Hi everyone!

Main theme updated today

The original cyberpunkish theme has been updated quite a lot today. A lot of things were not properly themed in the old version and the code was just hacked together. Im not a web designer so im learning while I go.

New version is rewritten from scratch and attempts to properly theme the entire Lemmy user interface. Its also using variables everywhere for how things look and feel.

Future plans

1. Make a light version of this theme.
2. Share with the lemmy community so it can be used on other instances. Upvote the post if you would like this theme as a choice on your instance.

Huge thanks to Allero

Ive been getting so much feedback on this theme during development from @Allero@lemmy.today, and he (or she) has managed to find lots of things that didnt look quite right. The theme is so much better now because of this help. Super grateful to have had a partner in crime on this one. :)

Important / How to update

In the web browser, you should refresh the theme. Hold shift, hit the reload button, and you should see the new version pop up.

So whats changed?

Quite a lot actually. Almost everything has been tuned to some degree.

• Added a top bar to complete the look. We use rounded shapes here and in the navigation menus, as an intentional contrast to the more square look of the elements below it.

• The editor and post view has been restyled with proper support for images, headlines and other things. The sidebar also improved.

• Comment indent lines changed a bit to be more in the background.

• Comments are styling code blocks, images, markdown and other things.

• Post cards got their rails tuned down a bit, and the upvote and downvote arrows follow the theme colors. There is no underline on the card links anymore, for a cleaner look and feel.

• Tables got a bit of cyberpunk feel to them

• Settings changed its look as well

• Listboxes are themed just like everything else

• And dropdown menus

And lots more small details everywhere.

If you see something that is not themed or not looking correct, please let me know and it will be fixed. :)

Hi guys,

One interesting aspect of Lemmy being federated is that there are a lot of broken servers out there who constantly fails to federate. It can be anything that speaks activitypub really, and some of those servers are not properly federating, causing a super long queue of messages not being sent or received.

Ive been adding the most broken ones to our block list so we dont spend resources trying to talk to them. We are still federating with all activitypub servers that behave normally, so this is not about blocking instances that we dont like. This is about blocking broken ones only.

Just wanted to make a post about it so you guys know, in case you see that our instance is blocking instances now. Yes, we do, but only instances that dont federate properly. Otherwise we will continue trying to talk to them forever, wasting resources.

Thats it, just some info. Have a good week!

https://lemmy.today/post/48507627

All thanks to @mrmanager@lemmy.today. Good job, sir!

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow our hosting provider Hetzner needs to do an upgrade of their network components, and this affects the network disk we have pictures on.

We will therefore turn off the instance during this time. If you live in Orlando, you will probably be sleeping anyway, but europeans may notice how their memes refuse to load during this time. But we will be back as soon as Hetzner finishes the maintenance. Could be earlier than expected too. We will see.

Edit after downtime: Maintenance seems to have went well, server is up. :)

Hi guys,

So I decided to change the default theme to cyberpunkish.css to make this instance look different from a default lemmy instance.

If a lot of people tell me this is a shitty idea and I should not do this, I will revert it. Just wanted to give this instance a style of its own. The default theme is still there under lemmy_default.css if you prefer it.

Let me know if you have strong feelings about it, one way or the other!

Hi everyone!

There is a new theme called cyberpunkish in the web interface settings now.

I wanted to create a theme for this instance and this is my first stab at it. If you try it out, any feedback is very welcome!

I edited this post to show how it looks now in latest version. I will sticky this post for a day so regular users dont miss info about it.

Frontpage:

Comments:

Communities:

Huge thanks to @Allero@lemmy.today for so much great feedback about the theme.

If many people think its great, perhaps we set it as default for the instance.

Hi guys,

The server just got upgraded to double the memory and cores. We had some peak periods where 8 GB was not enough to run everything, and now we get 8 more cores as well to serve more memes faster. :)

Plenty of room for more users too, if they should decide to join.

Thanks for picking this instance, guys. Enjoy Lemmy!

I cannot post pictures anymore. Is that a thing now? Maybe I got banned from posting images without telling you why or what I did wrong? I assume I did something wrong. Only recently I found the mod log and dude, nobody told me that existed.

The error:

"Unexpected end of JSON..."

The attackers found another slow db query to exploit, so had to put some temporary measures in place.

Will post more details later!

This time they actually took down the instance for several hours.

Hi guys,

I wanted to ask you about our local communities here. I feel like a lot of them are not really active, and the most active one (like Conservative) has mostly locked posts, so people cant participate in discussions.

