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The mods are absent. Would you be willing to take over the community?





Thank you for your service.


Currently listening to a lot of Calexico. Favorite album of theirs is Feast of Wire, but they released a new one that is 🔥 , El Mirador


Check your language settings, make sure you have undetermined selected.


Tons of reasons why this is a really bad idea, and I’m staunchly against it.

  • It breaks accessibility.
  • Its completely unpredictable. Which clicks open new tabs, and which ones don’t? How do I know a click won’t open a new tab?
  • Having every click just open in the same tab is predictable, explicit, and is the norm for most of the web (except the annoying sites which open things in new tabs regardless of if we want them to).
  • Its super easy on any browser to do anything @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml recommended.
    • Sites that open things in new tabs don’t give you that choice. It opens in a new tab whether you wanted it to or not.

I can’t really use mastodon for the same reason… I like following interests and communities, not people.

After I follow a few ppl that post a few times a day, it becomes a full time job just to read ppl’s posts. I have no idea how so many ppl use the twitter model.


No, there’s no such feature. You could work on it though.




What benefits does it have over NewPipe / NewPipe + SponsorBlock?



Hrm, those are all loading for me. Do you have the undetermined language selected in your settings? Not sure what else it might be.


It could be that its a person you’ve blocked, or something like that. Could you link the comment / show me how to reproduce it?



Touch hold or touch click to see the full score. You can un upvote your own post.


Jerboa already has a card view, and lemmy ui has an open issue to create one.



Is that a federated post? Most likely it’s an issue with the initial vote not federating.


Because our greatest influxes of new users come not when we develop new features, but when lemmy gets cross-posted somewhere, or when reddit messes up in such a way that communities want to migrate somewhere else. This current influx is due to something reddit did, not lemmy’s developers.


I agree. A knitting group, or a group dedicated to a TV show, would really benefit from having a lemmy server, with their own collection of communities. Having a small number of people, who you know well and actually want to interact with, can be one of the benefits over reddit, and hearkens back to the days of smaller, more focused forums.


Thanks! We’ve been feature-crazy for its whole history… but I’ve kinda learned the hard way that none of that helps adoption. The users are the feature, and its the only reason people don’t leave reddit, facebook, etc.

What @nutomic@lemmy.ml is doing with activitypub service interoperability is far more important than almost anything else we work on. Because at least mastodon and other services have an existing userbase that can plug into lemmy.


That’s me, ya open up an issue on the Jerboa repo so I can figure out what’s going on. You might be using an older version of jerboa that had some issues with post comments.



Someone did create this Lemmy community browser, which searches all known instances for any community. It might be useful to integrate that into lemmy, or at least link to it, in some way, to help people discover communities not on their own instance already.


The-federation.info is unfortunately a bit unmaintained, https://fediverse.observer is a much better site overall, for all fediverse projects. Here’s the stats for lemmy.


We definitely did have a spike in registrations here at least. One of the only ways people find out about lemmy is when it gets cross-posted. We could really use more news articles about it tho on open-source / privacy related spaces.



Its better, has first-class multi-cursor support, and you don’t need to install any plugins to get it usable. Also has LSP support for pretty much every language. IMO its a true successor to vim, which is so old now its like a leaky roof that needs constant repairs (in the form of plugins).



Link us a post / comment of yours in that community, and we can transfer it.


May I suggest: Helix . I used vim for years, but I’ve been enjoying the switch to this.


What’s the issue? Could you open up a github issue on lemmy-ui, with how to replicate it.



Advertisers are only interested in human eyeballs.

Very true, but this reveals the conflicts of interest between these social media companies, and the advertisers they sell space to. They want to say to advertisers: buy an ad on our site, it will reach thousands of real people! See all this activity! When in reality a lot of that activity is bot generated.

Both advertisers and users want to reach and talk to real people, but it’s in these social media companies interest to inflate their numbers and fake engagement any way they can.

This isn’t a small problem either, I’ve heard it said that half of all tweets, and a good percentage of youtube comments are from bots.


Not kixik, but this will affect all 3rd party reddit clients. Those app devs who don’t pay, won’t get access.


You can subscribe to federated communities that have already been connected, within the jerboa UI. Click the communities button at the bottom, then go to them.

