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Syncthing for Android discontinued in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You're welcome :)

Syncthing for Android discontinued in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What a shame, I spent a lot of time working on syncthing-android (probably around four years). But in the end I stopped for the same reason, it's very demotivating to be so reliant on a corporation like Google which is entirely indifferent or even hostile to open source apps. Every year with the new Android version there are new required features or mandatory changes to implement, and if you don't comply they don't allow publishing new app versions. That's not a big deal for commercial apps with fulltime developers, but it's a lot of work for small apps maintained by volunteers. And it's never anything that would benefit syncthing-android or it's users, just busywork that takes away from bug fixes and feature development.

The good thing about open source is that someone else can always pickup and continue the work. Google's shenanigans were what drove me to server administration and backend development, which finally led me to work on Lemmy. The experience with syncthing-android definitely taught me a lot about how to run a popular open source project.

Ibis version 0.1.2 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Right I will also have to make a template with these common parts of the release announcement. Instance blocking is not implemented yet, but it uses the same federation library as Lemmy so that will be easy to add when its needed.

Ibis version 0.1.2 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Thank you, fixed!

Ibis version 0.1.2 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Thank you, fixed!

How do you post music to lemmy ? You can post images and video files with music tracks, but what about simple.mp3? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Pictrs is only made for images (and videos), as the name implies. Supporting other types of files in pictrs wouldnt make much sense. This means that other file types would have to be stored by a different backend tool, or directly in Lemmy. As we are only two fulltime developers on Lemmy, we dont have the time or resources to work on this, and need to focus on the most popular features.

There is no way for admins or mods to modify user comments or impersonate users, except directly through the db which is unavoidable.

We had a very long discussion recently how vote privacy should be handled, and the current behaviour seems to be the best compromise.

Multi-communities is one of those popular features we are going to implement soon.

Silent Hill 2 Remake Wikipedia page locked after salty fans try to rewrite its critically-acclaimed reception in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And yet the article manages to get people upset, makes the talk about it and get shared. Basically free marketing for SH2. It's a win-win for eurogamer and for the game publisher. All it takes is a single troll on Wikipedia and some PR work.

Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No domestic flight, just Europe -> Texas -> Mexico.

Lemmy Development Update 2024-10-04 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In principle it's finished, but last time we put it on lemmy.ml for testing there were performance problems and we had to revert. So far it's not clear what caused those problems, so we need to try again somehow.

Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Or you guys like to be shouted at. There is no other country that does this.

Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Not like that, they didn't let me board my flight from Europe to Texas. Even though I had a connecting flight to Mexico few hours later. Why can't they have a visa free transit zone like every other country in the world?

Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (27 children)

I only stopped there for transit on a flight to Mexico. Just before boarding my flight I was told that I need a visa for the US, which is extremely weird because normally airports have transit zones where you don't need any visa. But apparently the US is special, so you actually have to enter the country before going right back into the airport. This nonsense made me miss my flight.

Also I remember in the airport there was a security guard doing nothing but shouting nonstop that it's not allowed to carry water. Why not simply put up a sign?

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Better names for Lemmy versions? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
50 comments fedilink
 

The names of previous Lemmy versions were all very boring and repetetive. We need something much more creative. Any ideas?

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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
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RFC for Private Communities in Lemmy (github.com)
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Lemmy Development Update 2024-02-09 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

The last two weeks were rather quiet, with only some minor changes merged:

@Elara6331 made improvements to the RSS feeds, adding thumbnails and filtering invalid characters. She also made a change to account creation, so that new accounts automatically have the correct interface language.

@iatenine increased the font sizes in lemmy-ui.

@Kradyz improved the message of the add mod dialog.

@dessalines has been adding more mod tools to jerboa: adding ban actions and viewing votes.

@Sleepless has been working on lemmy-ui-leptos, as well as creating a rust api library for lemmy called lemmy-client-rs.

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

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NodeBB Update on Activitypub Development (community.nodebb.org)
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Scientific Study analyzing impact of Reddit Migration on Lemmy (www.jmis.org)
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Activitypub-Federation 0.5.0 released (github.com)
 

This library is responsible for federation in Lemmy, and can also be used by other Rust projects.

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Activitypub-Federation 0.5.0 released (github.com)
 

This library is responsible for federation in Lemmy, and can also be used by other Rust projects.

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Lemmy Development Update 2023-12-22 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

Last Friday we finally released Lemmy 0.19.0, after a long development time and extensive bug fixing. Read the announcement to find out about the major changes. A few days later on Wednesday we had to publish 0.19.1 to fix a few more bugs that slipped through.

@phiresky fixed the critical bug with outgoing federation in 0.19. Previously he fixed an authentication bug in lemmy-ui which was blocking the 0.19 release.

@dessalines fixed the broken logic for "hide read posts". He also fixed a problem with email login being case sensitive

@nutomic reenabled pushing to crates.io so Rust developers can easily interact with Lemmy. He also made performance optimizations for /api/v3/site and the optimized the Activitypub context sent by Lemmy, reducing the database size and the amount of data sent between instances. He fixed various tests to prevent random failures in continuous integration 1 2

@dullbananas has long been busy improving the database queries for Lemmy, such as fixing a bug in the way different posts sorts are combined, and improving the test cases.

This is our last update for 2023. It was a very busy year for Lemmy, and it looks like 2024 might have even more changes in store. So lets enjoy these holidays, have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

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What would be a good name for a federated Wikipedia? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
26 comments fedilink
 

Let's say someone created a Wikipedia clone with Activitypub support, so you can freely read and edit articles on other servers. Basically the same way that Lemmy works. What would be a good name for such a project? Bonus points if the name goes with a cute animal mascot.

Edit: Here you can see the names of existing Fediverse projects.

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Lemmy Development Update 2023-12-01 (lemmy.ml)
 

Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

This week we finally started deploying 0.19 release candidates to lemmy.ml, as a final testing step before release. Unfortunately there are some nasty authentication which we have been attempting to debug all week, without success so far. So it will take some more time to fix this and other issues before publishing the final version.

@rasklyd made Lemmy releases for ARM64 platforms possible. @kroese did the same for lemmy-ui. This means that official releases from Lemmy 0.19 will work on devices such as Raspberry Pi.

@dessalines has been very busy attempting to fix the previously mentioned authentication bug. He also worked on other bug fixes and upgraded Jerboa for Lemmy 0.19.

@nutomic again fixed various problems that were introduced during 0.19 development, to get ready for the release.

@Sleeplessone1917 implemented the frontend for user settings import/export. He also started work on an overhaul of context menus.

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

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