No problem! If there's any topic/community you feel is missing, let me know, and I can add it.

Thank you for using a federated version of phpBB! I love threaded forums more than any other platform online, so when I seen that RetroLemmy had a forum instance I had to join as soon as possible! Reddit like boards are okay, I just like threaded forums better than nested ones.

Nice. Good luck. Hope it works as good for you as it seems to run here!

Ah excellent. I last looked at this 2 years ago. That link totally clears this up. Thank you.

I'll be making the same automation as you :)

Thanks. I hope so too.

Sounds like a nice solution, I hope you guys have good results when it faces it's intended purpose.

According to this post, it should not: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/4271

I also tested it here before turning it on. With private mode enabled, an anonymous API read returns a 400, while webfinger and nodeinfo still return 200, so federation keeps working.

It works through a script that flips the private_instance column in the local_site table directly in Postgres. Lemmy caches that value with a one second TTL, so it takes effect almost immediately, no restart needed.

How do you set the instance to private?

I read that not only does it force log on, but also prevents federation.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3073

https://code.mschae23.de/mschae23/mlmym

It's actively being maintained.

Edit: and lemmybb is 3 year old software. I have no intention of updating or maintaining it. This is mostly a proof-of-concept for LemmyBeProxy. And it's cool that we can get old lemmy software to run on modern lemmy/piefed.

Neat!

Which fork of the interface are you using, or are you maintaining your own? From what I remember, the main Mylmym repo hasn't seen updates in a few years

If you want to better interact with people that are using LemmyBB, remember to sort your front page by "New Comments" (in PieFed it's just called "Active"). The BB users might start bumping threads without other people knowing :(

Thanks! Yeah I never expected it to work as well as it does.

Woah, that's kind of awesome

Hooray! Thanks for continuing to host for us, really appreciate it

I don't think it's possible to ban drive-by down voters, but I wouldn't worry about it.

The vote counts don't mean nearly as much, here.

Places like Beehaw simply disable the downvote function, and I barely notice it's gone, when I'm there.

I find downvotes most helpful as a warning that someone asking questions is actually arguing in bad faith. Beehaw is much more tightly moderated, and that sort of sensitive discussion just isn't welcome there, anyway.

Which, I think is fine. The Fediverse is large and growing. We have enough room for lively discussions in some places, and an enforced chill vibe in others.

My understanding is that admins can disable downvoting at the instance level. I think Beehaw.org does this. I know only a little about it, but i think people on other instances can downvote a post from a no-downvotes instance, but on that no-downvote instance those downvotes are rejected. Something like that. So maybe another instance like Beehaw is what you're looking for.

Even Gaza gets 3G. WTF is wrong with you?

I don’t know where your pent up anger and frustration has come from, whether you’ve met hostility in other forums, or if it it catalysed by some other event, but it is entirely unnecessary.

You are right - I am lashing out at the wrong people, and I am sorry for it. The root cause is a completely unjust ban from Reddit site-wide, and the rest is downstream effects. As a result of that Reddit ban, I went from posting in a generally appreciative community where each of my posts would typically get double-digit upvotes against a handful to downvotes, to getting 0 or negative overall scores, which was unheard of in the original r/vintagemobilephones community. And yes, comments like those by Onomatopoeia would have been heavily booed in r/VMP, by far more people than just me.

On the other hand, have you considered some form of picocell like system that could connect to a more recent network and rebroadcast a 2G signal at very low power? You’d still need to arrange an appropriate SIM, but that way you could effectively take your coverage with you as you moved around.

See this post.

I second this. The only way I've made Lemmy work for me is to block and blacklist LOTS of communities and users, not because they're all bad or do bad things, but just because they're not contributing to the atmosphere I want. Sounds selfish and I guess it is, but I think the freer the platform, the more you have to build your own fences and hedgerows. Good luck with your community, and thanks for bringing it to Lemmy.

I've read their respose to your post, and I think you may have misinterpreted what they've said. At no point have they, or anyone else as far as I can see, said they want 2G to die, just that national 2G is dying. You've then responded in a breathtakingly hostile fashion, suggesting, amongst other things, that they should shoot you, which is really quite disturbing. Nor, from what I can see, has there been much negative voting on the topic in general, although your hostile attitude no doubt inspires some.

I don't know where your pent up anger and frustration has come from, whether you've met hostility in other forums, or if it it catalysed by some other event, but it is entirely unnecessary. There are lots of niche communities here, and they all mostly get along fine, there's no reason to be so defensive and angry here. Not everyone is going to support your idea, but I'm not seeing any particularly hostile responses to it.

I actually quite like the idea of what your non-profit is doing, although I don't think you have much chance of there being a 2G network to roam too for much longer, so you may find yourselves having to build quite a lot more than you'd planned, if you want decent coverage. On the other hand, have you considered some form of picocell like system that could connect to a more recent network and rebroadcast a 2G signal at very low power? You'd still need to arrange an appropriate SIM, but that way you could effectively take your coverage with you as you moved around.

Looking at your community, I only see 2 downvotes total, with those votes split between two different posts. How is that "plagued by downvotes?"

I believe Lemmy v1.0 will be fixing this issue. That should be releasing this year I think.

I'm guessing that was my comment, educating them on how 2G is effectively dead in the US.

If I downvoted (don't recall) it would've been for the nonsensical take of trying to keep 2G alive.

I looked into it some more, and it appears harder than I originally thought when I made this post. How do you ban someone (as a community mod, not an instance admin) if they have only drive-by downvoted and not commented? If someone posts or comments, I can clink the the 3 dots icon next to their post or comment, and there is an option to ban them from the community. But if they only downvoted, I don't see any place to enter a ban against them. Am I overlooking something? Where should I look?