Wander @yiffit.net 30-something grey wolf therian and furry. Admin of yiffit.net lemmy instance and packmates.org mastodon instance.
Announcing termination and archival of yiffit.net in 2025: we will be gone, but hopefully immortalized.
Hello everyone,
I'm sad to announce that I've come to the decision that it would be best to archive this instance given the overhead in administration and moderation that would be required to run it correctly.
Please note that this announcement ONLY impacts yiffit.net and that I have no intention of terminating packmates.org at all.
There is several reasons for this decision but most of them are based on my inability to run the instance with the quality and care that I envisioned. Due to the nature of Lemmy, the necessary moderation effort, media storage costs and admin effort are considerably higher than for a Mastodon instance, for example. It's not a matter of donations, which many of you have generously offered over the lifespan of the instance.
What is meant by termination and archival?
Some time after January 3rd 2025, fulfilling my promise of giving at least 3 months notice, the following will happen:
- Yiffit will stop federating, all user sessions will be revoked and logins will be disabled.
- The site will effectively become a read-only version, giving access only to local communities. NSFW communities will be accessible publicly without need for an account although equipped with an age disclaimer and anything else necessary to display adult content.
- Remote communities and posts will no longer be accessible, thus remote instances need not worry that we would somehow cache any content which they would have wanted deleted if federation had been enabled.
- Local comments and posts from remote users will be preserved.
- There will be a way to receive and process personal account / data deletion requests for yiffit.net users or remote users who have submitted a comment or post.
- I will attempt to find a way to have the site officially archived in the Internet Archive or in any similar way.
- I will continue paying for the domain and hosting for an indeterminate period of time, especially since the storage costs of local content as opposed to remote content are negligible.
Technically there is a chance that we could come back at some point since I'll make sure to save the server's federation authentication keys as well as all local content, but I don't want users to count on it.
If we were to come back it would probably be in a form other than a Lemmy instance or anything else that I currently am aware exists out there.
If you want to post a farewell message, please feel free to send a comment below since everything will be archived and visible. Before archiving the instance, around New Year's Eve I'll create the final farewell message thread. Both this thread and the final farewell message thread will be pinned in the home page when the site is archived.
Thank you everyone for everything. I'm incredibly humbled by all the interest and users we've received over time and especially all the regular users who've kept posting constantly despite the downturn in activity.
Closing Registrations. Reflecting on viability of continuation of Yiffit
Hello, Unfortunately I am not able to take care of Yiffit as it deserves. Unfortunately, having been blocked by lemmy.ml, Yiffit is not a good instance to explore the lemmyverse because it is restricted. At the same time, I feel like there's countles off other sites where Yiff can be found in a better way.
I have closed registrations for the time being as I gather feedback and collect my thoughts.
Thank you and apologies.
Thank you! I just upgraded the lemmy version. I thought it would be difficult but it was more painless than I thought.
Yiffit has been upgraded to Lemmy 19.2 (you can now disable blur in your personal user settings)
Was more painless than I thought. There's also 19.3, but that requires a pict-rs config upgrade and I'll leave that for another day.
Ah, I did not know this was a problem. The only reason I haven't upgraded yet is because it could break the current config. In any case, I'll try doing it as soon as possible.
I'm working on it. Apologies for the downtime. I added enough resources to keep this from happening for another year, although I'll try to migrate to 0.19 this week.
Yes, I'll upgrade this week at latest. Sorry for keeping us back. Historically that used to be the safest decision for Lemmy, but I do realize it's been a long time.
Thank you. I'll add that to the status monitor. Do you have experience in system administration? I am basically unable to take proper care of yiffit at the moment, often being out of town and I need some help :(
I'm sorry. Apparently the Lemmy server component went down but because the frontend was still responsive my downtime monitor didn't detect it as down.
It should now work again! Apologies!
I'm still around, but busy. I'll try to enable push notifications.
Thank you for letting me know. I'll have a look into it as soon as possible!
It can be made easily via their API, but depends on what features you're looking for. What is it that you miss from the web version?
Yes, so the bot currently uses a library that I compiled on windows and the whole bot only runs on windows right now, which I need to change because it's not viable to keep it running from my PC / dev environment.
Yes, but It's pretty hands off since 99% of security stuff is managed for you by the Lemmy software, including rate limiting. Just make sure you use a secure password and if you want put the instance behind cloudflare which is super easy to do.
Don't buy Apple. As simple as that. You know when a company gives you the creeps? That's how I feel about Apple.
Members can now create communities without need for approval first
I have enabled once again the possibility of creating communities without the need of prior approval. Any Yiffit user is now able to create their community.
