ill be going through all the applications this evening after work
Im just liable to show that i make a good attempt. It was clear in this case so im obligated to do it.
No they get no access to the backend. Im just interested as its always good to have a second eye to check and brainstorm issues/sollutions
Defederating from burggit.moe
I'm sure this will come as a disappointment to many of you as you have joined this instance specifically because we do not block or defederate with anybody. Unfortunately my hand is forced on this occasion.
As many of you know this server is hosted in Ireland. It has been brought to my attention that under Irish law:
Virtual child pornography is illegal in Ireland per the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act of 1998 which includes "any visual representation".[Irish Statute Book] The country has strict laws when it comes to child abuse material, even if it doesn't contain any "real children".
As you can understand this requires me to defederate and remove the offending material from my server. There are newer admin tools in the works which will allow me to block specific communities instead of whole servers. Once this is in place I will refederate with burggit and block the individual offending communities.
This will also apply to other servers with offending content but as far as I'm aware burggit is the only one for the moment.
I still maintain my ideal of not defederating as much as possible but sometimes its out of my hands.
Thanks to everyone for helping create this vibrant community and for supporting. I am dedicated to make VLemmy the best it can be.
Server Updated to 0.18.1
The server have been updated to the latest Lemmy Version 0.18.1. As usual if you notice any odd behaviour leave it for a hour. If problems or issues persist please report them in the comments. Ill be taking notes for future fixes and updates.
Looking for VLemmy Admins
Hi all. With the recent growth that the server I will be looking for another admin or 2 or 3. Not sure yet.
If you would like you join the admin team PM me with the answers to the questions below.
- Do you have any admin/mod experience?
- Do you have any IT technical experience?
- Your Timezone
- Time/Avalaibilty you feel you would contribute to VLemmy
- Rough age range 18 - 28, 29 - 38, 39 - 48, 49+
- What would be your moderation style?
- Do you have a Discord or Matrix account your willing to communicate on?
- What would you like to change or contribute to VLemmy or Lemmy as a whole?
- Any feedback good or bad you would like to share?
- Tell me a bit about you. Whatever you feel like sharing. (Not Mandatory)
- Who would you nominate to join the admin team with you? (Must be a VLemmy Member)
Ill pass it on to the devs. Is this for mobile? Desktop? Or both?
There was a registration bug in one of the last rcs i was running so I would say its worth reapplying
This is the first that I'm hearing about this and I will need to read into it more. I personally am up for blocking meta instances, though this is something that I will need to consult with the community and instance users first before taking action. For the moment I'm focusing on server updates/stability etc. Once I'm happy with how everything is running I will come back and consult with everyone how we would like to approach this. I will always consult the community before making instance defining decisions such as this.
Server was overloaded earlier, has settled back down now so you should be ok now
What communities are they?
Its because I pinned it so everyone will see it. Mainly For the new users.
To me that looks like memmy cant view the webm file format. Probably nothing you can do until the app gets support for it. I could be wrong though, don't use an iPhone.
Welcome Newbies!
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Welcome to Vlemmy!!
See the Quick Start Guide.
Ask your questions in the Support Community.
The image describing Lemmy, made by @[email protected] : https://imgur.com/a/uyoYySY
If you would like to support us you can do so at https://liberapay.com/vlemmy
Hope you enjoy you new home at VLemmy!!
Think of it like email. You have an account on gmail, i habe an account on yahoo, we can still email each other but we belong to different instances/servers/providers. Thats the most basic way to understand it.
This gives a good explanation.
That might be related to me running a 0.18.1 RC as I wanted the captcha to help with the bots, will try to get it resolved asap
Tomorrow's API Change
Hi all, tomorrow is when Reddits API change takes place and we are expecting a large influx of users and signups. I have prepared as much as possible but there still may be some down time. I will try my best to keep it as minimal as possible.
Please be helpful and welcoming to all the new users. Also keep an eye out in the Support community if you can and help answer any questions if possible. Thanks for eveyones help and contribution.
Also a massive thank you to everyone who donates. Its a huge help with the expenses for running the site. Im commitied to making this instance the best I can and any feedback good or bad is very much welcome.
Its works for me, is there an update available for you?
Thats strange, is it the same with other browsers? Thanks for the info on search as well
Are you still logged in even if you refresh? Does the same happen in a private window?
Lemmy v0.18.0 Release
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1465740
> ## 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
>
> ### HTTP API instead of Websocket
>
> Until now Lemmy-UI used websocket for all API requests. This has many disadvantages, like making the code harder to maintain, and causing live updates to the site which many users dislike. Most importantly, it requires keeping a connection open between server and client at all times, which causes increased load and makes scaling difficult. That's why we decided to rip out websocket entirely, and switch to HTTP instead. This change was made much more urgent by the sudden influx of new users. @CannotSleep420 and @dessalines have been working hard for the past weeks to implement this change in lemmy-ui.
>
> HTTP on its own is already more lightweight than websocket. Additionally it also allows for caching of server responses which can decrease load on the database. Here is an experimental nginx config which enables response caching. Note that Lemmy doesn't send any cache-control headers yet, so there is a chance that private data gets cached and served to other users. Test carefully and use at your own risk.
