I've reinstalled lemmy several times and after I went public with my instance, I figured out federation is broken for those posts with a low id, because those posts got federated and after reinstall, they have been ghost data and no sync happened.
Now, I've figured out that almost every post is broken and doesn't federate correctly. It shows the wrong posts on different mastodon instances.
Will a new installation, BUT with a new subdomain solve the problem?
If yes, will it be possible to move all posts to the new installation without breaking anything or do I have to rewrite every post?
I've created a question about the moving posts on Github, too.
I tried to copy some posts, but it looks like it is totally screwed up, now. Even higher ids show wrong content on some Mastodon instances, even if I am sure I only did a few tests with posts.
Only way to solve this (imho) is to reinstall Lemmy BUT use another subdomain.
What do you think? Will this work?
What a big no-go, if you could lock out yourself as an admin.
That's such a sloppy craftsmanship.
The problem if you deactivate federation is, that people think, they can post with their Mastodon account, but it fails.
But another problem is, that if you deactivate federation, all the federated content stays in the "all feed" and people might still post there. And federated communities show up to after deactivation. This is sloppy craftsmanship, again, and I could cry, if I see stuff like this, or did I just missed how to get rid of federated content after deactivating federation?
I tried to install lemmyBB, but the README is pretty broken and I couldn't even find someone, who has this front-end running. I already opened an issue on github and it looks like lemmyBB only works with an older version of lemmy :/
Maybe I just copy my first posts, which got ghost data federated (from older installations), so the posts get a new id and people are able to post comments again (which can be seen by me). So at least one problem will be solved.
That sounds complicated and I am afraid something could break (again). The last days I tried to fix something in the db, which led to other problems.
Discourse
Not really a fan of Discourse. It has a lot of nonsense implemented, like a lot of achievements, which pollute the notifications and distracts from what you want to do. I find it as distracting, as the "all feed" of Lemmy, which shows everything a user of your instance touched, which is a weird concept imho.
Do you know a good programmed forum software? Because one of the reasons I chose Lemmy was, that it was content based, like a classical forum and that's what I need.
But the second thing what I need is, to be able to access the posts/comments via an API, like REST to process them.
I am at a point where I will throw away the work of the last 3 weeks to get some useful software, because it looks like Lemmy will just create unnecessary work, which could have been avoided, if it would have been clean programmed.
I already checked phpBB, it doesn't have a REST API :/
Sorry about my last post. After reading it again, it sounded rude.
Sorry! I am a little bit stressed right now, because I was working the last 2-3 weeks to set up a Lemmy instance, working every day on it and one issue after another appeared and now it even looks like that comments don't even reach me, because they land in the void because of the reinstall problem.
I could cry!
Might it be a good idea to to just copy the post so it gets a higher ID, which wasn't used before? Because the productive system is already running and has a lot of content and a new reinstall might even block more IDs.
At this point it sounds like you don't know how federation work, otherwise you wouldn't have different accounts.
What exactly was the issue with your verification system?
Currently the emails get out. At least I can see people creating accounts and posting stuff.
but if the user has any posts
They are unverified, they can't have posts.
If the user has no posts you may need to delete from the database directly for now.
Do you know by any chance how to do this in a clean way, because I tried and there have been restovers.
I've set up a Lemmy instance and tested federation by commenting with my Mastodon account on the lemmy instance, which worked.
But I broke the test instance and had to start over (not even once).
The productive instance runs now, but after a few days I figured out that there is still the old post from the old installation on Mastodon and over Mastodon I can't see the new post and no new comments?
It is the same link (older Mastodon post, old Mastodon post, new Lemmy post), but the content is different.
- The post itself doesn't update (it is completely different)
- The comments don't update (different comments)
How to solve this problem? Is it even solvable?
Like normal people! :D
Go to another instance, if you find something interesting, copy the link and paste it to the search field of your instance. After that federation starts and you can post.
There must be at least one person doing this, because otherwise ALL wouldn't contain anything from other instances.
But it's a little bit sad, that you've never done this and only look at all. It means you watch only stuff other people on your instance have seen but you don't get further.
Yes, that's exactly what I described with the issue, that a lot of other features will be deactivated too, because there is only one button for everything.
But if you know it: How exactly do I deactivate the "All Feed" to not pollute my server and avoid distractions to the users, but let them comment on external posts, without having the complete post on my instance and let external people comment on posts on my instance?
Thanks for your help.
Well, it is playing around with the db 😀 ... and it could even destroy the whole instance if people don't see the warning I've posted there.
I'd like to create a safe space without distraction and a focus on specific topics.
But as soon as a user from my instance posts or reacts to something outside of my instance, a lot of data gets transferred and everyone from my instance will see the post in the "All" timeline.
This could lead to a lot of distraction pretty fast, especially people with ADHD could lose track if they see some interesting stuff from other instances. I want to avoid this and give them a safe space to be able to focus.
The only way I figured out was to deactivate federation at all. There is only one button in the settings.
But I would like to keep the feature that people could comment from other Fediverse tools like Mastodon, Kbin, Peertube, etc., but it doesn't work anymore, if federation is deactivated.
Is there a way to keep away all federated content from other instances, which got in touch with my users (proactively cross-posted stuff is okay), but keep the feature so people from other instances could post something?
And it would be okay if my users comment on external posts, too, but not all people on my instance have to know it or get distracted by it.
Thank you for your help :)
I found a solution here
A warning to people who have the same problem:
On the website there is a command, which will purge all unverified account. If your admin account wasn't verified, it will be purged, too.
