Hello everyone and a

HUGE THANK YOU FOR 1000+ FOLLOWERS on /c/fossdroid!

It's great to see that this community and this instance see some actual usage! That makes me happy. 😁

Thank you for all the really nice, civil and constructive conversations we had on here so far and let's hope that our community will continue to grow steadily!

We'll soon push Lemmy in the Automoderator messages, the banner and the description on Reddit, so we'll be able to lure more people here, hopefully. If you want to help, just spread the word!

Once again, thank you, thank you, thank you and have a great one!

Edit: Yes, I'm aware I just violated my own "no memes" rule. 🤣

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Hey, guys.

Pre-workday-Netto chiming in to inform you that a XSS vulnerability has been found in Lemmy's frontend and that several instances have been compromised.

You can track the issue here.

I implemented the supposed patch and uploaded an ARM64 build that has the patch applied to Docker Hub, if any other instance might need it (use with caution).

Please note that you'll have to log back in, as all active sessions have been terminated.

I'll continue to monitor the situation when I'm at work.

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Hello, everyone!

My wife @Alirrasona told me earlier that she isn't fond of Lemmy's default web interface.

As many of you know, there are numerous alternative frontends for Lemmy. There are apps for Android and iOS, but also web frontends that you can access through your browser.

Two of them are pretty solid in my opinion. They're called Mlmym and Wefwef. Yes, the names are pretty weird, but they fundamentally change the way you can browse through Lemmy content.

Wefwef

Wefwef resembles an iOS application that works similar to how Apollo for Reddit used to work. You just visit the web page on your device, log in (if you want) and there you go. You can even "install" it as a progressive web application (PWA) and it'll appear in your launcher, start menu or wherever, acting as a native application.

Our Instance | Official Instance | [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/

Hello, community.

After my faux pas earlier today I now have some good news for you: I just upgraded the server to Lemmy 0.18.1, which brings mostly stability, performance and security improvements.

You can see a list with the changes here.

I recently followed the changes to Lemmy very closely and pretty much immediately pulled the latest changes when I saw something that I deemed necessary, which means, we were already pretty close to 0.18.1 release anyway.

As usual, let me know if something doesn't work, etc.

Much love from Germany!

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Hello, everyone!

Due to me fiddling around with Cloudflare and accidently applying wrong settings during one of my sleepless nights (I was tired again 😅), we weren't reachable for most people for a couple hours.

Since it was a DNS settings problem, it took some time to propagate and therefore it took some time for me to notice. I took my changes back for now and now it'll take some time for that to propagate, as well.

I'm really sorry, it'll not happen again it might happen again, but I'll do my best to prevent things like that in the future. I just want a stable experience for everyone!

Hey, community.

This one might probably trigger some of you. But just a question that comes out of the blue: What are your thoughts on it?

I first learned programming back in the day with Visual Basic 2008. Nowadays, I can program with C#, Java, PHP and some other languages rather well (I'm no professional, though), but I often come back to Visual Basic, because I'm just so used to it. Even though it's not that often, because I'm a Linux user.

But let's say I need a small program for Windows real quick? VB.NET is gonna be my choice. Right now, I'm implementing a board game server + client for the game of go (also called baduk or wei'qi) and I'm making really good progress.

I personally think that people should just use what they want to use. I don't get the hate for PHP and some other languages and I think this gate-keeping and god complex some developers have is really annoying. Makes me want to use VB.NET even harder.

I also don't like to jump on board with every new and upcomin

Edit: Nitter's back!

Hey, community.

As some of you probably know, FOSSware has instances for the popular, privacy-respecting front-ends for Reddit, Twitter and YouTube, called Teddit, Nitter and Piped.

Teddit and Piped don't use any kind of official API to get the content off the respective websites, so they continue to work, even after Reddit's API restrictions that went in place today. It's a different story with Twitter. Interested folks may track the GitHub issue here.

This shows once again that the decentralized approach is the better one. Let's take the matter into our own hands and use Lemmy, KBin, Mastodon, [Pleroma]

Just some cutsies enjoying the weather.

This is my current daily driver. A couple weeks ago, I decided to give a more minimal launcher a chance and I really like it. No inconsistent icon themes and less noise in general.

Tell me what you think!

Information

• Device: Mi 9T Pro (raphael)
• OS: crDroid 9.5 (Custom OS)
• Launcher: mLauncher
• Wallpaper: Found it on Wallme-Wallpaper
• Font: Linotte

Hello, guys!