Since things have slowed down considerable and I'm introducing new automated tools such as the Yiffit helper bot, it's now possible for me to put in place some safeguards and allow community creation without the need for approval.
Good idea! And yes, the idea is to edit it or strike things through as they get done.
Pending Tasks by Yiffit administration
For the sake of transparency, I'm sharing a list of pending tasks that I know are pending. Hopefully this will also let you know that I'm aware of it and will progressively take them on.
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Currently the helper bot does not post if it can only find an e621 result, even if that e6 post has sources.
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Currently the community list updater bot is not scheduled and needs to be setup to run at least every day.
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The helper bot needs a dedicated username.
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Publish revised version of recommended tagging for posts
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Hold vote/poll to name the mascot
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I am testing a utility that will allow users to automatically share images they like when browsing e6 or FA.
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Make a statement regarding the removal of the Pokeyiff community, but to sum it up, it is unfortunate that its creator decided to delete it, but I don't think it would be right for me to meddle with their decision as I want community owners truly feel that a community is theirs, even if that means deleting it.
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Update the main welcome post.
I'd say to start with CF tunnels unless you need non-web based applications. Cloudflare tunnels require you to have a domain, though.
It has the added benefit that you have network monitoring, logging and some filtering for security that they do on top and you get to manage everything from their web interface.
be warned that the first time can be a bit confusing, but since it's done using their web interface it's easier than if you have a problem making wireguard work.
- Create a tunnel with a public hostname that will be the url to access that service. During the creation of the hostname specify you want it protected by L7 application firewall.
- Create a new self-hosted application in cloudflare application section and for starters use the default login email and in rules specify the list of emails that are allowed to login
you should now be able to access your application from anywhere.
Alternatively, if you have a DNS server in your home network you can add a private IP range to your tunnel. Let's say 192.168.0.0/24. Then when you connect with their pseudo-VPN (cloudflare warp or cloudflare ONE) you can directly use your home network's ip address from that device. If you tell your device to use a local DNS server that resolves your internal services, you'll be able to connect to them that way.
AI images are not allowed in our communities. Apologies. Please stop or I'll have to give you a temp ban. I'll leave this up for a while so that you can see this message.
Thank you!
Generally speaking it doesn't matter if the artist is the uploader or not, because it'll take the e6 artist tag. But, it's true that especially recent images are not on e6. I've edited the bot so that it will always post results if it finds a furaffinity, Weasly or twitter link but state that it might be the comissioner's account instead.
Sorry! It now posted. Initially it wouldn't post if it couldn't verify an image's artist on e621, but I now have it say a message that it could have linked to the commissioner instead.
If the image has an e6 version, it'll use that to verify the actual artist.
The Yiffit Helper bot is now live!
Hello, after a few test posts yesterday, the new Yiffit Helper bot is now live. You can see a couple of examples here:
https://yiffit.net/comment/3707677
and here:
https://yiffit.net/comment/3692105
The goal of the bot is to boost our appreciation for the work that artists do by linking directly to their gallery and post-submission. This is especially useful for little known artists who will appreciate if you follow them, favorite their image, or check out their gallery.
Please note: the bot only runs in communities where @Wander is a moderador. If you'd like to enable the bot in your own community, leave a comment here or send me a PM with the name of your community. You're free to choose whether to enable the bot or not.
Also, aside for the test runs that I've been doing, the bot will not comment on old posts to avoid notification flood. Instead it's set to now run every 30 minutes for new submissions.
If the bot fails to make a comment for your post, it probably means that it couldn't find a good match. It's not a perfect solution that will always work, but hopefully it will work as much as possible.
At some point in time people will link to stack overflow, forum or similar support articles that are over 100 years old.
Even if it's just an archived version, someone somewhere will find utility in IT or coding advice posted over a century ago.
What is the name for the feeling of nostalgia, loneliness, eeriness and liminality that comes when listening to songs like subwoofer lullaby?
Subwoofer lullaby from Minecraft: https://youtu.be/Gpd85y_iTxY
Please note that I'm not referring to nostalgia from having played Minecraft a long time ago. The song felt this way since I heard it the first time.
Here's another song that has a similar feeling to it https://youtu.be/usjnkZVshLc
Is there such a concept as 'liminal music'?
It's not exactly the same as frisson, I think, but it still makes me feel goosebumps sometimes
Is there any q&a site where answers can be edited collective, as in a wiki, in order to create the best possible reply?
Just like wikipedia, but instead of articles it's questions.
Potentially allow for several answers, but the main goal would be to create the best answer using the same criteria we use for wiki articles.