eviltoast.org is now running Lemmy and Lemmy-ui 0.19.3. It was a relatively minor upgrade, but details are at the bottom of this post.

More importantly, I wanted to share that eviltoast.org has had a sizable upgrade. Specifically the database server is much larger than before and should be able to handle the load with less stress. Overall things should feel snappier.

I have some other ideas for improving the site's responsiveness in the near future, but this should be a good start. Please let me know if you do (or don't!) notice a difference in the meantime.

Thanks!

2024-01-22 - Lemmy Release v0.19.3 - A Few Bugfixes

Major Changes

• Fixed lemmy-ui error page bug by @Sleepless in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2302
• Fix bug with Mastodon undo follow activities by @Nutomic in [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/43

Hello all,

eviltoast.org has been upgraded to the latest lemmy and lemmy-ui releases (0.19.2).

We held off on the 0.19.0 and 0.19.1 releases due to some federation issues they had. These appear to be resolved with 0.19.2.

Release notes are below, but please reach out if you run into any issues!

Important note: There were changes to how auth works in lemmy. Some mobile clients (like liftoff) may no longer work. And on the browser, you may have to clear your cookies for eviltoast.org if you aren't able to log in.

Thanks!

2024-01-10 - Lemmy Release v0.19.2 - More Federation Fixes

Major Changes

• Outgoing federation bug fixes.
• Lemmy can now receive reports sent from Mastodon and Kbin.
• Added the ability for admins to view votes, to prevent downvote trolling. Demo. [#4088](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4

I'm new here, and I was wondering if there is a plan to update to Lemmy 19.0 to get all the new features?

Hello!

Apologies for the lack of updates. I just wanted to put up a quick message about this instance. Over the past month or so, there have been times where the site appeared either slow or altogether unresponsive.

Lemmy itself was always running but external monitoring tools would report brief outages and clients would be unable to connect. Usually only for a few seconds at a time.

This ended up being caused by stale DNS records. The infrastructure eviltoast.org is hosted on has multiple public-facing servers which act as load balancers for eviltoast and several other services. Occasionally the load balancers are moved to other servers and the DNS that points to them should get updated automatically.

At some point in the last month or so, the script that updates the DNS added the new records but never deleted the old ones. So depending on which server was used, the instance could appear unresponsive.

This script is fixed now and I tested a couple updates to make sure th

There's been a lot of talk related to lemmy.world banning certain communities recently. It made me realize there's nothing explicitly saying "don't do anything illegal" here, and spurred a couple updates:

• Guidelines: Added two new items, one basically saying not to do anything illegal and the other a reminder that content is federated and public. Specifically these two new points:
  • Don't spread the illegal jams - Ensure content adheres to the law and doesn't endanger the community.
  • Public Toasting Grounds - Remember, everything you post is as public as a toast popping up! Content is shared with other instances, so once it's out, consider it part of the digital breakfast table forever.
• Disclaimer: We've made some tweaks to the wording on our legal page for clarity around content responsibility and liability. The core message remains the same.

To reiterate, this update doesn't indicate any impending actions to block or def

eviltoast.org has been upgraded to lemmy and lemmy-ui 0.18.4.

Release notes copied below.

Lemmy Release v0.18.4

Changes

Lemmy

• Fix fetch instance software version from nodeinfo (#3772)
• Correct logic to meet join-lemmy requirement, don’t have closed signups. Allows Open and Applications. (#3761)
• Fix ordering when doing a commentparent type list_comments (#3823)

Lemmy-UI

• Mark post as read when clicking “Expand here” on the preview image on the post listing page (#1600) (#1978)
• Update translation submodule (#2023)
• Fix comment insertion from context views. Fixes #203

I just wanted to say that I like this instance. It feels calm, cool, and collected. There is no BS happening here. From what I can see, no one has defederated from us and we have not defederated from anyone else. The rules for the Instance look reasonable. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for keeping it nice here :-).

eviltoast.org has been upgraded to lemmy and lemmy-ui 0.18.3. For 0.18.1 and 0.18.2 we were using a custom patched build to fix some security issues, but now we are back on the officially released builds.

This release has a few performance improvements too.

Release notes copied below.

lemmy/RELEASES.md at main · LemmyNet/lemmy

Changes

Lemmy

• Restore markdown quotes after sanitize (#3708) (#3749)
• remove performance-problematic and buggy duplicate site aggregates (#3732)
• remove n^2 part of person triggers, improve community aggregate trigger (#3739)
• Revert "Add controversial ranking ([#3205](https://github.com/LemmyNet/le

eviltoast.org is now discovering new communities automatically as long as they meet these criteria:

• At least 15 subscribers
• At least 50 20 comments
• At least 50 20 posts

This means any remote community that matches the above criteria should show up when searching for communities.

I'm hoping this will help with discovering useful communities without needing 3rd party tools.

Due to the way lemmy works, the above communities are only "discovered" and we will not start getting federated posts/comments/updates for them until at least one account subscribes to the community.

In addition to the above criteria, any remote communities with over 500 100 active subscribers in the last month will also automatically be followed by a bot account.

These changes are already in place. After a few days, the above numbers might get changed to start pulling in more communities.

https://lemmyverse.net is the source being used for filtering remote commun

eviltoast.org has been upgraded to lemmy and lemmy-ui 0.18.1. Release notes copied below.

Release v0.18.1 Release · LemmyNet/lemmy · GitHub

What's Changed

• Remove actix_rt & use standard tokio spawn by @cetra3 in #3158
• Add TLS support for diesel-async database connections by @sunaurus in #3189
• after 30 days, replace comment.content and post.body with 'Deleted' by @vijaykramesh in #3208
• Add separate Post check for isvalidbody_field by @Neshura87 in #3263
• feat: allow all admins to purge content by @TKilFree in [#3271](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pul

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37906

(I'm creating a starting guide post here. Have patience, it will take some time...)

Disclaimer: I am new to Lemmy like most of you. Still finding my way. If you see something that isn't right, let me know. Also additions, please comment!

Welcome!

Welcome to Lemmy (on whichever server you're reading this)

About Lemmy

Lemmy is a federated platform for news aggregagtion / discussion. It's being developed by the Lemmy devs: https://github.com/LemmyNet

About Federation

What does this federation mean?

It means Lemmy is using a protocol (Activitypub) which makes it possible for all Lemmy servers to interact.

• You can search and view communities on remote servers from here
• You can create posts in remote communities
• You can respond to remote posts
• You will be notified (if you wish) of comments on your remote posts
• You can follow Lemmy users/communities on other platforms that a

Thanks for joining the eviltoast.org lemmy instance!

We're still figuring out how all of this works, but lemmy itself should be relatively stable for now. I plan on also launching a new Matrix server in the next week or so as well, using the same domain.

If you're new to lemmy, I recommend checking out this post from lemmy.world to get started:

Lemmy.world starting guide

For mobile clients, Jerboa and Liftoff have both been good so far. Jerboa is the official client, but Liftoff felt a little more friendly. Mllem seems to be a decent ios client, but I haven't not used it much yet.

There isn't really any content locally on eviltoast.org right now, so I'd recommend setting your default view to either All or Subscribed so that you actually see something in your feed. That said, you're more than welcome to create communities and post locally as well as to other lemmy instances from here.