Feddit UK

Mark 10 years since the brexit referendum

I'm getting an error looking up any community on lemmings.world via my client.

I'm not sure if lemmings.world is down, or the link which allows federation with feddit.uk has broken.

It's difficult to tell when I have no way of viewing lemmings.world any more due to the annoying geoblocking.

I did see a note on the feddit.uk homepage earlier about the server moving so hopefully it's just some IP addresses needing updating.

cc @rikudou@lemmings.world

I have been trying to upload an animated WEBP file to use as part of a post, however I get an error that says the file is "too wide".

The file in question has a resolution of 889x500, and a file size of only 3 MiB. Is this a problem with feddit.uk's image upload settings specifically, or is there a general issue with Lemmy and pict-rs?

Couldn't get onto lemmy.org instance yesterday and today it's refusing logins and redirecting to https://lemmy.org/yunohost/sso/

Anyone else able to see it?

More me being nosy than anything, I was thinking I've not seen much from GreatAlbatross or Emperor in a while and noticed Emperor hasn't posted in 6 months or so and Albatross is no longer listed as an admin. (If you've departed folks, thank you for everything - you resurrected feddit.uk when all hope was lost!)

Does that mean flamingos is the only active admin? Is there a backup plan if (heavens forbid) flamingos gets hit by a bus?

Also just generally curious if there's any instance news or plans going forward.

Just seems like an odd choice to defederate it.

Tbh i was looking forward to engaging in some debate with them.

did they break any actual rules or is it just because they're MAGA?

Edit: Before you angrily comment below (as so many have done so far) please keep in mind that this is a feddit.uk meta community and i am specifically asking the question to feddit.uk mods/admins and inviting discussion from feddit.uk users.

if you are not a feddit.uk user then this entire conversation DOES NOT AFFECT YOU. ~~I have yet to hear from anyone who actually is a feddit.uk user~~ Admin response here

Good day all,

You may notice that some images posted after the 23 August are missing. Sorry about that.

What happened is that I updated some packages through apt, which triggered docker to restart. This caused the pictrs database to become corrupted, but only partly because of the way its db (sled) does things.

I did manage to recover about half of the images through abusing image proxies and browser cache, so there's that at least. The whole of the data is also theoretically recoverable.

Needless to say, I'm going to move pictrs to postgres soon-ish.

Seems to go to an alternate front end, but not load?

Good day all,

Blorp is a web client for Lemmy/PieFed. You can now access it at b.feddit.uk.

It even has a dedicated community — !blorp@lemmy.ml

Very Apple-est, so not my cup of tea, but I know that design language is popular.

I'm not sure if that's my server config or yours. But my PieFed instance over at palaver.p3x.de is having difficulties connecting to feddit.uk
I've narrowed it down to IPv6:

[root@galahad:~]# curl -v -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean"         
* Host feddit.uk:443 was resolved.  
* IPv6: 2a01:4f8:172:1f0d::2                                                                                                                                                                                        
* IPv4: 138.201.83.101  
*   Trying [2a01:4f8:172:1f0d::2]:443...  
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1  
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):  
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):  
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):  
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / x25519 / RSASSA-PSS  
* ALPN: server accepted h2  
* Server certificate:  
*  subject: CN=feddit.uk  
*  start date: Jun 22 09:23:03 2025 GMT  
*  expire date: Sep 20 09:23:02 2025 GMT  
*  subjectAltName: host "feddit.uk" matched cert's "feddit.uk"  
*  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R11  
*  SSL certificate verify ok.  
*   Certificate level 0: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption 
*   Certificate level 1: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption 
*   Certificate level 2: Public key type RSA (4096/152 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption 
* Connected to feddit.uk (2a01:4f8:172:1f0d::2) port 443  
* using HTTP/2  
* [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: feddit.uk]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /c/buyeuropean]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.12.1]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: application/activity+json]  
> GET /c/buyeuropean HTTP/2  
> Host: feddit.uk  
> User-Agent: curl/8.12.1  
> Accept: application/activity+json  
> 
* Request completely sent off  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):  
* HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1)  
* Connection #0 to host feddit.uk left intact  
curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1)  

From my home IPv4 internet connection it works fine. Also once I add an -4 to the curl, it succeds and returns a 200 and the response.

I've opened a bugreport for PieFed but I think we need to find out whether I or feddit.uk has a borked IPv6 config. I can connect to other instances just fine, so I'm gravitating towards there is some issue with feddit.uk

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place for support questions. Feel free to remove the post and point me somewhere else, or delete the post after this has been solved.

