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The instance has just been updated. There was a slight hickup with web-ui which has been fixed. :)

Alongside the update, I started with a lazy little Ansible playbook. Curious folks are welcome to have a look at the repo. Don't expect anything special, complete or tidy - right now its only purpose is updating the instance. However i think i will add some more config templates to it asap (like systemd, webserver). This instance does not run on Docker, therefor (and for other reasons) the official playbook does not apply. :)

Since their domain issue and resurgence Ive noticed that Im not really seeing any hexbear posts on all anymore, and i honestly miss their posts. I switched to another instance while earlier and saw quite a few from hexbear, but on switching back they arent in my feed. I see that this instance is still federated with them so does anyone know why they don't seem to be showing up?

Wäre es für die Serveradmins möglich, aus den Suchergebnissen unter "Communitys" Communitys aus Instanzen zu entfernen, die nicht mehr in Betrieb sind und daher nicht funktionieren? Oder diesen Umstand zumindest irgendwie zu erwähnen, um niemanden in die Irre zu führen?

feddit.de ist wohl der bekannteste solche Fall, aber vor einigen Minuten hab ich was auf [email protected] gepostet und auch diese Instanz scheint nicht mehr zu existieren, jedenfalls kommt nur "Bad Gateway", wenn ich sie aufrufe und mein Beitrag scheint hier https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] nicht angekommen zu sein.

LG

As the title says. Ive recently found a job but I still unfortunately need to find a way to eat for the next two weeks before I’m officially paid. I was wondering if there was a loan or borrow community in this lemmy instance. We can set up an agreement, I provide you with my name/id/social media etc. If this post isn’t allowed no worries I’ll figure something out.

I tried creating a post with an image in it. I got the following error message displayed in my browser:

{"data":{"files":null,"msg":"Too wide"},"state":"success"}

Is there something wrong with my image? I was trying to reupload this one from reddit: https://preview.redd.it/2jxm187wf4a81.png?width=11320&format=png&auto=webp&s=494d575dd3110b67b37b1c67afa9e713fd258a07

Should I try again after resizing?

How do I show multiple images I wanted to show the job offer not my face

MIr ist aufgefallen, dass diese Lemmy Instanz zur Zeit sehr langsam föderiert, bzw. Beiträge von Friendica oder Mastodon erscheinen hier nur sehr sehr verzögert, einige Stunden bis Tage später. Ist es ein temporäres Problem oder eines das nur ich habe?

Lemmy auf tchncs föderiert sehr langsam

Kann es sein, das discuss.tchncs.de zur Zeit sehr sehr langsam föderiert? Wenn ich von Friendica oder Mastodon einen Beitrag in eine Community hier schreibe dauert es mindestens einen halben Tag bis der Beitrag hier auf discuss.tchncs.de angekommen ist

Sorry for the delay and the brief interruption, tchncs has just been updated to v0.19.11. :)

The interruption happened due to database migrations taking a little moment.

Hey fellow humans,

I just recently discovered Lemmy. I had an understanding of the general existence of the "Fediverse" for some time, but never gave it much thought. Over the past months or so I read a lot on Reddit and by shear accident discovered Lemmy during that time, as a more federated, free alternative to big-corp Reddit.

Do not get me wrong. I am not per se opposed to big corporations. I am a bit more critical with those corporations that are mainly involved with information and data processing, so basically big-tech.

Now here I am, freshly registered to a german instance and I wanted to share my first impressions of Lemmy or the "Lemmy network".

First off, Lemmy seems great. It has a nice and clean UI and its easy to understand.

But, tbh I already had a bad feeling when it came to choosing an instance to register to. Will I be basically at the mercy of whoever runs that server (with what I am allowed to say at least locally)? What happens when that person or group decides to shut down the server over night? Will my account still be valid elsewhere? How does this work?

One could argue, well what happens when Reddit turns off their website; And of course on Reddit I am also at the mercy of moderators; From a single user perspective there always seems to be the single point of failure in both alternatives. But from my experience, "money makes the world go round", meaning: If there is a legitimate business case it is more likely that such a website or instance will stay online, whereas a lonesome enthusiast will likely loose interest after a while. And then its all gone (at least for that instance)? Is Lemmy than a sub-optimal Reddit alternative?

After registration I noticed something additionally "disturbing". There seems to be a big divide in the Lemmy community, as the instances are free to block certain instances. And I read here, about how big this problem apparently is. Hence, it is not about a big blocklist for unwanted instances, it is also about general focus of conversations across instances.

