The new major version of Lemmy is now ready, and we need your help with testing. Most importantly it uses HTTP for API requests now, which is much more efficient than websocket. Additionally Two-factor-auth is supported. There are also countless other improvements and bug fixes.
You can register on any of the following servers to start testing, no approval required. You can post to your hearts content to find out if anything is broken. The test instances only federate with each other to avoid affecting production instances with spam.
If you encounter any bugs that aren’t present in 0.17, open an issue and mention in the title that it happened with a release candicate version. Over the next days we will publish new RC versions to fix bugs that will invariably pop up.
Instance admins can try the new version by using Docker images dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.18.0-rc.2 and dessalines/lemmy:0.18.0-rc.1. Make sure that working backups are in place. For production instances its better to wait at least some days for the major issues to be fixed.
A bit off topic, but can something be done about the power mods? I see a few users already forking every subreddit trying to ensure they remain a mod. No user can meaningfully manage 50-100+ communities.
Please consider capping the limit to 20 or less. First-mover advantage is huge, so starting up a community down the road to prevent this consolidation of privileges is likely out of the question.
If you get a bad mod, you can always move to a community on another instance. That’s one of the advantages of federation.
I think this is something reddit users generally have a hard time grasping about lemmy, including myself.
One of the fundamentals of the fediverse is that there will be communities with the same name on different instances. Users can subscribe to good ones and / unsubscribe from bad ones as they wish.
It’s true, but people will automatically gravitate towards the larger ones where more discussion is held. By migrating to a community on another server, you’re cutting yourself off from half the conversation, and a mod who abuses their power would likely know that. It would take a truly toxic mod to drive away all discussion, but even despots know how to toe the line to keep their core fans happy.
I do see a pure numbers challenge. We need more features (maybe on clients, or maybe in the Federation) to see all subbed instances of
c/newstogether except whne it’s important we don’t.And an advantage of community redundancy. Old quiet communities can be literally brought back to life if we enough people decide to move.
Doesn’t that mean you have multiple (smaller) communities? One of the nice things about Reddit is the vast amount of information collected there centrally over the years. If stuff is spread across multiple instances it is probably a lot harder to find. Or am I missing something?
It does, the system does have limitations at the moment.
I think you have the right problem with the wrong answer.
It’d be better if communities could subsume other, worse-moderated communities with the same name in some integrated/organic way.
I mean, I could run c/politics on some server, but if another 20 or 30 instances agree on c/politics that’s the winner. If they agree on c/politics because it’s the better one and cross-moderates in some way, more power to them.
Name and shame.