Hey, I’m having this issue only with Mander. I can’t reliably reproduce it, sometimes it’ll go days without issue. But then the insurance gets disconnected and I need to add the account again. Does not happen with my account on another instance. Anyone else experiencing the same? Any clues as to what is causing it?

I woke up and noticed that the server was down. I think that there were two different issues happening at once - one related to nginx, and the other related to a memory limit I recently set on a docker container. Issues are fixed now. Sorry!

Seems like new posts and comments aren't being federated to .world Comms. At least for me.

I am looking for academic and non-fiction authors and scicomm people who want to do some AMA-style events. The few I ran on Reddit were fun, and it makes an excellent opportunity for public outreach as people feel comfortable in an informal space, ECRs especially. These are great if you have a paper you want to rizz too. It's a good outreach thing; I always think 1:1 talking to people is the most successful and impactful. Shoot me a DM, we already have a few names in the hat.

EDIT:

The pictrs migration is still taking place in the background, and there might be some problems displaying new or some old images, as well as a bit slower site performance. But it seems like the site can run well now.

The lemmy backend makes use of pict-rs for hosting images. A new version (0.5.0) was recently released, and upgrading from the previous version involves a migration that is expected to take a few hours.

I am planning to run that migration either tomorrow evening or on Saturday. If all goes well, the instance will be down for only a few hours.

Just a heads up in case you stop by and see that the site is unavailable.

Hello all!

As of yesterday, I have updated the the instance to 0.19.2-rc.5. This should fix some of the remaining federation problem.

This morning it was brought to my attention through the Matrix chat that a feature has been added to the UI to allow admins to view votes: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2303

I would like to add a bit of context. Viewing votes has always been possible in at least two ways:

• Since votes are stored in the database, admins with access to the database have always been able to retrieve the list of voters by running a postgres database query.

• Some applications in the fediverse will display votes by default. For example, content federated with friendica displays the votes as "likes/dislikes", so any user can see federated votes.

What this feature has changed is that admins, regardless of whether they have access to the server, are able to see the list of up-votes/down-votes through the user interface.

This is effectively making a "hidden" admin feature more transparent. This can also help admins easily identify if bots are being used to mass down-vote.

I am bringing this up explicitly here because I think users might be interested in knowing if their votes can be seen, and so I want to be transparent about this change and about votes in general.

I also have some thoughts that I would like to discuss. If users are uncomfortable with admins having this power, I could remove this feature from this instance. But that would only be symbolic, as the votes can always be retrieved from the database anyway - and other instance admins will still have this feature to see federated votes.

I can also keep it this way. Only admins can see votes, and I can simply not abuse that power.

I can enable this feature for every user. Then everyone can see everyone's votes.

Another option is to disable down-votes altogether.

If anyone has any thoughts/opinions about this, please let me know. I'm curious and interested in finding a good way to handle this.

Hi all, just moved here from another instance and as I'm adding my subscriptions I've noticed that a couple of communities that I have subscribed to show as having no posts at all. But all the posts show when viewed from any other instance.

Here are the two I've noticed

[email protected]

[email protected]

Am I missing something, or has anyone got any ideas?

It seems like federation is not working completely since the update. I have made a couple of posts but I cannot see them elsewhere. Is this just me or is it the same for others?

After some arduous work from the developers and many other contributors, the newest version of lemmy has become available!

Many long-awaited features are now available - like blocking instances and exporting/importing an account.

You can head over to the original post to look at the long list of new features: https://mander.xyz/post/7346514

Thanks a lot to the developers for their hard work! If you would like to support Lemmy's development, please make sure to check out the developer's funding drive: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-10-31_-_Join-Lemmy_Redesign_and_Funding_Drive

See https://mander.xyz/post/6913732. It seems to mirror all reddit users and posts, and we cannot reply or interact so that they see it, so I wouldn't like it spamming our all feed.

CSV of communities.

