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.

  • Dremor@lemmy.world
    2·
    19 days ago

    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

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      0·
      19 days ago

      URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

      Huh? How? I don’t see anything about this in the six linked changelogs.

        • woelkchen@lemmy.world
          0·
          19 days ago

          In 0.19.4, section “Moderation enhancements”

          But this is about admins being able to block URLs, not about mods of communities.

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            19 days ago

            PieFed and Mbin both allow you to block URLs, like of a particular news source that you don’t want. At a guess, the Sync and Connect Lemmy apps may do likewise (but I don’t truly know). If Lemmy does not do it in the base web UI, you may have to hunt around to get the functionality that you want. I just wanted to let you know that it definitely does exist, maybe not in base Lemmy, but in multiple other ways, in case that helps.

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    20 days ago

    I’m not a dev/programmer, but does the version number starting with a zero suggest that Lemmy is still in a pre-release state? Like alpha or beta or something? If so, what needs to happen before it gets to version 1.0? Just curious! From my layperson’s perspective, Lemmy runs great and I have no complaints about it, so I’m not sure what v.1.0 would look like. Or maybe it’s all internal stuff that I’ll never notice anyway?

  • fuck_you_spez@lemmy.world
    1·
    20 days ago

    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.socialEnglish
      2·
      19 days ago

      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.

    • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

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

    • dryfter@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      19 days ago

      For me to rely on Lemmy for news, there needs to be a LOT more action. Right now Reddit can be my sole news source because of how many people are on there.

      The problem can be seen when looking at Twitter/X and the exodus that has been happening there. Mastodon was touted as a Twitter alternative but the onboarding was so confusing due to being federated. People don’t want to be confused they want things simple. This is why BlueSky took off rather than Mastodon.

      Anyone remember Diaspora?*

      Decentralization is not a new idea, it’s just too confusing to the masses right now. While the Lemmy onboarding process is actually pretty good, picking an instance is a trip up (it was for me for a very long time and I’m tech-savvy). Until that part is solved centralized services will always have more migrating users sadly.

        • cm0002@lemmy.world
          0·
          19 days ago

          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.worldEnglish
            1·
            19 days ago

            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.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
    1·
    20 days ago

    Hopefully this will improve the sync/federation process between LW and other instances, especially those further away geographically :)

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    0·
    20 days ago

    This is the update that’ll break sync, right?

    Sad times, but I guess I’m gonna be deciding between boost and infinity tomorrow

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        1·
        13 days ago

        Try Summit, it’s slick!

        Yeah, yet another proprietary app is really the place to go.

        Thunder works great, it FOSS, and under active development.

        Edit: A few days after this comment Summit has been open sourced.

    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      0·
      20 days ago

      I used sync for reddit for years, but I kinda hope sync dies. But I also have an axe to grind with the dev after they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads. Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued. One of the top posts on the sync community when I checked was to not report PMs because it will actually report a random comment with the same ID, which is just a massive fuck up given the amount of spam PMs.

      • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads.

        Exactly. Not even a discount. I think it was even more expensive than the reddit version.

        I just checked. It’s $20 to remove ads. Wow.
        I also checked to see how much it cost for the reddit version. I paid $4 to remove ads and $5 for the “pro” version. That’s more than I’ve paid for any app. Now they want another $20 to remove ads on an app they neglect and ignore their customers? Disgusting.

        Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued.

        Not just continued, but has gotten worse. Additionally, it’s even more important to update more frequently because of the more frequent changes. It was also never fully functional for Lemmy. For example, spoilers have never worked.

        To add to all that, they don’t even have the decency to pop in for a quick comment or two just to help people feel better.

      • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        18 days ago

        Honestly I was fine with the rebuy at first since it was a significant recode AND because they promised to stay on top of development a lot better than they had in the past. Obviously that was a lie and that’s why I’m frustrated with them.

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
      0·
      20 days ago

      Former Sync user of around 5 years. Recently switched to summit and it was a pretty easy transition. I’ve made plenty of rants about how the Dev just abandons paying customers and I finally had enough once I knew that it actually messes things up if you try to report some things.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        0·
        20 days ago

        I can’t make any other app look and feel as nice as Sync, honestly. I was trying out Thunder just now, and maybe I could get used to it but the user avatars don’t work for some reason. I don’t disagree about ljdawson though and I wish it was different.

      • angrystego@lemmy.world
        2·
        19 days ago

        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
          0·
          19 days ago

          Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the “↑ 4” on your screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as “↑ 87 ↓ 1”)

            • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
              0·
              19 days ago

              Don’t feel bad. I had that exact same back and forth with myself.

              I was also half asleep, high, and pooping, and I still figured it out on my own…so maybe feel a LITTLE bit bad.

              • angrystego@lemmy.world
                1·
                19 days ago

                Congratulations.

                I find the new spot for the numbers a bit wierd, because they end up in different places according to the lenght of the username and other info like instance name.

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
        0·
        19 days ago

        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
          0·
          19 days ago

          (Copying from my other comment)

          Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the “↑ 4” on that screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as “↑ 87 ↓ 1”)

          • Dicska@lemmy.world
            0·
            19 days ago

            Aaaah, I get it now, thanks! I did see the “↑ 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.

  • ByteMe@lemmy.world
    0·
    19 days ago

    Hey, do you think you can add the running version of the instance on the column that is on the right side of the lemmy.world website?

    • carrylex@lemmy.world
      1·
      19 days ago

      No need to do that, you can simply scroll down to the footer and find the current version there ;)

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
    0·
    19 days ago

    I directly noticed that the background color got brighter and looked in this community to see whether a post like this got published. I mean, congrats on the new update I guess but I liked the darker dark mode more 😔

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      I recall thinking that as well, but fwiw you do get used to it and it’s extremely minor.

      The fact that up and downvote counts sometimes appear on the left and otherwise on the right you never get used to though - I hate it.