I'm sure this will come as a disappointment to many of you as you have joined this instance specifically because we do not block or defederate with anybody. Unfortunately my hand is forced on this occasion.

As many of you know this server is hosted in Ireland. It has been brought to my attention that under Irish law:

Virtual child pornography is illegal in Ireland per the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act of 1998 which includes "any visual representation".[Irish Statute Book] The country has strict laws when it comes to child abuse material, even if it doesn't contain any "real children".

As you can understand this requires me to defederate and remove the offending material from my server. There are newer admin tools in the works which will allow me to block specific communities instead of whole servers. Once this is in place I will refederate with burggit and block the individual offending communi

The server have been updated to the latest Lemmy Version 0.18.1. As usual if you notice any odd behaviour leave it for a hour. If problems or issues persist please report them in the comments. Ill be taking notes for future fixes and updates.

Hi all. With the recent growth that the server I will be looking for another admin or 2 or 3. Not sure yet.

If you would like you join the admin team PM me with the answers to the questions below.

1. Do you have any admin/mod experience?
2. Do you have any IT technical experience?
3. Your Timezone
4. Time/Avalaibilty you feel you would contribute to VLemmy
5. Rough age range 18 - 28, 29 - 38, 39 - 48, 49+
6. What would be your moderation style?
7. Do you have a Discord or Matrix account your willing to communicate on?
8. What would you like to change or contribute to VLemmy or Lemmy as a whole?
9. Any feedback good or bad you would like to share?
10. Tell me a bit about you. Whatever you feel like sharing. (Not Mandatory)
11. Who would you nominate to join the admin team with you? (Must be a VLemmy Member)

Welcome to Vlemmy!!

See the Quick Start Guide.

Ask your questions in the Support Community.

The image describing Lemmy, made by @ulu_mulu@lemmy.world : https://imgur.com/a/uyoYySY

If you would like to support us you can do so at https://liberapay.com/vlemmy

Hope you enjoy you new home at VLemmy!!

Hi all, tomorrow is when Reddits API change takes place and we are expecting a large influx of users and signups. I have prepared as much as possible but there still may be some down time. I will try my best to keep it as minimal as possible.

Please be helpful and welcoming to all the new users. Also keep an eye out in the Support community if you can and help answer any questions if possible. Thanks for eveyones help and contribution.

Also a massive thank you to everyone who donates. Its a huge help with the expenses for running the site. Im commitied to making this instance the best I can and any feedback good or bad is very much welcome.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1465740

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Major Changes

HTTP API instead of Websocket

Until now Lemmy-UI used websocket for all API requests. This has many disadvantages, like making the code harder to maintain, and causing live updates to the site which many users dislike. Most importantly, it requires keeping a connection open between server and client at all times, which causes increased load and makes scaling difficult. That's why we decided to rip out websocket en

If you notice any odd behaviour leave it for a few hours. If problems or issues persist please report them in the comments. Ill be taking notes for future fixes and updates.

Hi all, thanks so much for your input on this post in regards to de-federation. I have read through every comment and have taken all perspectives on board. I think I have come up with my stance on the matter for the moment.

For now I wont be de-federating with any other instances or servers. I feel it is important as many people have mentioned to "leave the power to the users" and let them decide the content they wish to see. In regards to this I think it will be extremely important to educate people on how to block communities that they do not wish to see. If you all could assist me with that and help guide new users that would be much appreciated. I will be creating a post on this soon and will put a note in the sidebar about it.

I also am aware and agree that certain content has no place in peoples feeds and that they want nothing to do with it. I myself am one of those people. Therefore there are a few things that I will still strongly be pushing

(This starting guide is currently being created, if you have any suggestions of what could be included please comment below)

Welcome!

Welcome to Lemmy

About Lemmy

Lemmy is a federated social link aggregation and discussion platform.. It’s being developed by the Lemmy devs: https://github.com/LemmyNet

About Federation

What does federation mean?

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

• 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 also use the Activitypub protocol like Mastodon

Please note that a server only starts indexing a server/community once it has been interacted with by a user of this server.

About Vlemmy

Vlemmy is a generalized Lemmy server aimed at wel

A throwback to when I first got into orbit. It was a huge milestone back then. This is my first ever screenshot of the game.