In fact, this puts me again at the mercy of any instance administrator what I am allowed to see or interact with. Is that not a contradiction of a rather free and open network? It appears anti-liberal in some sense. And a liberal digital society is what we would all strive for, I guess?

Ultimately, this would mean I would have to run my own instance to avoid the risk attached to this situation. But the extreme case of that would be that we are all running our own instances. That does not make sense at all. Then everyone runs and instance and we are all more or less blocking each other.

I guess there is no clean way of doing this? And in the end platforms like Lemmy are always formed by the people who drive them. Hence, personal opinions will always play a role.

But I think a liberal real life society goes to show how things should be: There are rules, but freedom of speech is very much emphasized. For me ideal communication involves that everyone can speak their mind. But then, there are certainly somewhere limits.

I am all against safe spaces, but I am pretty much for respectfulness, indulgence, fairness and constructive dispute. I do not fear any argument that is told in the pursuit of having an honest conversation, an exchange of arguments and ideas.

I would even say, when we are hindering ourselves of having this kind of honest dispute, we are loosing our developed societies.

On the other hand (like in the real world) simply insulting people should not be tolerated.

So, I wonder, is this place actually for me, apparently as a rather liberal person?

Is Lemmy liberal enough from your perspective?

Do you have insights or answers with regards to my questions or blind spots?

Thank you in advance and see you around!

Many Lemmy instances are misconfigured, which can break progressive video streaming and even basic image loading in strange ways. The latest default lemmy-ansible config handles this correctly, but many instances use custom proxy setups that cause issues. This tool will check that:

• ✅ The instance supports HTTP range requests for proper video streaming
• ✅ CORS headers are properly set for API and pictrs media

The instance result shows:

discuss.tchncs.de ❌ Error: Failed to fetch

Hi have tried to comment on a makertube video using my lemmy account, but I can't even find the video using the search function.

Is this the problem known?

I noticed thumbnails and meta description aren't working on discuss.tchncs.de sometimes when sharing a link. When I view the same post on feddit.org, the thumbnail and description is visible.

For example:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/32817362
no thumbnail, no description

https://feddit.org/post/9581626
thumbnail & description visible

I haven't detected a pattern yet. It just seem to work sometimes and other times it doesn't.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9234098

Vorschlag: tote communities von feddit.de entfernen, um verwechslungen mit den feddit.org communities zu vermeiden?

Zwecks der anstehenden Wartung Samstag Abend hab ich eine Idee, die die Usability verbessern koennte:

naemlich alte Communities von feddit.de entfernen. Diese werden naemlich immer noch angezeigt, wenn man bspw nach DACH sucht. (Bei create post -> Community und dort suchen). Das ist aehnlich wie bei mastodon, wo man nach einiger zeit accounts loeschen muss, wo der server nicht mehr da ist. dann hat man naemlich nie ein account delete oder so mitbekommen. (=und ich schaetze, der eigene server versucht endlos & erfolglos an den toten server zu senden.)

Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass leute unabsichtlich dort posten und sich dann ueber geringe reaktionen wundern. genau dies ist mir auch schon passiert.

cc @[email protected]

Mir fehlt irgendwie eine Community rund um E-Reader, E-Books, Calibre und KOReader. Wo man eben Tipps austauschen kann, auf Firmwareupdates hinweisen usw. Da scheint es, zumindest deutschsprachig, nichts zu geben, oder doch? Wäre das von Interesse?

tchncs has just been updated to this security and bugfix release. :)

A fun way to start out #Monday here on the west coast - just came across this great aggregated list from @tchncs that helps you explore the #Fediverse and some excellent #OpenSource tools: https://tchncs.de/en/

#tech #technews #dev #devcommunity #federation

Hi!

why is it that there should be 7 comments but none are displayed? For example it happens to nearly all comments in the foodporn community.

Title says it all.

I just signed up to Pixelfed, also via tchncs and apart from obviously having few users something feels off. I notice that sometimes the "followers" count is not the same as what I see when clicking into the followers. And I find hashtags that supposedly have posts but I can't find any.

Now I'm wondering: is this something about eventual consistency due to federation? Is this due to blocking of instances? Is something broken? And if so is this on the app or server side?

Running latest app on Android Android 15.

it appears 'something' had flooded the memory, causing oom killer to hunt down postgresql in the pixelfed and fediverse (lemmy+sharkey) container on the host. unfortunately i have jumped to restarting services too quickly so i am not 100% certain who is to blame yet... having an eye on it now.