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Jerboa app and Lemmy 0.18 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The 0.18 version of Lemmy was announced. This will solve many issues.

But we can't upgrade yet because the captcha was removed, and captcha relied on Websockets, which are removed in 0.18 so despite the devs agreeing on my request to add captcha back, this will not be until 0.18.1. Without captcha we will be overrun by bots.

Hopefully this 0.18.1 will be released soon, because another issue is that the newest version of the Jerboa app won't work with servers older than 0.18. So if you're on Lemmy.world, please (temporarily) use another app or the web version.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

The Dev's stubbornness about captchas is a little baffling. Yes, they're not 100% foolproof but they help.

It's like arguing that we shouldn't have locks on or our doors because a skilled lock picker can get past them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The devs aren't pushing back against captchas, but they're desperately trying to get 0.18 out to resolve a ton of issues. Captchas need to be redone in the code level and no one has done it yet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

someone has done it, there's a PR here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3289

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That looks promising, hopefully we’ll have an 0.18.1 release later next week

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