But unfortunately you can’t do the initial connection yet within jerboa… that only works through the lemmy-ui search bar atm.


I designed Jerboa mainly based off of boost; its also my favorite reddit app UI-wise. But I don’t have too much time to spend on it as I’m spread very thin between a lot of projects.


Reddit could add anti-bot restrictions, but they don’t, because bots drive up their “engagement” numbers. This is entirely two-faced. They essentially just want to make some money off of something they already see as benefitting them.


Seems really neat, basically the next.js but for rust. Based on sycamore, a web-ui library for rust. Looks like it does well in the framework benchmarks too. https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2023/table_chrome_110.0.5481.77.html
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Mostly bugfixes. [Changelog](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md#lemmy-v0172-release-2023-02-22)
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Sorry for the delay on registration approvals
I'm getting to them as they come in.
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Anyone have a good recommendation for open source continuous integration (CI) ?
We have been using a self-hosted drone for a long time, and now they're telling us we need to purchase a license 💩
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Lemmy Release v0.17.0
Its been a long time coming 🥳 . Excerpt from the link: ## Major Changes ### Language Tags Content can now be tagged to indicate the language it is written in. These tags can be used to filter content, so that you only see posts in languages which you actually understand. Instances and communities can also specify which languages are allowed, and prevent posting in other languages. In the future this will also allow for integrated translation tools. ### Comment trees Lemmy has changed the way it stores comments, in order to be able to properly limit the comments shown to a maximum depth. Included are proper comment links (`/comment/id`), where you can see its children, a count of its hidden children, and a _context_ button to view its parents, or the post. ### Featured posts Admins and mods can now "feature" (this used to be called "sticky" ala reddit) posts to the top of either a community, or the top of the front page. This makes possible announcement and bulletin-type posts. Special thanks to @makotech for adding this feature. ### Federation Lemmy users can now be followed. Just visit a user profile from another platform like Mastodon, and click the follow button, then you will receive new posts and comments in the timeline. Votes are now federated as private. This prevents other platforms from showing who voted on a given post, and it also means that Lemmy now counts votes from Mastodon. This release also improves compatibility with Pleroma. If you previously had trouble interacting between Pleroma and Lemmy, give it another try. We've extracted the main federation logic into its own library, [activitypub-federation-rust](https://github.com/LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust). It is open source and can be used by other projects to implement Activitypub federation, without having to reinvent the wheel. The library helps with handling HTTP signatures, sending and receiving activities, fetching remote objects and more. ### Other changes - Admins can now purge content and pictures from the database. - Mods can _distinguish_ a comment, "stickying" it to the top of a post. Useful for mod messages and announcements. - Number of new / unread comments are now shown for each post. - Lemmy now automatically embeds videos from Peertube, Youtube and other sites which provide an embed link via Opengraph attribute. - You can give your site "taglines", short markdown messages, which are shown at the top of your front page. Thanks to @makotech for adding this. - You can now report private messages. - Most settings have been moved from the config file into the database. This means they can be updated much easier, and apply immediately without a restart. - When setting up a new Lemmy instance, it doesn't create a default community anymore. Instead this needs to be done manually. - Admins can choose to receive emails for new registration applications. - An upgrade of diesel to v2.0, our rust -> postgres layer.
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Lemmy upgrade tomorrow (or wednesday), and we’ll have a few hours of downtime.
We're getting ready to release a new version of Lemmy, which will require a database upgrade, so we'll have a few hours of downtime.
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Apologies for all the translators that weren't able to sign up before (it was email issues), this should be fixed now.
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Idea for a Lemmy project: Create a stackoverflow style front-end for lemmy.
In the same way that Nutomic built a phpBB themed front end, it would be entirely possible to create a stack-overflow type one, as many of the same concepts translate over.
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Someone made a RTL Arabic lemmy!
Could someone who speaks Arabic please contact them? I'd love to get those changes incorporated into lemmy-ui.
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Pictures should be working smoothly now.
All the old pictures are restored from a backup, and should be working now. We've bought more hard drive space too, so we should be okay for a while.
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Lemmy Release v0.16.7 - A few bug fixes
A few bug fixes: - Fix missing auth on new post refresh. ([#764](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/764)) - Change CSP rule for connect-src (websocket) to wildcard (fixes [#730](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/730)) ([#737](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/737)) - Increase default search rate limit. ([#2424](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2424)) - Rejected federated pm from blocked users (fixes [#2398](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2398)) ([#2408](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2408)) - Handle Like, Undo/Like activities from Mastodon, add tests (fixes [#2378](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2378)) ([#2380](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2380)) - Revert "Handle Like, Undo/Like activities from Mastodon, add tests (fixes [#2378](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2378)) ([#2380](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2380))" - Handle Like, Undo/Like activities from Mastodon, add tests (fixes [#2378](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2378)) ([#2380](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2380)) - Dont allow login if account is banned or deleted (fixes [#2372](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2372)) ([#2374](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2374)) - Fix panics in search_by_apub_id() (fixes [#2371](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2371)) ([#2373](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2373))