Name,URL,ID,Community,Index
Off The Shelf,https://mander.xyz/c/off_the_shelf,off_the_shelf,/c/off_the_shelf,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
nootropics,https://mander.xyz/c/nootropics,nootropics,/c/nootropics,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Science Memes,https://mander.xyz/c/science_memes,science_memes,/c/science_memes,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Science,https://mander.xyz/c/science,science,/c/science,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Astronomy,https://mander.xyz/c/astronomy,astronomy,/c/astronomy,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Medicine,https://mander.xyz/c/medicine,medicine,/c/medicine,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Archaeology,https://mander.xyz/c/archaeology,archaeology,/c/archaeology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Houseplants,https://mander.xyz/c/houseplants,houseplants,/c/houseplants,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Biodiversity,https://mander.xyz/c/biodiversity,biodiversity,/c/biodiversity,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
"Earth, Environment, and Geosciences",https://mander.xyz/c/earthscience,earthscience,/c/earthscience,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Mycology,https://mander.xyz/c/mycology,mycology,/c/mycology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Public Health,https://mander.xyz/c/publichealth,publichealth,/c/publichealth,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Geography,https://mander.xyz/c/geography,geography,/c/geography,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Academia,https://mander.xyz/c/academia,academia,/c/academia,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
robotics and AI,https://mander.xyz/c/robotics_and_ai,robotics_and_ai,/c/robotics_and_ai,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Physics,https://mander.xyz/c/physics,physics,/c/physics,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Science of Cooking,https://mander.xyz/c/cooking,cooking,/c/cooking,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Sociology,https://mander.xyz/c/sociology,sociology,/c/sociology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Palaeontology 🦖,https://mander.xyz/c/palaeontology,palaeontology,/c/palaeontology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
History,https://mander.xyz/c/history,history,/c/history,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Space & Astronomy,https://mander.xyz/c/space,space,/c/space,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Biology,https://mander.xyz/c/biology,biology,/c/biology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Science Communication,https://mander.xyz/c/scicomm,scicomm,/c/scicomm,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Philosophy,https://mander.xyz/c/philosophy,philosophy,/c/philosophy,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Anthropology,https://mander.xyz/c/anthropology,anthropology,/c/anthropology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Chemistry,https://mander.xyz/c/chemistry,chemistry,/c/chemistry,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
"Folklore, Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales",https://mander.xyz/c/folklore,folklore,/c/folklore,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Biotechnology,https://mander.xyz/c/biotech,biotech,/c/biotech,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Native Plant Gardening,https://mander.xyz/c/nativeplantgardening,nativeplantgardening,/c/nativeplantgardening,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Geospatial,https://mander.xyz/c/geospatial,geospatial,/c/geospatial,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
The Deep Sea,https://mander.xyz/c/deepsea,deepsea,/c/deepsea,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Ecology,https://mander.xyz/c/ecology,ecology,/c/ecology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Palaeoecology,https://mander.xyz/c/palaeoecology,palaeoecology,/c/palaeoecology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
No Stupid Questions,https://mander.xyz/c/nostupidquestions,nostupidquestions,/c/nostupidquestions,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
test,https://mander.xyz/c/test,test,/c/test,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Entomology,https://mander.xyz/c/entomology,entomology,/c/entomology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Generative AI,https://mander.xyz/c/generative_ai,generative_ai,/c/generative_ai,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Longevity,https://mander.xyz/c/longevity,longevity,/c/longevity,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Mander,https://mander.xyz/c/mander,mander,/c/mander,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Animal behavior,https://mander.xyz/c/ethology,ethology,/c/ethology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Natural Process Art,https://mander.xyz/c/natural_process_art,natural_process_art,/c/natural_process_art,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Illegally Smol Birbs,https://mander.xyz/c/illegallysmolbirbs,illegallysmolbirbs,/c/illegallysmolbirbs,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Bees and Beekeeping,https://mander.xyz/c/beekeeping,beekeeping,/c/beekeeping,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Exercise and Sports Science,https://mander.xyz/c/sports_science,sports_science,/c/sports_science,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Microbiology,https://mander.xyz/c/microbiology,microbiology,/c/microbiology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
ADHD_College,https://mander.xyz/c/adhd_college,adhd_college,/c/adhd_college,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
New Communities,https://mander.xyz/c/new_communities,new_communities,/c/new_communities,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Semiconductors,https://mander.xyz/c/semiconductors,semiconductors,/c/semiconductors,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Ecospheres,https://mander.xyz/c/ecospheres,ecospheres,/c/ecospheres,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Historic(al) Map Porn,https://mander.xyz/c/old_maps,old_maps,/c/old_maps,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
PlantSwap,https://mander.xyz/c/plantswap,plantswap,/c/plantswap,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
