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Things seem to be working otherwise. But it's... yeah. I'll take a look as I can but yeah. If you upload images just use imgur I guess. 🤔

Images on remote instance should show up just fine though :-)

On none of my other accounts do I scroll through local. This is a uniquely great instance.

I wish their were more of these interest based instances. Other than fanaticus.social there was lemmy.film which is gone now. Wish the best for this instance.

Hope it keeps growing!

They seem to be primarily linked to a nostr relay right now, but knowing them I doubt theyll stay allowlist only for long.

Immediately defederated cause fuck that shit.

https://hilariouschaos.com/ (brain rot warning)

Now I'm crossposting from Lemmy to Mastodon, by tagging myself, @robertoqs@writing.exchange. Lemmy's “Title” field produces, conversely, an initial separated line in the resulting toot.

Edit: But only a link to Lemmy is displayed in said toot, and not the post's “Body” field.

Example Title for Lemmy

In case you're interested in #Crossposting from #Mastodon to #Lemmy and haven't done it before, please note that adding an initial separated line (like the one at the start of this toot) produces what otherwise is formatted via Lemmy's post creation “Title” field. It will be shown thus in @meta.

Edit: But “Example Title for Lemmy” is repeated in the Lemmy post's “Body” field.

Edit 2: Edits work when crossposting, too.

It was a relatively quick update, seems to have a fixed a multitude of issues that 0.19 caused.

Also, local only communities are in the pipeline. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4350

Local only communities will not federate and will be only seen by those with an account. As soon as it's implemented as a feature, I'll make a local only casual chat community for the instance if that sounds like a good plan?

I just mistakenly made a comment on my post on lemmy.world and while it shows deleted on jerboa (up to date app) I can see it on eternity and attempts at deleting say delete failed (not up to date) but more importantly I can view the comment from my main too.

Is this a federation issue thanks to 0.19, a pre existing federation issue or something else? This could be a serious issue if someone copy/pasted their password or smth by mistake (as I nearly did).

Hey yall, just wanted to pop in for a quick update. I'm here and very much alive and well. Things have been kinda dead off and on, just been recovering from medical stuff and just tending the server and occasionally popping in for the auto scheduled bot post.

Basically, I took a break from being super active here for my own well being to prevent from fully burning out. I'm feeling a bit better and am ready to dive back in to lemmy.

So, the elephant in the room. As some of you may already know, Meta's twitter clone thread's is actively making steps towards federation with AcivityPub. At baseline this doesn't really affect lemmy anyway since content is very broken out from lemmy into the outside world, and facebook is explicitly building with microblogging in mind. Lemmy is still in its infancy, and it likely will not work with threads when they fully federate anyway.

With that aside, we will not be federating with Facebook or any of its platforms. Beyond all the clear issues such as meta being an active danger human society (reading list can be provided if there's any interest about the evil of Meta/Facebook), I'm here to read and talk about books not mop up after Facebook. Moderation tools in Lemmy aren't up to par as is and the idea of federating with an instance nearly triple the current user count of the entire fediverse makes me feel ill. I hope yall understand.

That's about it, any questions? Thoughts? Concerns?

Just upgraded to a point release that should fix up some issues with federation to services outside of lemmy. Carry on everyone and enjoy.

Previous release notes here: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.0_-_Instance_blocking,_Scaled_sort,_and_Federation_Queue

Welcome to the highly anticipated update! Tons of changes in this release, but you might have noticed you were signed out. All sessions were terminated to allow for a more secure user auth flow. New post ranking algorithms and instance blocks for users are the headlining features, but there were almost 400 commits since 0.18.5 so please read the release notes if you are curious about the other big changes. Enjoy the update!

Please stand by!

we are defederated from lemmit.online as the bots there was just far too much already but I'm curious about whether we should do the same for alien.top and or its sister instances (there's a lot).

If you aren't aware of what that is, it's a site ran by another instance that mirrors reddit content over into ghost subs and mirrors the comments as well.

Personally? I'm not a fan. Like, at all. I understand the desire but I feel like its not only asking for Reddit to throw down with a legal fit but also feels just... annoying. We don't need a critical mass of content, we need QUALITY content. More does not equal better.

The amount of spam is far too much, and the fact mod actions between software is busted right now does not help. It's unfortunate but the amount of spam is just absurd and annoying. :(

I'm keeping an eye on their development updates, hoping they can fix inter software mod actions sooner rather than later.

Sorry yall, it's clear that deleting some of the communities from there isn't enough right now :/

Kbin.social has been having some issues lately and I have found a a fair amount of spam in my home feed from it. What's been you guys' experience with it lately? Would we be want to defederate from it until it sorts itself out?

I was taking backups daily and encrypting them myself (yeah....) but thanks to @Arthur we got it automated now. It seems to work, but we are gonna test a restore in a controlled environment just to be sure soon.

Also, sorry for being a bit dead since this weekend. Have had to disengage for my own well-being a bit due to the giant uptick in antisemitism and horrific violent content being posted without any warnings whatsoever pretty much across everywhere online right now.

I'm here, checking reports and stuff. I'm also here and my DMs are always open for any questions or concerns.

