Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8955176

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10890295

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Major Changes

• Fixed lemmy-ui error page bug by @Sleepless in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2302
• Fix bug with Mastodon undo follow activities by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4364
• Count chars, not bytes for max title length (fixes #4366) by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4367
• Mark instance as alive after successful activity send (fixes #4039) by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4377
• Dont allow caching captcha response by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4381
• Revert "Dont ignore errors during login (fixes #4319) (#4321)" by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4380
• Removing group from woodpecker, as its deprecated. by @dessalines in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4387
• Add secondary sort by published date for post view (fixes #4383) by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4384

Upgrade instructions

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

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. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency (scroll to bottom of page)

In my profile settings, I can choose my languages. A couple gripes with the web interface of this setting:

• I have to hold down the Ctrl key to select multiple languages. While this was clear to me since I use this keyboard shortcut a lot in other contexts, this would definitely be confusing or unclear for most users.
• This setting should be split into two. As of now, it determines what content you see, with all other content completely hidden...AND it determines what languages will appear in the language selector when making a post or comment. There should be separate settings for which languages are displayed and which appear in the language selector for a new post (because I don't want any content to be hidden, but I want to be able to easily select English for any new comment). Or at least a setting for a default language for new comments.

Thank you for your work on this platform, @nutomic@lemmy.ml

Trying to do it more now

Is it possible to migrate my account or should I just link it in the new one? I’m worried about the .zip in lemmy.zip and would like to bite the bullet and change over to another instance.

Apologies if this is the wrong sub for instance downtime alerts. Can't find any means of contacting the admin through other channels, unfortunately.

The Leminal Space admin gave notice over the weekend that there would be some maintenance, and since then the site has thrown errors when I check in. The status page shows all systems operational, though.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I can't access from the Eternity app either. I've cleared my browser cache and site data too, I still get the error message:

There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.

Title ... I posted about this previously here (https://lemmy.ml/post/10395138).

The community "tenforward" on lemmy.world seems to have ceased federating around 5 days ago (which could be in line with the 19.2 update on lemmy.ml?).

No posts are coming through onto lemmy.ml (and yes I subscribed well before this).

Here's the lemmy.ml mirror: https://lemmy.ml/c/tenforward@lemmy.world?dataType=Post&sort=New

... and the lemmy.world "home": https://lemmy.world/c/tenforward?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New

For comparison, here is the lemm.ee mirror, which is also on 19.2 and seems to be receiving posts just fine: https://lemm.ee/c/tenforward@lemmy.world?dataType=Post&sort=New

If it's relevant, comments are federating back to lemmy.world. I tried commenting on one of the (older) posts from lemmy.ml and it federated over to lemmy.world fine (here's the lemmy.world mirror of the comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/6699443). I haven't tried posts because they might be annoying.

Seems to be weird but drastic bug. Could be a weird edge case that was arbitrarily triggered by the looks of it?

EDIT (further information)

As a point of comparison, here's a random community on lemmy.world I found (which I think is new as I sorted by New in the community search) which is federating fine with lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/c/noshitsherlock@lemmy.world

Additionally, regarding the test comment I mentioned above, subsequent replies have since flowed through to lemmy.ml just fine: https://lemmy.ml/comment/7387000

... and mirrored accurately on lemmy.world too: https://lemmy.world/comment/6699443

Currently, the Lemmy Project only uses Github for its repositories related to Lemmy’s development (e.g. Lemmy, Lemmy-UI). GitHub is a proprietary service, and it is owned by Microsoft. These facts open the door for a myriad of potential issues across the ecosystem, and community. I would like to clarify, though, that I don’t think that it would be a wise decision, currently, to remove Github as the primary location for development, but I would think that it would be a good move to mirror Lemmy’s repositories to a FOSS service (e.g. Codeberg). I personally would advocate for the use of Codeberg, as it is entirely open source, and non-profit, and they are currently working on implementing federation (through ActivityPub) – all these things, I think, align well with Lemmy’s role in the wider community, and its more general philosophy. In the future, I would ideally hope for a permanent move to such a service, but, in the meantime, I think it would, at the very least, be a wise, if not only benevolent, move.