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Welcome to Lemmy, I'm one of the devs and admins for this instance. Being pro-piracy, and allowing torrent magnet links 🏴‍☠️ , is one of the original reasons I started working on lemmy ( even a lot of the better reddit alts refuse to allow magnet links, or be pirate-friendly). One of the best ways to keep the stream alive, is by decentralizing the ways we find and access content. Torrents do this directly for data, but I hope that lemmy, as a federated reddit alternative, can eventually serve as a platform to aggregate, post, and comment on pirated data in a decentralized way. [More info about Lemmy including docs, how federation works, and a good onboarding site.](https://join-lemmy.org/) Welcome aboard!
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## 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 A full list of fixes is below, but this patch release includes federation compatibility and bug fixes, as well as fixing vulnerabilities in our websocket rate limiting. ## Upgrade notes Besides the addition of a [search rate limit to the lemmy.hjson](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/config/defaults.hjson#L39), there are no config or API changes. Follow the [Docker or Ansible upgrade instructions here.](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration.html) ## Support development We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for almost two years. This is largely thanks to support from [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl/). If you would like to support our efforts, please consider [donating](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). If you'd like to support development, and make sure that we will always be available to work full time on Lemmy, consider [donating to support its development](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). We've spent hundreds of hours on Lemmy, and would like to be able to add more developers to our little open-source co-op as time goes on. ## Changes ### Lemmy Server - Federate user account deletion (fixes [#1284](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1284)) ([#2199](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2199)) - Dont federate initial upvote ([#2196](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2196)) - Add missing mod log entries for federated actions (fixes [#1489](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1489)) ([#2198](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2198)) - Make sure application questionaire is required. Fixes [#2189](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2189) - Fix verify_mod_action check for remote admin actions ([#2190](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2190)) - Run cargo upgrade ([#2176](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2176)) - Migrate towards using page.attachment field for url (ref [#2144](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2144)) ([#2182](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2182)) - Exclude removed/deleted posts from community outbox ([#2184](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2184)) - Fetch community outbox in parallel (fixes [#2180](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2180)) ([#2181](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2181)) - Adding a ban expires update job. Fixes [#2177](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2177) - Add email translations ([#2175](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2175)) - Add test files for Friendica federation (fixes [#2144](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2144)) ([#2167](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2167)) - Lowering search rate limit. Fixes [#2153](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2153) ([#2154](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2154)) - Rate limit ws joins ([#2171](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2171)) - Delete unused diesel.toml file ([#2166](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2166)) - Rate limit websocket joins. ([#2165](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2165)) - Doing tests in sequential order. Fixes [#2158](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2158) ([#2163](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2163)) - Dont log errors when rate limit is hit (fixes [#2157](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2157)) ([#2161](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2161)) - Fix rate limit check for register. Fixes [#2159](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2159) - GNU social compatibility ([#2100](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2100)) - Consolidate and lower reqwest timeouts. Fixes [#2150](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2150) ([#2151](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2151)) - Check that config is valid before saving ([#2152](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2152)) - Dont log error if duplicate activity is received (fixes [#2146](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2146)) ([#2148](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2148)) - WIP: Email localization (fixes [#500](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/500)) ([#2053](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2053)) - If viewed actor isnt in db, fetch it from other instance ([#2145](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2145)) - Show rate limit algorithm. Fixes [#2136](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2136) - Adjust retry interval for sending activities ([#2141](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2141)) - Add jerboa link to readme. Fixes [#2137](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2137) - Forbid remote URLs for avatars/banners (fixes [#1618](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1618)) ([#2132](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2132)) - Remove docker/prod unused files (fixes [#2086](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2086)) ([#2133](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2133)) - Rework error handling (fixes [#1714](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1714)) ([#2135](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2135)) - Dont allow admin to add mod to remote community ([#2129](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2129)) - Reject federated downvotes if downvotes are disabled (fixes [#2124](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2124)) ([#2128](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2128)) ### Lemmy UI - Dont allow community urls like /c/{id} (fixes [#611](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/611)) ([#612](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/612)) - Fix loading indicator on search page (fixes [#443](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/443)) ([#606](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/606)) - Upgrade deps ([#604](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/604)) - Remove auth token from error message. Fixes [#600](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/600) ([#601](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/601)) - Fix error during new site setup ([#596](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/596)) - Differentiate between mods and admins in mod log ([#597](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/597)) - Fix comment fedilink (fixes [#594](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/594)) ([#595](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/595))
