The latest posts on Lemmygrad have not federated to Hexbear (5450 behind currently). There was an outage there recently which probably contributes.

I'm on a different frontend posting this. The classic hexbear.net UI seems to be down again.

I am going to preface this by saying that this is not a dispute with a moderator. I am not asking for my post to be undeleted. I will write the post from the perspective that Hexbear moderators are correct.

I am writing this post for clarification on rules of future posts.

I like to post news stories which are published by DPRK public news agencies ie DPRK state-owned media, usually KCNA. I started doing this because I saw many misinformation posts about DPRK, whether good or bad. Many of the misinformation posts about DPRK cited DPRK public news and misinterpreted the article. So I figure, I should just start posting DPRK public news directly to demystify people's ideas of DPRK.

Examples of misinformation about DPRK:

• Anti-DPRK sites which may be secretly funded by US government, such as DailyNK and NKNEWS. These sites make up bullshit about DPRK and are considered legimate by western media because their sole purpose is making bullshit.
• Some western media articles, such as published by Fox News or BBC. These articles will typically cite the Anti-DPRK sites or misinterpret information published by real DPRK sites.
• Screenshots of twitter posts with uncited sources: "Kim Jong Un said DPRK executed 2 israelis" (fake), "Kim Jong said Netanyahu is bad" (kinda real, DPRK has hated Israel since at least the 1980s), "Kim Jong Un said US is a cancer-like entity" (real quote from a much longer speech)
• Collections of images of DPRK posted without context. There are many twitter posters who seem to get images from KCNA articles and then remove the watermark and post the images without the article, so that they can take credit for the images which were published by DPRK media.

I think that News Agencies inside of DPRK are a much more reliable source of information about DPRK than outside sources. Yet, I never see other users posting links to the News Agencies that are actually inside DPRK. Other users tend post things from the other 4 categories which I mentioned.

Do hexbear users believe that DPRK is a reliable source of information about DPRK or not? Are they afraid to visit DPRK-hosted website? Do they not know that DPRK has internet and websites? Are the DPRK-hosted websites blocked in your country?

Again, I'm not disputing any decision of Hexbear mods. I'm not asking for the post to be undeleted. I want clarification for future posts, which I'm sure would also be helpful to other users.

Yesterday I posted an article from DPRK-owned media with 2 photos by DPRK government and 1 photo by the Russian government. My post was removed because Hexbear believes that the photo which was provided by DPRK government is AI-generated.

The photo which is suspected of being AI-generated was broadcast on DPRK National Television (KCTV), published in WPK's official newspaper (digital & physical) (Rodong Sinmun), and published on DPRK's publical owned news agency (KCNA).

The reason given for the photo being suspected of being AI is that it looks weird. I can't disagree with that. Many photos that come out of DPRK look weird, even before generative-AI was a norm. DPRK just looks weird in general which I ascribe to culture shock.

Hexbear removed the post, saying that the DPRK government used AI to generate the image. This means that DPRK government published an AI-generated image in a physical newspaper and broadcast it on National Television.

exhibit 0) My post which was removed for containing a photo produced by DPRK
https://hexbear.net/post/8321242

exhibit 1) Photo published on KCNA, DPRK's nationally-owned news agency.
https://archive.is/xepRu

exhibit 2) Photo published on Rodong Sinmun, DPRK WPK's official newspaper.
https://archive.is/uvSei

exhibit 3) Photo broadcast on KCTV, DPRK's national television channel. Screenshot 1 shows the image plainly. Screenshot 2 & 3 shows the image as part of a newspaper, which I would guess to be Rodong Sinmun.
video (timestamp 13:15 and 25:30) https://kcnawatch.org/kctv-archive/69ea2614e62a8/
screenshot 1) https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/553ce8ba-c7fb-4529-8687-129dd84cc347.png
screenshot 2) https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/bf839602-ef40-466d-ab59-13943b6ea932.png
screenshot 3) https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c2becb72-b6b0-4085-b4ab-0a512296911b.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Central_News_Agency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodong_Sinmun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Central_Television

Here's my concern, AI-generated does not mean "looks weird". AI-generated means that the image was not produced with a physical camera. AI-generated images could look totally normally, just as photos made with a camera could look weird.

My post was removed. I am being told that I broke a rule by posting an image that was created by the DPRK government and seemingly reported by DPRK as being a legitimate image.

Now I have to be concerned about whether photos posted by DPRK government are considered to be legimate by Hexbear, which seems to be the greater authority on what actually happens in DPRK.

For clarification on my future posts, I need to have some questions answered.

