Anyone planning to start an It’s Lenny community?
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Blood… reaching… boiling point…
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I mean, sure some are probably people making multiple accounts, but based on the speed of new posts showing up I’d believe there are at least 20k on lemmy.world. It’s the largest and most stable instance at the moment.
Personally I run my own instance and connect to the communities from there.
But in the other hand, look at how much the lemmy and kbin user base has grown. The blackouts had a significant impact in increasing lemmy adoption and usage.
Prior to the announced blackouts, I had no idea Lemmy even existed. Now here I am running my own instance.
Also, advertisers Reddit sells to have halted their campaigns until “next week.”
I think while on the surface it might feel underwhelming, it had more impact than you think. And now mods are discussing extending the blackout too.
Are we allowing emojis here?
You need permission to use emojis? 🤔
Oh, you mean in the sense that “emojis = downvotes” on Reddit. I still used them on Reddit anyway. 🤷♂️
BTW: you can use : shorthand for emojis, in case you didn’t know. 👍
Enjoy your upvote fellow lemming!
I turned that off, as well as show online status, years ago.
You should disable tracking everywhere you can. Opt-out of personalized ads. Enable the do not track feature.
What is sort of bothering me is how as it becomes more popular, I've already seen a few people asking about adding advertising to lemmy instances. I hope advertisers are not looking at diminished revenue with the reddit blackouts and trying to move to Lemmy already. I just can't stand ads, and hope to never see ads interwoven with posts and comments.
Welcome to lemmy! So far my experience has also been wonderful. Just remember it’s our responsibility to keep things this way. It could quickly go a different direction, where all the kind and amazing people get drowned out.
The lemmy devs will be removing websockets (what keeps updating the main page automatically,) in the 0.18 (next) release. That should fix the issue.
That should hopefully resolve a lot of UI issues.
There was a pretty big jump in active instances, too!
Active daily user count is about 50k.
Yes, there is: 0.18.2-rc.1, which has the hot fix, but will also require a DB query to "fix" the modlog once upgraded.
It’s a bug. One of many related to how the UI updates in real time using websockets. The good news is they are getting rid of websockets in the next release, and should fix a lot of these issues.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1093
@ruud@lemmy.world maybe a featured/sticky post pointing to currently open issues in GitHub would be helpful?
Yup. Lemmy version 0.17.4 was merged, tagged and shipped. It has a major performance improvement in the backend (the database specifically).
Look in the footer of the page:
- BE: 0.17.4 denotes the backend version
- UI: is missing in the footer but was updated to the same release.
For anyone who wants to see the 0.17.4 specific changes compared to the previous version, 0.17.3:
Woah… learn something new every day! I need to learn more about IPFS. Thanks for mentioning it.
You can always log in to GitHub and post an enhancement request on the lemmy-ui and lemmy-backend projects. That’s the beauty of open source. 🙂 No guarantee it will get added, but I think user flairs are cool, and tags are always helpful.
If you run your own instance, you can set up words to block in the admin settings. I don’t see any settings at the user level though.
You can create an enhancement request on the GitHub project for lemmy. That would be a nice feature.
Yeah, it’s unfortunate a lot of new users are experiencing this. There are several issues with account registration/login, all resulting in the spinning icon of doom.
- Mobile browsers sometimes append a space after your username into the field
- Having any - (dashes) in your password
- Your password being too long
- The username already is in use
- Server load at the time is too high
What you can try is:
- After you register, even if you get the spinning icon of doom, try to log in. Sometimes it just works!
- If that didn’t work, try the reset password flow. Put your email address into the username field and click the forgot password link
I’ve found the reset password flow to fix my user when I have login issues.
You might be able to setup a mod_rewrite rule to load a specific file path or other url based on the URL path, but a subdomain would probably be easier/cleaner.
From Apache mod_rewrite docs:
The mod_rewrite module uses a rule-based rewriting engine, based on a PCRE regular-expression parser, to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. By default, mod_rewrite maps a URL to a filesystem path. However, it can also be used to redirect one URL to another URL, or to invoke an internal proxy fetch.
Just remember the old adage about regular expressions: when you use a regular expression to try to solve one problem, you create two problems.
A subdomain would likely be cleaner and easier.
Unfortunately, no. But the Lemmy devs are fixing that issue in the next release.
Let's just hope we can keep it that way! 🙂
Also going to suggest using the docker containers as well. It’s much easier to get up and running, plus Docker knowledge is great to have under your belt.
DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION!
That was fast...
No. Please no.
Internet ads exist to track users, and all those tracking pixels can also cause performance issues. Ads basically don’t even make that much money per impression and for the most part just frustrate people. It’s a lose/lose for everyone.
The iOS mobile app, mlem, handles multiple accounts fine in the app. If you are on iOS you can try it via TestFlight. You can switch between accounts easily on the account view.
I think the preferred android app is Jerboa.
As a Performance Engineer myself, these are the kind of performance improvements I like to see. Those graphs look wonderful. Nice job to all.
Hi there!
TL;DR: probably have an nginx misconfiguration. Check the nginx logs for errors.
You don’t need to install and run nginx on the host. It has its own container in the docker-compose.yml which gets started up on docker-compose up -d
If both instances of nginx are trying to bind to the same port, one will start and one will fail.
Is the lemmy proxy nginx docker container running? Check with:
docker ps or docker container ls. If the lemmy nginx proxy container isn’t running, try stopping the host instance of nginx (systemctl nginx stop) and restart docker lemmy (docker-compose down, docker-compose up -d), the try to access your site again.
For the most part I personally have not witnessed any bad behavior or trolls. Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air, and people seem genuinely happy to be here. I hope it stays that way.
BUT…
Have a look at the mod log on any instance. It’s a public log of moderator actions and gets federated along with everything else.
Definitely some people getting banned for the usual reasons. People will be people. 🤷🏻♂️
https://hakbox.social/modlog (may contain NSFW material).
What is wrong with using communities? By the way, in kbin they are called magazines.
You can load the project directly in GitHub and do a diff between 0.17.4 and 0.18.x.
Here are the diffs (0.18.0 vs 0.17.4)
I’m going to make my own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!
When that happens, I copy my post text, refresh the page, and submit again. Usually works. If it doesn’t, try selecting a language before saving.
Is there anything Grafana cant do?
I have so many things pumping data “into” Grafana these days I’m surprised they haven’t tried to force me to pay for an enterprise license.
Anyway, thanks for sharing these, @ruud@lemmy.world. As a performance engineer, I love to see this level of detail and commitment on your part to keep the user experience for lemmy.world at acceptable levels.
Hi there, there have been issues with beehaw.org and emails not going out. You should try to go login in. It’s very likely you were approved but the email went to your spam folder, or never got delivered.
For me I had waited a few days, and then just decided to login and turns out I had been approved almost immediately.
Awesome! Thank you for posting this. I will be updating my instance as soon as I can.
See that downvote on my comment? There is someone trying to drown us out.
You could use mailinator.com which allows you to create a free public mail box you can access. Just be aware anyone can access it if they figure out what address you used. Once you get in, go into your settings and then remove the email from your account (should still be optional in settings).
I never said it was a good idea, and I pointed out the major security concern.
Just be aware anyone can access it if they figure out what address you used.
Plus, you could use it to sign up, and then remove the email address completely in lemmy.world settings once you are logged in. The advantage: no need to sign up for any mail service.
I love the fact we can look up open bugs and their status, and even pull the code down and make changes if we so choose. Open source is awesome!
I bet they will move all the space-X live streams off of YouTube and onto Twitter X and require a paid subscription.
Wait, the advertisers have campaigns to take over subreddits? What?!