Believe it or not, they’re all Nicole posts removed by Lemmy.World /s
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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Like, has an instance gone down and if so, why hasn't there been a comparable drop in users and comments?
Edit: Thanks to @example@reddthat.com here for pointing to zerobytes.monster becoming more aggressive against bots as the likely culprit.
Sorry if this has already been discussed but is anyone else worried that “Nicole’s” pictures are from the webcam on a compromised computer? They’re always from the same angle and she’s not really posing for most of them
I think that is the general consensus — that she is likely an unwitting victim
I believe someone found an account she did livestreams on somewhere, and the pictures are most likely screen grabs from those. The odds of the person in the pictures being behind the spam are pretty much nil.
Wuuut ? Everything mentioning nicole or just posts from "her" accounts ?
Only photos and written info that could identify her. The spam accounts probably get banned as they reported. I don’t know of any posts made by any account claiming to be her?
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Everyone on the fediverse is Nicole and you can't prove otherwise.
It may have been lemmy.zip
It did in fact go down for about 48 hours... prompting me to make this new account on dbzer0.
Basically, the admin attempted to update to a newer lemmy version... and it failed, multiple times, and they just rolled back, restored the old version, posted an explanation and apology, and they'll be further looking into ... exactly what went wrong.
But zip has < 50K posts.
Maybe they unzipped the archive? /S
i apparently cannot figure out ascii shrugs, nvm
I don't know exactly how that post counter ... actually, technically counts posts, but:
1:
Zip going down could have uncounted all posts anywhere made by zip accounts.
2:
There could have been some kind of... propogating post count negation effect, as various other instances reacted differently to zip users posts on their instances could not pull them anymore, on different time scales.
3:
If a zip user had a ... top level comment, on another instance, its possible all lower level comments responding to that comment may also have poofed out of existence, in some respect.
...
I may be misusing some terminology here, and this is just spitballing, but yeah.
Almost all of my .zip account's posts/comments... are not on zip itself, and its possible that that is fairly common amongst .zip users.
i apparently cannot figure out ascii shrugs, nvm
¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ => ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just so we're clear, what this crawler does is go through all servers that use ActivityPub known to it, and congregate that data to a list of known services (Lemmy, Mastodon, Piefed etc.). How is does that is by querying a standardised end point to get the instance info (.well-known/nodeinfo which will then point to a different path to get the actual info).
For instance, here's what it will collect for feddit.uk:
nodeinfo json
// curl -s https://feddit.uk/nodeinfo/2.1 | jq
{
"version": "2.1",
"software": {
"name": "lemmy",
"version": "0.19.10-feddit",
"repository": "https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy",
"homepage": "https://join-lemmy.org/"
},
"protocols": [
"activitypub"
],
"usage": {
"users": {
"total": 4184,
"activeHalfyear": 718,
"activeMonth": 485
},
"localPosts": 25750,
"localComments": 122835
},
"openRegistrations": true,
"services": {
"inbound": [],
"outbound": []
},
"metadata": {}
}
The important stat here is the localPosts, which is all the posts made by local users in any community, local or remote. It does not include posts by users from remote instances made in local communities. You can also see this data on the instance sidebar in lemmy-ui.
lemmy.zip going down will only reduce aggregated stats for total posts by 47,280, as that's what they report for their localPosts.
Huh.
Well, I appreciate the info and shrugging magic, but uh... hrm.
I dunno then.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Is divide by zero becoming the most based instance? How did a single bro make best lemmy?!?
It's a pretty cool instance. The governance is transparent with a nuanced voting system, the rules and policies are indeed based, and db0 takes decentralization so seriously that he's apparently working on safeguarding the instance against his own influence with the governance system and admin recall votes and such.
Thanks db0 et al!
That's the most based thing I've heard all year--where can I learn more about this decentralization endeavor?
That's it--I'm making an account now. This comment sealed the deal
More details in the announcement post: "Adding two new admins and introducing radical recalls"
The voting system allows for the community to decide on instance policies, federation decisions, even a process for instantly recalling admins like himself. He acknowledges that as server owner there is only so much that can be done to limit his power, but he appears to walk the walk. Cool stuff.
Db0 is super into decentralization! Everybody should make their account there!
...wait.
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I'd say dbzer0 is probably the most leftist, at least from what I've seen. I personally don't go as far as being an anarchist but can appreciate the philosophy. I probably have more in common with anarchy than democratic/plurality governance, if I'm being honest with myself.
Wait... dbzer0 is "divide by zero"?
I've been reading it as "dibzer nought"
If I were to pronounce it outloud, I would say:
D. B. Zero.
Like D. B. Cooper, lol.
the... zer(o), 0 swap is... basically old school l33tsp34k... like uh... l00tb0x, pr0n, type of ... dialect? syntax?
I thought it stood for database zero.
Lately I've been seeing a lot of comments coming from that instance that are indistinguishable from the ones I see from .ml.
Bc he's just that chill, obviously! 😁
Hm, could be indeed
https://lemmy.zip/post/35999238
Here's the post.
Evidently, Demigodrick has since fixed the problems and successfully upgraded to 0.19.11
https://lemmy.zip/post/36177918
EDIT: Alternate explanation: The fediverse tracker has fallen victim to Trump Tariffs as well rofl.
I think this is zerobytes.monster, one of the reddit mirror instances.
the post count fits and it also matches with the user count not significantly dropping.
that instance has been using rather strict waf blocking rules from time to time that likely also affect the crawler for fediverse.observer.
Yeah, I thought it must be a Reddit repost instance, thanks for pointing to the right one.
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
Nicole posts were banned and deleted en mass?
It’s probably just some technical issue. I’m sure the post didn’t actually go anywhere.
They just got up and left.
The front fell off
In case anyone hasn't seen this bit:
That’s gold!
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of posts were routed to dev/null and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
@blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com decided that he doesn't need his alt accounts anymore.
All of universal monk’s alts got deleted
I remember a bot purge, but I'm not sure if that was around the same time.
Interesting drop
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