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We are now running Lemmy 0.19! There were a lot of cool changes in this release, definitely check out the release notes if you're interested in the specifics.

The important ones for users are:

1. Improved Post Ranking - Scaled sort! This is similar to Reddit's Hot sort, that is, ranking is based on the proportion of votes to active users, not just votes. This will greatly improve visibility for small communities, which is great!

2. Instance Blocking for Users - Users can now block entire instances themselves. If there's an instance you personally dislike but doesn't technically break our instance rules, you're now free to block it yourself.

3. Two Factor Rework - Enabling 2FA is now a two-step process, so it's harder to lock yourself out.

There may be breakage depending on what Lemmy client you use, so be sure your client supports the breaking changes in 0.19.

No local content, but we run several seeder scripts to keep the All feed nice and populated. Sensible rules, minimal censorship, and we're even guaranteed on Fediseer! We also host the alternative front-end Photon at https://photon.frozeninferno.xyz/.

Come hang out and lurk, or make the next hit community, whatever you like! Just be sure to fully read the application question when registering, we deny all applications that don't follow instructions.

No local content, but we run several seeder scripts to keep the All feed nice and populated. Sensible rules, minimal censorship, and we're even guaranteed on Fediseer! We also host the alternative front-end Photon at https://photon.frozeninferno.xyz.

Come hang out and lurk, or make the next hit community, whatever you like! Just be sure to fully read the application question when registering, we deny all applications that don't follow instructions.

In the interest of transparency, we're announcing the implementation of defed list synchronization from Fediseer.

Fediseer is a community of fediverse instances that work together to crowdsource classification of both safe and harmful fediverse instances. This instance has just recently been "guaranteed", which means a member of the Fediseer community has sponsored us to join them. You can see details of our Fediseer presence here.

This enables a couple of things.

• This instance's admins can now guarantee, endorse, or censure other instances.
• We can implement block list synchronization with our endorsed instances.
• Block list synchronization can be filtered by tags.

Given this instance's stance towards censorship, we've been hesitant to implement block list synchronization, as we don't want to block an instance prematurely. However, given the recent influx of loli / pedo content creeping in, we feel it's in the best interest of this instance to at least synchronize blocking by loli and pedo tags.

So going forward, we will sync block lists with our endorsed instances' block lists filtered by loli and pedo tags. We'll also include spam tags, since there's been an influx of that, too.

As always, comments and questions welcome.

We'll be taking the server down for general maintenance at 5PM UTC on Monday, 23 Oct. Shouldn't last more than an hour.

Use this to convert to your local time.

Hey All,

First point of business, we're defederating from burggit.moe effectively immediately. I'm currently purging all burggit.moe communities, but if I miss one, please report it. The reason is closely tied to the second point of business.

Second point of business, I never thought we'd have to do this, but we've added a 6th rule: No loli / pedo shit. Pretty self-explanatory and straightforward. We don't care if it's "technically" legal, we're not hosting it. I don't even know if it's actually legal where the server is physically located, and I'm not putting that in my search history.

Again, we're staunchly against almost all types of censorship, but if that's the kind of material you're after, we have to ask you to look for it on another instance.

We are now hosting Photon at https://photon.frozeninferno.xyz/! I've personally used a few different alternative front ends for Lemmy, but this is the first one I liked enough to host myself. Please feel free to leave any feedback here, and enjoy!

P.S. If you don't like Photon, the default Lemmy UI is still available at https://lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz/ as always. :)

P.P.S. If you want a wider interface (for desktop, for example), go into settings in the top right and disable Limit Layout Width.

I received a user report of (text) pedophilia on a post from rqd2.net. I considered banning the user, but after further investigation, much of that entire instance is dedicated to similar content. As such, I've decided to defederate from the instance.

As much as I dislike censorship and want users to be able to decide for themselves what they do or don't see, I don't feel comfortable hosting or providing access to content like that.

Edit: I'm also in the process of purging all rqd2.net communities from this instance. If I miss one, please report it.

Fixing the image database has started causing increased disk usage, so I'm scheduling some downtime to move the database to a larger storage device.

The downtime should be no longer than 30 minutes.

Here is the specific time converted for your local time zone (if you have browser location services enabled.

Sorry, everyone, but I had the image database misconfigured, and it wasn't properly retrieving thumbnails and some other image content. This issue has now been resolved, I believe, but if you notice any other oddities around images and pictures, feel free to respond here.

Lemmy services will be restarted every day at 4am CDT (9am UTC)

This has been implemented for a while now, but I never made an announcement. I noticed a few weeks ago that Lemmy seems to have federation issues when left running for longer than a few days, so I figured a quick daily restart would be the solution, and it's been working so far.