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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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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 11 points 19 hours ago

Congrats on the successful upgrade πŸŽ‰

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] sga013@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] ruud@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day 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

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day 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.

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[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] sga013@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Are the comment upvote and downvote numbers gone intentionally?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

There are now settings to display or hide them

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 7 points 22 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:

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 8 points 21 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”)

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 3 points 22 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.

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 2 points 21 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”)

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 4 points 21 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.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago

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

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 23 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.)

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Nice addπŸ‘Œ

[–] fuck_you_spez@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 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.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What features does lemmy have that piefed is missing?

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

I don't have a comprehensive listing, but one example I can think of offhand is that the search function works much better on Lemmy (and is about to improve further by restricting to the title field). The PieFed search feature that exists now (like Reddit's) is pretty bad, where you can paste an exact title but somehow get no matches.

An extremely minor one is that there is no preview of comments before submitting, although a preview was recently added for posts so one for comments surely is not far behind.

A more major one is that PieFed does not work quite as well for navigating "deeper" posts - you can only toggle between the one comment you are at in the moment, with its immediate parent, and "all comments" in a post, which for deeper posts also loses the entire chain bc it gets hidden below a "Continue thread" link, so even searching for exact text won't find it and instead you have to go through every single one of those one by one until you manage to stumble upon it. Lemmy is starting to do the latter as well, in a manner similar to how Reddit started to leave behind old-Reddit and transition to new-Reddit - which I do NOT like! - but at least when you somehow get a link to a comment (e.g. in a notification from when someone replies to you; or if someone sends it to you), then you can step up the chain one comment at a time, which makes working with those a lot easier.

Edit: and needing to edit this post to correct an autocorrect reminds me that editing comments on PieFed is very frustrating - it takes you to a separate page, then when you are done returns to the OP (not even going directly to your comment for some reason?), which completely obliterates your progress, e.g. if you had comments sorted and some hidden as you read through them all, then it's very frustrating that all of your effort in those regards get discarded.

Then again, there is now a fork of Thunder that is being tested on PieFed, so many/most of the above could be addressed that way? And it's not like Lemmy does not have frustrations of its own as well, in different areas.

I haven't tested moderation tools on PieFed yet.

Mainly, PieFed is both ahead of Lemmy in terms of features overall, especially for a new joiner with the sign-up wizard and the preloading of all communities across the entire Fediverse, while also being less polished than Lemmy in some other respects. But it's closing the gap REALLY fast!:-)

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] markko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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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