Please try to comment and post things now, and see if they federate again. Hopefully you see your activity instantly federated. I have tried making comments both to instances running Lemmy 0.19.1 and 0.18.5 and they all federate like they should. Hope you have the same experience! 🥳

As you may have read in other threads, this version of Lemmy (0.19.1) seems to have bugs in outgoing federation on some instances. As a temporary fix, we have added a scheduled restart of Lemmy every hour. It only takes a few seconds to restart, and the big advantage is that your comments and posts are only delayed up to 1 hour before they federate to other instances. You probably wont notice the restart even. This will be in effect until a bug fix arrives from Lemmy developers, probably after new years sometime. Thanks for reading and merry x-mas to everyone. :)

Users of lemmy.today are reporting that outgoing federation of posts and comments stopped to work after the update to 0.19.1 about 19 hours ago. A restart of lemmy software seems to have made it work again for now, but not sure for how long. In this version its also common with CPU spikes on a regular basis. I assume its the new federation queue that takes more cpu in exchange for being more reliable. But I see a lot of Postgres UPDATE queries that did not occur in previous version. Also sometimes i see ROLLBACK, which I assume should not be happening. Anyone else has similar issus with 0.19.1? Relevant thread: https://lemmy.today/post/4382768

Today we spent some time preparing for the big upgrade, by kicking the Lemmy version up to 0.18.5, merging in the latest changes from lemmy-ansible git repository and cleaning up some disk space on the instance. So tomorrow at 02.00 am Oregon time we will do the update to Lemmy 0.19. This is 11.00 am CET for people in Europe. Hopefully all goes well and we come out the other side with a nice new 0.19 version. Its supposed to take about 30 minutes of downtime if there are no issues to solve. Wish us luck :) ****** IMPORTANT: You probably need to log out and log in again to be able to post anything since they reworked authentication in this release. *******

Hi, We are planning to install Lemmy 0.19 soon, hopefully in the coming week or so. It's a huge release with many new features, and I personally really like that it allows you users to block other instances if you want to. You can read about all the new features in the link above. More info coming in a few days about planned downtime and so on. :)

We just had another unscheduled downtime due to a linux kernel bug. Yesterday we noticed some issues with the server - mainly that we couldnt stop some docker containers. As you know, we are running some extra user web interfaces for Lemmy and we noticed that they started acting weirdly and had one cpu running at 100% constantly. I wanted to restart those containers but I couldnt stop them. Found some posts online that this is a bug in the Ubuntu linux kernel: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/43094. Our stop attempts caused the docker platform to behave weirdly and it started to affect the main Lemmy software, so we did a reboot of the server and installed the latest updates. We are very sorry for this unscheduled downtime. :/ Did you guys notice weirdness with Lemmy in the last 8 hours or so?

Hi guys! This weekend we will move lemmy.today over to using object storage for images. We will be serving images from Amazon S3 in the Oregon region (western USA). The way lemmy software is designed right now, it caches every image federated from other instances. So even if we are small instance, we still have to store a lot of federated images locally on our disk. This leads to disk space running out quickly and we previously had to delete images because of this. When we delete images, it removes not only those cached images but also user profile icons and banners, as well as community icons and banners. This is why we have some missing images under Communities right now, and also why users have lost their profile pics. Its been very embarrassing to have to do this, and now we will move to object storage to prevent this from happening in the future. Its much cheaper compared to ordinary disk space and gives better performance for users, so its a win-win. We just need to do a one-time migration over to it. **Estimated downtime hours: ** **Oregon time**: Sunday 3 am - 6 am **CET**: Sunday 12 pm to 15 pm. If you have any questions, you know what to do. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDIT: Looks like it went well and images are now served from S3 instead of filling up our disks. :) The url to the images still looks like they are served by the instance, but thats by design appearently. In the background, they are fetched from S3. Please fill free to re-upload any banners, user avatars or community pictures you had in place before that may have been broken by the disk cleaning before. - When you do, you have to **create a new picture with a new name** for Lemmy to actually replace the image. Otherwise it wont work - ive tried myself. :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi everyone, As part of cleaning old cached images when the disk went full, it seems also images like your profile picture and banners (if you had those), got deleted. If you dont mind, would you upload those again? And when you do, you cant upload the same picture. I made attempts myself to upload the same picture, but it needs to be a new picture (not even a rename of the pic works). Next time I will make a DB query to figure out what pics are local and which are not, and delete only remote ones (cached images from other instances). There is a column in the DB for that, so just need to export a list of remote images and then delete only those. Despite these growing pains, I think lemmy is still pretty awesome, and there will be tools to make these sort of issues go away in the future. I hear they are working on something for next version already so we will see. Anyway, enjoy the weekend and once again, sorry for the mess around this issue.

