This version patches the security vulnerability related to custom emoji’s.

Pretty cool announcement. Hope those weeks of waiting are worth it. Lemmy could be greatly improved with more mature apps in its ecosystem.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1390029

cross-posted from: https://popplesburger.hilciferous.nl/post/9969

After setting up my own Lemmy server, I've been intrigued by the server logs. I was surprised to see some search engines already start to crawl my instances despite it having very little content.

I've noticed that most requests seem to come in from IPv4 addresses, despite my server having both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. This made me wonder.

IPv4 addresses are getting more scarce by the day and large parts of the world have to share an IPv4 address to get access to older websites. This often leads to unintended fallout, such as thousands of people getting blocked by an IP ban from a site admin that doesn't know any better, as well as anti-DDoS providers throwing up annoying CAPTCHA pages because of bad traffic coming from the shared IP address. Furthermore, hosting a Lemmy server of your own is impossible behind a shared IP address, so IPv6 i

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cat/post/6385

It is currently possible, through Lemmy's API, to create accounts automatically and without limit if verification by email address or captcha is not activated. I'd advise you to activate one or both of them NOW!

After registering x number of accounts (currently I could do thousands), all you have to do is list all the existing communities for each of the account to publishes one new post per community, or more. I'll leave you to picture the mess.

(I apologise to the administrators of sh.itjust.works, I should have done the test with my own server.)

Last time we discussed how to set up Lemmy locally, this time we will discuss setting up Lemmy in production mode on a Rasberry Pi with functioning image upload by using Docker. This time we have to deviate more from the official guide as some things don’t seem to work. To follow this guide, you will need a basic understanding of the terminal and a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 (I have only tested this on the Raspberry Pi 4). If you are on Windows 10 or 11 you can use OpenSSH in PowerShell.

Setting up the Raspberry Pi

To prepare an SD card for the Raspberry Pi, download the Raspberry Pi Imager. Insert the SD card, select the Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) and make sure you pick the SD card for Storage. You could pick the full version of the OS, but make sure you pick a 64-bit version of Debian Bullseye. Before clicking “Write”, go click on the s

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/574562

Here's a laundry list of sort with tons of tools we'd like to see

• Role for approval of applications (to delegate)
• Site mods (to delegate from admins)
• Auto-report posts with certain keywords or domains (for easier time curating without reports)
• Statistics on growth (user, comments, posts, reports)
  • User total
  • MUA
  • User retention
  • Number of comments
  • Number of posts
  • Number of reports open
  • Number of reports resolved
• Sort reports
  • by resolved/open
  • by local/remote
• Different ways to resolved a report
  • Suspend account for a limited amount of time rather than just banning
  • Send warning
• Account mod info
  • Number of 'strikes' (global and local) and reports
  • Moderation notes
  • Change email
  • Change password
  • Change role
• Ability to pin messages in a post
• Admins should be able to purge
• Filter modlog to local
• Better fede

We all know that Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, but how does it do that. This is done trough federating with both other Lemmy servers, but also by implementing the ActivityStreams protocol sot it can communicate with other applications on the Fediverse.

The linked document describes the protocol and how it should work.

If you want to help with the development or just want to test things with your own Lemmy instance, you will have to set up a local instance on your own PC. This is not that hard, but it is not uncommon that you will do something wrong and if you are not, that experienced with the technology that is used, it can be hard to understand the error messages that you receive. That’s why I wrote this blog to help developers to run their own local instance.

So when setting up your local instance, it is a good idea to read the official guide for local development. We will now set up both the API/back-end and the front-end.

The back-end

First, we need the rust toolchain. The easiest way is to just get Rustup by following the installation command you find on this website.

Now before we start checking o