I made an announcement post for my community here and it has a GitHub link. I think, the repository has a python script that'll do it.
Uh yes... There are instances (mine included) that'll automatically defederate you if you have too many users with too few interactions, so better enable captcha if you're worried about bots.
I'd also suggest Immich, but with a warning. On their GitHub page, they state:
Did anyone actually use this over a longer period of time, including updates, etc.? How did it work for you?
Thank you very much for all your suggestions. In fact, I even plan to do my first seitan batch today. I'll follow this video and see how it goes.
I'll save all your guys suggestions and try them out, thanks again!
Hmm. I make the decision myself, nobody is forcing me. I have moral concerns, I care about the environment and I also have health concerns, too.
I'm not sure if I'll ever be vegetarian or vegan (I'd like to). For now, my goal is to reduce meat intake to one or maybe two times a week.
That's what I'm doing. I like to eat "traditional" salads and stuff like that, but I grew up with them being side dishes most of the time and I think, it's hard to break habits.
From a moral standpoint, I'd like to go vegetarian or even vegan at some point, but this requires me to find things that I'll actually like to eat on a regular basis. Often times, when I search for vegan recipes, something often throws me off. Be it the flavor, the texture, the strength of the flavor or lack thereof, etc. Maybe it's just that I'm not used to it or that animal fats are carrying so much flavor that I'm now kinda addicted to it? I know, it sounds really stupid, but when I go to the grocery store, I often gravitate towards animal products automatically.
My first goal will be to reduce meat intake to one, maybe two times a week.
If you're talking about me here, I understood why you were suggesting it. But to me, that's not the problem of c/politics in this case. They wouldn't want to rename, if it was possible, because "AmErIcA fIrSt".
I also know how to use keywords, etc. And maybe I went a bit overboard when I said Brave Search sucks. It doesn't suck, but with Kagi, I don't feel like a product any more and the search results make sense again, like with Google a couple years ago. Most free search engines just don't work that good any more.
If you would've told me 2 years ago that I'll be paying for a search engine in the future... Well, I would've thought that you're crazy. But here I am now.
Look at https://kagi.com/faq .
They basically query other search engines and APIs in a privatized manner and they use their own indexes as well. I used Google, Ecosia, StartPage, DDG, a self-hosted SearXNG instance and then Brave. I liked DDG and I kinda liked Brave Search, as well. But in comparison to Kagi, they're all not that good in my opinion.
The image search of Kagi is especially what blows me away. It just shows relevant results for my queries and I'm satisfied.
I used it before and unfortunately, it sucks in comparison to Kagi.
That's why I use Kagi. It's a paid search engine and the results are actually really good.
As a European, I don't get what this means.
Why does this butthole get so much attention again and again? Jeez.
We eat tofu every now and then and like it a lot and I did already try out some meat "substitutes" and some of them are actually pretty good, but not cost-effective. I'm not saying I have to look at every cent I spend, but things have gotten harder in recent years, not gonna lie.
I don't need or want to replicate meat everywhere. I'm totally fine with non-meat dishes, but my complaint is that many of them don't taste as good as people (especially vegans) claim, even in restaurants. It's been quite disappointing multiple times to try that "really, really delicious curry", that in the end didn't really taste that great and it's been a recurring thing for me / us when trying to eat more plant-based foods. This is also true with cauliflower, for instance. I like it in "traditional" meals as side-dish, but no, to me, batter frying cauliflower doesn't make it good.
Mushrooms are a staple in our cooking, because I really like my umami flavor (I also use MSG a lot), but unfortunately, my daughter doesn't like any type of mushroom. I guess, it's the texture. Tried several different things and she always puts them away.
Anyway, thank you for your comment. Beyond meat has been on our "try out list" for quite some time.
Thank you very much for the hint, I checked out the red lentil curry video and it does look quite delicious. Chicken curry is actually my favorite food and I tried green, brown and red lentil curry before, but didn't quite like them, even though I'm half asian, lol. I'll try her recipe, though.
I personally love coconut milk.
Probably not hard. But that doesn't solve the problem that a generic term is used for something US only on a platform that isn't US first.
Explanation: Germans used to (apparently only in my bubble) call cellphones "Handy" and many people still do that. My friends from america found that quite hilarious.