As mentioned in the server maintenance post, 2FA is now available with Lemmy 0.18.0. However, the implementation seems to be borked.

Issues right now

• Instead of a QR code as usual, users will be presented with a button that opens a link
• There's no check whether or not the generated tokens work, 2FA is just being enabled without prior safety-check
• This might be too complicated for non-tech-savvy users, and they're effectively locking themselves out of their accounts
• After copying the generated secret to Bitwarden, the generated TOTP tokens don't seem to work anyway (didn't try with Aegis, etc.)

You can track the GitHub issue here.

Temporary Solution

Even though I'm not happy about it, I'll force-disable 2FA for now. If you enable it, it's gonna jump back to disabled after a short amount of time.

Gonna update you guys when this is fixed. Thank you!

Edit: Updated lemmy to 0.18.1.rc.10 and lemmy-ui to 0.18.1.rc.11. ARM64 images on Docker Hub.

Hello, guys.

As you might've noticed by the downtime, I decided to upgrade the server today, because I pretty much failed yesterday, due to migraine.

👍 Good news: The server is now running the latest version of Lemmy, 0.18.0.

👎 Bad news: There are still some issues that may or may not affect usability. But so far, things seem to be pretty minor.

This version of Lemmy brings a bunch of performance- and usability optimizations, for instance:

• WebUI looks sleeker
• Better editor
• Resubscribing to Communities that show "Subscribe Pending" should actually subscribe now (works with lemmy.ml communities, but not lemmy.world, for instance, partially fixes this)
• 2 factor authentication (2FA) is now a thing*
• Custom emojis are now possible (maybe someone wants to make some FOSS emojis?

**Edit 4: As you can see, we're finally on version 0.18.0. Due to the ARM64 architechture, I indeed had to jump through some hoops. Lemmy's documentation is absolutely worthless, as well. I guess it's been written by someone who didn't even test if the steps they describe actually work.

But well, here we are. Some images are not visible right now. Need to check out what's going on here.**

Edit 3: I kinda regret getting an ARM server for Lemmy now. Reverted my changes and went back to 0.17.3 for now. I'll either wait for an official 0.18.0 ARM64 image or switch to a server on AMD64 basis.

Edit 2: Now fiddling with the system. Please expect a couple outages over the next hour or two.

Edit: This is going to be delayed, because I suffered a hefty migraine attack today and am still very groggy now after it subsided. I'm sorry, I'll most likely do this later tonight or on Monday.

Hello everyone,

as Lemmy [version 0.18.0](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Hey, guys.

I'm not learning yiddish, nor am I jewish. But I recently remembered this song, called "Hulyet, hulyet, kinderlekh" (pardon if that's not the correct way to write it) and wanted to share it with you. I really like this version, as it kinda gives goosebumps.

I also know the version by Zupfgeigenhansel, too.

Good stuff!

Hello, community!

After reading about all the things that Reddit has done to alienate their userbase (hostility towards moderators that put thousands of hours of volunteer work into their site, blatantly claiming their userbase's content as theirs, not respecting the choice of their userbase when it comes to content deletion, etc.), I'm currently planning to start a larger offensive on r/fossdroid to create more attention for Lemmy.

In order to moderate and promote this community, as well as this instance, I just appointed Astral Moira (@ostrich, u/ubertr0_n on Reddit) as moderator and 2nd instance administrator.

I always noticed on Reddit that Astral Moira has very broad knowledge about FOSS and is very passionate about it, so I think, they're a good fit!

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Hey guys!

Thanks to the awesome Lemmy Overseer (GitHub) project and as an effort to block off instances with too lax sign up policies and therefore too many bot accounts, such instances will now be blocked / defederated automatically.

FOSSware defederates such instances temporarily, as we believe that the users should decide what they want to see and what not.

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Hey, guys.

After noticing that accounts registered by bots (before enabling CAPTCHA) count towards this instance's user count, skewing the statistics, I just implemented a job in the backend that'll remove accounts with unverified e-mail addresses after 1 day.

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Hey there!

We're experiencing a high frequency of failed bot account signups since around 2 hours or so. They're all using random names with the same pattern and random GMail e-mail addresses.

In an effort to combat this and to prevent GMail from rate-limiting our mail server, I just enabled CAPTCHAs during registration for now.

In case you experience an issue during registration, please e-mail admin

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RAWR!