Ask Lemmy nxlemmy • Now • 72%

Why is there no instance upgrade support on Lemmy?

for some reason this was removed by a mod on ml with no indication as to why it was removed... There should be a dedicated post every time a new version is released so people can ask questions about bugs\issues they encounter when upgrading their lemmy instance. The support community barely has any activity and theres never an official thread for the latest upgrade. The upgrade instructions are usually vague and then you have to go to matrix to ask questions and nothing is organized and cant be search on search engines. For example im trying to upgrade from .18.5 to the latest (.19.3) but the ansible instructions are: - git pull && git checkout 1.4.0 - Read Pictrs’ Configuration Changes - Amend your vars.yml file to respect the new changes It doesn’t give any details to where I might find the `vars.yml` file and it doesnt give an example file of what the file should look like after the correct changes are made. EDIT: if anyone has the same issue. the issue was that the vars.yml file isnt on the server its on your local machine you run ansible from. located in /(domain)/lemmy-ansible/inventory/host_vars/(domain)/ It’s very strange that a platform that has the best ui for finding fixes to issues etc recommends people go to a separate chat platform to ask for questions that will presumably be asked multiple times since its so difficult to keep track of stuff. Can we please have an official Lemmy Upgrade thread when a new version is released instead of relying on Matrix?

Fediverse nxlemmy • Now • 88%

Lemmy.world deleting posts with archive links and posts questioning the decision.

Lemmy.world has somehow decided to become to extreme defenders of "copyright" and decided they will now delete posts that contain archive links in an absurd move that not even corporate websites like Reddit do. Archive links provide a service to provide access to an article long after it is deleted or changed. They made this post and locked it immediately so no one can comment on how ridiculous it is and they're deleting threads about the decision... cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6711646 > The LW admins have requested that communities remove any posts that include the entire article or archive links to articles. > > A short summary is allowed, but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. This includes links to sites that rehost copyrighted articles for paywall sites. > > If your post is removed for a rule 1 violation you can edit the post and let the moderators know the copyrighted material has been removed. > > Thanks All!

Showerthoughts nxlemmy • Now • 86%

Hot take: developing an open source For You algorithm for mastodon that shows you posts based on your likes inbetween every other chronological post would be great

If we had an open source algorithm for Mastodon/Pixelfed that learned based on the words in the post and image/video we could have a Following + For You feed that showed you all the posts from people you follow and you could choose to see, say, 1 recommended For You post after every 3 posts from your Following feed. With the option to disable For You posts completely or tweak how often you see these. Discovering new people to follow on mastodon/pixelfed isn’t great (hashtags are rarely used and make posts look ugly) so I still occasionally use twitter because I often discover new indie animators/gamedevs showing off their project making it really nice to browse the For You feed.

it happens only when sorting by Hot and it happens on a lot of posts regardless of what server you're on 

using git pull and then running the ansible script to update break the lemmy server because it replaces the lemmy.hjson to have the old pictrs_url instead of ``` pictrs: { url: "http://pictrs:8080/" # api_key: "API_KEY" } ``` is there a way i can fix this so every update doesnt break the server requiring me to use the old helper script from .17.0 and manually update the lemmy.hjson?

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ nxlemmy • Now • 97%

Gary Bowser is out of jail after being sued by Nintendo and would be an interesting AMA here

The story and work of Gary Bowser is pretty badass and would make for an interesting ama and event on lemmy. Here’s a recent article on Gary Bowser https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-how-a-1980s-hacker-became-nintendos-nemesis-decades-later-230702/

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ nxlemmy • Now • 93%

Gary Bowser is out of jail after being sued by Nintendo and would be an interesting AMA here

The story and work of Gary Bowser is pretty badass and would make for an interesting ama and event on lemmy. Here’s a recent article on Gary Bowser https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-how-a-1980s-hacker-became-nintendos-nemesis-decades-later-230702/

Whenever a lot of people google anything they end the search with “reddit” so they can get information on the subject from subreddits. Now that reddit is doing everything to force us to use their shit app and killing the website on mobile we should have a way to import archives of reddit to lemmy so the knowledge base that was reddit is still openly available to people. People on the datahoarder subreddit have archived subreddits and there’s already a tool to import subreddit to Lemmy automatically but it won’t work now that the api is dead https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

Privacy Guides nxlemmy • Now • 100%

Pulse Browser is a minimalist & ad blocking Firefox fork thats very underrated/unknown

[Pulse Browser](https://pulsebrowser.app) is a firefox fork that includes ublock origin, a sidebar, and a minimalist new tab page and nothing else. Its my daily driver and i wish more people knew about it so the developer could get some help

Technology nxlemmy • Now • 100%

Servers should have Health Bars so users can ensure they don't abruptly shut down

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1239521 > Reddit used to have something similar to health bar showing how much "gold" was bought to support the website. but later on out of greed they started using it as a paywall. > > We can have a health bar that doesnt paywall ANY features and very transparently displays funds raised\used for a server. It can be used to display how much funds its being supported, how much server costs are, salaries for open source maintainers, mods, etc. > > >

Lemmy nxlemmy • Now • 93%

Servers should have Health Bars so users can ensure they don't abruptly shut down

Reddit used to have something similar to health bar showing how much "gold" was bought to support the website. but later on out of greed they started using it as a paywall. We can have a health bar that doesnt paywall ANY features and very transparently displays funds raised\used for a server. It can be used to display how much funds its being supported, how much server costs are, salaries for open source maintainers, mods, etc.

