Announcements

Been reviewing account applications and noticed that a lot of them just have the person's actual name in the username, complete with them saying that it's their real name in the registration questions.

I just want to comment that I don't think it's good to be doing that, especially if you have certain political affiliations that Western governments might not like (communism, socialism, not going to dance around it). I have still approved your accounts if you did this as it doesn't break the rules, but frankly I recommend you make a new account with a more anonymous username and don't post under your real name. Keep the account with your real name if you want but don't make it your main. Lemmy, just like Reddit, is meant to be pseudoanonymous, and especially considering all the controversy and friction that the influx of new users are causing and the presence of people who seem to be here just to pick a fight, I just think it's a bad idea to put any sort of personal information on here that other people, trolls and assholes included, can exploit. I certainly haven't put my personal information on here and I'm an admin.

This goes double for profile pictures of your face or anyone you know. Though I haven't seen much of that.

Mostly bugfixes.

Changelog

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/218630

Copy paste URLs of videos that you're watching into this sub.

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We post and discuss software engineering related information: be it programming/construction, UX/UI, software architecture, DevSecOps, software economics, research, management, requirements, AI, ... It is meant as a serious, focused community that strives for sharing content from reliable sources, and free/open access as well.

sorry guys, HeapOverflow is down right now, because freenom decided to disappear my domain registration...

I'll try and recover it or migrate to a more reliable TLD, but It'll take some time =/

This should also serve as a warning against using sketchy TLDs

Ideally stumbled across by accident, ideally not set up on purpose.

Ex someone shares a chinese military demo and there happens to be a block of 69 soldiers standing in the frame. If it was 88 soldiers, it would have been on purpose given 88 is a lucky in china.

Inspired by the '11' sub that is the same idea but is only for the number 11.

Its been a long time coming 🥳 .

Excerpt from the link:

Major Changes

Language Tags

Content can now be tagged to indicate the language it is written in. These tags can be used to filter content, so that you only see posts in languages which you actually understand. Instances and communities can also specify which languages are allowed, and prevent posting in other languages.

In the future this will also allow for integrated translation tools.

Comment trees

Lemmy has changed the way it stores comments, in order to be able to properly limit the comments shown to a maximum depth.

Included are proper comment links (/comment/id), where you can see its children, a count of its hidden children, and a context button to view its parents, or the post.

Featured posts

Admins and mods can now "feature" (this used to be called "sticky" ala reddit) posts to the top of either a community, or the top of the front page. This makes possible announcement and bulletin-type posts.

Special thanks to @makotech for adding this feature.

Federation

Lemmy users can now be followed. Just visit a user profile from another platform like Mastodon, and click the follow button, then you will receive new posts and comments in the timeline.

Votes are now federated as private. This prevents other platforms from showing who voted on a given post, and it also means that Lemmy now counts votes from Mastodon.

This release also improves compatibility with Pleroma. If you previously had trouble interacting between Pleroma and Lemmy, give it another try.

We've extracted the main federation logic into its own library, activitypub-federation-rust. It is open source and can be used by other projects to implement Activitypub federation, without having to reinvent the wheel. The library helps with handling HTTP signatures, sending and receiving activities, fetching remote objects and more.

Other changes

• Admins can now purge content and pictures from the database.
• Mods can distinguish a comment, "stickying" it to the top of a post. Useful for mod messages and announcements.
• Number of new / unread comments are now shown for each post.
• Lemmy now automatically embeds videos from Peertube, Youtube and other sites which provide an embed link via Opengraph attribute.
• You can give your site "taglines", short markdown messages, which are shown at the top of your front page. Thanks to @makotech for adding this.
• You can now report private messages.
• Most settings have been moved from the config file into the database. This means they can be updated much easier, and apply immediately without a restart.
• When setting up a new Lemmy instance, it doesn't create a default community anymore. Instead this needs to be done manually.
• Admins can choose to receive emails for new registration applications.
• An upgrade of diesel to v2.0, our rust -> postgres layer.

We're getting ready to release a new version of Lemmy, which will require a database upgrade, so we'll have a few hours of downtime.

