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Hello,

we will be performing the long awaited update to Lemmy 0.19.9 tomorrow.

We are planning for around 1 hour of downtime between 16:00-17:00 UTC on 16th of March.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-03-16T16%3A00%3A00.000Z

You can find an overview of the changes in our previous announcement here and in the Lemmy release notes:


Update 16:50 UTC:

The upgrade was successfully completed at around 16:27 UTC, but we're still fighting with some performance issues after the upgrade. Our database and the outbound federation container are currently using significantly higher CPU than expected, which is still being investigated to identify the root cause.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

Congrats on the successful upgrade πŸŽ‰

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Do you think you guys could do a post on the underlying hardware/infrastructure of .world? I would love to see what it takes to run the largest Lemmy instance lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

in short form, we have HAproxy running on a hetzner cloud VM for Lemmy/Lemmy-UI, another HAproxy VM for the alt UIs, a VM for the alt UIs.

for the main LW box, which runs lemmy containers, lemmy-ui, pictrs and a database each for lemmy and pictrs, we have a physical box with an EPYC 7502P 32 core CPU, 128GB memory and NVMe SSDs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Huh interesting thanks! I'm pleasantly surprised at how little the "cloud" is part of it.

Thought for sure it would be some flavor of cloud with a whole bunch of VMs or something like Kubernetes for scalability lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I can sort the comments [ new/old etc] now! ( Jerboa).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Are the comment upvote and downvote numbers gone intentionally?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

There are now settings to display or hide them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's cool, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I have all on in my settings:

But the numbers don't show:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the β€œβ†‘ 4” on your screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as β€œβ†‘ 87 ↓ 1”)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Don't feel bad. I had that exact same back and forth with myself.

I was also half asleep, high, and pooping, and I still figured it out on my own......so maybe feel a LITTLE bit bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Congratulations.

I find the new spot for the numbers a bit wierd, because they end up in different places according to the lenght of the username and other info like instance name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Yes, I REALLY hated that at first.

Whereas now... I still do:-).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I might be a bit confused, but I just went to my settings to see, and both "show upvotes" and "show downvotes" were ticked already, by default. I refreshed the page (Ctr+Shift+R), and it's still the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

(Copying from my other comment)

Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the β€œβ†‘ 4” on that screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as β€œβ†‘ 87 ↓ 1”)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Aaaah, I get it now, thanks! I did see the β€œβ†‘ 4” bits everywhere, but it turns out that every single comment I have looked at had 0 downvotes, and then instead of going ”↓ 0”, it just simply doesn't display downvotes. I thought I was going mad.

I liked the previous implementation, though. To me it seemed more clear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I vastly preferred the old way as well - you are not alone.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Finally, the ability to view (and delete!) your own uploads.

FYI, the sorting on the uploads tab is broken. Obviously I don't expect sorting by "top" or "controversial" or whatever to work, but sorting by "old" doesn't, either. It's always sorted by newest first. But at least it's something. (I know for sure I have images uploaded that were not used in posts.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Nice addπŸ‘Œ

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

And being able to comment on locked post, what a nice QoL enhancement :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

Huh? How? I don't see anything about this in the six linked changelogs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

In 0.19.4, section "Moderation enhancements"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I directly noticed that the background color got brighter and looked in this community to see whether a post like this got published. I mean, congrats on the new update I guess but I liked the darker dark mode more πŸ˜”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I recall thinking that as well, but fwiw you do get used to it and it's extremely minor.

The fact that up and downvote counts sometimes appear on the left and otherwise on the right you never get used to though - I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

Someone ELI5 why Lemmy is or isn't ready for a Reddit Exodus.

Personally, I want it to be. Reddit censorship/shadowbans/deletes is outta control. Imo the problem lemmy has is on Desktop, since on Android there are some great apps like Boost that give it a Reddit-like end user experience, wheras Desktop experience in a browser is No equivalent of RES, or classic reddit. Opening images is very janky. I like RESs 'view images buttons, that untwirls all view image buttons. Using lemmy on desktop is a Chore. I can handle it. But I imagine its very much a bad taste and an impediment to a greater influx of average users.

Its about time we left reddit behind and make Desktop lemmy more welcoming. The times we're in requires a trustable platform. Reddit ain't it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Try this out and see: go to PieFed.social and make an account. See the sign-up wizard, which asks you what you interests are and subscribes you to communities based on that, and asks how much content you want to see with the keywords "Trump" or "Musk" - none, a little, or all/no filtering - and check out the user customizable and shareable Feeds that were recently added (the equivalent of multi-Reddits, a highly requested feature).

The Fediverse is growing up. Lemmy... well, has the advantage of the legacy work put into it so far - e.g. all the apps that currently work for it (though with some, like Sync, falling behind).

PieFed is even opening up new avenues in the democratization of moderation, allowing the user to control what they want. Lemmy, meanwhile, is somehow becoming more like Reddit over time rather than less - e.g. while it has the modlog, it lacks a modmail, and any notification of a moderation action (removal, locking, banning, etc.) and while it used to report the name of a mod who removed content (iirc you might be used to that on LW, being on 0.19.3, until just now?), now it just says "mod". So there is no way to appeal or ask about or even be notified that your content has been moderated. Even Reddit was more friendly than that!?!?!?

The promise of the Fediverse is that we can keep hopping to new places, not that any one place will be any good, but the tools man, the tools... they are pretty authoritarian in nature, when you stop to think about it, they REALLY are. imho at least.

And Reddit has the content. And no tankies (but does have conservatives). Overall, the vast majority of people (centrists mainly, and who don't use ~~Arch~~ Linux btw) prefer simply to remain on Reddit, seeing no real reason to move.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

For me to rely on Lemmy for news, there needs to be a LOT more action. Right now Reddit can be my sole news source because of how many people are on there.

The problem can be seen when looking at Twitter/X and the exodus that has been happening there. Mastodon was touted as a Twitter alternative but the onboarding was so confusing due to being federated. People don't want to be confused they want things simple. This is why BlueSky took off rather than Mastodon.

Anyone remember Diaspora?*

Decentralization is not a new idea, it's just too confusing to the masses right now. While the Lemmy onboarding process is actually pretty good, picking an instance is a trip up (it was for me for a very long time and I'm tech-savvy). Until that part is solved centralized services will always have more migrating users sadly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

For news

picking an instance is a trip up (it was for me for a very long time and I’m tech-savvy).

Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit, you can visit https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content, and install an app using https://vger.app/settings/install.

For a more detailed guide: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I hear ya, it wast a trip up for me necessarily, I just okayed thru it and it all worked somehow (basically I'm big dumb yes man and it worked out, lol), but i def recall the sign up was more involved due to those extra steps. A potential solution i can see happening is maybe a top youtuber like Linus or MKBHD could ease the pain of onboarding by making a digestible video that effectively goes viral due to their reach. Much like Linus vids on quitting windows for Linux or ditching Google services.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

in my opinion it's the login experience. selecting an instance is too confusing for the average user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's just a matter of explaining instances in a clear and concise way. This isn't a Lemmy-specific issue though - it's a problem for all of the fediverse.

https://join-lemmy.org/instances says "You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server, so it doesn't matter which one you choose.", but that still leaves some things unanswered.

It seems to have done a decent job of helping new users find a suitable server with a few simple questions though.

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