To be honest, no idea what this entails. I was bullied into updating the instance and the official patchnotes are just all the github changes instead of a proper write-up 😂

Something to think about. It is pointless to interact with any of those posts directly here, so as a result they get no engagement. They're just links to Reddit, and I feel like they're just funnelling engagement back there. I can't help but notice, possibly incorrectly, that activity here sharply dropped as soon as that bot went active.

If we want the content here, wouldn't it make more sense to pull non self post content directly and post it as a first class Lemmy post here without linking to the reddit post?

If our goal is to make this the new Monero home, wouldn't a better approach be adding this site to the sidebar on the subreddit, or having automod inform every poster about it's existence? Is moving here even our goal anymore?

I view this website with Firefox, and the thumbnails and images (eg Monerochan Memes) don't display because they are webp. I have the "Don't accept image/webp" add-on active but this makes no difference. Is it possible to configure the website so another inline image format is available?

Edit: I notice that accessing via https://mlmym.org/monero.town/?sort=Hot&listingType=Local some thumbnails appear, while normally none do.

I built this specifically for monero.town, but anyone can use it anywhere. It is pretty easy to configure, all the info is in the readme and there's an example configuration file to get you started using it.

Feel free to aso me any questions you want, recommendations, and also feel free to open issues in the repo.

Mastodon/Lemmy tends to be unreliable due to it's immaturity and server problems. Having a Telegram channel for Meta would help interested parties to get info when needed

Shoutout to the pict-rs dev asonix for helping me with the migration ♥

https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs

Server showed as online on the hosting provider dashboard but it wasn't responding. After contacting support, this was fixed at some point.

This led to a config file being reverted because of a setting I didn't change earlier which led to the page only showing "Server error."

Everything should work again and in the future that config file shouldn't change by itself anymore. I still have no idea what the problem on the providers side was, let's hope it doesn't happen again :P

Whats difference between of them? I want to follow /r/monero alternative on Lemmy

There is a lot we can do but it might become a bit spammy if we add too much. Some ideas would be:

• Monero ecosystem releases (Monero, GUI, Haveno, Serai, etc) either in a special releases community or the regular Monero one
• DarknetLive posts to the darknet community
• Crypto news to the cryptocurrency community

All of these feeds are of high quality and shouldn't completely spam us.

What do you think? Any other suggestions?

Edit: Similar, even better tool like this.

geteilt von: https://programming.dev/post/587204

FediRedirect is a browser extension that redirects you to your favorite instance.

It currently supports:

• Lemmy => Lemmy
• Mastodon => Mastodon
• Mastodon => Lemmy
• Lemmy => Mastodon

Edit 2: This has been replaced with a bot that posts way more reliably, as well as locally to the instance.

~~#### Edit: This doesn't seem to work that well, will be upgraded soon.~~

~~Posts made to r/Monero can now be seen on monero.town by subscribing to !monero@lemmit.online 🎉~~

geteilt von: https://lemmit.online/post/157129

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/monero by /u/monerobull on 2023-07-10 19:36:45+00:00.

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If this works as planned, this post should show up in the feed of https://monero.town/, a monero-focused Lemmy instance.

Comments made on either the reddit or Lemmy side don't get synced, just the post itself.

If you can see this post on .town, congratulations, you don't have to visit reddit anymore 🥳

A bunch of instances got compromised earlier today. Monero.town was not effected since this particular exploit requires a server to have custom emojis enabled.

geteilt von: https://lemdro.id/post/42872

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1895271

FYI!!! In case you start getting re-directed to porn sites.

Maybe the admin got hacked?

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edit: lemmy.blahaj.zone has also been hacked. beehaw.org is also down, possibly intentionally by their admins until the issue is fixed.

Post discussing the point of vulnerability: https://lemmy.ml/post/1896249

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This instance doesn't share its backend with monero.town, in fact, it runs on an entirely different (and way less reliable) server.

Edit: Subscriptions aren't working since remote instances don't know where to send their posts (doesn't work with onion addresses). This means that only manually searched posts actually show up, making the whole instance pretty useless ._.

~~You can still view monero.town and the rest of the fediverse through federation. You can either put communities into the searchbar and subscribe to them (Example !monero@monero.town) or put entire links to posts from other instances into it to make them show up here.~~

Since this instance is on Tor, it can federate inwards (pull content from other lemmy servers) but CAN'T federate outwards (interacting with posts on other servers). You can still comment and vote but only people on this instance will be able to see this. You are essentially siloed with a one-way window into the outside world.

For now, registration is open because I don't want to manage applications on two instances at once. Don't abuse this or it will be shut.

