodged up setup.

    RAM/CPU are all fine. Storage use is growing slowly as various databases grow. Still a long way from needing to purge old posts, if ever.

    Cloudflare is saving less traffic these days, since Lemmy added support to proxy all images. Not a concern, well under the bandwidth cap for the server.

    As usual feel free to ask any questions.

    Pictures are broken (aussie.zone)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    I'm in the process of migrating images to a properly configured object storage setup. This involves an offline migration of files. Once complete, I'll start up pict-rs again. Until then, most images will be broken.

    All going well this will finish by morning Perth time, and once up and running again may help with the ongoing issues we've had with images.

    submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    After some users have had issues recently, I've finally gotten around to putting in place a better solution for outbound email from this instance. It now sends out via Amazon SES, rather than directly from our OVH VPS.

    The result is emails should actually get to more people now, rather than being blocked by over-enthusiastic spam filters... looking at you Outlook and Gmail.

    Lemmy 0.19.4 (aussie.zone)
    submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    Hey all, following the work over the weekend we're now running Lemmy 0.19.4. please post any comments, questions, feedback or issues in this thread.

    One of the major features added has been the ability to proxy third party images, which I've enabled. I'll be keeping a closer eye on our server utilisation to see how this goes...

    Maintenance (aussie.zone)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    This weekend I'll be working to upgrade AZ to lemmy 0.19.4, which requires changes to some other back end supporting systems.

    Expect occasional errors/slowdowns, broken images etc.

    Once complete, I'll be making further changes to enable/tweak some of the new features.

    UPDATE: one of the back end component upgrades requires dumping and reimporting the entire lemmy database. This will require ~1 hour of total downtime for the site. I expect this to kick off tonight ~9pm Perth time.

    UPDATE2: DB dump/re-import going to happen ~6pm Perth time, ie about 10 minutes from this edit.

    UPDATGE3: we're back after the postgres upgrade. Next will be a brief outage for the lemmy upgrade itself... after I've had dinner 🙂

    UPDATE34: We're on lemmy 0.19.4 now. I'll be looking at new features/settings and playing around with them.

    Nerd Update 20/4/24 (aussie.zone)
    submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/meta@aussie.zone
     

    Its been a little while since I posted stuff :)

    CPU:

    Memory:

    Network:

    Storage:

    Cloudflare caching:

    Comments:
    Not much has changed in quite a while. I still have a cron-job running to restart Lemmy every day due to memory leaks, hopefully this improves with future updates. Outside of that, CPU, memory and network usage are fine.
    Object storage usage is growing steadily, but we're a long way from paying more than the monthly minimum Wasabi fee.

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