Hello everyone and a
HUGE THANK YOU FOR 1000+ FOLLOWERS on /c/fossdroid!
It's great to see that this community and this instance see some actual usage! That makes me happy. 😁
Thank you for all the really nice, civil and constructive conversations we had on here so far and let's hope that our community will continue to grow steadily!
We'll soon push Lemmy in the Automoderator messages, the banner and the description on Reddit, so we'll be able to lure more people here, hopefully. If you want to help, just spread the word!
Once again, thank you, thank you, thank you and have a great one!
Edit: Yes, I'm aware I just violated my own "no memes" rule. 🤣
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Hey, guys.
Pre-workday-Netto chiming in to inform you that a XSS vulnerability has been found in Lemmy's frontend and that several instances have been compromised.
You can track the issue here.
I implemented the supposed patch and uploaded an ARM64 build that has the patch applied to Docker Hub, if any other instance might need it (use with caution).
Please note that you'll have to log back in, as all active sessions have been terminated.
I'll continue to monitor the situation when I'm at work.
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Hello, everyone!
My wife @Alirrasona told me earlier that she isn't fond of Lemmy's default web interface.
As many of you know, there are numerous alternative frontends for Lemmy. There are apps for Android and iOS, but also web frontends that you can access through your browser.
Two of them are pretty solid in my opinion. They're called Mlmym and Wefwef. Yes, the names are pretty weird, but they fundamentally change the way you can browse through Lemmy content.
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Wefwef
Wefwef resembles an iOS application that works similar to how Apollo for Reddit used to work. You just visit the web page on your device, log in (if you want) and there you go. You can even "install" it as a progressive web application (PWA) and it'll appear in your launcher, start menu or wherever, acting as a native application.
Our Instance | Official Instance | GitHub Repository
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Mlmym
Mlmym is a pretty good clone of the classic Reddit layout, also known as Old Reddit. So, for the folks out there who prefer that, Mlmym has got you covered.
Our Instance | Official Instance | GitHub Repository
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Why does FOSSware host these instances?
Why not? Choice is good. And in the fediverse, spreading load is necessary.
If you like the software, please consider donating to the developers. Wefwef has a sponsor link on the GitHub Page!
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Hello, community.
After my faux pas earlier today I now have some good news for you: I just upgraded the server to Lemmy 0.18.1, which brings mostly stability, performance and security improvements.
You can see a list with the changes here.
I recently followed the changes to Lemmy very closely and pretty much immediately pulled the latest changes when I saw something that I deemed necessary, which means, we were already pretty close to 0.18.1 release anyway.
Some tech-y Stuff
For anyone who might need it, I provide ARM64 builds of Lemmy and Lemmy-UI on my Docker Hub Repo, since Lemmy doesn't provide them officially right now. You can find them here.
As usual, let me know if something doesn't work, etc.
Much love from Germany!
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Hello, everyone!
Due to me fiddling around with Cloudflare and accidently applying wrong settings during one of my sleepless nights (I was tired again 😅), we weren't reachable for most people for a couple hours.
Since it was a DNS settings problem, it took some time to propagate and therefore it took some time for me to notice. I took my changes back for now and now it'll take some time for that to propagate, as well.
I'm really sorry, it'll not happen again it might happen again, but I'll do my best to prevent things like that in the future. I just want a stable experience for everyone!
Hey, community.
This one might probably trigger some of you. But just a question that comes out of the blue: What are your thoughts on it?
I first learned programming back in the day with Visual Basic 2008. Nowadays, I can program with C#, Java, PHP and some other languages rather well (I'm no professional, though), but I often come back to Visual Basic, because I'm just so used to it. Even though it's not that often, because I'm a Linux user.
But let's say I need a small program for Windows real quick? VB.NET is gonna be my choice. Right now, I'm implementing a board game server + client for the game of go (also called baduk or wei'qi) and I'm making really good progress.
I personally think that people should just use what they want to use. I don't get the hate for PHP and some other languages and I think this gate-keeping and god complex some developers have is really annoying. Makes me want to use VB.NET even harder.
I also don't like to jump on board with every new and upcoming programming language or library, just to be cool.