• Does Hexbear consider DPRK to be a reliable source of information?
• Will my posts in the future be removed for containing images published by DPRK government?
• If Hexbear considers images which look weird to be AI-generated. How do we know that images that don't look weird are not AI-generated?
• Will Hexbear users face consequences for posting information provided by DPRK government because it looks weird?

These questions could also apply to other governments.

These two rules in styles.css are the problems

.featured-posts {
  background-color: #2f2f37;
  border-radius: 0.25rem;
}
...
html .text-person {
  color: #dedede !important;
  font-weight: 700;
  font-size: 12px;
}

.featured-posts needs a light or unset background-color

.text-person needs a darker color

I tested on .ml and both look fine so I guess this is a result of the custom theme

If someone can point me at the repo I'll submit a PR if you want

The little bell icon has a number next to it, but when I click on it, there's nothing in it. Have to click on "all" to see unread messages.

At some point, it appears lemmus.org has decided to block us, though they still appear on both our linked and allowed instance lists: https://lemmus.org/instances

Unsurprisingly:

• there are some new posts in an active comm there: https://lemmus.org/c/shmups
• I can see some old posts in it, with 1 local subscriber: https://hexbear.net/c/shmups@lemmus.org
• Attempting to subscribe to that comm myself gets stuck in a “Subscribe Pending” state
• A post made to an instance that does still federate with us has no comments from Hexbear users: https://lemmus.org/post/21636557

Surprisingly:

• That post did federate to us, along with comments from local users: https://hexbear.net/post/8268821?scrollToComments=false
• Comments on that post do federate to the home instance: https://midwest.social/post/46038786?scrollToComments=true

Anyways, I continue to not understand how federation actually works. I said something in the past about lopsided federation, but that was a case where federation in both directions was the expectation, and it’s clearly not the case this time - it seems like lopsided is perhaps exactly what we expect.

Since Hexbear’s side of things seem to be working as expected, and so does the lemmus side, I’m not going to follow up with any admin pings myself on this one, but figured I’d document it still in case someone else strongly feels like partially federating with an instance that won’t federate back should be changed.

Was getting connection errors earlier in the day now the site is being laggy and the upbear and mark as ready button bugging out :/

update: cleared cookies and site data, seemed to work?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10944631

as far as i can tell, hexbear users are seeing all content from grad including comments and posts but lemmygrad users arent seeing any content from hexbear, so if you make a post in a hb comm and arent getting replies this is why

Comment from @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml suggests it’s an issue on the Hexbear sending side @CARCOSA@hexbear.net

anyone else experiencing this? it will usually last for a period of say 5-10 minutes, I won't be able to access the site at all, but then it goes back to normal

Do I need to get a frontend for lemmy?

There are newer posts: https://lemmygrad.ml/c/socialism

I haven’t checked other comms holistically, but spot checking GenZedong, the only missing post is due to a user being banned on hexbear.

Started to browse through the posts i posted to grab articles for a project i started recently and every time i reach page 11 clicking next it just loads a blank page, or the standard "Error, please refresh in a bit" message, this happens in all platforms and browsers even after clearing cache and cookies.

Nothing I do will fix it. Mark all as read. Ticking stuff off. It just always shows as 1. Doesn't matter if I have 20 messages or no messages.

When looking at my inbox, images and emotes dont work when from a DM. If the image/emote is ![text]() (This isnt working. The markdown is getting sanitized weirdly and the inline code is purged of the link and text portion. Ill try spacing it out: ! [ text ] ( some - url . tld "othertext")

Then it only renders as !text, with text rendered as a link to the image file itself. If theres no text between the brackets then its rendered as just an exclamation mark. This doesnt occur when viewing comment replies in my inbox, there the desired behavior is present with images rendered fully with the blur and show image button, and emotes rendered as emotes.

This has been going on for a little while now, and its starting to be an annoyance. Other users ive talked to have expressed the same technical problem and frustration.

Any ideas whats doing this and why its not working? And any ideas how to fix it?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6658584

Loading slowly and being laggy. Me problem?

It looks like federation from Hexbear to discuss.tchncs.de works, but not the other way around. For example, on db0 we can see a user reply to a Hexbear comment, but it doesn’t show up when viewed from Hexbear. Maybe this is an intentional side effect of how (de?)federation works, but this post seems to suggest we intend to be federated, we appear in their linked instances, and not in their blocked instances, while our linked instances shows them, but allowed does not (it has discuss.techncs.de though, which appears to no longer exist?)

Anyways, it seems like the relationship shouldn’t be so one-sided. Either neither direction should work, or both should, but maybe there’s just something I don’t understand here.

E: also adding a screenshot of my comment to the post, because while I assume y’all can see it, I don’t really fully understand what happens with posts/comments in this comm:

There has been discussion recently about the performance of the emoji picker. I wanted to make a follow-up thread.

