I do think having options like letting people disable dms, letting people choose to need to approve dms to get notifications about them and then having a whitelist makes sense. I can make tickets for those in the lemmy repo later if they don’t exist already

yeah pretty much exactly that. It’s custom built 100% by our team with no external tools or anything (just a way to notify us using apis). it’s technically a separate running code since we can’t hook it into the base lemmy code that easily but acts the same way

Fair enough. Could you edit your crossposts to the new version of the post that has some clarifications just so there’s no misscommunication about this anywhere (you could put the original under a lemmy spoiler block which turns it into a dropdown for people that want to see original wording, details on how to do that here https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html. Or some other way you want)

Theres no LLM involved. This version of the post doesnt have the tldr to clarify some things so ill just repost my comment here

• Were not sending data to an LLM but the method is hidden so bad actors cant bypass it (you can disagree on that but the main issue is bots that are able to check blacklisted content and then just edit messages slightly to bypass it)
• The things that are checked are public (posts, comments, and dms that are also sent to other servers we dont control) and can be moderated on regardless of this. There isnt anything that breaches privacy
• Worst thing it can automatically do is temporarily remove a post/comment until an admin can approve or deny it just so its not there for people to run into (for example if someone spams slurs at someone else the someone else doesnt see that instead of it being there until an admin is able to come online)

For context this is for programming.dev specifially and affects our users rather than something on any fediverse software (figured I would mention that since it was cross posted into the main fediverse com with no context)

Reposting my answer to a comment on the main p.d post just so theres no confusion on this

• Processing is local. Were not sending data to an LLM but the method is hidden so bad actors cant bypass it
• The things that are checked are public (posts, comments, and dms that are also sent to other servers we dont control) and can be moderated on regardless of this. There isnt anything that breaches privacy
• Worst thing it can automatically do is temporarily remove a post/comment until an admin can approve or deny it just so its not there for people to run into (for example if someone spams slurs at someone else the someone else doesnt see that instead of it being there until an admin is able to come online)

for a couple of those

The things that are checked are public (posts, comments, and dms that are also sent to other servers we dont control) and can be moderated on regardless of this. There isnt anything that breaches privacy

The way its being moderated isnt disclosed so that people cant just bypass it. The processing is local though like said in the original message (so for example were not sending this to some LLM/Ai to then use)

Everything is sent for human review so false positives can be reversed quickly and the worst action that happens is removal of content temporarily (before thats reversed)

This just means someone cant spin up a new account and spam things on the site or on federated sites and have that linger until its able to be moderated

Can you link to the post thats having issues

startrek.website

I remember them being allowed but I might be thinking of 2023 I guess

edit: yeah was 2023

Important notes for the stats

• 2024 had alts allowed which inflated the account numbers while 2025 doesnt allow them edit: nevermind was a 2023 thing
• the time interval 2024 was in was double the size of 2025 (but site was down a bit within that but still has more than 3 days of uptime vs 2025s 2 days)

actual matches (image above has some issues with the script to show all black pixels + doesnt show white pixels vs transparent sections)

pre-event templates vs end

24th with 2046 pixels on the final canvas

beehaw has no results

blahaj lemmy + sharkey (no results for piefed for some reason which seems like a bug in the logs? edit: seems like its cause piefed didnt work with fediauth)

bots arent allowed, if you point out the pixels mods can check if they actually are bots

there was an issue (no pixel placing cooldown) so the sites being rebuilt to fix it

the new position also overlaps with someone btw

the design that overlaps with it moved a bit to the left, havent pushed the updated image here yet though

not everythings here, I just fit on what I could. Anyone can add on more logos to the area in addition to what I have on the template (and I can add new additions to the template)

dont have much time to sprite new logos this year to expand on last years since Ive been making features for canvas in the time instead

The bottom right is starting to be built up as a tech corner if any other tech related communities want to join into that (programming.dev, d2jam, toast.ooo, and sc07 currently). There should be a bunch of empty space for people to put stuff