I wanted to get some input from you guys, what do you think? Should we have communities with locked posts so people cant comment? Does it still serve a purpose? Or should communities always allow discussions? My own opinion is that they should.

And should we clean up communities and remove inactive ones, making more room for local discussions?

The reason I started thinking about this is because I noticed that some other instances remove posts that are completely legal to discuss. They are just removed because admins/moderators dont like their content. Which is exactly like on reddit then.

Hi guys,

Another ddos attack so site was slow/unavailable for a while.

I disabled the alternative user interfaces since they are used in the attacks. Will think of some better long term solutions. 🥊 😄

At 18 seconds into this speech Trumps Pinky disappears under his hand and his ring finger 'becomes' his pinky. This is clearly AI.

I keep hearing a lot about piefed and I'm curious to try it. I really like this instance, though. Is there something similarly hands off out there for piefed?

Hello!

Thanks for lemmy.today. 🙇 It's great!

Mainly I was just wondering: is it normal for one's lemmy account to slow down as the number of subs goes up? Currently, I'm subbed to almost 200 communities. When I load my home page at lemmy.today, the page always loads in almost 10 seconds.

My home page is set to Subscribed and Hot.

Does anyone know if there's anything I can do to decrease the homepage load time?

The Interstellar app is younger than and isn't yet on par with Eternity on Android for me, yet, but it's certainly usable for me. It seems to have a lot more commits going into its GitHub repository, whereas Eternity seems to have had its commits trail off; the last Eternity commit, as of this writing, was 10 months ago. Interstellar is also notable among native clients for supporting all of Lemmy, Mbin, and PieFed. It also runs on Linux, Windows, and Android now with "more to come". I see commits for iOS and the Mac going in, though it doesn't look like support is yet done there. I think that this is substantially wider Threadiverse and OS support than anything else out there, and I'm guessing that it may become the big new Android (at least) client.

I was wondering if we could get it added to the list of clients in the lemmy.today sidebar.

https://github.com/interstellar-app/interstellar

Thanks!

I can't post to Announcements so this is going here instead.

The SSL certificate for the site has expired. I've already reached out to mrmanager and hopefully they'll surface soon to get it corrected.

Whenever I upload a video the audio is deleted. This doesn't happen with other smaller lemmy ansible setups so I assume it is something wrong with lemmy.today config. Example attached.

1. Who is this very handsome dog? A. Dage B. Dogg C. Doggo D. Doge

2. What is this woman shouting at? A. A waiter B. John Cena C. Spongebob D. A Cat

3. Who's this? A. The Rock B. John Cena C. Hulk Hogan D. Bumblebee Man

4. Complete this guy's name: Hide the Pain ___ A. Hugo B. Joe C. Bernard D. Harold

5. What's up with this cat? A. It's Grumpy B. It's Moody C. It's Worried D. It's Angry

6. What caption does this meme normally have? A. Not sure if... B. Can't tell if... C. It's probably... D. It might not be...

7. CaPtIoNs For ThIs mEmE aRe NoRmAlLy WrItTeN wItH tHe LeTtErS LiKe ThIs, TrUe Or FalSe? A. TrUe B. fAlSe

Sometimes I think people forget how much Lemmy users have incommon, and we just focus on the differences.

Lets look at some introduction letters from users lately who joined this instance:

I'm a technoligist based out of the United States. I want to explore the fediverse protocols, so I'm trying Lemmy and ActivityPub. Also, I jumped off Reddit when they began restricting API access heavily and have been looking for a link-aggregator alternative ever since.

I am an astronomer, nature lover in heart. I am tired of using apps and websites from companies spying on us and owning basically everything. I will be happy to switch from reddit to lemmy. I am curious though how do you know that a bot cannot write such a text.

Great interest in knowledge and competency building through balanced use of technology. I am currently in the process of moving away from the tech giants and their madness.

Reddit sucks now, want a decentralized, not profit driven alternative

I am a concerned citizen of a country run by Nazis and I am trying to escape most social media sites that harvest our data, I have been pointed in this direction by a privacy enthusiast who said this is the land of the free, Or something like that.

I am a longtime (15 years) reddit user, and I am looking for alternatives that are not driven by corporate interests.

We all really want the same thing. I also want the same thing, which is why I run this instance.

You are all part of a growing community of people who dont want the typical social media experience from ad-funded big tech companies who only care about profits. I think thats really cool.

Thanks for being part of Lemmy guys. :)

Haaaaaay

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