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Hello,

we will be performing the long awaited update to Lemmy 0.19.9 tomorrow.

We are planning for around 1 hour of downtime between 16:00-17:00 UTC on 16th of March.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-03-16T16%3A00%3A00.000Z

You can find an overview of the changes in our previous announcement here and in the Lemmy release notes:


Update 16:50 UTC:

The upgrade was successfully completed at around 16:27 UTC, but we're still fighting with some performance issues after the upgrade. Our database and the outbound federation container are currently using significantly higher CPU than expected, which is still being investigated to identify the root cause.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Congrats on the successful upgrade πŸŽ‰

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you think you guys could do a post on the underlying hardware/infrastructure of .world? I would love to see what it takes to run the largest Lemmy instance lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

in short form, we have HAproxy running on a hetzner cloud VM for Lemmy/Lemmy-UI, another HAproxy VM for the alt UIs, a VM for the alt UIs.

for the main LW box, which runs lemmy containers, lemmy-ui, pictrs and a database each for lemmy and pictrs, we have a physical box with an EPYC 7502P 32 core CPU, 128GB memory and NVMe SSDs.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I can sort the comments [ new/old etc] now! ( Jerboa).

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A picture you can hear, holy. Vividly, lol

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

And being able to comment on locked post, what a nice QoL enhancement :D

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are the comment upvote and downvote numbers gone intentionally?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There are now settings to display or hide them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's cool, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I have all on in my settings:

But the numbers don't show:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the β€œβ†‘ 4” on your screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as β€œβ†‘ 87 ↓ 1”)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I might be a bit confused, but I just went to my settings to see, and both "show upvotes" and "show downvotes" were ticked already, by default. I refreshed the page (Ctr+Shift+R), and it's still the same.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Someone ELI5 why Lemmy is or isn't ready for a Reddit Exodus.

Personally, I want it to be. Reddit censorship/shadowbans/deletes is outta control. Imo the problem lemmy has is on Desktop, since on Android there are some great apps like Boost that give it a Reddit-like end user experience, wheras Desktop experience in a browser is No equivalent of RES, or classic reddit. Opening images is very janky. I like RESs 'view images buttons, that untwirls all view image buttons. Using lemmy on desktop is a Chore. I can handle it. But I imagine its very much a bad taste and an impediment to a greater influx of average users.

Its about time we left reddit behind and make Desktop lemmy more welcoming. The times we're in requires a trustable platform. Reddit ain't it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

in my opinion it's the login experience. selecting an instance is too confusing for the average user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it's just a matter of explaining instances in a clear and concise way. This isn't a Lemmy-specific issue though - it's a problem for all of the fediverse.

https://join-lemmy.org/instances says "You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server, so it doesn't matter which one you choose.", but that still leaves some things unanswered.

It seems to have done a decent job of helping new users find a suitable server with a few simple questions though.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

https://old.lemmy.world/ has a "show images" feature

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Finally, the ability to view (and delete!) your own uploads.

FYI, the sorting on the uploads tab is broken. Obviously I don't expect sorting by "top" or "controversial" or whatever to work, but sorting by "old" doesn't, either. It's always sorted by newest first. But at least it's something. (I know for sure I have images uploaded that were not used in posts.)

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (27 children)

This is the update that'll break sync, right?

Sad times, but I guess I'm gonna be deciding between boost and infinity tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (3 children)

No it won't. That's the next major release, this is just LW catching up.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)

partial breakage, the stuff that people on other instances have already been experiencing for a while.

iirc there are still some additional issues with sync arising with the update, but it won't be entirely broken.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Give Voyager a try as well!!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

+1 for Voyager. It feels like a spiritual successor to Apollo.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Good luck admins! And thanks for doing it during the Carabao cup final so I have something else to occupy my time while lemmy.world is down :)

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