A Boring Dystopia,https://mander.xyz/c/aboringdystopia,aboringdystopia,/c/aboringdystopia,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
biohacking,https://mander.xyz/c/biohacking,biohacking,/c/biohacking,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Botany,https://mander.xyz/c/botany,botany,/c/botany,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Spectroscopy,https://mander.xyz/c/spectroscopy,spectroscopy,/c/spectroscopy,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Reptiles and Amphibians,https://mander.xyz/c/herpetology,herpetology,/c/herpetology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Tropical Ornamental Plants,https://mander.xyz/c/tropical_plants,tropical_plants,/c/tropical_plants,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Biophysics,https://mander.xyz/c/biophysics,biophysics,/c/biophysics,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Nature Drawing,https://mander.xyz/c/nature_drawing,nature_drawing,/c/nature_drawing,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
GIF Base Alpha,https://mander.xyz/c/gif_base_alpha,gif_base_alpha,/c/gif_base_alpha,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
What's this Plant?,https://mander.xyz/c/plantid,plantid,/c/plantid,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Ceanothus,https://mander.xyz/c/ceanothus,ceanothus,/c/ceanothus,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Scuba Diving,https://mander.xyz/c/scuba,scuba,/c/scuba,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
wildfire,https://mander.xyz/c/wildfire,wildfire,/c/wildfire,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
What's this fungus?,https://mander.xyz/c/fungusid,fungusid,/c/fungusid,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Bryophytes,https://mander.xyz/c/mosses,mosses,/c/mosses,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Nudibranchs,https://mander.xyz/c/nudibranchs,nudibranchs,/c/nudibranchs,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Underwater Photography,https://mander.xyz/c/uwphotography,uwphotography,/c/uwphotography,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
monkeypox,https://mander.xyz/c/monkeypox,monkeypox,/c/monkeypox,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Space Engine,https://mander.xyz/c/space_engine,space_engine,/c/space_engine,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
GAN Art,https://mander.xyz/c/gan_art,gan_art,/c/gan_art,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Fractal Field Painting,https://mander.xyz/c/fractal_field_paint,fractal_field_paint,/c/fractal_field_paint,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Fermentation,https://mander.xyz/c/fermentation,fermentation,/c/fermentation,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Abiogenesis,https://mander.xyz/c/abiogenesis,abiogenesis,/c/abiogenesis,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Introductions,https://mander.xyz/c/main,main,/c/main,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Announcements,https://mander.xyz/c/announcements,announcements,/c/announcements,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Sneks,https://mander.xyz/c/sneks,sneks,/c/sneks,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
covid19,https://mander.xyz/c/covid19,covid19,/c/covid19,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Bayesian Theory,https://mander.xyz/c/bayes,bayes,/c/bayes,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Photosynthesis,https://mander.xyz/c/photosynthesis,photosynthesis,/c/photosynthesis,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Applied Psychology,https://mander.xyz/c/appliedpsychology,appliedpsychology,/c/appliedpsychology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Figs,https://mander.xyz/c/figs,figs,/c/figs,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Myrmecology,https://mander.xyz/c/myrmecology,myrmecology,/c/myrmecology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
North American Bird ID and Education,https://mander.xyz/c/nabirdidentification,nabirdidentification,/c/nabirdidentification,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Snake Identification and Education,https://mander.xyz/c/snakeidentification,snakeidentification,/c/snakeidentification,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Jarrariums,https://mander.xyz/c/jarrariums,jarrariums,/c/jarrariums,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Water Science and Technologies,https://mander.xyz/c/water,water,/c/water,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Quantum Computing,https://mander.xyz/c/qubits,qubits,/c/qubits,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Nuclear,https://mander.xyz/c/nuclear,nuclear,/c/nuclear,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Arachnology,https://mander.xyz/c/arachnology,arachnology,/c/arachnology,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Gardening,https://mander.xyz/c/gardening,gardening,/c/gardening,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Plants,https://mander.xyz/c/plants,plants,/c/plants,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Print for Good,https://mander.xyz/c/printforgood,printforgood,/c/printforgood,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Diseases,https://mander.xyz/c/diseases,diseases,/c/diseases,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Microscopy,https://mander.xyz/c/microscopy,microscopy,/c/microscopy,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Timelapse,https://mander.xyz/c/timelapse,timelapse,/c/timelapse,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Self sufficiency,https://mander.xyz/c/selfsufficiency,selfsufficiency,/c/selfsufficiency,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Terrariums,https://mander.xyz/c/terrariums,terrariums,/c/terrariums,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Answered,https://mander.xyz/c/answered,answered,/c/answered,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Ecosia,https://mander.xyz/c/ecosia,ecosia,/c/ecosia,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Nutrition,https://mander.xyz/c/nutrition,nutrition,/c/nutrition,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
Isopods and Myriapods,https://mander.xyz/c/isopodmyriapod,isopodmyriapod,/c/isopodmyriapod,[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

