There is finally a decent alternative to reddit, after one has been needed for years? And it's open source federated software?? AND I can sign up on an instance that supports free sharing of media?!

I have been waiting a long time for reddit to fuck up badly enough that something else could fill the vacuum they created and do it right. Awesome.

I searched far and wide for the videos from it, can't seem to find them. They are really good (I trained with my friend who pays).

I guess my first question is "is this the right community for Lemmy instance support?"

Assuming the answer to the above is "yes", is there a problem with image uploads today? I've tried several times to update my community's icon, background and upload an image post and it always returns JSON errors through Chrome, Firefox and Jerboa.

Also are there size limits (in pixels or kilobytes) for image uploads?

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Following this post yesterday, the errors encountered by other admins were sorted and we realized captchas were not enough of a reason to keep people from experince the best version of Lemmy.

We are now on v0.18 with registration applications turned on, this is a temporary requirement until captchas are added back. If you encounter any bugs with the new version please mention them in the comments.

(Clear your cache if the new version doesn't load for you, should work fine after that.)

Do you love anime? Manga? Light novels? or maybe you're more of a hentai person 😏 ? Well if any of these apply to you then let me introduce you to Wotaku!

Wotaku has an extensive and diverse collection of resources related to manga, anime, light novels, visual novels to satisfy all your needs as a weeb ;)

Official Announcement: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/263377 Github Release Page: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.0

This is a massive upgrade, and a lot of the minor annoyances that users were finding about Lemmy has been fixed. You can check the above links for all the changes implemented but some of the major ones are:

1. Websockets replaced by HTTP: What this means for you is that instances will feel snappier due to less load, and the annoying sudden flood of new posts when browing hot is also gone. In general hot/active sorting has been reworked and feel much better to browse.

2. Links that would take you off-instance should now get automatically converted to ones that don’t. And just writing the name should be enough to turn it into a link. So no more manually searching for the linked communities you find in the comments.

3. Support for 2-Factor Authentification.

4. Custom emojis for Instances.

5. Support for PWA.

6. A Share Button.

7. Improvements to overall look and feel of Lemmy.

Not to mention many under the hood changes like database optimizations and bug fixes. This is a very big version upgrade that's come at just the right time.

However, some Instance admins encountered errors when trying to upgrade. And captchas, which we rely on to prevent bots from flooding in, will come back only in version 0.18.1.

So our options are to either upgrade now, maybe have some downtime and to turn on regitration applications, or wait until v0.18.1 is released before upgrading (which shouldn't take more than a few days). We are leaning towards option 2 for now, but interested in hearing what others have to say.

Been searching for it for so long yet I can't find anything yet. Can anyone help me? It's an image/video editing software.

I never was a big social media guy. Never had a Facebook or anything, except what google forced on me like Google+ and on reddit, I just used it for very specific tasks, when I couldn't find answers anywhere else.

With the current shitstorm on reddit I decided that enough is enough and wanted to give this Fediverse I keep hearing about a try. With a little bit of searching around, I made an account, got the mobile app and things seemed settled. Until I tried finding stuff more targeted than a wall of posts on jerbil.

Granted, I haven't read, let alone tried everything yet, but it seems limited, or most likely, I have no idea what I'm doing. Take for example emulation. One of the subreddits I was in, was about emulation since that's a topic I'm passionate about. Good, went to the link provided to search for communities and got 11 results. As expected for the most part.

What was not expected was most of them being in the double digits of users with the biggest ones showing 3 posts and like..6 comments total.

I know that while the fediverse is not new by any means, there's a large growth now with the shit happening over at reddit and is in by no means as populated or interacted with as the latter. But those numbers seem so small to me that I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

Please help out an illiterate idiot?

PS. Emulation was just an example I was interested with. It's not the point of my post.

Like http://anime.anipirates.workers.dev/

Are direct download sites safer than torrenting and what can i do to make things as safe as possible without having to use something like a vpn? becasue there are a few movies and retro games im having a hard time finding so what can i do to be safe while trying to find the media i want?

Im not even sure if the pirates life is for me...

Is there any way to access DnD Beyond or a similar tool? I've been using sheets for a long time for other RPG's and I wanna see if there's a way I can lower my work load.