Thanks a lot for your help :)
I found a solution here
A warning to people who have the same problem:
On the website there is a command, which will purge all unverified account. If your admin account wasn't verified, it will be purged, too.
Thanks a lot for your help :)
psql -U postgres
No luck with this comman :(
psql: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist
But is it the right docker container? The name of the container I try to connect is lemmymydomaintld_postgres_1
Seems pretty hard to delete a user this way. Do you know an easier way by any chance?
How exactly? The recommendations of other people here didn't work.
EDIT: Found a solution. Check other posts to see how it works.
After executing docker exec -it lemmymydomain_postgres_1 psql
I've got the error:
psql: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL: role "root" does not exist
docker exec -it postgres bash
After executing this command and executing psql, I got this error:
psql: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL: role "root" does not exist
I've installed Lemmy via ansible, but I figured out that there are problems with emails and after I've created a user, no verification email came, no login is possible and now I have a ghost account I want to delete.
Because I couldn't find an UI element to purge users in the admin panel, I want to do it over postgresql, but I have no idea how to connect to the Lemmy database over a docker container, only thing I've found is to backup/restore the whole database:
docker-compose exec postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy | gzip > lemmy_dump_date +%Y-%m-%d""%H%M_%S.sql.gz
Thank you for your help.
Because of copyright laws in my country, I want to get rid of the option to upload images on my instance.
I thought it would be the fastest way to just remove the "upload image" icon from the tool bar. But it's harder than I thought, because I can't find it...
I've installed Lemmy with ansible and it runs with docker containers.
How can I get rid of this icon or even better, the function to upload an image?
I already tried to stop the pictr container, but this avoids uploading icons/banner for communites and thumbnails for new posts will not be generated, which is a no go.
I only want to get rid of the upload option while creating a new post.
Thanks a lot for your help :)
I am trying to figure out how people can subscribe to a Lemmy community or Lemmy thread?
It might be possible to see a community on Mastodon if you copy the link (example: https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) and paste it into the search field on Mastodon and then you can hit subscribe and even activate the bell for notification.
But nothing happens if I do that.
Can someone confirm that it usually works like that, but it may be a problem of my Mastodon instance?
Is it possible to subscribe to threads, too, e.g. like this one here I wrote (without being the creator of a thread)?
I would really like to go public with my Lemmy instance, but if this doesn't work, it's a no-go.
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I don't know if it's okay to post Mastodon links on a Lemmy instance, but I wanna try it and because I am really proud of this piece, I want to share it with everyone :)
It took almost one week to complete and it was the first time using more than one color.
With lemmy it is possible to upload any image to the lemmy server (including archive websites), while writing a post without even posting.
This could be used to upload pornographic, right winged or other illegal content and use it or share it on other platforms, even if the content is on your lemmy instance.
In Germany advocates even use archive.org as an evidence that you had illegal content on your website, including the exact date.
This could be very expensive for everyone who is managing a lemmy instance.
Another problem with the upload is, that a lot of images can be uploaded, without even using them in a post, just filling up the server with garbage data. Attackers could use this to automatically fill up the web space and provoke a crash.
Who is the owner of uploaded and shared images and posts? If a lemmy post gets shared, a copy of the image will be created. If the image doesn't have a share-alike licence, the owner of the instance could get in trouble.
I am not an advocate! Those are just things I thought about, which could cause trouble if I would have a lemmy instance.
Once there was a time were applications weren't forced to go online, because not everyone was able to be online. You needed registration keys for most of the software and at this point the demo scene came in.
I really like those key gens (key generators) with a small 2D or even 3D animation, midi sound and the actual key generation.
But like 10 years ago, Windows (or was it an antivir app?) started to delete those without asking me, because it recognized it as malware (yeah, sure...)
I once collected them, because for me they were some kind of cool collectible art (not like this NTFs bullshit). But I lost all of them at once.
Is there someone who collects them or is there even a publicly accessible place to watch them?
btw. stuff like this was one of the reasons to never use Windows again.
I will rent a v-server today with those specs: 2 CPU cores, 4GB RAM, 80GB disk space
I think it's enough to run normal websites and even a game server, but I have no experience with the Fediverse.
Is this enough to run a few fediverse instances, like Lemmy and Mastodon or even others?
How much resources does Lemmy need in particular?
Thank you for your help.
I am looking for a fediverse solution for a blog and I tried it with writefreely, but it has some disadvantages I can't live with.
The most important one is, that it should be possible to communicate with people within the fediverse. People should be able to comment on every article with a fediverse account, like it is already possible between Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube and others. But comments aren't a thing with writefreely and this is sad.
After using Lemmy for a few days I just thought if it is possible to use it as a blog and ask on lemmys github if it is possible to restrict a group so only one person could post new articles, but all others can comment. And the answer is yes!
But would it be possible to use it as a blog?
Imagine I would have a group called "utopify.org - Research & Development" and would post current progress about a blog series and you can only comment on it. Would it be possible and would it be something you want to see on Lemmy or would this just be an abuse of the software.
If all of this is just a no-go, are there other ways in the fediverse to have a blog article, which can be shared on the fediverse and be commented on?
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435153
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435152 > > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435150 > > > > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435149 > > > > > > > I want to find the most sustainable operating system, because computers nowadays waste a lot of energy, because of data collection and data processing. Avoiding unnecessary processes and using resources in a mindful way could reduce the CO2 output on the whole world. > > > > > > > > This discussion grew very fast and I put all links to other platforms in the end of the blog article.
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