>
> ### Two-Factor Authentication
>
> New support for two-factor authentication. Use an app like andOTP or [Authenticator Pro](
> https://f-droid.org/packages/me.jmh.authenticatorpro/) to store a secret for your account. This secret needs to be entered every time you login. It ensures that an attacker can't access your account with the password alone.
>
> ### Custom Emojis
>
> Instance admins can add different images as emojis which can be referenced by users when posting.
>
> ### Other changes
>
> #### Progressive Web App
>
> Lemmy's web client can now be installed on browsers that support PWAs, both on desktop and mobile. It will use an instance's icon and name for the app if they are set, making it look like a given instance is an app.
>
> Note for desktop Firefox users: the desktop version of Firefox does not have built in support for PWAs. If you would like to use a Lemmy instance as a PWA, use use this extension.
>
> #### Error Pages
>
> Lemmy's web client now has error pages that include resources to use if the problem persists. This should be much less jarring for users than displaying a white screen with the text "404 error message here".
>
> #### Route Changes
>
> Pages that took arguments in the route now take query parameters instead. For example, a link to lemmy.ml's home page with a few options used to look like this:
>
> > https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Active/page/1 >
>
> The new route would look like this:
>
> > https://lemmy.ml?listingType=All >
> Note that you now only have to specify parameters you want instead of all of them.
>
> #### Searchable select redesign
> The searchable selects, such as those used on the search page, have a new look and feel. No more inexplicable green selects when using the lightly themes!
>
> #### Share button
>
> Posts on the web client now have a share button on supported browsers. This can be used to share posts to other applications quickly and easily.
>
> #### Lemmy-UI Overall look and feel
>
> lemmy-ui is now upgraded to bootstrap 5, and every component is now much cleaner.
>
> Special thanks to sleepless, alectrocute, jsit, and many others for their great work on improving and re-organizing lemmy-ui.
>
> #### Database optimizations
>
> Special thanks to johanndt, for suggesting improvements to Lemmy's database queries. Some of these suggestions have already been implemented, and more are on the way.
>
> Query speed is Lemmy's main performance bottleneck, so we really appreciate any help database experts can provide.
>
> #### Captchas
>
> Captchas are not available in this version, as they need to be reimplemented in a different way. They will be back in 0.18.1, so wait with upgrading if you rely on them.
>
> ## 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.
>
> ## Support development
>
> We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for almost three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation.
>
> 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.
>
Server Updated to 0.18
If you notice any odd behaviour leave it for a few hours. If problems or issues persist please report them in the comments. Ill be taking notes for future fixes and updates.
It just create one now and it worked instantly. Are you creating it with the images? Mabye try make it without any images than add the images after?
any illegal content of any kind will be taken down
My Idea on De-federation/Tools I would like to See
cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/63994
> Hi all, thanks so much for your input on this post in regards to de-federation. I have read through every comment and have taken all perspectives on board. I think I have come up with my stance on the matter for the moment. > > For now I wont be de-federating with any other instances or servers. I feel it is important as many people have mentioned to "leave the power to the users" and let them decide the content they wish to see. In regards to this I think it will be extremely important to educate people on how to block communities that they do not wish to see. If you all could assist me with that and help guide new users that would be much appreciated. I will be creating a post on this soon and will put a note in the sidebar about it. > > I also am aware and agree that certain content has no place in peoples feeds and that they want nothing to do with it. I myself am one of those people. Therefore there are a few things that I will still strongly be pushing for. > > Site admins are currently discussing what moderation tools that we think we need. And this is what I propose and hope to implement into VLemmy. > > A mod/admin tool that allows me to block certain communities/servers from appearing in all/new/hot feeds while they will still show for users that are subscribed. This stops the unwanted propagation of harmful/unwanted content while not restricting access to it and allowing users to interact if they wish. > > A user tool that will show the users what communities the admin/mod has hidden from showing up in the new/all/hot feeds and allow them to uncheck it for themselves if they wish. > > I feel like this is a reasonable compromise and I hope that this will help give a balanced experience for all. Critiques, criticism, refinements, suggestions, questions, all are welcome in the comments and are much appreciated.
My Idea on De-federation
Hi all, thanks so much for your input on this post in regards to de-federation. I have read through every comment and have taken all perspectives on board. I think I have come up with my stance on the matter for the moment.
For now I wont be de-federating with any other instances or servers. I feel it is important as many people have mentioned to "leave the power to the users" and let them decide the content they wish to see. In regards to this I think it will be extremely important to educate people on how to block communities that they do not wish to see. If you all could assist me with that and help guide new users that would be much appreciated. I will be creating a post on this soon and will put a note in the sidebar about it.
I also am aware and agree that certain content has no place in peoples feeds and that they want nothing to do with it. I myself am one of those people. Therefore there are a few things that I will still strongly be pushing for.
Site admins are currently discussing what moderation tools that we think we need. And this is what I propose and hope to implement into VLemmy.