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A few bug fixes: ## Lemmy - Revert "Add logging to debug federation issues (ref [#2096](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2096)) ([#2099](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2099))" ([#2130](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2130)) - Dont allow admin to add mod to remote community ([#2129](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2129)) - Reject federated downvotes if downvotes are disabled (fixes [#2124](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2124)) ([#2128](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2128)) ## Lemmy-ui - Fix error during new site setup ([#596](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/596)) - Differentiate between mods and admins in mod log ([#597](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/597)) - Fix comment fedilink (fixes [#594](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/594)) ([#595](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/595))
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Favorite FOSS android app?
Single entries please
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## 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 ### Theming Customizing Lemmy is now much easier than before. Instance admins can select a default instance theme under `/admin` which applies to all users who are not logged in, and those who haven't explicitly picked a theme. It is also possible now to add custom themes to an instance, without having to recompile lemmy-ui. When running with Docker, make sure that [these lines](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/pull/24/files) are present in docker-compose.yml (Ansible will add them automatically if you updated the repo). Then put your .css file into `./volumes/lemmy-ui/extra_themes`. The new theme can then be selected by users, or set as instance default. For native installation (without Docker), themes are loaded by lemmy-ui from `./extra_themes` folder. A different path can be specified with `LEMMY_UI_EXTRA_THEMES_FOLDER` environment variable. For instructions how to create a new theme, have a look at the [documentation](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/client_development/theming.html). ### Federation @nutomic made many changes to federation to increase compatibility with other software. Lemmy can now receive deletions from [Pleroma], comments from [Friendica] and communities from [lotide](https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/). Other actions were already compatible before. Mastodon can now display communities even when a user with identical name exists (but the user can't be viewed in that case). There were no breaking changes necessary, so federation is fully compatible with 0.15. If you notice something in another project that doesn't federate but should, please open an issue. Multiple users have pointed out that posts, comments and votes don't federate reliably. We first attempted to fix this in [Lemmy 0.15.4](https://lemmy.ml/post/184152) a few days ago, but that didn't help much. Later @nutomic noticed that Lemmy was only sending out activities with 4 worker threads, which is not enough for a big instance like lemmy.ml. At the same time, many of those workers were taken up by sending to broken instances, trying to connect for a minute or more. This version adds a timeout and increases the number of workers. ### Federated bans Until now, only community bans were federated, and the "Remove content" option didn't work over federation. The new version fixes this behaviour, so that both site bans and community bans federate, including "Remove content" option and expiry. Note that this change only affects new bans, those which were issued before upgrading to 0.16 will not be federated. ### Hide communities @dayinjing implemented a funcionality for instance admins to hide controversial communities. A hidden community is only visible to those users who subscribe to it. This represents a milder alternative to removing a community. This functionality is not implemented in lemmy-ui yet, but admins can hide a community like this via command line: ``` curl -X PUT https://example.com/api/v3/community/hide \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d \ '{"community_id":3,"hidden":true,"reason":"*reason for mod log*","auth":"*admin jwt token*"}' ``` ### Jerboa: a new android app To help adoption, and since most people use social media through their smartphones nowadays, @dessalines has been working on a native android app for Lemmy called [Jerboa](https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa), which is now on [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jerboa) and [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa). It is still at an alpha level, but is very usable. We'd love to have experienced android developers contribute to it. This now makes three smartphone apps for Lemmy: [Lemmur and Jerboa for Android, and Remmel for iOS](https://join-lemmy.org/apps). ## Upgrade notes Follow the [Docker or Ansible upgrade instructions here.](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration.html) There are three lemmy.hjson config changes. See [defaults.hjson](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/config/defaults.hjson) for comments and default values. - changed boolean `email.use_tls` to `email.tls_type` - added `setup.default_theme` - added `federation.worker_count` ## Support development We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for almost two years. This is largely thanks to support from [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl/). If you would like to support our efforts, please consider [donating](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). If you'd like to support development, and make sure that we will always be available to work full time on Lemmy, consider [donating to support its development](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). We've spent hundreds of hours on Lemmy, and would like to be able to add more developers to our little open-source co-op as time goes on. ## Changes ### API - A full list of the API changes can be seen on this diff of [lemmy-js-client: 0.15.0 -> 0.16.0](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client/compare/0.15.0-rc.34...0.16.0-rc.1) . ### Config - The config changes are [here.](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.15.2...main#diff-bcc84ad7bb4d0687c679cb6b3711052d8eba74a8188578c7516a8fdb5584d01a)
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Lemmy.ml will be down for a few minutes today for server upgrades.
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Lemmy.ml will be down for a few minutes today for server upgrades.







