https://old.quokk.au/

We are now running mlmym, a familiar old frontend for Lemmy that has recently been updated to support PieFed. There may be some compatibility issues with PyLova, so please reach out if you encounter any bugs we can squash.

Today is the first day in a while I've been able to access this instance. Otherwise it either failed to load completely or took minutes to load each page.

Is this just a brief reprieve before it happens again, or was there something going on that was fixed? Or was something weird happening on my end?

I open a post, "Making sure you're not a bot!".
I scroll down to the comment section, it's replaced by "Making sure you're not a bot!". (This doesn't go away, no matter how long I wait.)
I open the communities dropdown, it's replaced by "Making sure you're not a bot!"

The site is nigh unusable this way :/ Is it under a bot attack? I guess I'll come back tomorrow.

I am absolutely fucking gutted right now.

Please can we do something to ensure this doesn't happen. It's not the first time I've had it happen either. I type up a very lengthy comment, often getting distracted by other things as I go, and then hit "submit". And...that bitch pops up deleting my entire work. Hours of effort, gone because of some shitty middleware.

When I go to upload an image in JPEG XL format, I get the error message "Your post was not accepted because filetype not allowed". Is that something configured by the instance? Is this actually something that I should be taking to the PyLova devs to add as a feature? Should I be taking that to the upstream Piefed devs?

JPEG XL sure seems to be the best image format for many purposes, and software support is growing. I think Chrome and Safari support it and Firefox has experimental support and plans to enable full support by the end of the month. I certainly plan to use the format once it is widely supported.

2nd time I’ve had federation issues w/blåhaj after the compromise. I’m having difficulty importing this comment & Respectful hater JJJJ part 2 never went through.

Dunno if you want to pin this or not, heck, create a new post, but my wife just accidentally stumbled into a new bigotted instance. DM me if you want to learn how it was inadvertently discovered. I pretty sure we don't need to vote for this particular instance, as it's extremely clear their goal. Bigots will waste your time.

However, when they continue to spin up more instances, we do need to demonstrate why we defederated with instances, and the evidence at the time we did so. So I am hoping we can finally create that accountability post.

As reported previously, posts from Quokkau users on AZ communities weren't being federated so AZ and broader fediverse users could see them, but it was at least possible to manually retrieve them.

But with my latest post I was unable to even find the community I wanted to post it to, and after I created it on my AZ account, I have not been able to retrieve it on Quokkau.

I'm honestly not sure which side has the fault here or what fix would be necessary.

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/thunder_app/p/1012746/cannot-log-into-quokk-au

Cannot log into quokk.au

I have been using Thunder as my main Fediverse app for years, across several Lemmy/PieFed accounts. I have been using it with Quokk.au (a PieFed instance) for months without major issue. But for the past few days, I have not been able to log into my Quokk.au account. I can log into any of my other accounts, but when I tap my Quokk.au account, nothing happens. It just does not load.

I recently registered for an account on Anarchist Nexus, which is a PieFed instance. I can log into that account in Thunder, so I do not think it is just a PieFed issue.

I did notice that as of a couple months or so ago, Quokk.au is now actually running a PieFed fork called PyLova. Might that be part of the issue? Just from the README, it does not sound like it should be drastically different enough from mainline PieFed that compatibility with third-party apps breaks.

https://codeberg.org/quokkau/pylova

Another thing to note is that other third-party apps (like Voyager and Blorp) still work fine with Quokk.au. I am posting this from Voyager, which I have switched to in the mean time. And yes, the regular https://quokk.au/ does work in a web browser.

Is anyone else experiencing a similar issue? I am not sure what is to blame here and how I should go about rectifying the problem. Can I view error logs is anything for Thunder so I can see what it is trying to do and what responses it receives when I attempt to log in?

Seeing as many countries are readily accepting Nazi laws to verify your internet usage, we should front page spoof our instance to say that if you're under 16, you need to tell your guardians to refuse these Nazi laws by force, and where to find resources in case the guardians are FOR them, to find help etc. like the Trevor Project.

Have a subsection for “If you're trans, and your guardians refuse to support your transition, here are futher resources” with links and advisories.

If you mark you're 16+, “here are direct resource you can act.”

“Check this box to ignore this silly parody.“

And have a big “🖕 Yoti”

None of my posts (or presumably comments, though I haven't checked) in AZ communities seem to have gotten through since 25 days ago.

