in the past couple of days it seems like LLM crawlers have been ramping up again, with totally normal traffic patterns like these

we’re currently looking into trying to identify them better without having to serve everyone with a captcha or something like anubis to access the site.

they don’t seem to be moderating at all, nor interacting with anything on the fediverse other than spamming to their own communities, likely automated. we will defed from them soon if i don’t receive a response to my pm. i’m aware of at least one other instance admin unsuccessfully attempting to reach out to them already due to lack of moderation.

we’ve been aware for a week or so, haven’t had time for this yet. i’m subscribed to github releases but they are somehow completely bugged. while i get release notifications for other software i am somehow not getting them for blorp. since the repo was moved to the blorp org i’ve only gotten 2 release notifications from github for 1.9.26 and 1.10.2. i’ve never knowingly had this issue with other github releases.

edit: we should be getting to this in the next days, forgot to include that.

In an ideal world where this could happen in a peaceful way? I wouldn’t see an issue with that.

In our current world where it seems that the only way for it to exist is one involving mass murder? Absolutely not.

thank you for actually following up.

https://lemmy.world/post/12513108/7978972
https://lemmy.world/post/18470868/11713672

These cases are not about murder, but death sentences following due process. While it’s not exactly the same, it’s still calling for violence, even if it’s in a more civilized and more commonly accepted way. Murder generally refers to unlawful killings.

I will take this to our team to discuss. Although I’m personally against death penalties, as I don’t believe anyone can be trusted with this power as it will absolutely get abused and mistakes will be made, I think discussion surrounding death penalties in general should be allowed, provided there is due process involved. Discussion without referencing specific cases is also not easily possible. This is something that can be difficult to define, as for example Israel also claims there to be due process for the Palestinians they execute and lawfulness can often be quickly changed in favor of the acting regime.

https://lemmy.world/post/11472248/7227437

This is definitely a comment that could have been phrased a lot better, but I don’t see how this could even remotely be considered a call for violence.

if you’re not going to provide any references just say so instead of beating around the bush

i just searched through our conversations for mentions of murder, kill, israel, zion or palest, and there is nothing relevant.

you just claimed that jordan was calling for people to be murdered, so please provide references for this.

i don’t remember everything we’ve talked about and i’m not going to read through everything again, but you clearly seem to know what you’re referring to, so that should be easy to find. i doubt that this exists in the first place, and if it does, it was likely acted on already.

i’m fully aware that there are other issues you have with jordan, but since you brought up claims of calling for murder, let’s focus on that.

please share where jordan is calling for people to be murdered.

please go ahead and provide references

I’m sure you have references to us allowing people calling for others to be murdered to support your argument.

We don’t support any murder, neither murder of zionists nor murder of anyone else.

we are not zionists. if you call for zionists to be murdered and then call us zionists that is a call to murder us, despite a lot of people claiming that it’s “just a harmless political slogan”. this is normalization of mass murder. we do not tolerate genocide or other murders either, which is also an accusation that a lot of people are throwing around here. accusations of zionism, mostly from dbzer0/AN users, are constantly thrown around against people that they don’t deem to be radical enough.

defederation was done while this person was still an admin

it wasn’t a regular user. it was a member of their admin team.

the LW accounts are related to a transphobe and all banned now

maybe worth to name and shame those apps with lack of proper lemmy markdown support.

and ideally check if that has already been reported to their devs, and doing that if it hasn’t been done yet.

he is an active member of the community and doesn’t already moderate as many communities as e.g. TheTechnician. while I was waiting for a response from lawrence until today, another member of our team, unaware of this post, had independently looked into finding a new mod, and about half a day before i’d gotten around to it, appointed him. this resulted in a bit of an unfortunate timing, but overall I expect dohpaz to be able to take care of this community and also build up a suitable mod team, possibly with the people who posted/commented here.

fwiw, LW/PFW require local users to be at least 18, or, if higher, whatever their local laws define. for other instances this is of course nothing we can control.

@dohpaz42@lemmy.world has been appointed as new moderator: https://lemmy.world/post/45393928

I’ve asked him to also consider all the help offered here as moderator applications.

looks like a member of our team missed these threads, i’ll sort that out later today

I haven’t heard back from them yet, I wanted to wait a week from my original comment, especially considering the easter holidays. i’ll get back to it later today after work.