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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I forgot to mention, if you haven't already realized, that the upgrade was successful!

 

Lemmy 0.19.4 has finally been released! Upgrade will be planned for this weekend in the evening. This upgrade will require a significant database update which will cause a bit of offline time. I'll give a heads up when that will begin.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There was an issue with object storage. This was to test that it was working again!

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Test post

 

Greetings - the Atlanta News Lemmy News Bot is temporarily offline, as the code that had been runnign the News Bot is apparenly incompatible with the latest version of 0.19.0. I'll try to get things back online as soon as feasible.

 

Hello, your friendly moderator here.

Going forward, any Atlanta News article that is paywalled will be in /c/nonfree_atlanta_news

I've received quite a few kind and unfortunately some angry/nasty comments about articles from the (paywalled) Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) whose headlines are auto-published via bot to /c/AtlantaNews. I hope separating out AJC articles from "free" articles into separate communities will conclude this issue going forward.

As FYI, this Lemmy instance and theATL.social Mastodon instance are funded by subscribers, in a manner similar to how public radio works. If you enjoy the /c/AtlantaNews community, I would encourage you to consider a subscription via OpenCollective.

Second, for people in Atlanta, the AJC is the newspaper of record for the City. They have a paywall because that is how they make money. I don't know what else to say about that fact - it is what it is. Nearly all newspapers in the United States operate an a subscription model.

Finally, there are currently some very intense world events occuring. As a reminder, for any posts to yall.theATL.social, any comments promoting or advocating violence wlil result in an immediate ban from this server. Toxic and trolling behavior will result in post deletion for minor incidents and an immediate ban for severe incidents. All moderator actions will be logged in the modlog for your review.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The Atlanta Daily World is a local newspaper and the first Black daily newspaper in the US. Morgan State University is a historically black college/university (HBCU), and this community includes a newsbot that reads from the RSS feed of the newspaper.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Howdy, this is [email protected] - I am utterly horrified about what happened in Jacksonville to Mr. Woods. It is my sincere hope that our justice system identifies and prosecutes those responsible for what happened.

There were comments in this thread advocating for violence against law enforcement in response to this terrible news. I have removed and will continue to remove users and comments that violate the server rules against the advocacy/promotion of violence against anyone, including government officials and employees, on yall.theatl.social. Reporting on violence, as with the article above, does not violate any rules. However, this server will not be the source of threats against others in response to news articles and comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think the archive.ph solution is probably the best. I am the keeper of the bots, 🤖 , so it's just a matter of adding more code to the script(s).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yep! That's probably the ideal solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

@[email protected] - would making it more clear in the post title help? I added ($) in the title to indicate paywall, but I can just do (Paywall) which would be less ambiguous.

Some/many people in the Atlanta area have subscriptions to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, so having that news source is helpful for us. But of course adding more info to post title would prevent wasted clicks for those without a subscription.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This shuts down the issue until the next scheduled session of the General Assembly. (Some) House Republicans wanted to hold a special session to move on the issue now; however, only the Governor can call a special session. And the Governor indicating his non-approval would likely make any efforts moot in the regular session in any case.

 

It's been super nifty watching seeing how both theATL.social (Mastodon) and yall.theATL.social (Lemmy) are being utilized to share information and news during all the...umm...current events in Atlanta.

All of the traffic, however, has increased usage on some of theATL's server infrastructure - specifically, the primary database. Provisioned resources for this server were increased this afternoon to accomodate. As a result, all services should be operating considerably faster.

The server runs on contributions from users like you! Both expenses and contributions are available on OpenCollective. Thank you in advance for you consideration - and thank you to all patrons of theATL.social!

 

Greetings, /c/Atlanta at Lemmy.world!

If it interests you, yall.theatl.social is a Lemmy server just for Atlanta. Popular communities include /c/AtlantaNews and, /c/AtlantaUnited, and well, /c/Atlanta.

If you're interested in a Mastodon instance focusing on Atlanta, feel free to visit the companion site theATL.social, a Mastodon instance.

And on yall.theATL.social, feel free to create any community that you'd like to have - sensible server rules not withstanding, of course.

Enjoy!

 

Join your neighbors on Sept 9th, 2023 from 12pm to 5pm in Atlanta's Historic Adair Park for Porches and Pies, a festival celebrating the joys of baking and eating savory and sweet pies.

The festival will have:

  • Live entertainment
  • Pie bake-off competition
  • Pie tastings
  • [Non-pie] food and beverages
  • A generally nice time

Interested in participating in the pie baking competition? Enter into the competition by Aug 21!

Interested in eating the delicious pies from the competition? Purchase a tasting pass!

Proceeds from the festival benefit Adair Park Today, the neighborhood association for Adair Park.

 

Greetings! This Lemmy server has been upgraded to version 0.18.4. AFAIK, there are no major changes, only minor fixes.

Additional logging and service resiliency measures were also implemented along with the upgrade.

Happy posting!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Glad to do so! Appreciate the questions and glad everything was sorted out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The market is next to the "Beacon" development, at the end of Grant Ave (https://goo.gl/maps/9zcdhhq3u5Ca7vNX7) - super easy to bike to, but there's only one bike rack, so people sort of just lock bikes together, or to random objects. On the other hand, driving and parking there appears always looks like a shitshow, so biking/walking is the best transportation method in any event.

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

So, all updated - the issue is that Lemmy (currently) does not pull older posts or other metadata from a community from another server until a subscription is made to that community/server.

So when you join a community from another server, you're not going to see a lot, until that server "pushes" new posts to yall.theatl.social

That behavior may change with software changes, but it is what it is for now. The same issue occurs on Mastodon too. If you are on a larger server, you won't have this issue, because it's likely that larger server has been receiving posts all along.

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

I've reviewed the logs and it appears the issue is that some instances (such as the ones you were attemping to view) are using a newer version of Lemmy than the official release. The latest tag for Lemmy software is 0.18.2, while the last release is 0.18.1. I try releases and not tags, so perhaps dev forgot to do so.

I'll update, and presume that things will federate properly afterwards.

 

Greetings!

  • theATL.social's Mastodon instance previously hosted various news bots that reposted news from Atlanta-source or related RSS feeds are being relocated to here yall.theatl.social
  • So far, the news feeds have been relocated, but feedback on the sports feeds and government news feeds would be helpful:
    • should each team get its own community?
    • or should all sports related news be located in a single community?
    • what would be the most helpful or interesting RSS feeds?

Of course, any user may create and/or post bots too! There is an emerging ecosystem of Lemmy clients to do this in your preferred language.

The link in this post is to a public repository where new news feeds may be suggested!

 

yall.theATL.social has been updated to Lemmy version 0.18.1.

This update contained many minor fixes, but no apparent functionality changes. If you notice any issues, feel free to reply to this post!

 

If anyone is interested in contributing a new logo for yall.theatl.social, I'd look forward to posting it as the primary graphic for this Lemmy instance.

I'm not terribly handy with Illustrator/Photoshop, so any creative contributions would be much appreciated.

And, I would be glad to add a reimbursement on OpenCollective to make note of the financial value of the contribution, which would be funded when funds are available.

 

Hey y'all - just wanted to bring to your attention that there may be some clunkiness in Lemmy federating (connecting) to non-Lemmy servers on the Fediverse.

Attached is the GitHub issue. I'm sure this will get resolved in the next version - there are tons of developers (okay, not tons, but I'll go with a dozen or so) that joined the Lemmy GitHub project and are tackling these sorts of issues.

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