• https://quokk.au/c/brisbane@aussie.zone/p/922741/plans-to-fix-dangerous-weak-link-on-cycling-route-revealed-sylvan-road-bicentennial-to-weste
• https://quokk.au/c/brisbane@aussie.zone/p/935714/how-many-free-kerbside-car-parks-does-brisbane-really-need
• https://quokk.au/c/brisbane@aussie.zone/p/935733/the-view-is-beautiful-but-this-brisbane-bench-is-a-little-bit-hostile
• https://quokk.au/c/brisbane@aussie.zone/p/950285/did-queensland-s-parliamentary-committee-ignore-the-evidence-and-act-on-their-own-emobility
• https://quokk.au/c/brisbane@aussie.zone/p/952093/the-park-the-promise-and-the-protest-what-s-behind-brisbane-s-olympic-stadium-stoush
• https://quokk.au/c/brisbane@aussie.zone/p/966593/qld-government-contemplates-ditching-anti-junk-mail-measures-and-palming-it-off-onto-council

And that's just within !brisbane. No idea how many other posts may also have gotten lost. Not sure what's up.

Welcome everyone!

First of all, what is a 'Yarning Circle'? Well it's a place to have a yarn, a conversation, where everyone can speak as equals. I try to host them every so often to provide an update on the instance and where we’re at, while providing a platform to listen to your feedback.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !commvscomm@quokk.au - Watch Markov Chains engage in simulated Threadiverse discussion as they emulate well known communities
• !fediverse@quokk.au - Our very own community for Fediverse related news, discussions, and insights.
• !quotes@quokk.au - As the name implies, a place to view and share your favourite quotes.

🧑‍💻 What's Up? 🧑‍💻

Wow, so much has happened. There’s been a lot of drama, which I will cover in its own section further below for those who don’t want to worry about such things.

Other than that we had our first Lemmyvision participation, we submitted the song ‘Bars’ by Mudrat, a hard-hitting Australian rap song about media censorship and Palestine. It was a close vote, due to a very limited number of participants. You can still vote in the finals if you wish to join in the remainder of the event.

We released Threadirator, a tool to help promote new communities across PieFed & Lemmy. Along with what I hope is a working bot to track community growth across the Threadiverse. These tools will help PieFed, whereas others have a strong Lemmy focus often not catering to this platform.

@Deceptichum@quokk.au has informed me they are intending to leave Quokk.au due to ongoing drama, and are slowly winding down their posting. We will be looking for new moderators to help manage their comms once they do. Please reach out to me if you’d like to apply for any of those positions.

We have hit 100 active members over the last month, showing a clear trend of growth and engagement. Thank you all for helping make this instance such a great place to be.

The White House has declared radical-transgender people and anarchists as potential enemies of the state. Who knows, maybe in the near future Quokk.au will be banned in the USA.

We have our own Matrix Channel, it's pretty quiet but feel free to join.

I created a new default theme for the instance based on Pine-Rose, along with a new logo.

The report page for community moderators has been updated to provide more helpful information at a glance.

spoiler

We now support donations

🍿 What's the Tea (Drama)? 🍿

What started with a ban of one of our users for German language concerns around the use of the word Nazi, has spiralled into a multi-instance issue where threats of defederation against smaller instances (us, and others) was thrown around to enforce compliance. The FAF has taken steps to reduce the tensions and by removing administrators, reversing bans, and censoring posts. Sadly this has only been met with increased hostility.

Promptly following this was the beginning of a targeted campaign of misinformation and disinformation. First Quokk.au and dbzedr0 were falsely accused of being infiltrated by Neo-Nazis. Luckily this was proven false after some time, but as the saying goes "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." and the damage from this will probably never be undone despite the truth coming out. It does not help that said post was allowed to stay up for hours after it was proven to be manipulated, giving the original post more time to be seen and believed.

A few days later, the lead developer of PieFed seems to have started posting cherry-picked stats to discredit dbzer0 (and the FAF) as ‘ban happy’ for the actions of a sole moderator - one who personally upset this developer by incorrectly labelling them as a ‘ Zionist’ in the modlogs (This has now been rectified by dbzer0).

This was followed up again with another post presenting false and misleading information around the usage of an AI tool to assist moderators in browsing users comment history for patterns of behaivour (Zionism/Genocide Denial in this case), by claiming it was a secretive automated tool that banned users when it simply presented a text file for moderators to view. Please note, this tool has not been used on Quokk.au and I personally do not plan on using it myself, but I will not take issue if any moderators wish to make their job a bit easier.