<3

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6097110

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.

We are slowly getting closer to the 0.19 release, although there is still a lot of work left. Client developers should read this post with information about breaking changes to update their projects.

Edit: You can test the latest 0.19 code on voyager.lemmy.ml, or by installing 0.19.0-beta.8 on your server. Be sure to report any bugs on Github.

@nutomic has closed over 100 issues, most of them duplicates, invalid or already resolved ones. He also made numerous pull requests to fix minor bugs and implement small enhancements. This includes a bug fix for federation of admin actions which was released as 0.18.5. He is also changing the way HTML escaping is handled to avoid broken texts.

@dessalines is working on redesigning the join-lemmy.org website, adding the apps and instances pages. Also worked on rewriting the Docker images to use Debian as base instead of Alpine. Additionally he is adding support for new backend features to lemmy-ui (scaled search and cursor-based pagination).

@SleeplessOne1917 has implemented support for new block instance feature, finished implementing the remote follow feature, and updated 2-Factor-Auth to account for a backend rework. He also implemented some bug fixes. He has also been working on adding authentication to lemmy-ui-leptos.

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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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Object storage cost: $6.22 (was $6.20 last month) and this will unfortunately probably go up next month by like a dollar...

So we have two lemmy specific servers, we transferred over to hetzner and to a new dedicated server no less! I have two other smaller VPS's I pay for out of pocket (for my blog, my gotosocial alt, some storage and tinkering, and the uptime status page)

Server cost: $16.76 in total, the main dedicated server is $12.69, and the smaller for the alt web front ends are $4.07. Those are loosely converted from Euros hence the weird

I have two other personal servers (one mega tiny, another slightly larger), which I pay out of pocket leading to the overall cost being $26.70 for all the servers on hetzner combined.

Last month we had $20 in donations, this month we had $37.73 (!!!!!) so thanks so much for that as well! It is seriously appreciated! The next two months are basically paid for in advance.

Right now an extra cost that hasn't been added on here but likely will be next month is the backups, I am still taking manual daily backups (yes, daily LOL you read that right), encrypting them and placing them into my proton drive. I am switching over to automating things and moving backups to backblaze sooner rather than later with Arthur figuring out the best way to set that up.

Thank you for your patience and sticking around yall. I seriously appreciate it. It feels so good to be back :)

fingers crossed it worked out well 💀

So, a lot of features are coming next update to help alleviate some of the annoyance of federating with NSFW instances.

For context, I defederated from the NSFW instances because they clutter the absolute FUCK out of /all. I mainly anticipated federating with them in time when it could be hidden from /all, but domain blocks seem to be coming next update at least as well as disabling remote image caching.

Would yall be ok if I refederated? Or should we wait a bit more for community silencing and hiding as well.

A new update was dropped to fix federation admin stuff. Downtime should be very short, but I will be taking a full backup of everything first.

Also, 0.19.0 is on the horizon very soon. This is just a quick fix. The lemmy devs are on a fuckin roll.

Also yes, I am alive. Sorry being partially dead and not super engaging this past week. I've actually been very sick IRL and just generally taking backups and making sure things don't explode while I fight off whatever illness I've been dealing with. Not sure if it was COVID but at least I have not succumbed to pestilence and I have no plans to in the future.

But yeah we got approved for NCMEC's hash scanning system hooked into Cloudflare and I just wanted to explain what it is and give a heads up for transparency while I wait for the on-boarding Zoom call with them in a few days.

So.... what IS that?

Basically every image uploaded online has a unique fingerprint signature called a "hash". With this, it makes it possible to take the known hashes of CSAM (child sexual assault material) which can be safely stored in carefully controlled digital databases. There are a few databases that exist on the market as well as around the world, but the one we will be using is provided by NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) in the US and it is automatically hooked into Cloudflare.

Basically images that are uploaded as well as those federated into the instance will now be scanned with this hash system automatically to check if they are in the hash scanning database we now have access to. If they are matched as similar enough, the images will be automatically blocked, I will be emailed the source URL, an automated report will be made with NCMEC, and I will be able to follow up based on where the URL was found and be able to reach out to the instance it was found on (if it was not on ours)

This system is automated. Your images themselves are not scanned and this only affects images.

There is some privacy concerns within using this, yes. I am personally not too keen on using a software that's made in part by big tech giant Microsoft. But given recent events over the past few months, having this implemented is kind of non-negotiable for me to feel comfortable continuing to host a lemmy instance. I hope you understand, and recognize the importance of this tool.

I am hopeful for the future of lemmy though, especially with upcoming changes and features to address many concerns that have arisen recently. This is very much an experimental software, and we have to make do with what we have. I will also add info to our /legal page informing users of our usage of this tool as well.

It should also be noted these databases are heavily controlled to make sure bad actors who could potentially begin stress testing them do not get gain access to it. When I said I have to have an on-boarding call with NCMEC, that's not a joke. In order to be able to use this I have to have a 30 minute long digital meeting with a representative of a government affiliated non-profit so they can be sure I am using this for the right reasons. I am dreading it, but thankfully the people at NCMEC are extremely kind and approachable.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/reference/csam-scanning/