for some reason the block community button only appears if im logged in and the hamburger menu on posts in the homepage doesnt open anything

For example, if im on an instance that only federates with instances in an allowlist can someone create an instance of bots to downvote things in the lemmy.ml instance and affect the score of the lemmy.ml posts that users on my instance can see? I’m interested in learning how lemmy prevents vote brigading from instances that might be made with malicious intent

World News nxlemmy • Now • 85%

18-year-old fashion blogger Veronika Loginova is facing 6 years in prison for using instagram in Russia.

link to her instagram post https://www.instagram.com/p/Ciu9vhKD3ds/

World News nxlemmy • Now • 95%

The National Republican Army of Russia claims responsibility for the killing of Dugin’s daughter.

m.dw.com

"This action, like many other direct partisan actions carried out in Russia in recent months, was carried out by the National Republican Army," said Ponomarev, adding that his web portal had made contact with the group's fighters. A manifesto purporting to come from the group was published online on Sunday, which Ponomarev went on to read out in the broadcast. It declares Putin a "usurper of power and war criminal." It says the Russian president "unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to certain and senseless death." "Poverty and coffins for some, palaces for others — that's the essence of his policy." "We believe that disenfranchised people have the right to rebel against tyrants. Putin will be deposed and destroyed by us!" The document goes on to call on soldiers of the Russian army "to stop shooting at our brothers from other countries — Georgia, Syria and others," and urges "all Russians to join our ranks."

This is a good short video on The Council for National Policy which is a group who’s membership is supposed to be kept secret but had its membership list publicized by Documented https://documented.net/investigations/documented-has-obtained-a-recent-council-for-national-policy-membership-list Its a group of conservatives that push policy and organize conservatives in power to stay on message to help them grow Christian Nationalism in the US.

Technology nxlemmy • Now • 100%

Banchan.art a platform for Art commisions thats run as a Co-op.

banchan.art

Banchan is an online co-op that makes it easy to accept commissions for art. They have a focus on making it simple and safe with the bonus of acting as an escrow which allows you protect your identity which is a great feature for trans artists not wanting to share their bank info attached to their deadname. This is a pretty good complement to using https://comradery.co for recurring payments. These platforms and the fediverse becoming more and more used really gives me hope for worker owned online and offline spaces.

World News nxlemmy • Now • 66%

Daughter of Alexandr Dugin (the brains behind the Z invasion) killed in car bomb meant for him.

www.theguardian.com

Text copied over from a poppinkream post: “The alleged target in this assassination was her father, Alexandr Dugin, a Russian neo-fascist whose writings and ideas are widely available and taught in Russian military academies. He works closely with the Russian government and also wrote the Foundations of Geopolitics. He is an individual that helped shape contemporary Russian foreign policy. Alexander Dugin is a proponent of Neo-Eurasianism, a fascist ideology that believes in building a totalitarian Russian empire to bring about an era of illiberalism. Aleksandr Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics http://www.4pt.su/en/content/aleksandr-dugin%E2%80%99s-foundations-geopolitics “By the summer of 2001, Aleksandr Dugin, a neo-fascist ideologue, had managed to approach the center of power in Moscow, having formed close ties with elements in the Presidential Administration, the secret services, the Russian military, and the leadership of the State Duma. …Within the United States itself, there is a need for the Russian special services and their allies “to provoke all forms of instability and separatism within the borders of the United States (it is possible to make use of the political forces of Afro-American racists)” (p. 248). “It is especially important,” Dugin adds, “to introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics…” (p. 367). …As for the former union republics of the USSR situated within Europe, they all (with the single above-noted exception of Estonia) should, in Dugin’s view, be absorbed by Eurasia- Russia.  “Belorussia,” Dugin asserts flatly, “should be seen as a part of Russia…” (p. 377).  In similar fashion, Moldova is seen as a part of what Dugin calls “the Russian South” (p. 343). On the key question of Ukraine, Dugin underlines:  “Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning.  It has no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness” (p. 377).  “Ukraine as an independent state with certain territorial ambitions,” he warns, “represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics” (p. 348).  And he adds that, “[T]he independent existence of Ukraine (especially within its present borders) can make sense only as a ‘sanitary cordon’…” (p. 379).  However, as we have seen, for Dugin all such “sanitary cordons” are inadmissible. in March of 2022 the U.S. Treasury department added the now deceased, Darya Dugina, to the sanctions list for her involvement in Project Lakhta - a sophisticated online Russian disinformation campaign. If anyone wants to know more about Aleksander Dugin, the podcast No Easy Answers did a series on him. Episode 47 entitled “We Need To Talk About Aleksander Dugin,” episode 48 about Dugin’s occult fascism and the hijacking of left anti imperialism, and episode 49 about Dugin, Russian nationalism and Ukraine.” Heres a youtube link but it can also be found in your favorite podcast app https://youtube.com/watch?v=0uz22FFzW7g

Asklemmy nxlemmy • Now • 91%

What do you think of including a translation feature on lemmy if we can figure out a privacy respecting way to do it?

I think it would be great to be able to click a button on a comment\post and have it translate to your language. I think its possible to build a way to include this in a privacy respecting way (im not a coder so forgive my ignorance) if we use something like the google translate scraper that is used for this privacy respecting google translate frontend https://github.com/thedaviddelta/lingva-translate Making it easier for people to communicate across languages would be pretty sweet for the fediverse.