I've seen the occasional blip here, but this is the first time I've seen a complete outage of this instance. Hoping @Salamander wanders through and gives us the scoop?

I have just created a new community in Lemmy about Generative AI like GPT or Midjourney. The subjects are diverse: from news to development

I have become aware of an instance with widespread posting of pornographic drawings of cartoon characters that look like minors. I have added the instance to our block list.

If any user from this instance would like to discuss this action, I'm open to talk about it in the comments.

If not, great. I would prefer not bring any attention to this at all, but I want to be transparent about de-federating actions.

If you do enjoy this content and would like to visit the instance, you can find it at: burggit.moe

Mander has been upgraded to v0.18.4.

The most noticeable change appears to be the fixing of a bug that would cause some comment trees and comment reference links to not load properly. But if you notice something else, please let me know - or, even better, create an issue for it on github!

Lots of thanks to the developers 😀

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3021118

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

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly. It also fixes a couple other bugs.

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

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. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.

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

Upgrade instructions

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. There are no config or API changes with this release.

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

TL;DR for anyone from Mander:

Small mander logo: in the bottom right quadrant, between the EU flag and Ramona Flowers. Seems like this one was done by @[email protected] very early on in the event. Much later, near the end of the event, I just added the text above it.

Big Mander logo: check in the top half, near the center, to the right of the Swedish flag. Was planned out by yours truly (not knowing we already had the small logo), though @[email protected] / @[email protected] came by and helped out actually placing the pixels (thank you!). The outline/background around the text was done by various other users, including @[email protected] , @[email protected] , and @[email protected] -- thanks for coming by to help beautify our logo!

Original post's text below.
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cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/288913

Thanks for joining in! The canvas is now finished!

I’m going to be leaving the canvas up and read-only for a couple days, but not too long.

This was incredibly fun to host, thank you all for participating! ♥

Future Events

I’d love to make this a yearly event. Expanding from just Lemmy to the entirety of the fediverse aswell!

