So, emails are now required when registering new account. That's to avoid the rampant spam that's going around Lemmy right now.

Nothing changes for existing users, if you don't have an email, you don't have to add one. And if a new user registers and wants me to remove their email after registration, feel free to write me a PM.

I've (hopefully temporarily) defederated from feddit.jp, spammers took a liking in that instance. If the moderation issue on their side is resolved, we'll be federating again.

Edit: You can see reason for each defederation on Fediseer: https://fediseer.lemmings.world/instances/detail/lemmings.world

Based on the splendid work by @db0@lemmy.db0.com I blocked the instances from this post preemptively: https://lemmings.world/post/955121

We unfortunately had an outage caused by running out of free space, it has been fixed and shouldn't happen again. Sorry for the trouble.

As the title says, should we defederate from them? They are generally very spammy and most of Lemmy agrees that they don't contribute to the discussion in a meaningful way. At the same time they don't break any of the rules that would cause me to defederate from them, so I thought I'd ask you, the instance users, what do you want.

Please comment what you think, this post will stay pinned for two days and afterwards we will either defederate or not.

P.S. If you ever feel like some instance would be better defederated from, do let me know! I'll either defederate straight away if they break any of the rules, or create a post like this to let our users vote.

For the usual reasons - instance supported racism, homophobia and other stuff like that, namely:

• racism against Jews
• telling people to kill themselves
• calling people faggots

As usual, this wasn't an action of an individual, but something that the instance is all about.

The instance has been updated with the following changes:

• The pictures backend has been upgraded to the latest version and the storage was moved to a so-called object storage which should be cheaper than standard server storage. It also means we have unlimited* storage, yaay!
• Photon has been updated to latest version
• Mlmym has been updated to latest version

* The storage is unlimited as long as I have unlimited amount of money (which I don't) and as long as there are enough servers on Earth to store the data and ultimately if there's enough matter in the universe to even create more servers. But it's at least virtually unlimited.

The Photon frontend has been added at https://p.lemmings.world. As per their claim, they're the first frontend with all the feature the official UI has!

The frontend has been added as per request from @TurboLag@lemmings.world

The Photon frontend has recently reached feature parity with the official Lemmy frontend. It has a really nice UI and I like using it alongside Alexandrite.

@rikudou@lemmings.world would you consider hosting a copy for Lemmings.world, similar to how Alexandrite is available at a.lemmings.world?

Thanks in advance!

The Alexandrite UI available at https://a.lemmings.world has been updated to the latest version.

The reason is the same - personal attacks against a user of our instance using very unpleasant language. In all cases this is officially supported by the instance and not an action of an individual. Anyway, here are the instances:

• bae.st
• detroitriotcity.com
• poa.st
• varishangout.net
• mugicha.club
• 1611.social
• shitpost.cloud
• noagendasocial.com

These are generic spamming instances and they're starting to come here, so defederated as well:

• nicecrew.digital

The upgrade is done and live now.

Notably it fixes a problem with linking to comments.

Note that we also offer these two alternative user interfaces:

• https://a.lemmings.world - a sleek and modern UI
• https://old.lemmings.world - a UI similar to old Reddit

I've made an app that makes it possible to schedule a post in Lemmy at an arbitrary time. It's available at https://schedule.lemmings.world and can be used by people from any instance.

Let me know what you think!

Edit: And it's open source!

Most instances have a Kofi or something equivalent where you can give some money to help the instance admins. But I didn't see any links like that while poking around in the side bars.

Does this instance have something like that and I'm missing it? Or are the costs of running this instance not at a point where that kind of assistance is necessary? I don't have a lot of money but appreciate the work that goes into maintenance of an instance, so I like to toss a few bucks here and there to the ones I use when I can.

The instance has defederated from 3 sites, namely:

• rammy(.)site - the admin abandoned the instance and it's no longer moderated which leads to a lot of racist and nazi stuff, which is illegal and hate speech
• detroitriotcity(.)com - site that promotes and accepts racism (illegal, hate speech), loli (illegal to distribute, which IMO I would be doing if my instance replicated the images, but I'm not a lawyer)
• eientei(.)org - promotes and accepts racism, which is illegal and hate speech

If you think any of the sites were defederated from in a mistake, feel free to get in touch, either privately or in the comment section. If you feel there's any instance that breaks our rules, get in touch as well!

Hi, I'm Dee.

I was browsing through the various instances to join up with because I was tired of all the downtime with lemmy.world and I wanted to start using Lemmy as it was intended (spreading accounts out among more instances). That, and Beehaw hasn't been quite as engaging since defederation with lemmy.world and other large instances (which is why I went back to the lemmy.world account in the first place). I get why they defederated and I support their decision, it just was an overall negative impact for me in my Beehaw experience since I was in so many other communities outside of Beehaw.

This instance seemed chill, it blocks Threads and exploding heads so that's a great first impression. There's a few more instances I'd like to see added to the block list but that's a good enough start for me to get comfy here. The low user count has made everything just run so much quicker than with lemmy.world and I can still enjoy the same communities.

Happy to have found this place that appears to be here for the long haul and I'm looking forward to getting to know the local instance community more!

Edit: Sorry for triggering the snowflakes in the comments and for them feeling the need to provide substantial proof for why so many other instances defederate from them by default.

I had one of those classic lemmy moments the other day, where you thought you subscribed but you actually didn't... Been there? Finally got it done today Anyway I'm here, hoping for positivity

Hello from the benevolent dictator of Cakeland

The alternative beautiful Lemmy UI is available at https://a.lemmings.world, you can use whichever one suits you more, the content is the same on both.

Among the biggest changes is a huge speed improvement, posts should load much faster.

If you want a breakdown of all changes, visit the official release notes.

~~Tonight around 10 PM UTC I'll be upgrading the server this instance is on, expect a small outage, hopefully no longer than 20 minutes.~~

Edit: It's done.

It looks like this instance and communities are undiscoverable from kbin. I've seen mention of this before - when android moved from lemmy.world to lemdro.id it had the same problem. Unfortunately I can't find the announcement post with the comment in. Can this be fixed please?

The instance has been updated to version 0.18.2 which includes some fixes that should make the whole instance faster.

If you're feeling nostalgic about old Reddit, feel free to use https://old.lemmings.world to browse!

Can someone here explain why the community link fixer bot is spamming comments all over the fediverse?