I'd also like to emphasize that I'm not creating software for a living right now. I do have a small company for a little bit of freelance work, but that's just money on the side that comes in by creating really small projects.
Edit: Nitter's back!
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Hey, community.
As some of you probably know, FOSSware has instances for the popular, privacy-respecting front-ends for Reddit, Twitter and YouTube, called Teddit, Nitter and Piped.
Teddit and Piped don't use any kind of official API to get the content off the respective websites, so they continue to work, even after Reddit's API restrictions that went in place today. It's a different story with Twitter. Interested folks may track the GitHub issue here.
This shows once again that the decentralized approach is the better one. Let's take the matter into our own hands and use Lemmy, KBin, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, Peertube, Calckey, etc.
The future is now, old man.
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Hello, guys!
As mentioned in the server maintenance post, 2FA is now available with Lemmy 0.18.0. However, the implementation seems to be borked.
Issues right now
- Instead of a QR code as usual, users will be presented with a button that opens a link
- There's no check whether or not the generated tokens work, 2FA is just being enabled without prior safety-check
- This might be too complicated for non-tech-savvy users, and they're effectively locking themselves out of their accounts
- After copying the generated secret to Bitwarden, the generated TOTP tokens don't seem to work anyway (didn't try with Aegis, etc.)
You can track the GitHub issue here.
Temporary Solution
Even though I'm not happy about it, I'll force-disable 2FA for now. If you enable it, it's gonna jump back to disabled after a short amount of time.
Gonna update you guys when this is fixed. Thank you!
Edit: Updated lemmy to 0.18.1.rc.10 and lemmy-ui to 0.18.1.rc.11. ARM64 images on Docker Hub.
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Hello, guys.
As you might've noticed by the downtime, I decided to upgrade the server today, because I pretty much failed yesterday, due to migraine.
👍 Good news: The server is now running the latest version of Lemmy, 0.18.0.
👎 Bad news: There are still some issues that may or may not affect usability. But so far, things seem to be pretty minor.
This version of Lemmy brings a bunch of performance- and usability optimizations, for instance:
- WebUI looks sleeker
- Better editor
- Resubscribing to Communities that show "Subscribe Pending" should actually subscribe now (works with lemmy.ml communities, but not lemmy.world, for instance, partially fixes this)
- 2 factor authentication (2FA) is now a thing*
- Custom emojis are now possible (maybe someone wants to make some FOSS emojis?)
- Improved error messages (no more white screens)
- Error messages during login and registration are finally fixed (fixes this)
Some issues I encountered so far:
- CAPTCHAs were patched out temporarily, so we're going to switch to manual approval in the meantime (GitHub Issue)
- "couldnt_find_object" error during search (GitHub Issue)
- *2FA implementation is not well done for non-tech-savyy users and might lead to self-lockout until password reset is issued (GitHub Issue)
⚠️ In case you encounter more issues, please let me know by commenting underneath this post or by posting in /c/fossware_support.
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> Updated lemmy to 0.18.1.rc.10 and lemmy-ui to 0.18.1.rc.11. ARM64 images on Docker Hub.
**Edit 4: As you can see, we're finally on version 0.18.0. Due to the ARM64 architechture, I indeed had to jump through some hoops. Lemmy's documentation is absolutely worthless, as well. I guess it's been written by someone who didn't even test if the steps they describe actually work.
But well, here we are. Some images are not visible right now. Need to check out what's going on here.**
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Edit 3: I kinda regret getting an ARM server for Lemmy now. Reverted my changes and went back to 0.17.3 for now. I'll either wait for an official 0.18.0 ARM64 image or switch to a server on AMD64 basis.
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Edit 2: Now fiddling with the system. Please expect a couple outages over the next hour or two.
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Edit: This is going to be delayed, because I suffered a hefty migraine attack today and am still very groggy now after it subsided. I'm sorry, I'll most likely do this later tonight or on Monday.
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Hello everyone,
as Lemmy version 0.18.0 was released today, I'm planning to upgrade this instance to it tomorrow during the day.