I decided to post this here, as I felt that it didn't seem appropriate to post it as an issue in any of the Lemmy repos.

Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.

The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

I think spotted an example of federation failing between lemmy.ml, even after the update to 19.2, and Lemmy.world, which is still on 18.5.

If you look at the TenForward community on lemmy.ml (https://lemmy.ml/c/tenforward@lemmy.world?dataType=Post&sort=New) and compare to its lemmy.world version (which is its home) (https://lemmy.world/c/tenforward) … you’ll see lemmy.ml is behind about 2 days.

Haven’t seen any other examples like this, even from lemmy.world though I haven’t gone looking for them either.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10364367

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Major Changes

• Outgoing federation bug fixes.
• Lemmy can now receive reports sent from Mastodon and Kbin.
• Added the ability for admins to view votes, to prevent downvote trolling. Demo. #4088
• Various bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Upgrade instructions

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

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. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency (scroll to bottom of page)

3000 robots shouting into the void.

That being said, the next one is genuinely impressive: https://lemmings.world/post/405439

Impressive enough to cause performance issues in Jerboa!

(I'm not trying to be negative here, that's just what I sound like)

I'm curious, if I'm subscribed to a community on an instance, why doesn't Lemmy "unlock" all of the communities on said instance. I've found that despite being subscribed to a few on an instance, my instance seems ignorant of other stuff happening on the instance.

Didn't actually know where to post it otherwise. Spelling is almost correct...

Finished up a recap site for lemmy similar to the recaps other sites like spotify, etc. have been doing!

Shows things like how many posts youve made, how many comments, your top posts of the year, the top communities you participate in, etc.

Theres a little role it assigns you and an image at the bottom that can be easily shared into the thread

I always think of small communities id like to be a part of, but can never find any. Reddit had (has) the same issue, leading people to create subreddits around the idea of helping others find communities to fit their interests. Idk thought it would be cool but I don't have the capabilities to do it myself.

Been moving from Reddit to Lemmy slowly so far and now I wanted to bring some of the communities I moderated there to here, as a huge car enthusiast I wanted to not only bring car related subs to communities here on lemmy.world, I also wanted to mod the "cars" community from the instance on lemmy.world already but I realized the moderator there has been inactive for several months now.

It looks like that community is a lost case and this is concerning, how many more communities are stuck like this? This should have been really affecting Lemmy badly thus far and it seems many power mods came in and claimed multiple community names when the blackout happened without actually committing to the platform.

I really hope the developers find a solution to this, so that those like me who actually wants to commit and moderate can do so.

I've found the following work-around works pretty well. If you host an instance that's currently on 0.19.0 or 0.19.1, consider implementing this.

There are two bugs that this helps with:

• Outgoing federation stops after about 6 hours
• Another federation bug which is triggered if the server isn't running at midnight every night

Work-around:
Create cronjobs that restart the Lemmy container every 6 hours (but not at midnight). The following example is used for a Debian system running Lemmy in Docker.

Type crontab -e into the terminal Add something like the following:

~~0 1 * * * docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1
0 7 * * * docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1
0 13 * * * docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1
0 19 * * * docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1~~

3 1-23/6 * * * docker container restart lemmy-postgres-1 && sleep 60 && docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1

By restarting the container every 6 hours, outbound federation continues to work. There may still be some delays, but everything gets cleared up regularly.

By telling it what time to restart (0100, 0700, 1300, and 1900 as opposed to "every 6 hours"), it avoids restarting at midnight. This avoids the second bug.

My instance has been doing this for enough days where I'm confident that it's working. You can check your federation status here. Note that it's normal for there to be 0 up-to-date instances and a lot of lagging instances. As long as they sometimes turn "up to date", then everything is getting caught up.

For example, this channel is federated from Peertube as a Lemmy community. If you look at the community's sidebar, there appears to be no moderator for the community; is this a federation issue? I would assume that the channel owner is responsible for moderation (of comments, as posts being allowed is technically a bug), but they aren't listed.