To establish context, there are two emoji pickers.

1. The one that appears when you type ":" followed by a string to filter the results. I will refer to this as the "inline" picker.
2. The one that appears when you click the "Emoji" button above the text entry area for a comment/post. I will refer to this as the "popup" picker.

Many people have had performance issues with these pickers. Some have proposed reducing the number of emoji, which I am personally strictly opposed to. I think the emoji are a crucial part of this website, including the very rarely used ones. It seems much better to first pursue technical solutions to this problem.

1. Lazy loading of the images, meaning that only the images matching your search string will be loaded rather than all the images at once.
   • @makotech222@hexbear.net implemented this, which works well. However, it seems to work only for the inline picker and not the popup.
   • Could this be implemented for the popup? I assume the popup uses a 3rd party library, which make complicate this.
   • This should theoretically allow a functionally unlimited number of emoji.
2. Some of the images (as @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net pointed out) are oversized.
   • Perhaps these could be bulk resized. This was discussed in the previous thread.
   • I would like to also propose very low resolution versions (32x32 or similar) be created to act as thumbnails for the popup picker, if possible. This may not be worth the effort, or do more harm than good.

I have also noticed other problems with the pickers.

1. The popup picker and inline picker seem to use different filtering algorithms, which do not provide the same list of emoji for the same input. I personally find the popup picker to work better.
2. The popup picker seems to insert emoji at the end of the comment/post text with a space before and after.
   • This means having to remove one or more spaces when combining emoji.
   • This also means having to cut and paste the inserted text if the desired location was not the end of the post/comment.
   • I propose that it would be better for the emoji text to be inserted at the location of the typing cursor, without spaces before and after. This is only for the popup picker, it makes sense for the inline picker to insert a space after because it functions as autocomplete.

"The Square Hole" - the viral tiktok where a guy inserts all the different shaped objects into the square hole on a game intended to sort shapes into the correct shaped holes. My analogy is that slop is the square hole because people are dumping things that are more appropriate for other comms into slop.

In the CARCOSA definition of slop, slop is for roasting anonymous reactionaries. Emphasis on anonymous. https://hexbear.net/comment/5630534

Slop is for what the old dredge_tank was like. Roast anonymous reactionaries to your heart's content!

Gossip for an informal discussion regarding people with power / notable / tools of power

Counterprop for a formalized discussion regarding reactionary people no matter how powerful/notable.

The side bar of the slop comm says "For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else."

In the past week, I have seen many posts in the slop comm which are either from the white house, Donald Trump, or the democratic party. It feels like users are using the comm for all things bad, which is too broad because so many things are happening.

The White House is a public figure. Trump is a public figure. The Democratic Party is a public figure.

Donald Trump announcing a new tariff is not "slop". That is a material action. This would qualify as news or politics or at worst go into the chapotraphouse comm.

Slop is democrat voters and republican voters. Slop is the voting base. Slop is the things that american citizens say. This is what I interpret anonymous to mean. IE not the leaders of the party.

The Democratic Party and Republican Party are not slop. The non-famous people who support those parties are the slop, the hogs.

Slop is people who have no power, who say stupid and problematic things.

My concerns and reasons for typing this post is that:

1. Posting everything into the slop comm devalues the purpose of the slop comm. I like the slop comm for being able to see insight into the mind of the average hog. (non-famous reactionary people)
2. Posting news stories into the slop comm trivializes the impact of the news stories. When Trump creates a new tariff, that represent real material harm, unlike things said by random reactionaries.
3. Posting reactionary material actions done by Public Figures into the slop comm, creates a precedent that the other comms are not allowed to observe the real world. Trump is the President, one of the most powerful people in the world. If observing his actions are quarantined to 1 comm, we are denying the reality that his speech and actions have impact on everyone's lives.

I am not saying that Donald Trump, Democratic, Republicans are not bad. Those things are bad but they aren't slop. Slop has no power. Those things have material power.

Thank you for considering my concerns.

https://live.hexbear.net/

The website says that it is giving an SSL certificate for the URL hexbear.live instead of live.hexbear.net.

I liked to watch youtube videos on the hextube platform. It's be broken for 2 months. Can it be fixed?

Just fyi, we need them to bump mutual aid posts.

Idk if this would be hard to implement but I think the first tagline should explain what taglines are, with a link to a post or something.

You are being dipshits and you know it.

I, being used to my password manager doing everything, failed to save my password when I made my Hexbear account. The application has since been accepted, but when I try to reset the password the bear icon spins for a while before resetting to the reset password button.

I have tried multiple browsers and devices. I assume this is because I've never logged in to the account and that's why it doesn't want to work. Can anything be done?