To combat the anti-Semitic brigades over the last few days, we’ve made it so that new users have to fill out a registration application before they can join here.
This should help us cut down on the trolls. We recommend other instances do the same, because they will likely be targeted also. I apologize for all their gore-posts as well, no one should have to see that. We'll try to look for more admins from different time-zones as well to get them faster. The two other possibilities we have currently as options, are turning on required email verification, and as a last resort, closing signups. I personally would rather not do either, but they are options. Many thanks to [@k_o_t@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/k_o_t) and [@AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/AgreeableLandscape) for banning those trolls.
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Lemmy now has private instances, optional registration applications, optional email verification, and temporary bans! These are described in detail below. Special thanks to @asonix for adding [tokio-console](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/2003) and [Jaeger + opentelemetry](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1992) to our dev setups, so we can better identify performance bottlenecks. ## What is Lemmy? [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/) is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to communities you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote and comment on them. Lemmy isn't just a reddit alternative; its a network of interconnected communities ran by different people and organizations, all combining to create a single, personalized front page of your favorite news, articles, and memes. ## Major Changes ### Required email verification Admins can turn this on, and new users will need to verify their emails. Current users will not have to do this. ### Registration applications Admins can now optionally make new users fill out an application to join your server. There is a new panel in their top bar where they can approve or deny pending applications. This works in conjunction with the *require_email* field. If that is also turned on, the application will only be shown after their email has been verified. The user will receive an email when they have been accepted. ### Closed / Private instances The instance settings now includes a *private instance* option, which if turned on, will only let logged in users view your site. Private instances was one of our first issues, and it was a large effort, so its great to finally have this completed. ### Temporary Bans When banning users from your site or community, moderators can now optionally give a number of days for the ban to last. ### Allow comment replies from blocked users It used to be that if a user blocked you, you couldn't respond to their public posts and comments. This is now fixed. They won't see your content, but others can. ## Upgrade notes Follow the [Docker or Ansible upgrade instructions here.](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration.html) ## Support development If you'd like to support development, and make sure that we will always be available to work full time on Lemmy, consider [donating to support its development](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). We've spent hundreds of hours on Lemmy, and would like to be able to add more developers to our little open-source co-op as time goes on. ## Changes ### API We've removed a list of banned users from `GetSite`, added a few endpoints related to registration applications, made a few changes allowing temporary bans, site settings, made a few changes to the login response. These are non-destructive and current clients should work with this release. - A full list of the API changes can be seen on this diff of [lemmy-js-client: 0.14.0 -> 0.15.0](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client/compare/0.14.0-rc.1...0.15.0-rc.34) . ### Config There is a new rate limit for creating new comments in the [config.hjson](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/config/defaults.hjson#L36). ### Lemmy Server - Adding temporary bans. Fixes [#1423](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1423) ([#1999](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1999)) - Add console-subscriber ([#2003](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/2003)) - Opentelemetry ([#1992](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1992)) - Use correct encoding when fetching non-UTF-8 site metadata ([#2015](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/2015)) - Adding a banned endpoint for admins. Removing it from GetSite. Fixes [#1806](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1806) - Prevent panic on InboxRequestGuard - Case-insensitive webfinger response. Fixes [#1955](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1955) & [#1986](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1986) ([#2005](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/2005)) - First pass at invite-only migration. ([#1949](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1949)) - Upgrading pictrs. ([#1996](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1996)) - Trying out an upgraded version of html5ever. [#1964](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1964) ([#1991](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1991)) - Adding min setup password length to the docs. Fixes [#1989](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1989) ([#1990](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1990)) - Test pleroma follow ([#1988](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1988)) - Remove awc ([#1979](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1979)) - Consolidate