that still automatically pulls the content even if its manually reviewed which makes it go out much faster than any people manually making memes would be able to post at

just space things out so youre not doing more than a couple a day here and dont just copy titles and stuff 1 for 1

People interact with the site that dont have accounts on the site

Making it local only would lock them out of news and discussion about something they interact with

Seems like lemmyverse doesnt have the instance listed at all for some reason, assuming a crawling issue. I reported it on their repository. Would be new since I remember it showing the instance before

You can check in https://programming.dev/communities that programmer humor has way more active users than most communities here

Since mods and admins can't control what gets hashtagged it can hashtag the completely wrong things

For example we have a community called c/loud. This is a cloud community but will be hashtagged with #loud

We also have a community called c/meta and similar other communities but the hashtag should be something similar to programming.dev meta since meta itself doesn't make sense. Currently its assuming you know what scope of meta you're in due to it being attached to the instance but hashtags are free for alls so the hashtag is going to be impossible to follow (other communities that fall within this are comics, events, books as they are programming or programming.dev specific which is currently assumed due to the url)

There is technically a roundabout way you can do it although it involves a bit of actions

I havent fully tested it so may need some variation of the actions to work but:

1. Post gets created as normal in the instance
2. Post get removed through the lemmy ui so that it sends a removal federation action and removes the post everywhere it was federated to
3. Post get unremoved in the database by changing the removed value to false. As this is changing the value itself rather than sending an action this does not federate and only unremoves it for the instance itself

We usually hide bot communities here which would include zerobytes but my hiding system recently broke a bit due to the 0.19 update so I haven't hid any recently

I can fix that and hide the new communities that popped up

(Hiding just means they dont show on the feeds by default but show for someone if they subscribe to them)

Edit: Fixed the issues with my system and hid the main ones that appeared in the scaled feed, ill hide more as I see them

Edit #2: There is also a way to block an instance like you said by going to your user settings and then the blocks tab on web but this is one case that should be getting handled by us

There was some repeated patterns that this user seems to have been doing so I gave them an instance wide ban

• Posts would be deleted and then reposted (especially if the original post had a negative score)
• Conflicting information in some of the articles

Starting off banner submissions with a quick banner generated from midjourney

Example view of it in lemmy explorer

they do an allowlist rather than a blocklist (defederate with everyone by default, explicitly allow certain ones). the two were removed from their allowlist

They defederated from both programming.dev and sh.itjust.works recently since they held a vote and they had enough upvotes to do so. Reasoning for programming.dev was due to people in our instance coming in there with supposedly bad takes but I feel like thats a major overreaction to block an entire instance of people with different views (with the different views appearing due to it not being political at all inside the instance) due to a couple people going in there instead of just moderating the individual users. The message to defederate from us also only has 13 upvotes and was both programming.dev and sh.itjust.works which I feel isnt really a majority opinion of their instance if they want one since it confounds the upvotes of two different instances and is a relatively low amount for their monthly active users

A bunch of the users on programming.dev have accounts in smaller and personal instances rather than in p.d itself since they can host instances. You can see some of the logos in our area such as c++ and some of rust are missing

Lemmy itself has had some bugs that are bringing down a bunch of instances at once. Should hopefully be resolved in a future update