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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. @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol and I are busy these days :)

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: !canvas@toast.ooo

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 🥳

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 @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 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 !meta@lemy.lol 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: !selfie_testimonies@lemmy.staphup.nl

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.

@PostWatchBot@lemy.lol

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 @CannotSleep420@hexbear.net's lemmy-bot project 🙏 Tomorrow I will publish the code publicly after adding README and self-hosting guide.

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.

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 🙏

We were using 4 vCPU, 8 RAM x86 server for 15.7€.

Now we're using 8 vCPU, 16 RAM ARM server for 14.4€!

We literally doubled the specs for cheaper price! I don't understand why an ARM server is this cheap, but I don't really care. It's working great right now.

Only disadvantage of this is Photon and Alexandrite UIs are not working. Not researched yet but they're probably not compatible with ARM. But I'll find a way because I like Alexandrite and using it a lot lately.

Also I removed Cloudflare proxy. Although they offer an excellent service for free, I believe they're not fitting in decentralized nature of fediverse.

Thanks to;

• ubergeek77 for deploying multi arch images of Lemmy.
• @ghjsh8@lemy.lol for their opinions about centralized proxies.

One small step for Lemmy, one big step for us :) While I don't aim to be a big instance, it's exciting that people are using it 🙂 Thanks everyone for this!

On this occasion, I would like to ask a little question. What do you think, if we make the instance humor/meme focused instead of general-purpose? I think the hostname is very appropriate. I've also read that Lemmy developers prefer more focused instances over general-purpose. So IDK what do you think??

I noticed that the email service is not working after the new Lemmy update. Because of this, new users cannot verify emails. I am working on it.

Update: it was about TLS. I set it to unencrypted to make it work for now. If you experienced this while registrating, I can fix it if you reach me via e-mail. iso at lemy.lol

Since the m.lemy.lol and v.lemy.lol are short, I wanted to keep this one short too. I don't think its mature as Voyager but it looks good!

Although I was intimidated by the new Lemmy versions, I updated it anyway.

I also opened up.lemy.lol to keep track of crashes.

I noticed the server was down several times. So I upgraded from 3 CPUs, 4G RAM to 4 CPUs, 8G RAM 🎉

For those who are curious, it used to cost 9€, now it costs 15.5€ with backups.

I've seen that some instances deploying Voyager, formerly known as wefwef, on their own instance ^1^ ^2^ ^3^.

Why not us too? And better yet, we can deploy mlmym too. Which is an old.reddit style alternative. Anyways, here you go:

• m.lemy.lol
• old.lemy.lol

Note: Official apps are on vger.app and mlmym.org. These are just a clone and has no extras except that lemy.lol is selected by default.