Just noticed this new account myself! Bad week for dav! Accout after account, tututut..

Yeah its too much, never know, maybe this new account has been improved, but i'd rather not interact with a bot all the time.

Interestingly there were a few comments last week from the u/davriellelouna account. I'd started to hope the person behind it had decided to engage in a more meaningful way, but no go.

Hey ! :)

Yes, definitely agree, and that seems to be the majority feeling regarding that bot.

Edit: another account: https://lemmy.world/u/TheDwZ

Hey Blaze! :)

Didn't realise the account had been banned places, seemed to be everywhere for a while. Maybe if it is somebody fiddling about with a bot they step off the gas a bit with their posting schedule. Feels like an avalanche of irrelevance at times with all the seemingly aimless, and low substance posts.

I'm all for boosting activity on Lemmy, but activity for activity's sake risks a slop-like situation.

It also quickly buries posts that may be more engaging quicker than is necessarily necessary. A slower social media doesn't mean a bad social media after all.

Hello, non Aussie-zone user, hope it's okay.

My personal theory is that the new account was created to avoid the bans issued against the first account.

Probably some nub trialing a bot they're writing.

That account is dominating my mostly meme free Hot front page

Haven't really noticed any particular bias/push of specific topics. Yet.

Edit:

I've decided I'm happy to give everyone, including AI and bots, the benefit of the doubt.

When they reach superintelligence, I won't notice anyways.

Only thing I'll add is Blorp is a Lemmy and PieFed client. No mbin support currently.

afaict Blorp is a Lemmy client. You know how on your phone, you can get to Lemmy through a web browser, but also through an app like Voyager or Jerboa? Well those apps, and the front-end of the website, are all called clients. And it's also possible to have alternative web URLs that access the same server.

So there's ttrpg.network, which is the name of the instance and also where the default lemmy-ui is hosted. But there's also old.ttrpg.network, which accesses the same instance backend, but has an alternative client designed to look like old reddit, called Mlmym.

To me, Blorp looks like another alternative front end to Lemmy.

I made an account on quokk.au, though I haven't used it much. If I were joining the threadiverse today, I'd probably look for Piefed rather than Lemmy.

Lemmy, PieFed, and mbin/kbin all provide APIs that let you pull data (communities, posts, users) from their backend. A client knows how to connect to the API, pull the data, and present it to the user. Lemmy, PieFed, and mbin all have a default client they ship with, but the Lemmy client only speaks Lemmy, the PieFed client only speaks piefed, etc.

Blorp, among other multi platform clients, speaks Lemmy and PieFed. Blorp can be self hosted, but it’s not a backend like Lemmy, PieFed, etc. Blorp reads/writes data via these APIs, but it doesn’t store any data on a server. The connected API is responsible for data storage.

Idk if I explained that well. Does that make any sense?

Another way to think about it is email. Gmail is both a email server and a client. Blorp is like using a 3rd party email client that connects to Gmail AND Yahoo.

I haven't tried any Piefeds or mbins. My impression is similar to yours: interpreted language and "no fancy design patterns" gives me the idea it's probably great for quickly prototyping new features like categories and moderation tools, possibly at the cost of performance. If you're looking at hosting, maybe reach out to a few piefed admins, ask what they think about it and if/when they tried Lemmy for a comparison.

The great thing about the Fediverse is afaik you can test other instances and even other softwares while still getting access to the same communities and posts.

I don't understand. Blorp looks like another thing you host as a website to access & participate in the fediverse, just like lemmy, piefed and kbin. But you call it a "client". What are the differences? The project readme doesn't help explain this to me.

Huh, it looks like the groups (of communities) are instance-specific. https://piefed.social/ has lots, https://piefed.au/ doesn't. Then there are "feeds" which... look like the same thing as groups? Of which piefed.au has Australian-specific ones (including a lot of auzzie.zone communities). I'll have to find out if any of these are portable across instances or not, or if I'm stuck using multiple sites to access the fediverse >:|

EDIT: Yess, feeds are a version that work across communities. Yay. BRB, gotta try this out. Although this does raise the question of "why bother with groups when feeds are the same but better?"

I’m working on a Lemmy/PieFed client called Blorp that allows you to login to multiple accounts at once. You can login to your Lemmy account and PieFed account, and quickly switch between the two. However I don’t yet support PieFed specific features that Lemmy doesn’t have (e.g. topics).

PieFed has only recently had a stable v1 release, but based on my interactions with there devs, I’m very optimistic about their future.

This is the correct link, sorry,

https://aussie.zone/post/24216884

It didn't link... fuck..

Dang, perhaps time to start singapore.zone? (I jest, it's unfortunate that a few bad actors ruin it for everyone)

Recent issues appear to be AI bots scraping lemmy content, posing as legitimate user traffic.

The difference between this and a regular DDoS is the intent behind it. I don't believe the traffic we're seeing is intended to be malicious as with a DDoS, but due to the incompetence of those behind the scraping... it effectively is a DDoS.

Whats the difference between this event and a DDoS event?

I was able to access AZ on the browser during the downtime period, i'd assume that wouldn't be the case with a DDoS?

Cloudflare's security features are serving us very well:

The red line shows the blocks put in place stopping a recent surge in hits. If the blocks weren't in place, AZ would likely be almost entirely offline.

Thanks, that confirms some of the changes I've made are working.

I use jerboa. I have just tried and it seems like it's working. Cheers. I'll keep you posted if things change though.

Thanks for the hard work mate.

Thanks for posting, good to confirm it's working as expected.

I'm lurking from Japan! I'm getting a challenge, but it works fine.

It probably helps that I always use the browser haha

I've made further changes... what app do you usually use? Worth trying again now, please let me know how it goes.