Hi all, The disk on the instance ran out of space today, due to the way Lemmy software caches images from all other instances. That cache had filled up about 60 GB's of disk, despite us being a small instance with very little local activity. I had to delete the last 10 days of cached images again, and I plan to delete quite a lot of older cached images as well. The mobile apps seems to not be affected by this (they have a local image cache I believe), but on the web site, this leads to missing thumbnail images. They are working on a fix for this in the Lemmy software so the disks dont fill up so enormously with cached thumbnails, and as soon as its out, we will install it here. Hope you guys didnt get too annoyed or sad by the instance being unavailable for a while.

Some bots posted lots of illegal pictures in the https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost community, and because of federation, those pictures have spread to all instances, including this one. The lemmy software doesnt have good moderation tools for abuse like this, and the quickest way to get rid of them was to delete all cached images for the last couple of days. You may see some thumbnail images missing in the web interface, but I personally dont see any missing images in my mobile app. I guess it has its own thumbnail cache.

These ones have been added: - [https://old.lemmy.today](https://old.lemmy.today) - [https://photon.lemmy.today](https://photon.lemmy.today) - [https://m.lemmy.today](https://m.lemmy.today) - [https://alexandrite.lemmy.today](https://alexandrite.lemmy.today) People like them on lemmy.world so didnt want them to missing here. :)

Lemmy Shitpost mrmanager • 1 year ago • 92%

We need a health checker for this health checker, ok? Can someone rewrite this in Rust? :P

I noticed that the web interface sometimes didnt show all pictures when doing a full reload of the front page. This has been fixed now. It was related to some custom security settings I added last week, and I didnt notice the problem since i use mobile apps myself. But for everyone who uses the web interface a lot, this must have been annoying and has been fixed.

I added some themes for people who use the web interface. Some are pretty nice I think: **Modern Light:**  **Hanubeki Cold**  **Hanubeki Mint Alt Lt**  And others. # How to use - After you switch to a theme and save your settings, its really important to reload your browser cache, otherwise the theme will look wonky. - Do this by holding shift and clicking the **Reload current page** button in your browser. (or press Shift-Control-R if you are on firefox)

New version of Lemmy just got released by the devs. :) I plan to wait a few days before I upgrade the instance, just to make sure there isn't any weirdness being discovered. It's a small bug fix release so nothing major. Link to the announcement: https://lemmy.ml/post/3021118

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

How is the instance performance for everyone? Just wanted to ask so there is no weird things going on. If you notice images are loading slowish, it's because of how Lemmy software works. Images are stored on the instance where they were created, so if they were created on Lemmy.world and they are slow, you may see them loading slower here as well. But the text content should be really fast since it's local on the instance. There are people joining every day but we are still small, and if there is a need for more performance, I will upgrade the instance. Right now it looks like things are humming along fine.

Lemmy Guides mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

There are a lot of mobile clients for Lemmy. The web interface is not that great in my opinion, so a mobile app is kind of needed. Some of the more popular ones: - [Boost for Lemmy](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy) (Android, beta version) - [Liftoff](https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff) (Android and IOS) - [Voyager](https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.today/all) (web application but has [IOS app in Testflight](https://testflight.apple.com/join/nWLw1MBM)) - [Jerboa](https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa) (Android) - [Connect](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect) (Android) - [Thunder](https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder) (Android and IOS) - [Mlem](https://github.com/mlemgroup/mormaer-mlem) (IOS) - [Memmy](https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy) (IOS)

