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 decide

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.

Wie ihr im Anhang sehen könnt, sind die "Antworten" und "Abbrechen" buttons bei discuss.tchncs.de bzw. feddit.org genau vertauscht, was mich schon mehrfach dazu verführt hat, fälschlicherweise "Abbrechen" statt "Antworten" zu tippen, weswegen ich mühsam getippte Kommentare zweimal tippen musste.

Wäre es möglich den Antworten-Button farblich etwas grün hervorzuheben, oder wenn man auf "Abbrechen" drückt kurz zu fragen - "Sind Sie sicher dass sie den Kommentar verwerfen wollen?" oder so etwas? Danke schon mal fürs lesen.

I can't login to matrix because zitadel seems to be down is it possible to unlink my account so I can login to matrix independently from zitadel?

Hi, I just wanted to login with my username and my password (60 digits) in Jerboa and got a notification that the credentials were wrong. I tried another browser on my laptop with the same result. Furthermore I switched to my default browser and can't change my password (login credentials are being stored, so I'm permanently logged in). When I insert a new and the old password and click "Save", nothing happens.

Any ideas what I can do?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22274306

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.

Changes

This release took a long time to complete due to a major performance problem which brought lemmy.ml to a crawl every time we tried to deploy the new version. It took a lot of testing (in production) to narrow it down to a single commit, and finally fix the problem.

The release itself contains numerous bug fixes and minor improvements:

Lemmy

Enhancements

• Parallel federation sending by @phiresky in #4623
• Reduce CPU usage