Inspired by the lemmy.ca post, I want to discuss if we should follow and defed lemmit ourselves.

For those who don't know, or forgot because they blocked the bot, it's a Reddit reposter instance. It has very low engagement, but posts a lot. About 30% of all posts on feddit.uk are from this bot (838192/2806651 when I did the SQL). It is also by far the most blocked user on the instance, 151 blocks with second being a mere 40.

It also only synchronises with Reddit one way, so if you reply to a post, the person on Reddit won't see it.

If no one has any objections, I'm going to go ahead and defed as I don't think it's worth having around. Especially the way it makes the 'New All' feed useless if you don't have it blocked.

Two years on and we're still here, go us!

Good day all, in response to the increase in transphobia we've experience since the For Women Scotland v Scotland Supreme Court decision, seemingly a mix of genuine malice and people tripping up with a topic they're unfamiliar with, I've taken the initiative to write some guidelines on how to engage in the topic and clearing up some common misconceptions.

https://guide.feddit.uk/politics/transphobia.html

I'm not all that happy with them, I want something more comprehensive but my time has been pretty taxed lately and I don't want my perfectionism to stand in the way of having these out. If there's any issues, glaring omissions or whatnot, then please let me know or make a pull request here.

Good day all, the Lemmy devs (the people that make the software this website runs) are currently underfunded. If you're willing and able, then it'd be greatly appreciated if you could donate to help out little corner of the internet get better.

If, for whatever reason, you don't want to support the hosting of lemmy.ml but do want to support the developers, then make donations through something other than OpenCollective.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and I work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Unfortunately the amount of donations has decreased to only 2000€ per month. This leaves only 1000€ per developer, which is not enough to pay my bills. With the current level of donations I will be forced to find another job, and drastically reduce my contributions to Lemmy. To avoid this outcome and keep Lemmy growing, I ask you to please make a recurring donation:

Liberapay | Ko-fi | Patreon | OpenCollective | Crypto

If you want more information before donating, consider the comparison with Reddit. It began as startup funded by rich investors. The site is managed by corporate executives who over time have become more and more disconnected from normal users. Their main goal is to make investors happy and to make a profit. This leads to user-hostile decisions like firing the employee responsible for AMAs, blocking third-party apps and more. As Reddit is a single website under a single authority, it means all users need to follow the same rules, including ridiculous ones like censoring the name "Luigi".

Lemmy represents a new type of social media which is the complete opposite of Reddit. It is split across many different websites, each with its own rules, and managed by normal people who actually care about the users. There is no company and no profit motive. Much of the work is carried out by volunteer admins, mods and posters, who contribute out of enthusiasm and not for money. For users this is great as there is no advertising nor tracking, and no chance of takeover by a billionaire. Additionally there are no builtin political or ideological restrictions. You can use the software for any purpose you like, add your own restrictions or scrutinize its inner workings. Lemmy truly belongs to everyone.

Dessalines and I work fulltime on Lemmy to keep up with all the feature requests, bug reports and development work. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. Previously I sometimes had to rely on my personal savings to keep developing Lemmy for you, but that can't go on forever. We partly rely on NLnet for funding, but they only pay for development of new features, and not for mandatory maintenance work. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached Dessalines and I can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. Please use the link below to see current donation stats and make your contribution! We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

Donate

Not seeing much talk about it.

So no:

• AI generated memes of images
• AI generated answers to questions

edit: this applies to feddit.uk communities, we won't block AI art communities on other instances or sanction our users for posting on them.

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/17769069

The results are in!🎶

Hey everyone, I'm glad to announce that after fighting my lazyness, I have gathered the votes submitted until now, and am able to announce the results of the second edition of Lemmyvision! Thank you so much for participating, by sending a song together with your community, leaving feedback, or voting!!

This first ranking is based on the average position out of every vote:

1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (avg. rank: 3.6)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (4.7)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (4.9)
4. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (4.9)
5. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (5.2)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (5.3)
7. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (5.3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (5.7)
9. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (5.8)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (6.2)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (6.2)

Now here's a ranking based on how many time each song was ranked first :

1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (17 times ranked first!)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (8)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (7)
4. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (6)
5. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (4)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (4)
7. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (2)
9. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (2)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (1)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (none😥)

Some interesting data: #unplugtrump by Flong! and Pe Krieger seems to be a clear favourite congratulations to https://feedbeat.me/@Pe and https://mastodon.social/@FLOMB !! All the other songs are pretty close to each other. There has been more participation overall (more submission, more votes than last year), and a lot of people from non participating instances voted (their top 3 is so diverse I can't manage to discern a pattern), thank you!

