Following the announcement of the instance's closure, @cm0002@lemy.lol offered to take over the instance. I am grateful to them for this. I prefer it going to someone else rather than shutting down completely.

Although it probably wouldn't be an issue, I prefer not to share the private information of all users. Therefore, all email addresses and private messages registered in the system will be deleted. Password hashes will remain as they are, since they are irreversibly hashed.

I thank @cm0002 for choosing to take over.

Sadly, like all good things, this too must come to an end.

Between rising server costs, my waning interest in self-hosting, and saving up to upgrade my car, I’ve decided it's time to pull the plug :) I plan to shut things down sometime in the next few weeks or months; I haven't set an exact date yet.

As for lemmy-federate.com, I plan to refactor and migrate it to Cloudflare Workers -which should be cheap enough to run- unless someone else steps up to take it over.

Honestly, it was a great run while it lasted. Cheers everyone. I kiss you.

It's been a few days since 0.19.13 update was released and since it seemed stable, I updated it.

I also added Tesseract UI by request, even though it has been abandoned for a while. I plan to keep it until it stops working.

If you like the platform and would like to support it:

• You can contribute to the lemy.lol server costs here: https://opencollective.com/lemy
• You can donate to Lemmy developers: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

And for the haters, the frog is still here!

Today is the 2nd cake day of lemy.lol and I learned this in an interesting way. When I tried to use the instance, I came across Dynadot's "this domain has expired" page. It turns out that the expiration emails went to spam and the domain expired :)

I renewed it immediately but I think it will take a while for it to be propagated. Sorry about that. I'll go to another provider and extend it for another 5 years :)

Thank you to everyone who uses lemy.lol and don't forget to donate to Lemmy! https://join-lemmy.org/donate

When the reason for the report is a generic sentence, it is necessary to read the entire comment thread to understand the full context. Therefore, please write, even if it is just 2 words, why the content you are reporting should be removed. From now on, reports of this type will be ignored (except for some cases).

Also, while we are on the subject of reports and content preferences, I would like to add that this instance does not attempt to appeal to mainstream opinion. Content that does not align with your political preferences may not be removed. However, I am aware that this policy attracts trolls and I try to intervene as much as I can.

If you want a more refined instance, you can try: beehaw.org, lemmy.blahaj.zone, dubvee.org, lemmy.ca, piefed.social etc.

I made this change to increase software support for Lemmy Federate. This way, besides Lemmy and Mbin, other software that supports FEP-1b12 such as NodeBB, Piefed, Guppe, Friendica or other custom implementations (like blogs) will be able to register to Lemmy Federate.

However, I must admit that this change makes the login mechanism more difficult. But I believe it was worth it.

An example authentication flow:

• Enter instance host and click login

• Add given record to DNS, and click login again

• At this point, API key becomes reusable between logins.

If you experience any problems please let me know.

Generic Threadiverse support

Thanks to @rikudou@lemmings.world's contribution (#28), Lemmy Federate now supports all software types that implements group federation such as PieFed, NodeBB, Guppe 🎉

But unfortunately, not everything is perfect. Since there is no Fediverse standard for verifying whether a user is an admin, I have to register admins manually. I am also considering manually approving instances that are not guaranteed in Fediseer against spam attacks. Please contact me for this.

Note: Lemmy and Mbin works as before.

Top instances of Lemmy

With the addition of Lemmy.ml, the top 25 largest instances on Lemmy now use Lemmy Federate (except slrpnk.net). I think we can now consider that we have fixed the accessibility issue that was the reason I created this tool. Even if we didn't fix it, at least we band-aided it :)

Instance blocking feature

In addition to the allow list, a block list has been added.

• If you allow at least one instance, you will not follow any other instances.
• If you block an instance, you will continue to follow instances other than those you blocked.

Dedicated community

I didn't want to open it before, but now that we are trying to be compatible with more software, I believe a dedicated community could be useful. That's why I created a community here !lemmyfederate@lemy.lol. If I make an update from now on, I'll probably post it there.

https://lemmy-federate.com/ https://github.com/ismailkarsli/lemmy-federate

Hi. I’d like to inform P.D admins that Lemmy Federate integration is not working for P.D because Fediseer preferences.

P.D is using “don’t follow censured instances” option in Lemmy Federate while blocking 3rd parties on Fediseer. So Lemmy Federate can’t fetch P.D’s censure list.

So please either:

• Disable Fediseer usage in Lemmy Federate
• Grant access of censure list to 3rd parties in Fediseer