Matrix join the matrix room for live discussions/questions: #monero.town:monero.social

Here is the changelog.

This upgrade brings a ton of bugfixes and performance improvements.

It also broke the nice custom theme we had 😅 I'll try to iron this out but for the time being we will change back to a default theme.

Works OK when using link to image.

How do I participate on Lemmy instances outside my own?

If it's already discovered (see the next section on that) you can go directly by URL in this format. https://yourlemmy.server/c/coolcommunity@coolserver.com or by searching for coolcommunity in the search bar. You will stay logged in with your home server this way but can vote, comment, post using your current identity on that other server meaning you don't need a separate account. Neat right?

Discovering: Hey I can't see [x] newly started community on my server! I can't find [y] popular community from my small server! What gives? (IMPORTANT)

Some communities might not appear from All, until any logged in user of that server searches for it in the lemmy-ui (web) searchbar.

For example, to "discover" coolcommunity @coolserver.com from instance yourlemmy.server, you would type "!coolcommunity@coolserver.com" within yourlemmy.server's search bar and wait 10 seconds. Ensure that community has at least one post that can sync, and even then it may take a while to actually appear in some cases. If you set the filter to "communities", enter the community in that format and press search and nothing happens, that means it is discovered. If it says No results, try again after 10 seconds, check that you have spelled and formatted correctly.

That causes your server to "discover" it and will start syncing posts and be searchable and also available on apps like Jerboa. Only after it is discovered can you use a URL link to it in this format: https://yourlemmy.server/c/coolcommunity@coolserver.com I coined the term discovering here but in essence it's initiating federation and post-fetching from that community.

I signed up but nothing happened/Some notification came up but I missed it. What do I do next?

This server has a manual approval process. Usually requests are approved within 30 minutes but it can take up to 12 hours to get approved. Try logging in after an hour, if it works you are successfully registered. You won't get any notification at all of your approval unless you inquire about your application through outside channels like the monero matrix rooms.

How do I find more communities?

The communities page or searching for communities.

Help! Why can't I see any/many posts and comments on an active thread?

Check your Language settings. Select English, Undetermined and your native language(s) using Ctrl+Click in the webui.

Where are the "Hot" and Important posts on Lemmy?

Whichever server you decide with, you can use the All page from the home of your server, sort by Hot, New, Active. Just keep in mind again, if your server has few "discovered" communities you won't see much outside your own server. Subscribe to major, active communities that you might be interested in then you can look in your "Subscribed" page as your feed for buzzing posts.

Statspage on number of Lemmy users etc.?

Sure! FediDB, this page is also useful to find new servers to join.

Anything else I need to know?

Please be careful with what you share on the internet. This should be common sense as even content on Reddit can be archived before deletion.

This post is based on this Lemmy FAQ.

I hope everyone here is having a great time on Lemmy!

I'm excited to see Lemmy have more adoption and interest. However, I'm running into some issues where my account on this instance is unable to see and join communities on some other servers.

What main Lemmy servers is this server federated with? What main ones are we not federated with?

Since the only option here is undetermined, users can't select any other languages in their own settings.

This works fine for posts on this instance, but it means we can't view posts on any other instance that have been tagged with any language other than undetermined, including English.

Upvotes, downvotes, comments are available to the general public.

For IP logs is it only the admin of the instance account is created on that could view it? Or is it also the mods on the instance? Can every other admin or mod from another instance view the information?

What about for saves and messages?

By default admins of each instance can access everything from accounts that were created there, but unsure of the access available to everyone else. Would be fun to learn what federation with other instances and participating in them reveals to the admins/mods of those other instances.

As some of you may have noticed, monero.town was only available for people signed into a Lemmy mobile app for the past few days.

It looks like the Lemmy software had a bug that was exploited to DoS instances which of course happened on evening #1 of Monerokon. In an attempt to fix this DoS issue, I upgraded to Lemmy version 18 which required additional, badly documented changes to the config. Since I didn't have a laptop with me, there wasn't all that much I could do besides the initial analysis. That is why it took until today for me to fix the issue. I hope this wasn't too big of an inconvenience to anyone 😅

Lemmy is still very new software and these are some of the growing pains. Please be reassured that I won't randomly abandon monero.town and will do my very best to never have to do another migration like house->town again.

When i attempt to load monero.town from firefox i get "server error". I tried in a private tab to see if my login cookie may have something to do with it, but nope. The server clearly works on the back end as i can load and respond to posts just fine

When will the upgrade be done here? I know jerboa 0.0.35 requires this version to not throw errors