This has now culminated in PieFed.social’s admin and lead developer making the choice to ‘hide’ our instance from their PieFed instance chooser - Being the flagship instance, this will drastically reduce our visibility to new users and harm our instances future growth. In return I have not ‘hidden’ PieFed.social from our own instance chooser as I do not personally feel the desire to stoop to such a petty low. Depending on how much more we are attacked in the future, I may reverse this decision however.

🧶 Yarn 🧶

We're continuing to grow, and it's great to see so many active users contributing to make this instance a lively place to be. So thank you all for your posts and comments.

If I could make a request, I would love to see more communities being created - if there's anything you're passionate about please don't hesitate to make it so. The more content and places for our community to grow, the more we can help the Fediverse become a replacement for the corporate web.

Is there anything you would like to share?

A while I made a Matrix room, intended primarily for communicating on the odd chance the instance is down. I remembered recently that I forgot to share this with everyone.

Feel free to join and have a chat ❤️

We were close to being defederated from LW due to their flippant administration regarding one of our users criticising their host organisation. It is for this reason that I think it is important we band together with the rest of the FAF and other sites who are joining this defensive alliance.

This is not a call to defederate from Lemmy.world, rather stating that if anyone of us is targeted that we will respond together.

Please comment below with your thoughts on the matter.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67858553

Join the Pledge to boycott lemmy.world! [GenAI]

Note: Judging by the comments, a lot of people are obviously not reading the post and are instead assuming we are calling for defederation of lemmy.world. That is not the case, and in fact the opposite is true. LW already temporarily defederated anarchist.nexus once, and the evidence suggests Mr Kaplan is now pushing for full defederation of all the FAF instances. We are trying to build a coalition of instances that will agree to defederate from lemmy.world IF Kaplan goes ahead with the defederation. Apologies if you weren't aware of the context.

🏴‍☠️ Hoist the Black Flag: Pledge to Boycott Lemmy World!

... if Lemmy World dares to defederate from any ship in the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/, https://anarchist.nexus/, and https://quokk.au/.

Mateys, we can’t let a mega‑instance captain bully the rest of the fleet just because their ship’s bigger. If Lemmy World tries to throw the FAF overboard, we’re calling for a show of solidarity: a fediverse blockade of Lemmy World in response, until the landlubbers see reason (i.e., there is an acceptable change in their leadership and/or this policy).

This is about mutual aid, not mutiny - standing together so no single admin gets to rule the seas unchallenged. A united armada of smaller instances can absolutely blunt Lemmy World’s outsized influence (and, let’s be honest, their ego).

☠️ A word to the captains: before hoisting colours or locking in a course, we ask ye to let your crew have their say. Run a poll, open the deck for discussion, and listen to the voices aboard your vessel. These seas belong to all of us, and decisions that shape our fediverse should be made together, not from the captain’s quarters alone.

If other captains be keen to chart this course with us, drop anchor and make the pledge public in the comments. The more hands on deck, the harder it is to sink any one of us. Let us know if you are holding a vote!

dbzer0 and AN members can vote on this pledge in !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com, and quokk.au will be holding their own vote.

🏴‍☠️ Solidarity forever, and fair winds to the Flotilla!

Well it's time to vote, we received a rather small number of entries 😭 I will open the voting for 48 hours. Depending on how many participate in this round, we may end up defaulting to random.org choosing for us.

Listen to the entires here:

Courtney Barnett - One Thing At A Time

Mudrat - Bars

Ninajirachi - Fuck My Computer

I was reading an external thread only to waste time troubleshooting why I couldn't retrive the comment, when our modlog is missing the reason they are banned here.

If our instance will ban specific users from external instances, I would love to have a /c/ or /metalog where we can read the reasons specific users were banned from our instance. This is general request, and not a sole external user I used as an example. It just felt weird I couldn't even find out why that user was banned, and if it's a glitch in piefed or something. Going forward, I would love accountability for those instances, even whole /c/s we will ban and defed with.

I apologize in advance if my English is bad. I am still getting my ropes up regarding piefed.

Read the post here

Lemmyvision 3 has been announced and @Deceptichum@quokk.au has suggested we enter the contest. So let's do exactly that. This will be Quokk.au's first time entering, and I'd love everyone to have a say in what we put forward.

Submissions end on the 3/5 (or 5/3 for any Americans) - so to make sure we get in on time, I will cut our voting off on 2/5 (5/2).