I’ll reuse this Lemmy community & the Matrix space for that event

If you have suggestions for future events, post them in a comment on this post, each suggestion as it’s own comment so people can vote on them

Timelapses:

• First 24h
  • Raw File
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • YouTube
• 24h - 48h
  • Raw File
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • YouTube
• 48h - 72h
  • Raw File
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • YouTube
• Start to finish
  • Raw File
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • YouTube

Data:

• Pixel Placement Logfile (timestamps, usernames, coords, pallete index, no ip addresses) (42mb)
• Pallete Indexes (eg 0 = black, 1 = dark gray, etc)
• Final Canvas PNG

I reproduced our logo in pixel art, added our domain name in text, and I'm gonna start adding this to the Canvas.

The bottom right corner (where I'm starting) is located at 646, 205.

Come join me! And decorate this further if you'd like!

(How to join: https://mander.xyz/post/1767323 )

Edit: look like the picture is a little small because it's pixel art. You may want to download it and open it up in MS Paint or something then zoom in a lot.

Edit2: I found a mistake in my template: there's one extra gray pixel on the right side, diagonally up/left from the uppermost black pixel of the...uh...chelicera I guess.

Edit3: There are actually three extra gray pixels, the other two are to the right and above the one I just mentioned.

Hello all, I'm sharing this here because I think it is a fun and interesting initiative that users might appreciate knowing about.

The instance https://toast.ooo/ is running an event similar to Reddit's /r/place. Here you can find their post announcement. The canvas can be reached here: https://canvas.toast.ooo

If you are not familiar with /r/place: the idea is that every user gets to place pixels on a canvas. After placing a pixel, there is a 1 minute cool-down before you are able to place the next pixel.

To log-in, you fill-in your instance's name and username, and you are sent a code as a private message which you then use to authenticate. So the method of authentication does not expose your username and password combination to a third party.

I find it cool how third-party events like this one can be integrated into the decentralized Lemmyverse without requiring active input from instance admins.

I have been looking for one for a few day. I've got no result nor answer.

I thought that on an instance dedicated to nature and science, I would find one. But I'm starting to dispair. Where do you go to talk about food waste ?

(URL goes to /c/houseplants )

Where's the pixel art in the sidebar from?

Actually, where's all of the art from? But I'm specifically mentioning pixel art because I really like pixel art and I think this stuff is really cute!

EDIT: I did not expect the preview snippet to be so extraordinarily lengthy.

Is there a way to make opening links in new tabs a default behaviour?

This is a new problem for me that started a couple days ago. Using Jerboa and Firefox, I'm unable to post images on this instance. I am able to post images to the same communities using a different instance account. I am getting "network error" and Java errors (I'm unable to see the full error) while using Jerboa. On Firefox, I get an "image too large" error for 12 MB (edit: not GB, that'd be a huge image) images (not sure the limit) but "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data" at smaller image sizes. I was able to post images on this instance before this. My Jerboa app is up to date. Any solution?

Anyone else get kicked from the instance? I had to sign out due to api errors and now I can't get back in.

The author of the tool states that body text of a post is weighted higher than the title. Add your submission statements or summaries to affect your ranking in the engine (for people managing communities or creating content).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1605286

I keep see people complaining about not being able to find active communities that match their interests. So I've added a new feature to https://www.search-lemmy.com/ that allows you to search posts for a particular topic and then it tells you which communities have the most posts matching your search query.

And assuming that you've set your home instance correctly, those links will even open up in your home instance, so that you can subscribe directly to them.

For example, if you search for 'linux' (https://www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?query=linux&page=1) it gives you a link to each community, tells you which instance it's on and how many matches it found for your query.

All of the same filters that you can use on the normal search can be used here as well. So if you just want to find the best community that mentions linux on lemmy.world (https://www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?query=linux+instance%3Alemmy.world&page=1), you can filter by just that instance. Click on the Search Tips button to see a list of all of the available filters.

P.S. I'm aware of https://lemmyverse.net/ etc... and while those are great as well, this allows you to search to see what people are actually talking about on the various communities.

Again, if you have any feature requests or find any bugs, PLEASE reach out or ideally go to my github (https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search) and log a bug there.