Tried a few times uploading different images around 11:55 a.m. central time. Response:

Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out

Uploading an 844 KB image times out with:

 undefined

    
{
    "data": {
        "error": "unknown",
        "message": "Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out"
    },
    "state": "success"
}

  

Tried twice around 8:45 a.m. CST

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Major Changes

This release is very large with almost 400 commits since 0.18.5. As such we can only give a general overview of the major changes in this post, and without going into detail. For more information, read the full changelog and linked issues at the bottom of this post.

Improved Post Ranking

There is a new scaled sort which takes into account the number of active users in a community, and boosts posts from less-active communities to the top. Additional

Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.

information sources:

• List of social platforms with at least 100 million active users - Wikipedia
• Fediverse Observer

About 2 months ago I unceremoniously shut down the Mastodon server at www.superstork.org.

I shut down this Mastodon server primarily because nobody was using it. It had no real energy.

I am a fan of Mastodon and I owe Mastodon gratitude for bringing a large amount of energy and life to the fediverse.

I initially set it up at the suggestion of somebody in superstonk, somebody who had concerns about reddit and that subreddit, and I shared those concerns. I had heard of Mastodon, and looked into it, and looked into the fediverse, and immediately I was intrigued, and I was motivated, so I spun up a Mastodon server.

But, evidently, Mastodon is simply not a valid replacement for superstonk / reddit, considering that it is a Twitter clone. It was never meant to be a discussion board. But, at that time, I hadn't even heard of Lemmy, I never gave it much thought at all. At that tim

Lemmy is cool. I'm a big fan.

Sure, there are numerous valid criticisms that can be made against Lemmy. However if you add up all the pros and all the cons, what I personally see is a great platform with a ton of long term potential.

It's really exciting to me how any community existing around a specific subject, in this case primarily DRS & GME, can set up their own instance and simply "plug in" to the rest of Lemmy / the fediverse.

This instance currently has around 780 user accounts, and of those, only about 50 monthly active users at this time.

However, the largest community on this instance, drs_your_gme, has a total of roughly 1100 subscribers and 165 monthly active users.

I think this necessarily means that, of all the active users in the drs_your_gme community on this instance, the majority of them are accounts hosted on instances other than this one. Roughly 1/3 from this instance, 2/3 from outside of this instance.

Personally i think that is very cool. It's so

Attempting to upload twice a 774 KB .jpg during Create Post to community DRS Your GME.

Front end red popup:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON

Payload response:

Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out

Tried 3 times uploading an image during Create Post.

The error message in the bottom left corner: SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON

Edit 1: Also tried uploading an image via the comment section's GUI, but it also fails with the same error message.

Edit 2: Similar to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1489

• But not the same as user dcx's comment that it was due to file size greater than 1 meg. The file I'm uploading is 766 KB.
• Tested with 264 KB and 20 KB files, both fail to upload.
• Tested from multiple browsers, upload also fails.

[email protected] is currently "frozen" since last night. It's not under our control, and is affecting all mirrored subs. Hopefully the owner of lemmit.online is able to restore service soon. We'll try reaching out if we don't see any update posted in about a day or so.

Update: As of 2023-07-26, the issue seems to be resolved.

The last few years have been an interesting journey, and it is far from over.

Just wanted to say kudos and thanks to the DRSGME.org / WhyDRS.org team for putting together this instance, for their continued efforts that benefit all GME investors, for providing a location where we can more freely discuss topics of conversation that are relevant to our interests that might be censored elsewhere.

I see that nearly 500 approved users have signed up to this instance, and an even larger number of subscribers to the DRSyourGME community on this instance, meaning that users from other Lemmy instances are also subscribed to communities here.

A more relevant metric for social media activity is monthly active users, which is currently showing as over 100 on this instance.

Milestone achieved! It took just over 1 month. It will be fun to watch the continued growth of this community.

Cheers to everyone that has joined this instance and participated!

How to install wefwef on iOS:

1. Open safari and enter “wefwef.app” in url
2. Tap “Settings” in lower right corner
3. Select “Install app” then press up arrow icon in bottom center of Saffari.
4. Select “Add to Home Screen”
5. Edit name if you would like, then press “Add” in upper right corner
6. Tap “wefwef” icon then “lemmy.word” portrait icon at the bottom center
7. Select “Login” in upper right corner
8. Select “other” and type in url: “lemmy.whynotdrs.org” then select “Next” in upper right corner
9. Enter your username and password and select “Confirm” in upper right corner
10. You are now logged in, will see your profile, and can start navigating threads.
11. To Navigate threads, Select “Posts” in bottom left corner then “Local” to see WhynotDRS instance

So.. I noticed in the "all" feed that it's really not feeds from ALL of the lemmy communities out there.. Then I read on the self hosted feed that the size of the instance grows depending on what users are subscribed to. Does that mean that the things I see on all are only what others signed in to this instance are subscribing to? The instance here is caching feeds from other communities? And thereby what I subscribe to will be seen in the "all" feed for others signed in here?

I saw another user crosspost some due diligence they had written last year and posted on Reddit to one of the related communities on this instance.

Here is that post: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/8800

It covers a subject which still is worth learning about today, and sets a great example. The user is able to make sure their content can stay available on a reliable host, and for the reader, there is a quick message at the top explaining that it was originally hosted elsewhere and when it had been posts there.

I love this idea - as I experienced with the DD I had written on the removed subreddit DRSyourGME, Reddit can wipe a slate clean if it chooses to.

Crossposting to this Lemmy instance is a great way to help have more redundancy so you know your work will stay available, and it also helps grow this fledgling platform.

Hey all!

Quick update to the community about the upgrades we performed today:

1. We upgraded the lemmy application from version 0.17.x to 0.18.1-rc4. This should resolve some issues preventing people from logging in. Thanks to @[email protected] for assisting with this, including testing and summarizing benefits of the new version.
2. Set up a Cloudflare proxy & CDN layer. This will reduce load on our instance for static assets like images and javascript, speed up delivery of those assets for users that are spread around the world, and may help us respond more fluidly to any DDOS threats that may arise in the future.

For an alternate place to follow updates being made to the instance, you can check out the #lemmy channel on the DRSyourGME Discord - https://discord.com/channels/1102309240145707049/1121464479021006960

Not sure where to put this... but I noticed now that others are creating communities in this instance that I wasn't subscribed to any of the ones that were created after I had joined. Might not have even been subscribed to all of them that had existed when I did - it may have been just the community that i registered under..

So I guess this is just a reminder to all to periodically check the communities list so you're not missing out on the new new.

We have some upgrade work planned for this Saturday. It may involve prolonged downtime due to DNS changes.

Should we have sub-communities (or whatever we call them here on Lemmy) to separate things? Like a meme sub, a DD sub, a TA sub, a data sub, a TrustMeBro^TM sub.. anyone else think this would be a good idea?