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Rammy.site has been overrun by bigots from exploding-heads they are posting transphobic content accusing LGBT people of being groomers and also posting climate denial. They're likely posting here because it is a small instance with an Admin who is currently MIA and/or not moderating the instance. For this reason it is imperative that it be defederated to stop these bigots from using it to spread their hate to other instances.

We have nice theme etc, but can we have alternative? Only dark theme is bad, so please add default lemmy ui as option. Also, if possible more ui options always good: old reddit https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym, alexandrite https://github.com/sheodox/alexandrite, voyager https://github.com/aeharding/voyager). It can be as subdomains for example.

The Divisions by Zer0 have been upgraded to lemmy 0.18.3. This should bring performance enhancements and fixes on the sorting mechanisms.

Remember you can support the work needed to keep this instance available for all using Ko-fi,

I like to keep up with fresh content and new stuff, so I usually sort by new, top hour, or top 6 hour. The latter is usually good, but if course limiting. I find the the first two, however, are dominated by posts from lemmit.online. For those unfamiliar, this is an instance used by the lemmit bot to repost content from reddit. While some of the content is interesting, a large chunk of it is discussion posts where the op is on a different network entirely, such as aita or programming help requests.

I don't find these posts to be very... Quality. If it were a possibility, I would block this instance entirely. How do others feel about it? Am I taking too strong a stance? Is this content a positive contribution?

The update got released a few days ago and I read that it fixes the hot sorting of posts. And from what I experienced it is even faster in loading speeds.

~~Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t this instance located at social.fossware.space before? Anyone know what happened?~~

~~I’m particularly interested because my main Lemmy account was on the fossware instance which seems to have disappeared overnight. Not sure if it’s just temporarily down, or was migrated here. I definitely can’t log in to lemmy.dbzer0.com via my old account.~~

Edit: Sounds like the two instances are unrelated. Fossware just seems to be down. Hopefully just for server maintenance!

Hey everyone, today I sadly woke up to a distressing email by my provider, telling me that "Waves Audio Ltd" (http://waves.com) sent them a takedown request about a guide posted to crack their app. This is complete bullshit of course, but the provider threatened to shut off my whole IP address. For now I've taken down the post, but I've also initiated measures to avoid this in the future.

As such, we've now moved this site to be hosted by njal.la which is privacy focused and has a ton of experience handling such issues. Let me know if you notice anything weird during the transition period.

However they are significantly more expensive! As such I've had to adjust our server costs for the next 6 months, and therefore our Ko-fi goal has been re-opened. Please consider donating to ensure this site can survive these particular gray waters we're sailing.

I aim to ensure we are strictly legal, but these companies do not care about the law because they have enough money to bully people.

Remember, do not post direct links and use base64 encoding for any potentially spicy links you post!

Both in this instance webpage and voyager app Edit: yes it was because I had unchecked show read posts

This is causing me issues in the voyager app, not sure if it would be an issue elsewhere.

http://mlmym.org is a custom frontend for Lemmy. It mimics the Old Reddit style, and works on any existing lemmy instance. You can sign in to your account, and make posts. In fact, I've made this one from it!

I'm trying to upload a 75kb PNG as my avatar. However, it produces a toast on the bottom left saying {"data":{"msg":"Error in store","files":null},"state":"success"}.

I had disabled our custom emojis due to the recent exploit but now that we've upgraded to 0.18.2, these should all be fixed. So I've reuploaded them.

Also reminder that if you've bought us a grog on Ko-fi, you can request to add a custom emoji for yourself added, as a little bonus.

I asked and enough of you answered that allowing to federate with threads.net even for the lolz would be considered too risky for y'all.

So I've gone ahead and added threads.net to our blocklist.

I would love to be able to search for communities by their domain name.

For example [email protected] I'd like to be able to search for xyz.com

Secondly what would be the chances of being able to block an entire instance. From the above example xyz.com?

You probably seen around a dozen posts today about lemmy.world getting pwned, so I'm not going to rehash things.

Fortunately we have a lot of active devs at all times now, so the issue was quickly identified and fixed. This means a new UI release is out, which I've just deployed.

For those wondering, this instance wasn't affected. Even though we had custom emoji, it required a local account to exploit. I don't know if the attacker was discouraged by our registration application form or applied and got denied, but thankfully I didn't wake up to a clusterfuck :D

That is to say, your accounts in lemmy.dbzer0.com weren't at danger, even if the problem comments were federated over. This exploit targeted instance admins and aimed at some good ole defacing and chaos monkey shit. It's like we're back in the late 90s!

