I forgot to mention, if you haven’t already realized, that the upgrade was successful!

There was an issue with object storage. This was to test that it was working again!

The Atlanta Daily World is a local newspaper and the first Black daily newspaper in the US. Morgan State University is a historically black college/university (HBCU), and this community includes a newsbot that reads from the RSS feed of the newspaper.

Howdy, this is michael@yall.theatl.social - I am utterly horrified about what happened in Jacksonville to Mr. Woods. It is my sincere hope that our justice system identifies and prosecutes those responsible for what happened.

There were comments in this thread advocating for violence against law enforcement in response to this terrible news. I have removed and will continue to remove users and comments that violate the server rules against the advocacy/promotion of violence against anyone, including government officials and employees, on yall.theatl.social. Reporting on violence, as with the article above, does not violate any rules. However, this server will not be the source of threats against others in response to news articles and comments.

I think the archive.ph solution is probably the best. I am the keeper of the bots, 🤖 , so it’s just a matter of adding more code to the script(s).

Yep! That’s probably the ideal solution.

@NJSpradlin@lemmy.world - would making it more clear in the post title help? I added ($) in the title to indicate paywall, but I can just do (Paywall) which would be less ambiguous.

Some/many people in the Atlanta area have subscriptions to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, so having that news source is helpful for us. But of course adding more info to post title would prevent wasted clicks for those without a subscription.

Hi @DecaturNature@yall.theatl.social - apologies for the slight delay. Work and some other stuff kept my dance card more full than expected this past week.

How do we unblock any instance that got on Oliphant tier 0 but are later removed? Is that something that will be checked for?

I’d like to have a users council or other group-type decision for block/unblocking going forward. If I was put on the spot for my own personal thoughts, I’d say that unless an instance is primarily dedicated towards illegal, hateful, malicious, or otherwise disruptive activities, I’m inclined to not defederate. My own personal differences with the speech or opinions of another instance have ever been a factor in that decision. So, if there was an instance that needs to be unblocked that was blocked on Oliphant, then let’s unblock it!

how does blocking and silencing affect the new search system? I guess blocking is obvious…but does silence block search?

Yeah, blocking/defederating would prevent search, so agreed that we need to be a bit more careful with who we block or not.

Reminder: Any comments must follow server rules. Comments, screen names, or other content that does not follow server rules will be removed immediately.

@michael here - comment was removed because of violation of server rules on threats/violence

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Howdy, @jackoneill@lemmy.world - paywalled articles - which are from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, are indicated with “$” in the title. If you don’t want to see the articles, you are free to exclude the community from your account.

This shuts down the issue until the next scheduled session of the General Assembly. (Some) House Republicans wanted to hold a special session to move on the issue now; however, only the Governor can call a special session. And the Governor indicating his non-approval would likely make any efforts moot in the regular session in any case.

All added, @DecaturNature - that and Saporta Report should be showing up with the news tomorrow.

Perfect - thank you! I guess that URL was sort of obvious 🙃

@DecaturNature@yall.theatl.social - could copy/paste the URL feeds for Rough Draft? I tried to find them this morning, but wasn’t able to do so on my first try.

This is super cool. Thanks for sharing! I’ll take a closer look soon

Paywalled articles are indicated with a ($) in the title.

Absolutely - that is a great idea, @DecaturNature@yall.theatl.social! Do you think we need separate Lemmy communities for each of the local news communities reported on Rough Draft?

This is part of the dehumanization process. Making gays the “other” signals to the community, and the students, that gay people (or well, probably any adjacent minority category) are not worthy of any respect of decency.

And then there’s bullying, violence, or even worse. And when there is bullying or violence, there is no defense against it - because why would that be a bad thing when the community says gays are bad people?

And for gay/lesbian/trans/queer kids, it is just another dagger into the self-respect and self-worth. Having grown up in this shitty milleu in Cobb County, I can say it takes many years of personal work and therapy to purge oneself of internalized hatred.