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Lemmy 0.18 is ready for testing (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Peeps, I am seeing some really worrying trends on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list. Many instances are quickly filling up with thousands of spam accounts which will soon be unleashed on the threadiverse. While bots can bypass captchas, they at least limit the simplest scripts. We are going to face this really really soon https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/87753

Can we at least add support for disabling VPNs, or using some other captcha solution like recaptcha? IP rate limiting is useless with VPNs, and email verification is more trivially bypassed than the current captchas.

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

How can you tell they're spam accounts btw?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Small instance, open signups, rapidly growing users. On balance, given the issues others are having, it's probably bots creating the accounts.

On my instance if you looked in the database they all had gmail emails and all had the same pattern to the email. We were adding 20 users a day, then suddenly had 100 new accounts in an hour. There was a lot of talk from other instance admins seeing the same thing.

[–] ulu_mulu 2 points 1 year ago

On top of that there's also activity, I saw a server with only 7 posts for 6K users, there's no way those are real people.

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