looking at your recent comments from the last 3 days, many of your comments don't have any downvotes. am I missing something?
it was a significant part of the brand of a spam/advertisement campaign several months ago
it's removed from our slur filter now
This is addressed in the upcoming Lemmy release 0.19.4 where contents will no longer be included in API responses. Until then it's up to clients to actually hide it. Content is kept for a few days to allow you to undo deletion, but you can also edit your content before deleting it to remove that. There is also a scheduled task running once a week I believe that will replace contents of deleted comments with something like PERMANENTLY DELETED.
Regardless, as Lemmy is a public platform, you should be aware that people may be storing this information on linked platforms regardless and may not respect the edits/deletions at all.
so far this has been a single case with kbin.earth and lots and lots of cases with kbin.social.
no other instances have been observed behaving like this yet.
see https://lemmy.world/comment/8961882 for now.
we've been spending a bunch of time already during the last days to get a solution in place on our end that will allow us to selectively reject federated activities from kbin, such as allowing comments and posts while rejecting votes, which seem to be the main issue currently, but we're seeing some stability issues with this currently.
we're planning to unban the affected users from the communities once we have this stabilized, as we currently have to pick between
- defederate from kbin.social (and other kbin instances when they are affected)
- reject all inbound activities from affected instances
- temporarily ban affected users in the communities associated with the issue
- drop all activities with certain characteristics, such as votes, when coming from a specific instance
- drop all activities with certain characteristics, such as votes, when coming from a specific instance and exceeding a rate limit
1-3 are all options we can do with existing tools, 4 and 5 require a custom implementation on our side. as 3. has the least overall impact of those we decided to go with 3 for now, which seems to work out rather well so far, except for the individual user experience of affected users.
4. has been our primary focus to implement currently, but it takes time to ensure this works as expected, as we're essentially building this from scratch. 5. may be implemented afterwards if we want to spend additional time on it.
Lemmy.World is legally primarily bound by the countries listed here.
If we get a request, of course we will evaluate that request.
When it comes to taking down content, such as copyright infringing content, we may err on the side of caution to reduce the legal risk we're exposing ourselves to.
When it comes to handing over data that is not already publicly accessible, such as (not-really-)private messages or IP addresses of users, we will not "err on the side of caution" and hand out data to everyone, but we must follow the laws that we're operating under. See also https://legal.lemmy.world/privacy-policy/#4-when-and-with-whom-do-we-share-your-personal-information.
it's mostly !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, !asklemmy@lemmy.world, !opensource@lemmy.ml, and !selfhosted@lemmy.world, though some of the latest spam also started arriving in !warframe@dormi.zone.
they appear to be advertising their "criminal organization", listing some of the illegal activities they do and where to find them.
posting and commenting.
voting should work: https://lemmy.world/post/11967676
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this doesn't seem to be targeted against you, just someone not liking the comment. some people order their feed by e.g. active, so such cases will show up quickly.