Lemy Meta

We have been under troll attack for a while now. For this reason, I am giving up on the open registration policy for a while.

I will also add a rule for extremist users. Even though I care about freedom, I don't like moderation duties very much :) These users must find a new instance that matches their identity.

We’re also looking for an admin who can volunteer to moderate. They should be someone who has spent a few months in our instance, has a clean moderation history, and is active. In short, they must be someone we can trust. @[email protected] and I are busy these days :)

Why? There is no peepo on the canvas and there is no space left to draw. The UK have already a big flag on top-left:

You can help us by using this template: https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=621&y=259&zoom=8&tu=https%3A%2F%2Flemy.lol%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F6efeae75-9642-4383-902a-cc271693b9c2.webp&tw=60&tx=595&ty=220&ts=DOTTED_BIG

What is this?

For all you Reddit refugees this is like r/place.
For all who don't know what that is either, this is a public, well, canvas, that will be freely accessible to anyone with a Fediverse account (specifics on the main post, don't worry, Lemmy is included).
You'll be able to place (this is not place!!!) one pixel every certain amount of time on the canvas, either in an empty or an already used spot, overwriting it in the latter case.

Where is this happening?

Right over on https://canvas.fediverse.events/

Announcement post and other related stuff:

• Main post: https://toast.ooo/post/3740832
• Community: [email protected]

When can we participate?

On the 12th July 2024, or 2024-07-12 for all you ISO lovers!

Why should I care?

I don't know, it could be fun and it's not like you have to do it alone, it's actually way more fun to partecipate alongside your fellow fediversers, sooo... monke together strong?
If you have some particular interest and you want it represented, try to look for your people in the right communities, and organize together to make the best fricking piece of pixel art the world has ever seen!!

From here I guess we can invite you to maybe make a little something for our lemy.lol instance's community, claiming a patch of land for ourselves as the (certified) best instance of the Fediverse (full disclosure: am admin of said instance).
If we want to make something, we can probably make a Matrix room to coordinate our efforts!
Otherwise, just go ahead and have fun with your loved <insert niche game/anime/film/any piece of media> and make something out of it!

Lastly here's last year's final canvas to try to win you over (or scare you):

This instance performs spectacularly. Admin is always on top of everything. No drama, and I have high confidence that this instance won't disappear without notice.

Our admin does not get enough appreciation, so big shoutout and thanks for your hard work ❤

I will upgrade the Lemmy version to 0.19.4 on Sunday 10:00 UTC. Therefore, we’ll experience about 1 hour downtime.

Normally, I do not announce these version upgrades, but since the database will also be upgraded and migrated, down time may increase in case of a problem.

For local time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=lemy.lol+update&iso=20240609T10&p1=1440&ah=1

I'm tired of removing spam posts from these two communities for the last 2 months. With the decision we made with Quazar; We're removing these two communities until Kbin's moderation improves.

There is almost no real human post, so I don't think we'll lose much. You can see the situation in home instance: https://kbin.social/m/opensource https://kbin.social/m/fediverse

Hi, new here. Came over from .world after they banned communities again.

One thing I am noticing here is a 2-10s load time on inline images. Is this a common thing?

I am logged in lemy.lol. I am not logged in programming.dev. I go to community in programming.dev. I press Subscribe, I enter lemy.lol. I press "Fetch Community". It redirects me to login page of lemy.lol. I just refresh the page without logging in and I am redirected to "lemy.lol" homepage and I am logged in.

Edit: I tested it with other instances where I have account, the result is the same, it's not just lemy.lol

We're having some issues sending emails (thanks to Amazon). Therefore, I manually accepted the existing email verifications and moved to manual verification for the registrations for now.

Also, I am proud to celebrate that we have exceeded the 500th number of users 🥳

You may have noticed the rising spam wave lately. Most of these are due to Mastodon. Because of this, I'm considering temporarily blocking Mastodon and (probably) some others.

What I want to ask is; do you use any software other than Lemmy and Kbin on our instance? If we're sure there is no one, I'll block.

Please note that this will only affect our (lemy.lol) instance. Users from other instances shouldn't worry.

As you know, we were affected by the federation delay problem at 0.19. Lemmy developers made fixes for this, but they haven't released the new version yet.

