We have purged almost all of the toxic communities he made from the site

Many older versions of Lemmy have a vulnerability that enables XSS attacks allowing malicous users to steal login tokens. If you hold an account here I highly recommend deleting it before you leave.

This is my final post to Rammy.site, farewell all and thanks for all the fish

Rammy has been abandoned by its creator and other instances are defederating from it. If you are still an account holder here on rammy I encourage you to delete your account here and sign up to another instance.

I recommend you try and find one that blocks rammy, otherwise the salty chuds that have been defacing the platform will likely go and harass you there. Please if you are a longtime member consider moving to another instance, and if you have a community here recreate it on said instance. This instance is dead.

While I was writing this the site had an error which initially prevented me from posting, though it seems to have resolved itself, for how long the site will continue to stay up I am not sure, which is why it is important you migrate quickly.

Hello, it seems like there's a group that wants to home their content on this instance in order to reach instances that were defederated from their previous instance, but as response other instances are starting to defederate (lemmynsfw.com), or are talking about defederating.

At about the same time this group started making communities on this instance all existing posts on the instance started receiving about 4 downvotes, which is now up to 7, but I'm not sure if this is the work of this group. Is the admin aware of this?

I wasn't able to access this instance for the past couple of days. Was there an outage, or was it a problem with my local setup?

Lemmy instances without it get flooded with spam accounts and will cause you to be defederated by a lot of the big instances.

Also please ensure you handle reports about bigots. I already has to ban a troll from your instance.

So, after being up and running for a week now I have implemented a few changes.

First change is a nice one: I set up an email server, so you can reset a password should you ever forget it. If you'd like to try for yourself, just fill in your email click the 'forgot password' link on the sign-in page! (Don't worry, nothing will actually be reset until you click the link in the email).

Second change has to do with the sign-up process. My assumption that people would use this instance in good faith was incorrect; today I observed a sudden increase in te amount of 'users' that had signed up. These users were created by a bot, and I'll be working to remove them again in the near future. I have enabled the captcha challenge to counter these automated sign-ups, and so far this appears to be working. I'd rather not enable mandatory email verification, so I hope that won't be necessary.

Finally, I made some under-the-hood changes to the reverse proxy to improve performance.

Version 18 of L

Love the Sheep.

Rammy, is he? Stand up chap, he is.

This is still a young instance, so there might be a snafu here and there. If you have any issues with this instance, please report them here. Do you have an idea to make this place better? Please share as well!

Hi there!

So, you decided to put some of your eggs in a different basket, started looking beyond Reddit and joined a Lemmy instance. Great! Thank you for choosing Rammy, by the way. But.. Now what?

Instances

You can think of an instance as the server on which your stuff is hosted. Other instances host other people's stuff. Thanks to federation, however, it doesn't really matter what instance you are on. You can view and interact with content on any other instance, as long as they are federated. This instance is federated with most others at this point.

Communities

You're probably familiar with Reddit's Subreddits. Lemmy has a similar construct, called Communities. These communities reside on an instance. That doesn't mean you can't view, subscribe to and contribute to communities on other instances, though! Once again trough the power of Federation, you can search for any community on federated servers.

As of right now communities can be hard to find, but the good folks ove

I set up this instance in the hopes of taking the load off of the big guys. It's still a bit under construction (and empty) here, but if you choose to register everything seems to work well enough. And of course, content on other instances is available to you through the power of _federation.

Should you need any help whatsoever, feel free to shoot me a message!