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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.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Adding local site settings to reject federated upvotes or downvotes.

Yisss!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep this has been a growing problem, with ppl using various alt accounts on different servers to downvote things. Usually it's pretty obvious because these accounts are all from the same servers, and have little or no comments or posts.

With that setting you can be sure that all the votes at least are coming from your local users, keeping vote anonymity, and without disconnecting from the bigger servers.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I actually want to suggest an extended feature where you can use an allowlist of servers allowing voting in your instance, creating in effect a affinity group of instances. I'll make a formal issue later

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool, I originally thought about doing it that way, but maintaining allowlists and blocklists for all the different types of activities could get cumbersome (especially if we add things like blocking posts, comments, communities, messages, etc). But ya that's a good issue to have.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

This is one of those features that might not seem very huge but is a core thing that Reddit can't have. Very cool.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't even notice that, that's cool

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

finally gives something to do with hesitated instances on fediseer!

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

haven't been following what's going on with fediseer, but it's good that we have something like it! :) I especially like that cloudflare instances are automatically hesitated, and that there are different levels of mistrust

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

The cloudflare thing is just a few people doing it, mind you, not everyone

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing and your work!

How far do you think you all are from the 19.6 release?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 19 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.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Sounds promising!

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Are the

spoilerspoiler
normal on Lemmy yet?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spoilers should be working fine on most clients, but it's a front end thing.

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We use a different syntax for spoilers.

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] terusgormand8465@lemmings.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

To be different

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

Post scheduling is huge! Lots of good stuff in here.