Lemmy Guides mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

If you are a new user to Lemmy, the most important thing is to subscribe to lots of communities so you get a nice feed of new posts and comments. Click on Communities link at the top and select **All**. A long list of communities will appear. Subscribe to many of them. You can always unsubscribe if they are annoying you later. This list of communities are only the ones that someone has subscribed to on this instance already. But there is something like 20.000+ communities in the entire lemmy network. Go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities in a new tab. If you want to subscribe to something here, copy the link (ex: !humor@beehaw.org). Paste that link into the [search box](https://lemmy.today/search?type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll) here at lemmy.today. Make sure Communities is selected in the list box to filter out comments etc. It should look like this:  Clicking on the green link will take you to the community and you can click Subscribe on the upper right:  And thats about it. If you have any questions, just ask. :)

Hi guys, Lemmy.today was just updated to 0.18.3 that came out yesterday. # Major changes This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations. The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load. In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult. Other than that, there are numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Programmer Humor mrmanager • 1 year ago • 84%

In the land of Big Brother, where they watch every move, They promise you freedom, but they've got something to prove, You're thinking you're free, but it's a digital ruse, With every click, every like, every view, they abuse. They say it's all free, just sign up, no cost, But they're dealing in data, your privacy lost. Yeah, your likes, your dreams, your soul's the cost, In this world of 1984, we're all just exhaust. (Chorus) If it's free, you're the product, in the corporate play, You're just a pawn in the game they play, If it's subscription, you're still the prey, Either way, you're a product, every night and day. (Verse 2) Telescreens blaring, thought police on patrol, They're mining our minds, control is their goal. Newspeak is the language, they're on a roll, In this dystopian dream, they've got us in a stranglehold. No matter the price, no matter the fee, In this world, my friend, nothing is free. We're all commodities in their decree, In this world of 1984, that's the decree. (Chorus) If it's free, you're the product, in their wicked game, Just a cog in their machine, it's such a shame, Subscription or not, it's all the same, In the eyes of the corporation, you're just a name. (Bridge) They sell us convenience, they sell us lies, In this digital age, freedom's the prize. We're trading our souls, for their disguise, In this Orwellian nightmare, we've got to rise. (Chorus) If it's free, you're the product, it's their master plan, Wake up now and take a stand. Subscription or not, they've got the upper hand, It's time to break free from this corporate land. (Outro) In the heart of 1984, we find the truth, We're not products, we're the living proof. With every heartbeat, every word, every uncensored thought, We're breaking free from the chains they've wrought.

Technology mrmanager • 1 year ago • 98%

github.com

I thought this was kind of a fun way to show discontent with Chromiums added Web Integration - someone made a pull request to simply remove it. Its already been approved by a lot of us, why not add your approval as well? Click the Approve button and add your name to the list of people supporting the removal.  Google will of course not care but I thought it was a fun gesture.

Technology mrmanager • 1 year ago • 96%

I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually. Use this link to avoid going to Twitter: https://nitter.kavin.rocks/BrendanEich/status/1684561924191842304

Technology mrmanager • 1 year ago • 96%

mastodon.social

The awesome Taylor Lorenz reports this on Mastadon. Highly recommend to follow her if you like these updates about what's going on.

Neovim mrmanager • 1 year ago • 97%

dotfyle.com

Just sharing this on Lemmy as well for all you amazing neovim users. :)

Neovim mrmanager • 1 year ago • 83%

Just sharing this on Lemmy as well.

Technology mrmanager • 1 year ago • 95%

blog.system76.com

It's really nice to see this desktop come along. A third proper Linux desktop environment like Plasma and Gnome written in Rust. From system76. Just loving this project. I think it will become real popular real quick when it ships with PopOS.

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

Lemmy software updated to latest version that has some important security fixes.

Fediverse mrmanager • 1 year ago • 68%

blog.bloonface.com

I think they are leaving out something quite important in this blog post - nobody is using their real names here. It's very different from Meta or Google or whatever big tech company people have accounts on, where they know your real name and many more details, such as phone number and address. I don't see the privacy danger in someone sweeping up what we are talking about here, since we are pseudo anonymous. Am I missing something? Whats the value of random aliases discussing something and why is that a privacy issue?

General Discussion mrmanager • 1 year ago • 93%

internettalk.substack.com

I haven't used threads and I never will, but it's nice to see that it's not a great user experience even for people who are used to meta.

