Hilarious Chaos Announcements

Good morning/afternoon everyone!

I came across this in the feed, and thought I'd make a post letting everyone on HC know in case anyone's missed it and would like to participate.

As the title says, the lemmy developers will be having an AMA on March 25th.

Please note, the AMA will take place on lemmy.ml. Last time I checked,.ml has us on their block list. Therefore, if you'd like to participate, you'll need to have an account on either .mls instance or another instance that federates with them so that your comments can be seen by them.

And that's it !

Have a good day guys !

It has been almost a year since we disabled downvotes on HC. @[email protected] and I are interested to check in and read the room.

In short, downvotes affect how content is displayed here, and certain types of content gets reliably downvoted on Lemmy. For a comparison, look at:

https://hilariouschaos.com/c/Conservatives vs https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Downvotes are often not used in good faith, and content will be buried at the bottom based on them. However, they are also a valid form of expression and I doubt anyone here is fragile enough to be affected by them.

What are your thoughts?

TL;DR: You might have more people to talk to, we are now federating openly.

The longer version: Until now, we have been maintaining a list of instances that we are federated with. This was done out of an excess of caution, as it's easier to keep tabs on who you link with.

The downside of this approach is that we haven't been linking with many Fediverse instances that we simply weren't aware of.

We have now switched to open federation and will instead maintain a blocklist, reserved for instances that host shit we really don't want coming across to us (e.g. loli porn).

This of course doesn't change other instances defederating from us, we're scary that way.

Thoughts?

Hope yall have a good one!

Time flies!

To old and new users alike, thanks for sticking around!

Hey everyone,

I’ve just launched a new Hilarious Chaos Lemmy user group chatroom on Element (Matrix)! This one's for EVERYONE, so whether you’re on our instance or not, you’re welcome to join the madness. However, it's still private, so to hop in, just DM me for the invite code, and you’re good to go!

Now, for clarity: if you’ve heard about the other chatroom, that’s an exclusive space reserved for trusted, long-time Hilarious Chaos veterans. But this new room? It’s open to ALL—newbies, lurkers, and chaos junkies alike. Bring your best jokes, wild ideas, or just sit back and enjoy the mayhem.

Hope to See you there!

Hope you all have a safe fun one !

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to check in see how everyone is doing.

9 times out of 10 it's because you didn't read this:

The only thing that you should write in that box is "I agree", like in the example above. If you don't, your application will be rejected as the text says.

I'm making this post as I'm aware that Lemmy does not convey the reason for rejection and some of you may be confused as to why we're not letting you in.

Reason for this post:

If you don't know already, federation isn't as automatic as it's appears/designed.

Even IF other instances are linked to your instance, number one, you might not even know that. Therefore you won't have them on your allow list.

Number two, just because other instances are linked to you and then you put them on your allow list posts and communities still are not federated between y'all

You HAVE to create an account on THEIR instance and then add communities from your home instance, that you want to show on their instance

Then

You need to do the same on your home instance. By copying the communities from the other instance and finding and subscribing while on your home instance account. Otherwise both instances are connected yes, but can't see anything posted from one another.

I don't know why it's like that. But this post is to inform you that I'm gradually going through the join lemmy page and looking at each instances allow and block list.

I'm putting instances that have us on their linked/allow list in my notes, and getting with splinter to see if they're good and ok to also link up with. If they are, They are being added to our link and allow list.

However you'll need to follow the steps above so that we can successfully federate. I AM ALSO DOING THIS AS WELL you don't have to if you don't want to. I'm only letting y'all know this because if you want to hurry up this process in case there is content from other instances we are linked to that you really want to interact with so you don't have to wait on me for that to happen. Is what I mean.

We've added 9 instances I found that are connected to us and I've added some non political communities from them that I found interesting and subed from my hc account. I've made accounts on their instances to do the other step of the federation but idk what's going on with my email. I'm not getting their confirm email email.

Please have a look at our allow list guys so you can sub to any communities you find interesting from them.

Go to Hilariouschaos.com home page scroll all the way down to the bottom and click 'instances'

You'll see this. These are all the instances we're federated with. Click any of them you find interesting and copy their community link that starts with the ! Search on HC then sub from their.

This only applies to users in hilariouschaos.com instance and who are active daily (However I'm open if you will be more active if made a mod to communities you want to be a mod for)

Are there any communities we currently have, that you are not a mod in but would like to be ?

Not being a mod to a community just for the sake of being a mod, but communities you actively use or would actively use if you were a mod to those communities is what I am saying.

