There’s a github issue request to solve this:

Add a local user setting to filter out image / meme posts, similar to NSFW filtering https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4988

Tildes is NOT a good website to recommend.

I made a Tildes account many years ago when it first started up. I knew the founder was a Reddit admin, and I’d heard that it was a haven for Reddit admins & power-mods, but I hadn’t spent much time there.

I recently made a post about the problems with Reddit, and while there were intelligent people and comments on there, the majority of votes went to people who were being extremely dishonest, and even outright lying; attacking me in every way possible while urging the admin to ban me. Neutral people don’t behave like that. So they couldn’t have made it more obvious that Tildes is merely an extension of authority-figures-of-Reddit with a different UI. All the same problematic people & behaviors exist there.

Based on the accusations one of them was making, and my history they were pulling up, one of them was either a Reddit admin or someone in cahoots with one of the Reddit admins that banned me. Tildes is invite-only, and the main accounts attacking me were brand new.

The Tildes admin removed my comments debunking the lies they were telling, and deleted my account.

Hopefully people will start going back to independent forums. Google just added a “forums” tab at the top of their search, so they seem to want that too. It’s not good for them that so much information is private on chat programs like Discord, other big social media sites, and concentrated on Reddit.

Lemmy never shows up in search results for me despite some instances having good domain authority, but more people should start using it when it starts showing up.

I use Ecosia instead of Google, but I know that Google recently added a “forums” category to the top of their search. Have you tried that? Hopefully it will help bring back to life independent forums.

none of the major providers will deliver your email without your mail server having first built a reputation

There are definitely major, and easily-abusable “features” being implemented by the major email providers, but I don’t think your statement is correct. I have a Hetzner server, and I can receive email from it (to Gmail) just fine, as long as I have SPF, DMARC, and DKIM set up. I can also create a new server with a new IP and not have any issues. The issues may arise with shared IPs/ranges that are also being used by spammers. Otherwise, if you’re planning to send bulk email you just need to warm up the IP.

I’m wondering, is this still your opinion?

I’ve been thinking about updating that blog post but I’m not sure where to add the updates.

I just added a bunch of updates and info at the bottom to help people who are new to the fediverse. Thanks for the nudge.

Yes, I think so.

There are public instances: https://searx.space/

This is one someone previously suggested, and the one I tried that seems to work well: https://search.disroot.org/ - I see it’s not in the list above though. Not sure why.

I’ve been testing other search engines, and I found that SearX/SearXNG and Mojeek both turn up results for smaller websites that Google puts in 50th place for the exact title of the website/page.

About the votes, it might have been because of the opinion I quoted above.

Na, I don’t think people on lemmy are that averse to criticisms of the UI, features, etc. And by “astroturfed” I don’t mean “my thread was downvoted”. The thread was flooded with hostile comments making personal attacks, etc., most of which completely ignored the substance of the blog post. Virtually the entire thread was filled with comments along the lines of “How dare you attack reddit, you are [insert random ad hominem]”.

All the comments making personal attacks on me were greatly upvoted, and other reasonable and on-topic comments were downvoted. There was a delay before it occurred, and then all the comments were up/downvoted the same amount, and new ones met the same fate, so there was clearly a group of people who were notified about the thread at some point who then continually monitored it and voted on new comments.

I guess at the time the mods removed your blog post by mistake, because they didn’t expect personal blogs here.

I doubt that. But if that’s the case, that’s horrible moderation that they would allow all the personal, off-topic attacks against me and then “remove the post by mistake because they didn’t expect personal blogs”. They should have removed most of the comments in that thread and banned the users.

I’ve had a better experience with the [email protected] community so far. I’ve seen lots of criticisms of lemmy.ml, and even attempts to [dishonestly] attack the .ml developers. I wonder how much of that is from the same group/type of people who just want to cause problems and make people leave lemmy. I wonder if the reason I experienced it less on the lemmy.ml comm is because those users are banned there, and that’s why they’re spreading FUD about lemmy.ml.

I really dislike the bloated UI they’re all using, but it looks like there are solutions on the way.

I’m wondering, is this still your opinion?

I’ve gotten used to it and I like that many instances default to a dark mode. I used to use the old.instance UI, but I think I ran into problems with it and ended up just using the standard Lemmy UI.

Regarding lemmy being complicated, I’ve mostly learned how it works and I definitely think it’s the #1 reddit-alternative at the moment, and the most promising option for the future as well. Along with independent forums of course.

