C/Mealtimevideos is gone?

Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Lemmy@lemmy.ml – 12 points –

Hey I remember a community I liked called Mealtimevideos - not too short, not too long. Just right for lunchtime.

EDIT: https://slrpnk.net/post/2009611

EDIT: found! https://lemmy.best/c/mealtimevideos

Can no longer find this community. Is it

  • Deleted?
  • Defederated?
  • I am banned?

Edit: The creator/mod was banned from lemmy.world following some bot spam, and this automatically deleted the community.

Really would like if we had... discord style bots that would notify of these changes. I guess there is a modlog, but I have never looked at it.

Furthermore, I find this community was... better curated to my tastes (Video essays, urbanism youtube, and infodump videos) compared to the simple "Videos" communities.

Perhaps I'd like a c/Nebula since most of my favorite creators are now on Nebula and youtube is on a downward spiral.

EDIT: The creator / moderator of the instance replied!

Video discussion is the #1 thing I want to do on social media. I love videos and want to talk about em.

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Hi it's me, the (banned) mod of !mealtimevideos@lemmy.world.
I'll link my comment from the other post on !support@lemmy.world.
https://lemmy.world/comment/3185203

Hi, I was the mod of /c/mealtimevideos, https://lemmy.world/u/PartyCat. This is an alt account.

The lemmy.world admins banned my account for some reason, I think because of something I was testing with a bot account on my own instance that went awry. After starting out here on lemmy.world I've migrated over to mostly using my own lemmy instance now that it is stable.
An unfortunate side effect of that ban is it also immediately removes any communities I had created. I can't even transfer ownership of the community to someone else. It seems only an admin can fix it.

In the meantime, there is now a !mealtimevideos@lemmy.best over on my own instance. However, I would absolutely prefer that the original community gets reinstated, whether I am mod of it or a new one is found to replace me.

This is great news for me! Subscribed!

I hope your community can rejoin the bigger instance if it means Mealtimevideos has better / easier growth.

What did the bot account do?

I have a bot account that automatically adds any posted youtube links in certain communities on my instance to a playlist, which can be accessed from the community sidebar. I find this pretty convenient, particularly for communities such as mealtimevideos to have a streamlined place to access all the content when you don't want to go through the lemmy UI.

It is also doing some content moderation in some of my more curated communities to automatically remove posts below a threshold of upvotes. Because my aim for these communities is to have an archive of only "quality" content and clean up all the posts nobody liked. Only the best for lemmy.bestβ„’

But while testing some new features I'm playing around with it started spamming posts and comments, that I'm sure got interpreted as spam before I could clean them up. I'm trying to work on a good solution to safely avoiding a bot from ever making reposts.
It was also making a bunch of upvotes/downvotes over and over on the same posts when I was testing something to see how that functionality worked. Ultimately I don't think bots should be allowed to vote, it's super weird that they are even able to.

I thought I was pretty safe to go wild with testing on my own isolated instance, but didn't realize that some of these things were getting federated to a bunch of other instances. My bad.

Ahahaha. I'm so glad this post reached you! Unfortunately bot testing can get messy and so it's best to do it offlin. I certainly cannot blame you, this has happened to a dozen community leaders and its good to tweak and improve!

Do you know what instance it was hosted on? The only one I'm seeing was created 11 hours ago with two videos, so I'm assuming that's not it. It's possible the instance went down. I'd say it's possible it was defederated, but we're on different instances, so it'd have to be a big whoopsie to have been removed by multiple instances.