If you are a daily active user or would be more active if appointed mod to communities you like/want, let me know through DM please so I can appoint you as a mod.

We have a lot of communities which is challenging to keep up with so if any of yall are interested I don't see why not.

Let me know.

• Alice

Hey everyone! Nothing bad just incase you don't know, you can make communities private or public now.

Private only shows locally on our instance

Public will show to who we are federated with

Please check out the 1.9.4 recent lemmy update on github for direct information about it. My break down is an assumption as to how it works.

Thank you

There are a few things to do so this one might take a couple of hours to complete, during which HC will not be available.

Edit: Maintenance done and Lemmy updated to the latest version, let me know if you notice anything funky.

I wanted to thank all of our users who decided to join our Instance and who post and comment and vote.

We're happy and honored y'all chose us and we appreciate you being here and all you have to offer even if you're just a lurker.

I would like to give a special thanks to @Lovstuhagen and @airrow who consistently post helping keep this instance alive.

I've been taking a break from lemmy for a little while (still checking reports, applications and dms just not posting or commenting)

And it means alot to me that y'all are active in that regard. I greatly appreciate your activity here. It keeps things going and it made me feel 'ok' enough to take a bit of a break.

I always notice y'all's posts, upvote them and comment when I feel I've got something to add. Even when I don't I still notice them.

Splinter and I are both very appreciative.

So thank you so much. ❤️

Not sure if it's needed, but I have setup an invite only matrix chat if anyone is interested please let me know and I'll send you an invite.

Or you can dm me your matrix ID so I can invite you that way.

Thanks.

Please note: This is only for hilariouschaos.com instance users.

Hey guys,

I want to revist this to see if any of you have changed yalls minds.

I personally want down votes turned off. It's discouraging, annoying, PETTY, and I just honestly see it more as a little 'Fuck you' button, for the majority of other instances users.

I don't want any of you being treated that way.

I see no benefit having them on. If you've seen my comment on our first post about this, you know why I say that. My reasoning is here https://hilariouschaos.com/comment/11211

Original post

https://hilariouschaos.com/post/16681

I am not the only one who feels this way, as it's been brought up too me a few times. So I need to address it.

Here's what I would like to do.

First and foremost, I want everyone to vote what they want in the comments if you could please. HOWEVER. I'd like to turn them off temporarily yall can give me a time frame for how long that's ok with you.

Then, we'll revist this again, to see how everyone feels having both experiences with them off and with them on and what we should choose for the long run.

I have kinda another idea it's nothing special, but I just don't want yall to freak out thinking it'll be permanent. I just think we need to turn thrum off, at least for a little while temporarily.

Thank you,

Please let me know.

Alice.

[email protected]

[email protected]

Community where you ask questions and get governor chris Christie's opinion on whatever you want his opinion on.

I'm really fucking excited about this one !!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

We've added a few more instances to the federation list, including the likes of lemmy.world - let's see how we go. So far federation hasn't been bad, so I am cautiously optimistic.

Instances added:

• lemmy.world
• feddit.de
• midwest.social
• feddit.uk
• lemmy.eco.br
• feddit.dk
• lemmus.org
• sopuli.xyz
• eviltoast.org
• slrpnk.net
• monyet.cc
• linux.community
• lemmy.pt
• lemmy.kde.social
• suppo.fi
• lemmy.radio
• scribe.disroot.org
• feddit.nl
• feddit.cl
• lemmy.tedomum.net
• feddit.it
• sub.wetshaving.social
• awful.systems
• rblind.com
• szmer.info
• tucson.social

We're just looking for more people to talk to and Lemmy gives users the ability to block entire instances, so in theory there should be no need for anyone to defederate us. Some people will anyway but whatever: https://defed.xyz/check?name=hilariouschaos.com&software=lemmy

As some of you are aware, one member is no longer with us.

Posting other users information is not cool, that's why they are no longer here.

I want to take a quick moment to emphasize how important transparency is to me in our community.

While I'm more than willing to discuss recent events openly, I don't want unnecessary drama.

If anyone has questions or wants to know more about recent actions, please feel free to direct message me privately.

Your trust and understanding mean a lot to me, and I'm always here to address any concerns you may have.

Thanks for your understanding, and I'm sorry for this unfortunate news.

Alice

[email protected]

Hey everyone!

Hope y'all are good!

There's no specific reason I'm asking about this, other then to be nosey.

I'm really interested in hearing how y'all been liking it so far.

I hope y'all been enjoying it and having a good time with it 😌