I also set up a Mastodon account, but unfortunately most people are still using Twitter. I also petitioned the Xenforo developers to join the fediverse, and I like that other forum software like Discourse, etc., are joining the fediverse. I definitely think federation is the future.

I’ve been thinking about updating that blog post but I’m not sure where to add the updates.

I agree. The best option now is to look for specific sources of trustworthy reviews.

Regarding rtings, the two monitors I purchased myself had completely different results from the monitor RTINGS showed. What does that say? RTINGS is totally unreliable? I got ridiculously unlucky? https://hardforum.com/threads/why-are-ips-monitors-popular-the-ips-glow-ruins-a-third-of-the-screen-along-with-any-color-advantage-it-may-have.2032852/post-1045814690

I agree about reddit, but unfortunately, I don’t think lemmy is free from astroturfing. Myself and others have noticed that there are many users on lemmy who seem to be purposefully antagonistic towards other lemmy users. The possible reason may be to drive people away from lemmy and hinder its growth.

I’ve experienced pro-reddit astroturfing on lemmy. I posted this criticism of reddit on the [email protected] comm, and it was heavily astroturfed and then deleted by the mod for a bogus reason.

A year later, someone used that post to attack me while insinuating purely from the title that I was at fault because the reddit admins would never do something like that (despite all the public information to the contrary).

I’d like to read this because I think one of the biggest problems with reddit is that it’s now basically a free-for-all for disinformation. So I’d like to see their arguments and evidence that decentralized alternatives are superior in this regard. Unfortunately, the article is paywalled.

It was a firewall issue. I disabled my firewall and it works.

Needs indefinite software support too. It has 8 years software support, which is the best that exists I think, but that means I’ll have to trash it in 8 years for no good reason. The only reason I’ve had to get rid of old phones is because they weren’t providing security updates anymore.

Nginx is running in a container

I don’t think it is. On my other machine it’s running in the docker container, but not this one.

Using serverIP:5870 has the same result as using listmonk.mysite.com:5870. It loads a broken page https://i.stack.imgur.com/gIy4A.jpg with broken links. IE: the URLs are http://localhost:9000/subscription/form.

Thanks, I checked out your link. I think my most recent comment below answers some of your questions. https://lemmy.world/comment/5586470

Are you able to access listmonk directly without the reverse proxy? What is the URL I. The browser when you do that?

Besides the info I put in the OP, I’m not sure what else you’re asking.

LAN IP address of the docker host

No idea what this is, so I looked it up https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-get-a-docker-containers-ip-address-from-the-host/ and ran docker ps then put the container ID at the end of this docker inspect -f '{{range.NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' docker-container-ID. It output an IP address which I used for proxy_pass http://docker-IP:5870;, restarted nginx, and nothing seems to have changed.

Thanks! I was using 127.0.0.1 because that’s what other people were successfully using: https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/issues/1590#issuecomment-1812399067. I had tried variations of proxy_pass http://app:5870; because I’m running listmonk successfully on another server using proxy_pass http://app:9000;, but that is when nginx is running from inside the docker container:

services:
  db:
    <<: *db-defaults
    container_name: listmonk_db
    volumes:
      - type: volume
        source: listmonk-data
        target: /var/lib/postgresql/data

  app:
    <<: *app-defaults
    container_name: listmonk_app
    depends_on:
      - db
    volumes:
      - ./config.toml:/listmonk/config.toml
      - ./listmonk/uploads:/listmonk/uploads

  nginx:
    image: nginx:mainline-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    volumes:
      - ./data/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d
      - ./data/certbot/conf:/etc/letsencrypt
      - ./data/certbot/www:/var/www/certbot
    networks:
      - listmonk
    depends_on:
      - app
    command: "/bin/sh -c 'while :; do sleep 6h & wait $${!}; nginx -s reload; done & nginx -g \"daemon off;\"'"

  certbot:
    image: certbot/certbot
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: certbot
    volumes:
      - ./data/certbot/conf:/etc/letsencrypt
      - ./data/certbot/www:/var/www/certbot
    networks:
      - listmonk
    depends_on:
      - nginx
    entrypoint: "/bin/sh -c 'trap exit TERM; while :; do certbot renew; sleep 12h & wait $${!}; done;'"

I forgot to try proxy_pass http://listmonk_app:5870; though. I just tried that and I got the same error that I get with proxy_pass http://app:5870;.

Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

systemctl status nginx.service
● nginx.service - Centmin Mod NGINX Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/nginx.service.d
           └─failure-restart.conf, openfileslimit.conf
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Sun 2023-11-26 01:07:52 UTC; 1min 57s ago
  Process: 34289 ExecStop=/bin/sh -c /bin/kill -s TERM $(/bin/cat /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid) (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 18426 ExecReload=/bin/sh -c /bin/kill -s HUP $(/bin/cat /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid) (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 25700 ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/nginx -c /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 34339 ExecStartPre=/usr/local/sbin/nginx -t (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 25702 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Nov 26 01:07:47 centos7test systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Nov 26 01:07:47 centos7test systemd[1]: Failed to start Centmin Mod NGINX Server.
Nov 26 01:07:47 centos7test systemd[1]: Unit nginx.service entered failed state.
Nov 26 01:07:47 centos7test systemd[1]: nginx.service failed.
Nov 26 01:07:52 centos7test systemd[1]: nginx.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 26 01:07:52 centos7test systemd[1]: Stopped Centmin Mod NGINX Server.
Nov 26 01:07:52 centos7test systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for nginx.service
Nov 26 01:07:52 centos7test systemd[1]: Failed to start Centmin Mod NGINX Server.
Nov 26 01:07:52 centos7test systemd[1]: Unit nginx.service entered failed state.
Nov 26 01:07:52 centos7test systemd[1]: nginx.service failed.

journalctl -xe
--
-- The result is timeout.
Nov 26 01:08:56 centos7test systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /mnt/HC_Volume_33691542.
-- Subject: Unit mnt-HC_Volume_33691542.mount has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit mnt-HC_Volume_33691542.mount has failed.
--
-- The result is dependency.
Nov 26 01:08:56 centos7test systemd[1]: Job mnt-HC_Volume_33691542.mount/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Nov 26 01:08:56 centos7test systemd[1]: Job dev-disk-by\x2did-scsi\x2d0HC_Volume_33691542.device/start failed with result 'timeout'.
Nov 26 01:09:01 centos7test systemd[1]: Started Session 313 of user root.
-- Subject: Unit session-313.scope has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit session-313.scope has finished starting up.
--
-- The start-up result is done.
Nov 26 01:09:01 centos7test CROND[34567]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
Nov 26 01:09:10 centos7test kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=85.203.42.26 DST= LEN
Nov 26 01:09:35 centos7test kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=205.185.121.3 DST= LE
Nov 26 01:09:45 centos7test kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=107.148.82.29 DST= LE
Nov 26 01:09:53 centos7test kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.204.41.118 DST= LE
Nov 26 01:10:01 centos7test systemd[1]: Started Session 314 of user root.
-- Subject: Unit session-314.scope has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit session-314.scope has finished starting up.
--
-- The start-up result is done.
Nov 26 01:10:01 centos7test systemd[1]: Started Session 315 of user root.
-- Subject: Unit session-315.scope has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit session-315.scope has finished starting up.
--
-- The start-up result is done.
Nov 26 01:10:01 centos7test CROND[34680]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
Nov 26 01:10:01 centos7test CROND[34679]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
Nov 26 01:10:11 centos7test kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=91.92.246.145 DST= LE
Nov 26 01:10:12 centos7test kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=85.203.42.26 DST= LEN
Nov 26 01:10:21 centos7test kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=85.209.11.142 DST= LE
Nov 26 01:10:22 centos7test sshd[34734]: Received disconnect from 180.101.88.196 port 14758:11:  [preauth]
Nov 26 01:10:22 centos7test sshd[34734]: Disconnected from 180.101.88.196 port 14758 [preauth]
Nov 26 01:10:40 centos7test kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=162.216.150.164 DST=
lines 1377-1425/1425 (END)

I tried some of the solutions here https://serverfault.com/questions/351212/nginx-redirects-to-port-8080-when-accessing-url-without-slash

proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port; didn’t seem to change anything.

I also tried

  proxy_pass http://listmonk.example.com:5870/;
  proxy_redirect http://listmonk.example.com:5870/ http://listmonk.example.com/;

Maybe this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30097334/nodejs-on-nginx-not-working-without-a-port-number-in-the-url is the answer, but I don’t understand it.