As a matter of community building, lets make this a monthly thing 😊

Community gardening

As stated in our Wiki, we allow members to create their own communities as a way to encourage contributions, but this comes with the responsibility of active moderation. The site admins can’t moderate all communities and unless a posts gets reported, they might not even know about spam etc. Thus we will regularly prune seemingly abandoned communities.

The current list set for pruning is:

So unless someone wants to step up and take them over for moderation and active contribution, they will be removed at the end of the month.

In addition there are these two communities that attract quite a bit of moderation workload and the current mods need support with that (otherwise it might be better to prune them as well):

Technical updates

The originally planned move to a smaller dedicated server was only partially completed and ran into some issue with 8GB RAM being slightly too small for our current Lemmy database use. It might be just a a memory leak issue that should be fixed with the next Lemmy release, but given some related consideration I decided to try use another server with 16GB RAM instead. This move has not been started yet, but I will try to keep the down-time to a minimum.

This server also has a built in GPU that would likely allow automatic scanning for illegal images via Lemmy-safty. This image recognition script is fully local, so no data is transmitted to any 3rd party, but it will likely result in some false-positives (Likely NSFW / child themed ones, which seems not like a major problem for our instance). Any hits will be removed from the storage automatically so this will also protect our moderators from having to deal with such potentially traumatic imagery.

I also made some progress with the account integration between Lemmy and an XMPP/Jabber server. The idea is that you will be able to use your existing username@slrpnk.net ID also for federated chat via the Jabber network. This is more secure than the internal Lemmy DMs as Jabber clients support end to end encryption (like Signal more or less). If in the future some Lemmy clients will add privacy preserving UnifiedPush we can also support that via this XMPP server.

I also started trialling a Movim web-client for it, which besides being a nice chat interface for private 1:1 and group chats, can also act as a long-form blogging site (kinda like Medium or Substack) for our members. Lets see if there is an interest in that 🤔

In theory bridges to Matrix, Discord, Telegram etc. could also be added, but it will need some more testing and might not work out. Voice and video calls will also initially not be supported due to some technical issue, but I plan to fix that ASAP.

Draft code of conduct

I am also still looking for feedback on and maybe some contributions to our incomplete draft code of conduct.

Open discussion

If you have any other topics related to our community here on slrpnk.net please comment below.

  • silence7@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Just a minor comment on the font here:

    The degree symbol is way too wide - about two characters worth.

    This means that you see 2°C

    When it’s a lot easier to read: 2°C with degree symbol close to the C

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netOPM
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      1 year ago

      This is how it looks here, which is the default AFAIK. I think only your browser is loading a strange font.

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        1 year ago

        After your comment, I tried on multiple browsers and platforms.

        Edge, Chrome, and Firefox on Windows all look like this:

        Looks good using Chrome and Safari on the mac.

        Looks good using Firefox and Chrome on Android.

        I’m going to conclude that this is a Windows font choice problem, and likely impacts a significant fraction of people.

        You seeing the same thing?

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          1 year ago

          I luckily don’t have any Windows left in my life 😅

          Can anyone else on Windows confirm that this is a general Windows font issue?

            • poVoq@slrpnk.netOPM
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              1 year ago

              Can you try changing the theme to something non-hanubeki and see if that fixes it? I can’t check right now, but maybe it is related to those custom themes.

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                1 year ago

                I had the odd spacing as well, and testing it just now, switching to non-hanubeki themes does fix it.

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                  1 year ago

                  Hmm, looks like I should file an issue on the Hanubeki repo then. It’s might be intentional though, as it is made for Japanese writing and they use the ° for other purposes than degrees. Odd though that it only happens on Windows.

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                    1 year ago

                    Since you seem to know who to file the bug report with, I’d appreciate it if you could.