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

I updated the instance to Lemmy version 0.18.1 that was released just an hour ago. ## Major changes from patch notes: - Major improvements to performance, specifically optimizations of database queries. - Fix for another cross-site scripting vulnerability. - Captchas are supported again.

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

I've tried them all and they are all quite good. I think currently Liftoff is the best, followed closely by Jerboa and Connect. You may have to use f-droid to install them if you can't find them in Play Store. :)

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

I really love seeing this search engine grow and grow. It's just a fantastic search experience, much like Google in the early days before it became shit. Everyone should at least try to set Kagi as default search for a while, to get back your private web searches and not help Google grow by selling your data to advertisers.

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

Here I was in my own little bubble appearently, thinking people were using https://kagi.com to search now that it exists, but a comment I got made me realize that's probably not the case... You really should try this search engine. I switched to it 6 months ago and before that I was using duckduckgo, and often had to throw a !g in there to get proper results. I remember setting it as default as a test and then I just forgot about Google. :) It's not free however, you will have to pay a few bucks for it. But to me it's about supporting alternatives to Google which I very happily do. It's only a few bucks. Have you tried it and what was your experience?

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

There are a few users joining now every day, and I was thinking it would be nice with some short introductions, if you want to. :) I for one has grown really tired of what social media is today, and I wanted to try out alternatives where people can actually relax and communicate without being tracked and subjected to horrible ads. Since im a technical guy who currently works in devops, I figured I would start https://lemmy.today, and try to be of service to the community in that way. Im so tired of internet ads, and I have installed https://pi-hole.net as a network ad blocker at home. So this means my entire family benefits also (everyone on the wifi). Its super interesting to watch how windows and mac machines are constantly calling home, reporting activity, even when the devices are idle. I recommend you guys to do the same if you have the know-how. Im a long time linux user, and even though it has its frustrations sometimes, specially with screen sharing, its worth it for me to just feel like I own my computer and whats running on it. So I guess thats a little bit about me. I would love to hear from you guys if you feel confident making a post and share who you are and why you got interested in Lemmy. And also why you are looking for alternatives to reddit. :) Thank you!

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

Due to current migration from reddit and lots of signups on Lemmy instances, you may get temporary errors when trying to subscribe to their communities. Lemmy.ml also currently have their homepage down and you get this message trying to visit it: >404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site? reason: Unexpected token 'T', "Timeout oc"... is not valid JSON So try to subscribe to communities from other instances if you get errors trying to subscribe to theirs, and then try again later. Just wanted to write this so new users dont get confused by the errors. They are not related to this instance.

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

You may have noticed we dont have many local communities here. Its partly because we are quite new, and partly because there are so many good communities on other instances. You are free to create communities on this instance, but since we are small right now, they wont have a lot of discussions in the beginning. The best part about Lemmy being federated is that **you can subscribe to any community on any other instance and take part in discussions right from this instance, without actually having an account on that instance**. # How to subscribe to communities on other instances Easiest way right now is to open a new tab in your browser, go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities and do this: - Click on the link under each community you want to join (like !technology@beehaw.org) to copy it into your clipboard. - Click the search button in the upper right area here on https://lemmy.today - Paste the link into the search box and click Search. It may say "No results" but wait for like at least 5 seconds. It sometimes takes time for it to show up. Sometimes you get a lot of results because its mentioned in discussions that will also generate search hits. The link you are looking for looks like this, as an example: `Technology@lemmy.ml - 1 subscriber` - Click on the link and in the Sidebar to the right, there is a Subscribe button. Hit that and now you are subscribed. Now you will start seeing new content filling your feed here on https://lemmy.today. If you have any questions, just ask!

Chat mrmanager • 1 year ago • 100%

If you decided to join this instance, I just wanted to say welcome and hope you have a good time! There are some basic rules in place but it basically boils down to being a nice person. This instance is located in the US because I figured it would be a fast location for most people. We dont have many local communities but feel free to create new ones if you want. Otherwise you can just subscribe to any community from any instance from here as well. There is another post [here](https://lemmy.today/post/7817) how to do that. Enjoy and have a good time!