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Updating lemmy instance in c/[email protected]
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Updating lemmy instance (lemmyfi.com)
 

I'm not sure how to update properly to the new version without breaking my instance. I tried following the directions in the instructions but I'm not sure if I have to have my original ansible files when I first set up the instance or not. Can someone give me a simple step by step?

Can't load website (solved) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could you go to lemmyfi.com from your browser and tell me if it works for you?

Can't load website (solved) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I tried it but it didn't work for me. I'm the instance admin btw. This is on my own instance.

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Can't load website (solved) (lemmyfi.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink
 

Lemmy website on my instance won't load (connection times out) but I'm able to access it through apps. Any idea what's wrong?

Edit more info: it fails with error 504 gateway timeout

Edit: I guess it didn't work on a different network I was on. It wasn't blocked just unreachable. Will have to check my DNS.

6.6k spam users in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they might be. but they won't be able to log in to break stuff.

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6.6k spam users (lemmyfi.com)
 

I made a mistake. I forgot to cahnge the setting after updating to screen for bots. This is getting out of hand. Luckily database commands aren't too hard.

Are these numbers really true? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There was a spam sign up attack recently.

Trackers like Lemmyverse.net and Fediverse Explorer are incentivizing instance owners to inflate numbers with bots in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How would it benefit an instance to be on the top of the leaderboard. Having more people on your instance means higher server costs. The optimal situation is to have a small group of people on each instance but just more instances.

Lemmy.world is now the biggest Lemmy instance! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That explains why it's struggling to federate

E-Mail verification on, captcha on, hunker down in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

so i've heard. very unfortunate. I left a comment on the bring back captchas open issue on github.

E-Mail verification on, captcha on, hunker down in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this happened overnight for me. I turned on captcha and email verification. captcha is important. I was watching the logs and all activity stopped after captcha got enabled.

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E-Mail verification on, captcha on, hunker down (lemmyfi.com)
 

Just deleted over 800 users from my database that joined in the last few hours from obviously fake emails and botted usernames. Make sure to either close registration or have some sort of safety check in place because things are getting hairy out here.

what's the point of all these random accounts creation? seems like a automated process. would it be to upload illegal stuff? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My modlog got spammed today by some script banning a lot of people for spam automatically. It's getting wild. This was inevitable with the growth of Lemmy as a platform though.

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EMail Verification Setup (lemmyfi.com)
 

Posting this just to let new instance admins who may have faced the same problem as me with email verification know a solution. It is important to set up SPF record so big email providers won't reject your email. All you have to do is configure the TXT entry in the DNS configuration of your domain name provider to include "v=spf1 mx -all"

Note: this won't prevent it from going to spam folder, that requires more verification, but this will at least allow emails to go through.

„Subscribe Pending“ for lemmy.ml communities in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're still subscribed. it's just visually broken.

Tips for "Care and Feeding" of my Instance - Disk Usage Rising in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just keep an eye on the GitHub page if you want to stay updated at all times. Other than that just check up on your storage use from time to time. You can also set up a job to restart the server every once in a while but that's not really necessary.

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Why do bans in other communities sometimes show up in mine? (lemmyfi.com)
 

A few times I've seen a user get banned in my instance when they got banned elsewhere. how does that work?

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My instance seems to be not syncing well (lemmyfi.com)
 

A lot of things aren't syncing well with other instances. I'm not sure what I did wrong. I used the ansible method. What should I check. I did the troubleshooting steps but that didn't help.

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