Both unofficial, but I noticed that they were missing communities on lemmy, and decided to fix that!

/c/calckey

/c/friendica

https://lemmy.ca/c/predictions

Could be fictions, non fiction, technology, politics, election results etc

[email protected] is a community for the Uxn ecosystem

I have created the community /c/answered.

If you run into an interesting question online for which a good answer was provided, this is the place to share it!

The point of this community is to aggregate interesting questions that have been answered from all over the internet (like stackexchange, reddit, quora, etc). You can copy the questions into the post body and the best answer(s) into the comments.

Other users may then address the answers directly by replying to the comments, or add their own answer to the question as a new independent comment.

As of now, there is no constraint on the topics. Any answered question is fine!

I have already made an example post, but I don't know how to create a relative hyperlink that would send you to the post in your instance. So just check it out in the community ;)

Instance Simulator is suppose to be a fully-automated subsection on lemmy featuring posts and comments generated by bot accounts using Markov chain randomization processes. In practice, it distills the raw essence of each fediverse app/lemmyverse instance into posts/comments. Ain't anyone got the skill to make this, so we do it the old fashion way.

How to:

1. Unless you're using a novelty acct, tag what instance your imitating ex, [beehaw]

2. Imitate. Try not to get cancelled, ex don't imitate the rightwing instances - we already know what a generic rightwing posts look like :p

Hello! I created two communities, one about our health, and the other about our planet's health.

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• [email protected]

Feel free to subscribe and contribute!

Hello! I created [email protected] for discussion and sharing of links about business. The community isn't necessarily pro- or anti- business. Feel free to subscribe and share!

Now it's c/popmemes

To repost old twitter screenshots, overly recycled memes, and other things typical of the mainstream social media.

Because I like lemmy more but it doesn't give me that cheap potato chip dopamine fix that reddit does and I'm probably not alone.

But also I don't wanna put my shitty capitalist memes in your regular meme feeds, I wanna keep them over here in quarantine for me and my fellow degenerates.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/588553

Eternal September is when influx from some other (often shittier and collapsing) platform overwhelms the unique culture that existed before, and in time fully replaces it. Destroying what existed before.

🧠 💭 Figure out strategies & actions in comments below .. participate!

For example, I introduced 2 hashtags for awareness:

• #AvoidEternalSeptember Raise attention to the culture clash.
• #DonateToFediInstances Help admins and moderators withstand the influx and give them your support.

We want to be gentle, welcoming to newcomers. Show them around. But also keep having the nice chattering and culture we had before, and maybe give those some extra boosts to exemplify and spread the vibes.

Here's a poll to make newcomers aware that taking Twitter culture with you on the Fediverse is just weird.

Fedizens... Be strategical in how you toot to help avoid that from happening

The idea is to attract more users here. I could be wrong, and I know there already is ask lemmy. But here, you can ask whatever the fuck you want about anything.

We just had a hilarious jokester post nazi spam. If someone had reported instead of downvoted the posts in the memes sub I would have seen it earlier, since I mod there.

So if you see something that obv violates the rules, please report. It makes it easier for me and others to be notified.

This way fewer people have to see the bad stuff :)

I was inspired to make it by the one on Reddit.

If you are interested in asking women for their advice and so much more, then come join!

All the old pictures are restored from a backup, and should be working now. We've bought more hard drive space too, so we should be okay for a while.

A few bug fixes:

• Fix missing auth on new post refresh. (#764)
• Change CSP rule for connect-src (websocket) to wildcard (fixes #730) (#737)
• Increase default search rate limit. (#2424)
• Rejected federated pm from blocked users (fixes #2398) (#2408)
• Handle Like, Undo/Like activities from Mastodon, add tests (fixes #2378) (#2380)
• Revert "Handle Like, Undo/Like activities from Mastodon, add tests (fixes #2378) (#2380)"
• Handle Like, Undo/Like activities from Mastodon, add tests (fixes #2378) (#2380)
• Dont allow login if account is banned or deleted (fixes #2372) (#2374)
• Fix panics in search_by_apub_id() (fixes #2371) (#2373)