An article on why Meta entering the fediverse is not necessarily a good thing.

Following this post yesterday, the errors encountered by other admins were sorted and we realized captchas were not enough of a reason to keep people from experince the best version of Lemmy.

We are now on v0.18 with registration applications turned on, this is a temporary requirement until captchas are added back. If you encounter any bugs with the new version please mention them in the comments.

(Clear your cache if the new version doesn't load for you, should work fine after that.)

Official Announcement: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/263377 Github Release Page: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.0

This is a massive upgrade, and a lot of the minor annoyances that users were finding about Lemmy has been fixed. You can check the above links for all the changes implemented but some of the major ones are:

1. Websockets replaced by HTTP: What this means for you is that instances will feel snappier due to less load, and the annoying sudden flood of new posts when browing hot is also gone. In general hot/active sorting has been reworked and feel much better to browse.

2. Links that would take you off-instance should now get automatically converted to ones that don’t. And just writing the name should be enough to turn it into a link. So no more manually searching for the linked communities you find in the comments.

3. Support for 2-Factor Authentification.

4. Custom emojis for Instances.

5. Support for PWA.

6. A Share Button.

7. Improvements to overall look and feel of Lemmy.

Not to mention many under the hood changes like database optimizations and bug fixes. This is a very big version upgrade that's come at just the right time.

However, some Instance admins encountered errors when trying to upgrade. And captchas, which we rely on to prevent bots from flooding in, will come back only in version 0.18.1.

So our options are to either upgrade now, maybe have some downtime and to turn on registration applications, or wait until v0.18.1 is released before upgrading (which shouldn't take more than a few days). We are leaning towards option 2 for now, but interested in hearing what others have to say.

• Lemmyverse - Filter and find Instances and Communities
• Lemmy Community-Browser - Alternative site to search for communities
• sub.rehab - Find where your favorite subreddit has made a community onn Lemmy
• FediDB - View Stats about Fediverse and Lemmy Instances.
• The Federation - Stats and Graphs on Fediverse Growth and Popular Instances on them
• Awesome Lemmy Instances - Index of Popular Lemmy Instances
• Fediverse Observer - Another site to find popular instances
• Lemmymap - Size of Different Lemmy Instances Visualized
• fedi-block - Find which instances have blocked your home instance
• Fedisearch - Search Fediverse through various search engines

I also made a post collecting beginner guides for new lemmy users. Feel free to comment any new site and I'll update the list.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555.

A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.

Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.

Just FYI for now. It's late here so I'll see how we proceed tomorrow.

Following the announcement by beehaw admins to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, there has been many posts and messages regarding that decisions and what other instances will do.

I personally believe Lemmy/kbin can only thrive if there is a free flow of content between different instances, with instance admins taking a back seat and focusing more on the infrastructure and making sure the technical bugs are smoothened out. Community mods can moderate their communities, and users can block the communities they don't find appealing (there's even a toggle in settings to hide every NSFW post from your feed altogether).

We don't want to create walled gardens, nor do we want to make Lemmy more confusing than it already is for new users. We will not be defederating from any instance if there is even one good community on it that our instance users might find useful. So far we have only blocked lemmygrad.ml, and right now we have no plans to block anyone else.

Someone has started a community curated list of subreddits that have made a Lemmy or Kbin Instance.

This will help people discover their niche commuities while also preventing fragmentation.

You can also contribute here

Another big hit to the piracy scene :(

I know people are confused about how fediverse works and how to use it. This is an attempt to compile a list of beginner's guides made by some amazing people on this topic.

• Unsunny's Guide - An easy to read guide aimed at redditors migrating to Lemmy or Kbin
• Lemmy.world Starting Guide - A beginner's guide to Lemmy by the admin of lemmy.world instance.
• db0's New User Guide - A guide for new users on Lemmy made by head mod of r/piracy.
• lemm.ee FAQ - Beginner's Guide by admin of lemm.ee
• Michael Altfield's Guide - A guide on finding Lemmy Communities (Lemmy version of Subreddits)
• Fedi.tips - A comprehensive guide for Fediverse and Mastodon. Useful for Lemmy aswell.
• r/KbinMigration's Guide - Redditor's guide to how Kbin works.
• Join the Fediverse - Fediverse Wiki

I will update this list if any new guide is made so you can save this post for later. Also, if anyone has any good guide to add post it in the comments and I'll add it here.