incremental backups might also be something worth looking into
unfortunately it seems that people are trusting google search results to be accurate without following links.
as far as I can tell this is a combination of reddit returning the subreddit creation date as the timestamp that will show up in search results yet including images of recent posts, which google will then use as an indicator of "the image exists on this page". this will lead to a 7 year old subreddit with recent posts showing as the image being present on a 7 year old search result. if people actually follow the link they'll see it's just a link to the subreddit and not to an individual post.
are there actually this old posts?
this seems like google + reddit being a shitty combination. i'm seeing fewer results but the two results i get that are 7 years old are just links to the subreddit, not to posts, which is likely throwing off the date on there.
other reverse image searches like tineye don't show any prior images, so it's very likely that you're just fooled by misleading search results.
unless you can produce links or other evidence about actual 7 year old content please correct your comment.
I have already commented the same on the other post.
Sure, the same applies to any other lemmy-internal contact method though such as posting to !support@lemmy.world or sending a pm to @lwreport@lemmy.world.
Our automod doesn't currently inform people that they're banned or how they'd appeal that though. We usually review automod actions within an hour though, in most cases false positives are sorted out before the user even notices them.
you can't use lemmy PMs while you're banned from the instance.
appeals can generally be made in any way that will reach our team; email addresses are listed in the instance sidebar and community sidebar at https://lemmy.world/c/support.
the domain you posted a link to was in our automod blacklist due to previously being used by spam bots.
upon review it appears that this domain serves user generated content by different users that can be determined in the URL path. in those cases we typically only ban those users rather than the entire site if it's not overly spammy.
we also usually review automod actions quickly, although in this specific case we must have missed this, as we had a lot of other true spam removals in the last days.
you have been unbanned from LW and your post has been restored.
ruud isn't and hasn't for a long time been involved in LW moderation at all. the last moderation type site admin action taken by ruud was september 2023. all LW site moderation is done by the LW site admin team and to some extent our community team.
the LW team operates more or less independently from the rest of the instances we have at FHF. some topics are discussed in the wider circle of moderators across instances (same role, just different terminology depending on the software) but decisions are generally still on the LW site admin team.
once it's ready.
this post didn't follow our usual process for announcements/changes and lately there have been several other events that required a lot of our attention as well.
we'd love to have posted an update on this topic a week ago already but we haven't finished that within the team yet.
only mostly accurately for local users, for remote users we obviously can't see that.
as we have 15 days of log retention for this, i can tell you that we've had about 25.7k requests with auth tokens with a success status over the last 15 days, 23.1k over 7d and 17.9k over 24h.
Lemmy currently only counts users that posted, commented or voted as active users, so the difference is just people who voted but didn't post or comment. there are certainly quite a few more users lurking that aren't included in these stats.
over the last 24 hours, I can see 4,878 active contributors in our db. 785 unique posters and 4,550 unique commenters.
expanding this to a 30 day view, this gives 20,821 contributors of which 5,648 posted and 19,625 commented.
this is excluding bot accounts.
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local server time is UTC.
time in UTC is included both in the title and the post itself.