I selected the commits with these fixes and ran that version on Lemy 2 days ago and the problem seems to have fixed according to Federation state tool.

Glad we finally got rid of a mud solution like restarting the server periodically :) Please contact me if you encounter any problems about this.

or do we want to keep this as a mostly user-auth instance?

I was thinking of creating something similar to "findAReddit". There doesn't seem to be a big one around. It could become a directory that other instances frequent. Are we willing to handle something like that?

It is obvious that the single-administrator platforms does not survive. I asked @[email protected] for help for this, and thankfully he accepted.

For those who don't know; He is the person who uses lemy.lol the most (most posts, comments). That's why it seems like there aren't many people to trust more than him :)

For an instance that has 366 users at the moment, I think 3 meta communities are too many :) Therefore, I merged the posts to the [email protected] community and now everyone can post to that community 👍

I noticed this instance in the All tab. It has 5 users in total but also has around 35k posts. It has posts specifically about Jesus, Christianity and a little bit of Covid.

In general, I defederate harmful instances (full-bot, CSAM, spam-infected etc.) immediately while keeping the ones people may not like but not that harmful like lemmygrad, hexbear to their own choice.

What I want to ask here is, should we defederate from this instance as whole or leave it to the users? Like are we have any benefit from this instance?

If Lemmy had a feature like default blocklist, I'm sure I would add this one there. The community that bothers me the most is: [email protected]

I apologise for being in beta for the last few weeks. I didn't think it would be such a painful process. I will remain in stable from now on unless something extreme happens.

I think the title says it all. Basically, when a new comment appears on your targeted post, it sends you a PM about it.

@[email protected]

Usage

• Subscribe to a post/comment: just reply the post or comment and mention the bot. Or send the link to the bot via PM.
• Unsubscribe from a post: send PM to the bot with stop text and link of the post like stop https://lemmy.ml/post/1234
• Unsubscribe completely: Send PM to the bot and add stop text to your message. It will unsubscribe you from all subscriptions.

Note: the bot sends only one notification per post. It waits for the previous notification to be marked as read for new comments.

Made with @[email protected]'s lemmy-bot project 🙏 Tomorrow I will publish the code publicly after adding README and self-hosting guide.

Hey, periodic personal perplexity here! 👀

I noticed that my own posts made to external instances are not visible from my own account on this instance, but they are from outside

Even though I didn't find them there, they are still present both here and in the external instance on the respective communities where they were posted to, e.g.

• on lemy / on world
• on lemy / on world

I only see my posts on lemy.lol on my profile.

What happened?

Nothing really NSFW, I was thinking of opening up an upvoted because of boobs comm.

I just noticed their crawler isn't picking up lemy.lol
it used to do

After a few configuration tweaks and lemmy builds, I was able to increase the upload limit to 100MB and the timeout to 600 seconds without any problems. I kindly ask you to use this limit only when necessary 😅

Also after the Lemmy 0.19 RC update, resource usage increased. So I upgraded the server specs to 16CPU, 32RAM and the thing has improved a bit. I hope these problems will be fixed soon.

These past few days I noticed that Eternity isn't displaying the right information in some places, despite it not having received any new updates.
As far as I saw, there are issues with:

• Subscriptions: they're shown as empty and the Subscribed list of posts is just filled with All
• Saved posts: Someone else's saved posts are shown to me, though I don't know whose they are

First of all, I apologize for the approximately 20 minutes of downtime. I didn't expect the migration to take this long :)

The reason I upgraded to a beta version because I was curious about the "scaled" post order and also saw some instances running it seamlessly.

Since it is a beta version, you may encounter interesting bugs, please let me know if this happens.

Some changes that caught my eye:

• Scaled sorting
• "moderator view" to manage moderated communities
• Instance blocking
• "Auto expand media" option
• Fixed 2FA installation

Clients that not working right now:

• Mlem
• Alexandrite
• Eternity

Thanks to everyone who making Lemmy better 🙏

When trying to upload any image it says:

Error: Failed to upload image: 
500: Internal Server Error

However uploading works fine in other clients, should I open an issue on the Photon repo, or is this a possible misconfiguration on this instance?

(sorry if I'm the only one that keeps bitching on this community XD, I've actually been enjoying my stay, so thanks for all that you're doing!)