However you advised to keep proper hygiene in your lemmy experience, in this server as well. This particular exploit didn't steal passwords but it could have theoretically given the attacker access to your lemmy inbox. The lemmy PMs should not be considered secure in any way. Not only could an attacker compromise you and get access to your inbox, but a malicious admin with root access can just straight up read everything in the DB directly. So don't put anything important in there! That's why we have matrix!

Hopefully more thorough patches will be applied soon as well.

Hey peeps. By now you all heard that Zuck's meta has started and in a defederated mode. This instance has already signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact and we plan to not help improve the value of Facebook, if and when they plan to open federation.

However I am thinking we can have a bit of fun beforehand.

You see, Threads is extremely sanitized in order to be "corporate friendly". Naturally this makes their service as exciting as a bowl of plain porridge. However in order to keep their corporate partners happy, they are also extremely cautious about anything controversial and will likely defederate from anything too spicy.

So why not use this an an opportunity to make Threads defederate from us?

What would you say that we leave federation up, but use the opportunity to share with the larger threads populace some important information about filesharing? Sharing is caring after all and we have plenty of knowledge to give.

Naturally, if this doesn't work, we will defed them ourselves soon after anyway, but I expect it will. What say you all?

Image made with Lucid Creations and SDXL

Posted on ko-fi so that people can always find it easily in the relevant location

I have pushed forth the latest and greatest Lemmy upgrade as it come with some mind-blowing speed improvements, thanks to the DB query tweaking of @[email protected]

Just check how the load for lemmy.world decreased!

As a result, this instance should feel significantly snappier now. Let me know!

Y'all are nuts! It hasn't even been a week since I raised the call for fundraising and we already have it done!

It was sitting at 99% all morning, so I kept refreshing every 10 minutes to post this!

Great success!

As promised, I plan to send the overflow to lemmy development once I open the next goal. I'll let you all know!

Thanks to the work of @[email protected] we now have a new personalized theme for this instance.

The theme is open sourced and lives in this repo. We're planning to add more themes soon and hopefully a few other cool features like user flairs. If you want to assist improving them, feel free to send PRs or ideas.

The theme is based on the work of @[email protected]

If you don't like the default theme, you can always switch to the standard ones in your user settings

Post to list the emojis being added and workaround lemmy not allowing me to upload them directly in the admin interface

Feel free to suggest ideas for emojis.

You can also make them yourself using the AI Horde. If you plan to do that, I'm giving 100 kudos for each emoji contribution and 5000 for each emoji I found cool enough to make official.

if you don't have any kudos, let me know and I'll give you some to help your priority.

I started this lemmy instance to ensure that pirates, anarchists and neurodivergents would find a friendly port in the storm of enshittification engulfing the internet right now.

Reddit (and Digg before it) has always been my favorite way to interact on the web, secondary only to Google Reader (RIP). Likewise, I moved away from Digg when it started shooting its foot with gusto and now it's time to do the same for Reddit. This instance ensures I won't have to move again!

I however didn't expect the amount of people who would follow me, so in the past 2 weeks since I've opened this instance, I've had to upgrade twice to keep up with the demand, and hopefully this latest one should last us a while.

This means that my cost planning is way off. I had to buy into a professional SMTP service, get a dedicated box, etc. All this is starting to become a significant personal cost I need to cover. I said before that I'm not in this to make money, I just have a particular set of skills and ideologies which allow me to both run a lemmy instance and also make it friendly to the particular people who need it as their base jump into the fediverse.

So I plan to follow the same playbook as I mentioned before. I just want to cover the infrastructure costs of running and maintaining this instance and the rest is going to go to Lemmy development itself, to help make the software even better and prevent any accusations of profiteering.

The link of this post goes to the Ko-fi goal I've set up. Once this goal is bypassed, any overflow will be sent to the lemmy development once a new goal is opened for the next period. Or if you prefer, just send to them directly when you see the goal being full.

I am very happy for everyone who decided to follow me on this journey and very excited at the quality of people joining and interacting with this community. Your application answers are a delight, so keep on amusing us admins with your creativity and keep posting the awesome stuff you do!

One last thing, Lemmy is not my main project (but significantly eating into it). If you're into Generative AI and want to share your idle GPU compute, do check out the AI Horde; the only crowdsourced cluster for Generative AI!

Always remember: Sharing is Caring!

Divisions by zero should feel way snappier now. Let me know if you notice any weirdness.

Unfortunately this, along with my new requirements for a paid SMTP relay has effectively tripled my costs >_< . Please help cover some of them.