reqwest clients, use reqwest-middleware for tracing - Don't drop error context when adding a message to errors ([#1958](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1958)) - Change lemmur repo links ([#1977](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1977)) - added deps - git and ca-certificates (for federation to work) and changed adduser to useradd so that user can be added non-interactively ([#1976](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1976)) - Allow comment replies from blocked users. Fixes [#1793](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1793) ([#1969](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1969)) - Fix retry infinite loops. Fixes [#1964](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1964) ([#1967](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1967)) - Add lotide activities to tests - Allow single item for to, cc, and @context - Adding a captcha rate limit. Fixes [#1755](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1755) ([#1941](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1941)) - Dont send email notifications for edited comments (fixes [#1925](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1925)) - Fix API dupes query. [#1878](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1878) - Fixing duped report view for admins. Fixes [#1933](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1933) ([#1945](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1945)) - Adding a GetComment endpoint. Fixes [#1919](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1919) ([#1944](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1944)) - Fix min title char count for post titles. Fixes [#1854](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1854) ([#1940](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1940)) - Adding MarkPostAsRead to API. Fixes [#1784](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1784) ([#1946](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1946)) - background-jobs 0.11 ([#1943](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1943)) - Add tracing ([#1942](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1942)) - Remove pointless community follower sort. ([#1939](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1939)) - Use once_cell instead of lazy_static - Adding unique constraint for activity ap_id. Fixes [#1878](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1878) ([#1935](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1935)) - Making public key required. Fixes [#1934](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1934) - Change NodeInfo `links` to an array - Fixing fuzzy_search to escape like chars. - Fix build error in [#1914](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1914) - Fix login ilike bug. Fixes [#1920](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1920) - Fix Smithereen webfinger, remove duplicate webfinger impl (fixes [#1916](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1916)) - Dont announce comments, edited posts to Pleroma/Mastodon followers - Community outbox should only contain activities sent by community (fixes [#1916](https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/1916)) - Remove HTTP signature compatibility mode (its not necessary) - Implement rate limits on comments ### Lemmy UI - Fixed an issue with post embeds not being pushed to a new line [#544](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/544) - Adding as and lt languages, Updating translations. - Temp bans ([#524](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/524)) - Fix banner. Fixes [#466](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/466) ([#534](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/534)) - Making the modlog badge stand out more. Fixes [#531](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/531) ([#539](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/539)) - Add some fallback properties for display in older browsers ([#535](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/535)) - Private instances ([#523](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/523)) - Add nord theme. Fixes [#520](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/520) ([#527](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/527)) - Dont receive post room comments from blocked users. ([#516](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/516)) - Using console.error for error logs. ([#517](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/517)) - Fix issue with websocket buffer. - Switching to websocket-ts. [#247](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/247) ([#515](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/515)) - Fix native language issue. (zh_Hant) ([#513](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/513)) - Fix tippy on component mount. Fixes [#509](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/509) ([#511](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/511)) - Fix docker latest ([#510](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/510)) - Enabling html tags in markdown. Fixes [#498](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/498) - Fix comment scroll bug. Fixes [#492](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/492) - Fixing error for null person_block. Fixes [#491](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/491) - Trying to catch promise and json parse errors. [#489](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/489) ([#490](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/490))
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I'm gonna have to test this with a new server, damn this is cool.
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