I skimmed through the wiki but couldn't find it. I saw maybe there's a way to get firefox nightly to allow any plugin? But I couldn't figure it out. Anyone have a guide or solution to bypass paywall on Android?

hi please help me i tried to get the books i needed (“academic english for”) series from one of the sites of the megathread: “read any book” thid is the name but when i try to get them it show me different sites to submit and put even a credit card… i tried two times with my prepaid but when i get to the site and search the book theres nothing… im crying… all the night io searched a site or a way on reddit to find these books i need them as soon as possible and im still trying nothing… that site gave me hope but i think it was a scam… please help im completely shit … im desperate.-… the screenshot represents the page where it says continue to pay and then it appears different things this time anather scam that ask 1 dollar… please i have already paid too much money and time someone explain me what to do to get these book https://disigmapublications.com/collections/frontpage/products/academic-english-for-computer-science theyre not old theres even ebook and pdf on the editor site… please i trust you

p.s, i tried to upload the screenshit but it doesnt work but its not important i described it in word the site is this https://3stream-mr.com/l/b2jud9w/?c=19cf99c0564bd9a7d4fc11d8a539d96e16503efb&p=113&l=&q=Academic+English+for+Computer+Science%3A+An+English+for+Specific+and+Academic+Purposes+Course+for+International+students+of+Computer+Science%2C+Computer+Engineering%2C+Information+and+Communication+Systems&cc=IT&a=16&t=3

if you put email a continue you dont get the book but a scam i think… at least i got to delete the subscription to the shit

please help hi i tried to find ebook for university on libgen gutemberg … but i didnt find anything im in bug trouble i need these book as fast as i can so im asking help to you please answer me thx The following link is about the series of book i need them all https://disigmapublications.com/search?type=product&options[prefix]=last&q=Academic+English+for this is the link to books page its from the editor’s site

Thanks!

please help hi i tried to find ebook for university on libgen gutemberg ... but i didnt find anything im in bug trouble i need these book as fast as i can so im asking help to you please answer me thx The following link is about the series of book i need them all https://disigmapublications.com/search?type=product&options%5Bprefix%5D=last&q=Academic+English+for this is the link to books page its from the editor's site

Is it possible? I can't really be bothered to get the API key...

Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification: https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031

And here are stats of lemmy platform where it shows that we gained 200 000 lemmy users in 2 days: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Another tracking site with the same explosion in users: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

What do you think? Is it some sort of a bug or do people run bot farms?

Edit: If you want to track if there's any sudden bump in amount of users on our instance you can do so here: https://the-federation.info/node/details/50294

Edit2: It's been now 3 days and we went from 150 000 user accounts 3 days ago to 700 000 user accounts today making it 550 000+ bot accounts and counting. Almost 80% accounts on lemmy are now bots and it may end up being an very serious issue for lemmy platform once they become active.

One of the admins announced in the comments that they will be defederating bot instances, you can track defederated by us instances here: https://fba.ryona.agency/?reverse=lemmy.fmhy.ml

Edit3: It's now 4th day of the attack and the amount of accounts on lemmy has almost reached 1 200 000. Almost 90% of total userbase are now bots and so far our instance didn't experience any sudden increase in the amount of created accounts.

Edit 3.1: my numbers are outdated, there are currently 1 700 000 accounts which makes it even worse: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Dunno if am on the wrong instance or what ever (freemedia or something) but there's very little content to scroll through. Do I need to ditch this and start again or is this pretty much standard?

I bought an online course recently. They mention on their websites that a note will be provided. But in the names of note they provide a 2-page summary for download, and the original note PDFs are not downloadable. I tried to download PDF from their sites via IDM but file corrupted. Even I tried to force copy and pasting into other documents but not successful as it pastes some encoded language. Only way I found to click screenshots of each and every pages on pc and paste into the word. It is very time-consuming. Is there another way to download PDF from their sites? Edit: look like the best way to capture it through screenshot.

• Lemmyverse - Filter and find Instances and Communities
• Lemmy Community-Browser - Alternative site to search for communities
• sub.rehab - Find where your favorite subreddit has made a community onn Lemmy
• FediDB - View Stats about Fediverse and Lemmy Instances.
• The Federation - Stats and Graphs on Fediverse Growth and Popular Instances on them
• Awesome Lemmy Instances - Index of Popular Lemmy Instances
• Fediverse Observer - Another site to find popular instances
• Lemmymap - Size of Different Lemmy Instances Visualized
• fedi-block - Find which instances have blocked your home instance
• Fedisearch - Search Fediverse through various search engines

I also made a post collecting beginner guides for new lemmy users. Feel free to comment any new site and I'll update the list.

Hi, I don't see anything regarding live sports event on the wiki. Why?