⚠️ An outage is to be expected on Saturday at around 17:00 (5:00 pm) UTC+2 and may last from a couple minutes at best to an hour at worst. Hopefully. Fingers crossed. 🤞
📱 If you're using the Jerboa Android application to access FOSSware, we recommend to NOT update it to the latest version until the server has been sucessfully upgraded to Lemmy 0.18.0, as the latest version of Jerboa dropped support for Lemmy 0.17.x.
❤️ I wish you all a great weekend!
Further Technical Explaination
This Lemmy instance runs within a Docker container on an arm64v8 host.
Usually, Docker images are provided by the Lemmy developers for amd64 and arm64, but an issue seems to prevent the arm64 Docker images from being created since Lemmy version 0.17.4. This is also the reason why this instance is still running version 0.17.3.
I'm going to take some time and build this thing myself in order to upgrade this instance, which might take some blood sacrifices, sweat and might also have me to jump through some hoops on fire and whatnot.
Hello, community!
After reading about all the things that Reddit has done to alienate their userbase (hostility towards moderators that put thousands of hours of volunteer work into their site, blatantly claiming their userbase's content as theirs, not respecting the choice of their userbase when it comes to content deletion, etc.), I'm currently planning to start a larger offensive on r/fossdroid to create more attention for Lemmy.
In order to moderate and promote this community, as well as this instance, I just appointed Astral Moira (@ostrich, u/ubertr0_n on Reddit) as moderator and 2nd instance administrator.
I always noticed on Reddit that Astral Moira has very broad knowledge about FOSS and is very passionate about it, so I think, they're a good fit!
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Hey guys!
Thanks to the awesome Lemmy Overseer (GitHub) project and as an effort to block off instances with too lax sign up policies and therefore too many bot accounts, such instances will now be blocked / defederated automatically.
FOSSware defederates such instances temporarily, as we believe that the users should decide what they want to see and what not.
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Hey, guys.
After noticing that accounts registered by bots (before enabling CAPTCHA) count towards this instance's user count, skewing the statistics, I just implemented a job in the backend that'll remove accounts with unverified e-mail addresses after 1 day.
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Hey there!
We're experiencing a high frequency of failed bot account signups since around 2 hours or so. They're all using random names with the same pattern and random GMail e-mail addresses.
In an effort to combat this and to prevent GMail from rate-limiting our mail server, I just enabled CAPTCHAs during registration for now.
In case you experience an issue during registration, please e-mail admin <at> fossware <dot> space. Thank you!
Technical stuff
I'm going to see wether or not it'd be feasible to connect Fail2Ban to Lemmy in order to stop sign ups like that.
I'll go ahead and remove the accounts that were created from the database. ___
Hey!
The title says it: Anyone can create communities (subreddits) on FOSSware and moderate them, just as on Reddit.
People can access your communities by typing !yourcommunity@social.fossware.space in the search bar of their instance.
To create a community, click on "Create Community" in the navigation bar and let's gooo~
And yes, we also allow NSFW and controversial topics, as long as no rules or laws are broken. If you're unsure, message me or post in /c/fossware_support first.
Hey, community.
As previously announced in our migration post on Reddit, FOSSware now also sports instances of alternative front-ends for popular services like Reddit, Twitter and YouTube that are known to violate your privacy and freedom by tracking you.
By design, these alternative front-ends don't allow you to log in to your accounts, if you have any. However, there's usually a way to configure them and export your preferences.
In case of Piped, you can even create an account on our Piped instance.
Please be aware that any of these tools may be rate-limited at any time. In this case, you may have to try a different instance.
Reddit 👉 Teddit
🔗 Our Instance (https://r.donttrackme.fossware.space)\ 🔗 Other Instances
🧾 Source Code(AGPL-3.0)
Twitter 👉 Nitter
🔗 Our Instance (https://t.donttrackme.fossware.space)\ 🔗 Other Instances
📱 Nitter for Android on F-Droid
🧾 Source Code(AGPL-3.0)
YouTube 👉 Piped
🔗 Our Instance (https://y.donttrackme.fossware.space)\ 🔗 Other Instances
📱 LibreTube for Android on F-Droid
🧾 Source Code(AGPL-3.0)
Netto Hikari @social.fossware.space Administrator of FOSSware and moderator of r/fossdroid on Reddit!