Hey folks!

Lemmy 0.19 was released this week! It brings a bunch of awesome new features, so I hope you are all willing to forgive some downtime in order to upgrade to this latest version.

Unfortunately some migration will be necessary as part of this upgrade, so it might take a while, but I will try to keep it as short as possible.

I hope you are all having a great holiday period, and I will see you soon in 0.19!

None of the admins have done or said anything in two months. Admins, please say something!

Is there a way to restore deleted account? I accidentally (not really) deleted my account @alfisya@lemm.ee . That was my main account as to mod two communities !solus@lemm.ee and !serpentos@lemm.ee . That account also has profile picture and banner set. All of this makes me kinda sad. Should I cc admin and moderator? It feels kinda rude. Thank you!

What is lemm.ee's stance on federating with Threads? Personally, I don't trust Meta at all and I certainly don't like the idea of the company profiting off me and my content. That's why I don't have a presence at Facebook at all right now.

See https://alexandrite.app/lemm.ee/post/18069340 for the announcement

Any news from the instance admin on when we can switch to v0.19?

Considering the latest rash of spam images plaguing the platform, I decided to figure out how to block embeds entirely since I never really liked them in the first place and am sharing what I got working since I figured it might be something others would like to enable themselves. (Fyi, this method requires uBlock Origin)

• Open your uBlock settings and navigate to the 'My Filters' section
• At the bottom of the document, add two breaks and then paste this:

lemm.ee##.comment-content > .md-div > p > [src]
lemm.ee##.comment-content > .md-div > p > video

• If your instance is different than lemm.ee, then replace that with the instance you use to have it work.

With that enabled, images and videos shouldn't load in comments anymore. I'm sure there's a better way to do this, so feel free to share if you know! This is just what I knew how to get work asap. Hope it helps some people!

Hello!

I've noticed that in some posts, although I see they have comments, I cannot see them when I go and read the post.

Why is that ?

I can't seem to upload images when using my lemme.ee account. I have no problems on other instances.

Does anyone know about this?

I'm looking for a community where discussion about the Lemmy software itself is discussed. I have a feature request and although I can't see any such request on the Lemmy github, it seems nearly impossible to me that no one has asked for it yet. I want to chat about it with other Lemmy users before determining if I'm way out in left field or not.

really looking forward to blocking some instances

thought that was funny, how sensative can you be to ban people for having a different opinion🤣

I don't think you need me to elaborate. I will not be linking their profile

So apparently there are chat filters which censors blacklisted words as removed, and the filters on Lemmy instances are instance wide.

Is there no way to disable or customize the filter, as a user, to your own preference?

And if so is this a feature that will get implemented at some point and is there somewhere where I can see what the list of censored words are?

Too many users here prefer smaller communities and have openly stated they aren't interested in making accommodations to pursue growth to a truly large platform, even if it could be.

Lemmy is the sort of site that will linger in the background and quietly die out, it'll occassionally be mentioned in the same sorts of conversation that bring up old alternatives like voat, rare conversations with few readers.

I had some optimism at the growth spurt, but seeing what the opinions of users here were, that hope turned into cynicism. As I forgot about Lemmy, it's irrelevance was reinforced. It would be best, I think, if this foundation could replace its competitors. But I don't think it's going to happen.

I don't think you want common idiots to like the site.

I'm trying to block the Lemmit.online bot but its profile doesn't load for me : lemm.ee/u/bot@lemmit.online

Is it loading for you?

Edit : I managed to block it from one of the community feeds UI, but its still weird that the profile doesn't load through lemm.ee

If Facebook and Reddit and Twitter are all going downhill, what leads people to believe that websites like Mastadon or Lemmy won't go the same way eventually?

I've read that the Fediverse is a bunch of interconnected social media sites. Yet, when I try to log into a new Fediverse site using credentials from another, it doesn't work - I have to make a new account on the new site. For example, I made an account on Lemm.ee and assumed that I could use it to log into hexbear because they are both part of the Fediverse. This was not the case and I will have to make a new account for hexbear. This leads me to wonder though, how are the different Fediverse sites connected? They seem to be completely separate websites.

Hello,

Basically, title.

Would it be possible to get appointed as mod for !movies@lemm.ee ?

If you want more context: https://lemm.ee/post/12111335

Tldr: we are looking for a new home for the !moviesandtv@lemmy.film community, and would like to host it here, on lemm.ee!

What happened? Is it a bug? The posts are outdated.

Here's two links for comparison:

• lemm.ee view
• programming.dev view

I’ve heard rumors of this coming but with this influx of SPAM Reddit bots, I need a solution. I can’t keep up with the number of communities to block them all individually. Without self-hosting, what options do I have?

I think the boom of users is because of Reddit's API changes, I am here because I was permanently banned from Reddit because I had an opinion

see linked post. I believe this would count as one of the examples given in the federation policy https://lemm.ee/post/401063 :

An instance which is knowingly spreading CSAM into the federated network

Not sure if this has been asked before or not. I tried searching and couldn't find anything. I have an issue where any pictures from startrek.website do not show up on the homepage. It seems to only affect startrek.website. Going to the link directly loads the image just fine. Is this something wrong with lemm.ee?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5719058

Follow up on a previous post: [DISCUSS] Recent momentary outages

I've been working on a simple opt-in solution, primarily for Lemmy end users like me (but also helpful for admins), to easily check the status/health of their favourite instance.

🌎 lemmy-meter.info

You can find the details of the implementation in lemmy-meter github repo.

❓ @admins: would you be interested in adding your instance to lemmy-meter?

You don't need to do anything except confirming - I'll handle the rest. It should only take a few minutes for your instance to show up in lemmy-meter.

Out of the box it will send only 4 HTTP GET requests per minute to your instance. However that is totally configurable if it sounds too much or too little.

PS: I wasn't sure how to reach out to the admins short of messaging them individually.

Hello! I'm a member of the FossCAD community and was wondering if it would be okay to host c/Fosscad here on lemm.ee. Fosscad@lemmy.world was recently removed as the admin wasnt comfortable hosting printed arms content.

This potential Fosscad community would be about discussing the safe and technologically interesting art of printing of guns and other arms. A practice that is legal in the United States for most citizens.

I just wanted to ask first, since I can definitely understand that its a potentially touchy subject even if completely legal.