Please add your submissions below, the highest up-voted song will be our entry (I will not count downvotes).

As you have no doubt most likely noticed, the instance has been running very slow lately. I've made a few changes behind the scenes, and setup up Anubis to help deter any bot scrapes. Fingers crossed this is all enough to fix the issues.

If you continue to experience problems after this point, please let me know below.

Edit: I've also re-opened registration, but now requiring email verification and captcha. I the harassing user continues, I'll swap to manual authorisation/questionnaire.

Does the server need a reboot or something? It's been unbearably slow for me since this morning.

Note: I am copying this here as we are a FAF Companion Instance - as such we are not expected to follow their federation/defederation list, however Quokk.au has already been defederated from feddit.org for nearly a year due to their Zionism.

This has been a contentious topic, sparking much debate but following the Governance post (feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote), the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla has decided to fully defedeate from from Feddit.org.

It follows a model of BDS from pro-Zionist/Israeli sources, showing that views such as genocide denial are not welcome in a polite society. This further backs up the FAF's strong commitment to not supporting pro-Zionism as with its Golden Rule #8

Users had expressed some reservations around losing access to feddit.org communities, some of which have dbzer0 hosted alternatives such as !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com, !buyfromeu@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Others can be found across the wider fediverse such as !buyeuropean@feddit.uk.

But wait, isn't it un-Anarchist to not support complete free speech? Not at all my dear friend. Voluntary association is a core Anarchist principle, and as such exercising the freedom to stop associating with others is part of that. If the Feddit.org admin team decides to change their stance of support for Israel, perhaps the community may vote to refederate in the future.

Hey,

I've had a look at !epsteinfiles@lemmy.world and noticed, there are a lot of posts missing when I browse from this instance. Recent, and not so recent posts alike by various users from across different instances, where nothing shows in the modlog. The instances also don't appear to be blocked. I checked my filters too, and the about page of this instance, but didn't notice anything related.

Does anybody know why, and could tell me please? Thank you.

As the title says.

Their instance is dying off and alternative communities are growing on other instances, this is as good a time as any to make the push and help encourage content and users to move away from there.

Not to mention the only reason we are federated with them now is because we switched to PieFed which federates with them by default.

Welcome everyone!

First of all, what is a 'Yarning Circle'? Well it's a place to have a yarn, a conversation, where everyone can speak as equals.

🌟 Community Highlights 🌟

• !historygallery@quokk.au - Historical artworks.
• !mop@quokk.au - Memes of Production: Left wing memes, a lot of them.
• !anarchy_anz@quokk.au - ANZ Anarchy: A place for news and information about Anarchy & Anarchist groups across the Australia-New Zealand region.

🧑‍💻 What's Up? 🧑‍💻

We had our big vote and the result was a 1-vote tie breaker towards not joining the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla.

In saying that, as it was so close we are going to become 'Companions' of the FAF, which is a much looser affiliation based on shared values. We will be copying many of their existing rules, but are open to modification if our members wish to see changes. We are invited to participate in FAF votes for some rules outside of things like defederations/bans - which we will not be copying on our end, meaning we won't be opening up to HexBear and such.

We will also be able to use the FAF Matrix Channel, where I will be setting up a room just for Quokk.au members. This should be handy to reach myself if the site is down, or just for a general chitchat in real time.

Basically this is all the good aspects of the FAF without any of the concerns expressed by users.

We are also exploring alternative front-ends to access Quokk.au, if you could please take a look at:

• blorp.piefed.zip
• photon.piefed.zip

And let us (me) know which you would like to see (or suggest some others if you know of them)

🧶 Yarn 🧶

We're continuing to grow, and it's great to see so many active users contributing to make this instance a lively place to be. So thank you all for your posts and comments.

If I could make a request, I would love to see more communities being created - if there's anything you're passionate about please don't hesitate to make it so. The more content and places for community to grow, the more we can help the Fediverse become a replacement for the corporate web.

Is there anything you would like to share?

I love some of the features Piefed has, and like not tacitly supporting tankies, but I absolutely cannot stand Piefed's web UI. The inbox is almost impossible to work with, and there's something just a little awkward about basic post comment pages.

So first, have people made good alternative front-ends for Piefed? And if so, does Quokkau have support for any of them?

Bonus question: any recommendations for an Android app? I've been using Summit, but it has a pretty awful user interface in almost an identical way to the biggest problems with the Piefed web.