A mod/admin tool that allows me to block certain communities/servers from appearing in all/new/hot feeds while they will still show for users that are subscribed. This stops the unwanted propagation of harmful/unwanted content while not restricting access to it and allowing users to interact if they wish.
A user tool that will show the users what communities the admin/mod has hidden from showing up in the new/all/hot feeds and allow them to uncheck it for themselves if they wish.
I feel like this is a reasonable compromise and I hope that this will help give a balanced experience for all. Critiques, criticism, refinements, suggestions, questions, all are welcome in the comments and are much appreciated.
VLemmy Starting Guide
(This starting guide is currently being created, if you have any suggestions of what could be included please comment below)
Welcome!
Welcome to Lemmy
About Lemmy
Lemmy is a federated social link aggregation and discussion platform.. It’s being developed by the Lemmy devs: https://github.com/LemmyNet
About Federation
What does federation mean?
It means Lemmy is using a protocol (Activitypub) which makes it possible for all Lemmy servers to interact with each other.
- You can search and view communities on remote servers from here
- You can create posts in remote communities
- You can respond to remote posts
- You will be notified (if you wish) of comments on your remote posts
- You can follow Lemmy users/communities on other platforms that also use the Activitypub protocol like Mastodon
Please note that a server only starts indexing a server/community once it has been interacted with by a user of this server.
About Vlemmy
Vlemmy is a generalized Lemmy server aimed at welcoming all and providing a space for all types of topics and discussions. We are one of the many servers hosting the Lemmy software. It was started on June 7th, 2023 by @[email protected].
Quick Start Guide
Account
You can use your account you created to log in to the server on which you created it. Not on other servers. Content is federated to other servers, users/accounts are not.
Searching
In the top menu, you’ll see the search icon. There, you can search for posts, communities etc. You can just enter a search-word and it will find the Post-titles, post-content, communities etc containing that word that the server knows of. So any content any user of this server ever interacted with.
You can also search for a community by it’s link, e.g. [email protected]
or its URL, e.g. https://[email protected]
. Even if the server hasn’t ever seen that community, it will look it up remotely. Sometimes it takes some time for it to fetch the info (and displays ‘No results’ meanwhile…) so just be patient and search a second time after a few seconds. Please note search time may be increase if remote servers are experiencing high loads.
For a more in depth list of remote communities, visit https://browse.feddit.de From there you can copy your chosen communities URL and search for it in VLemmy.
Communities
Before you create a community make sure it doesn’t already exist. Use search (see above). Also try https://browse.feddit.de to see if there are remote communities on other Lemmy servers that aren’t known to VLemmy.net yet.
If you’re sure it doesn’t exist yet, go to the homepage and click ‘Create a Community’.
It will open up the following page:
Here you can fill out:
- Name: should be all lowercase letters. This will be the /c/
- Display name: As to be expected, this will be the displayed name.
- You can upload an icon and banner image. Looks pretty.
- The sidebar should contain things like description, rules, links etc. You can use Markdown
- If the community will contain mainly NSFW content, check the NSFW mark.
- If you only want moderators to be able to post, check that checkbox.
- Select any language you want people to be able to post in. You shouldn’t de-select ‘Undetermined’. Some apps use ‘Undetermined’ as the default language so don’t work if you don’t have it selected
Reading
I think the reading is obvious. Just click the post and you can read it. Sometimes when there are many comments, they will partly be collapsed.
Posting
When viewing a community, you can create a new post in it. First of all make sure to check the community’s rules, probably stated in the sidebar.
In the Create Post page these are the fields:
- URL: Here you can paste a link which will be shown at the top of the post. Also the thumbnail of the post will link there. Alternatively you can upload an image using the image icon to the right of the field. That image will also be displayed as thumbnail for the post.
- Title: The title of the post.
- Body: Here you can type your post. You can use Markdown if you want.
- Community: select the community where you want this post created, defaults to the community you were in when you clicked ‘create post’
- NSFW: Select this if you post any NSFW material, this blurs the thumbnail and displays ‘NSFW’ behind the post title. Also hides the post from those who choose not to see NSFW content.
- Language: Specify in which language your post is.
Also see the Lemmy documentation on formatting etc.
Commenting
Moderating
Client Applications
Android
Jebora - A native Android app made by Lemmy's developers
iOS
Mlem - A Lemmy Client for iOS
Issues
First Orbit
![](https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/4df0367d-40f6-492e-9252-d20cca52e072.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=128)
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A throwback to when I first got into orbit. It was a huge milestone back then. This is my first ever screenshot of the game.
Development Update: Air Bugs
Hello, fellow Kerbonauts. The Intercept Games office is buzzing with activity as we submit our last check-ins for the upcoming v0.1.3.0 update and QA puts all the changes through their paces. We’re currently aiming for a June 20 update, but as usual I’ll hedge a bit by pointing out that QA always...
TIL that there is an Herbicide that will turn Male Frogs into Female Frogs
The herbicide atrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pesticides, screws up the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, ac…
![Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females](https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/f281e166-1972-41c2-9b74-04a8137d7b77.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)