A heartfelt thank you to the participating instances, I loved listening to your songs:

• Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - !pi_sourd@jlai.lu)
• Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - !austria@feddit.org )
• Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - !france@jlai.lu)
• Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - !rage@aussie.zone)
• Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
• Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
• Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
• Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - !slovakia@sopuli.xyz)
• Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)

This marks the end of the second edition of Lemmyvision, of course the community will stay open if anyone wants to submit songs they'd like people to discover, or have feedback on the event. I'm going to work on making the rules clear but inclusive because there were a lot of cases I didn't think about, hopefully the third edition will be super easy to get into.

Thank you again for participating, it's always fun to see communities get together, and to discover songs from other cultures, I hope you've had a great time!!

Until then, see you at Sunnyvision, somewhere around summer 🌞

Cheers!

Hey everyone. I'm a new to Lemmy after making a start to remove myself from big tech. Sorry if the questions are basic. First question is- how to choose which server as your 'home'. I chose feddit because I'm from the UK, but I live abroad- does that mean I should chose one only from the country I live in? And if you use a VPN does it matter anyway?

I came from reddit and it's not anywhere near as good unfortunately and obviously there are far fewer people on here, but I'm here to stay so want to make the best of it. TIA

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/17384631

Hey everyone, thank you again for participating, and for your submissions!

I'm glad to announce that the voting form is completed, and you can now cast your votes and select your favourite songs. Everyone is welcome to vote, even if your instance or community did not participate! This is a great opportunity to discover new music, cultures, and bridge the lemmyverse together.

The voting form is available here: https://tally.so/r/wvzg8d

I created a playlist so that you can easily listen to the submitted songs, it's available at the following links:

• Piped: https://watch.leptons.xyz/playlist?list=PLznyfib6djoSvfy23noSOy7axFMuMJD7U
• Invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLznyfib6djoSvfy23noSOy7axFMuMJD7U
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLznyfib6djoSvfy23noSOy7axFMuMJD7U

Here's the full list of submitted songs:

• Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - !pi_sourd@jlai.lu)
• Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - !austria@feddit.org )
• Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - !france@jlai.lu)
• Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - aussie.zone)
• Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
• Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
• Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
• Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - !slovakia@sopuli.xyz)
• Flong!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)

The form will be available until around the 8th of April, I will then collect the results and publish them shortly after. I hope you'll have a lot of fun listening to the 11 songs submitted for this edition. Don't hesitate if you have any question!

Cheers!

Here at FedditUS, we always skibidi make sure to #NeverForget🇺🇸

Except when we do, no cap.

So when you fail to do your duties as a cold blooded warm hearted american, tap right in here with us, yeehaw, and we'll see if we can forgive you over a jar of moonshine with the rizzler

I'm asking this here because it looks like a very weird feddit.uk specific issue.

If I post a URL for cdn.bsky.app to an image, it shows up fine on the default web UI.

On the app I use (Connect) it only ever shows up as a link.

"But!", I hear you cry, "surely that's an app problem?"

You'd think so, and I thought so, but it is only happening on feddit.uk. If I switch to a different account on a different instance, they display as expected. It also doesn't matter which instance they were originally posted to, as I've just seen an image from bsky that I posted on feddit.uk, and that has the same problem.

Any ideas? This has been bugging me for weeks.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/24365548

This is a bit odd. From my feddit.uk account (this one) I get the above for posts on !dailybunnies@lemmings.world.

If I log into the account they were posted with (this is my bot) on lemmings.world they display as expected:

If I log back in as myself on feddit.uk website, the images also display as expected (Connect doesn't seem to want to upload this one, but you'll see it without logging in at feddit.uk/c/dailybunnies@lemmings.world).

What's different?

Apology from me. We're moving some things around on the back end, and my non-thinking brain didn't think to check another admin was online before handing over control of a system to them.

Hopefully, feddit.uk will be back up before the end of the day, assuming nothing horrid happens.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25880686

If a federated community like this already exists, please point me to it. I'd rather not divide the effort any more than necessary.

I think it is clear to anyone in the UK. The disabled community is now under attack.

This community is an attempt to help pull people together and consider ideas for support and to enhance our voice.

I like many others in our community over the last 14 years. Have enough mental health issues. That I'd be grateful for other mod volunteers who will share the time managing the group. In the hope, we can keep the workload of off to few people.

https://feddit.uk/c/disabilityUK