Hard to say exactly what the cause was, as I don’t know what username they used on lemm.ee (doesn’t seem to be the same one that was used on Reddit), but it’s most likely:

1. They did not verify their e-mail address
2. They did not agree to follow lemm.ee rules in the sign-up form

We’ll get some more control over images when 1.0 comes, I will take a look at it again then, but in general the new user cooldown for image uploads has really significantly reduced the amount of image related abuse we have seen.

@Character_Locked@lemm.ee please understand, nobody on our admin team is getting paid to moderate disgusting images, they are volunteering to do it, and it takes a mental toll. Also, image hosting itself is not free. Our donations right now are barely breaking even with server costs. So realistically, our options are not “current situation vs fully unrestricted image uploads”, they are “current situation vs completely burned out admin team and costs increasing beyond donations”.

Our servers are all hosted in Finland indeed, but we use Cloudflare for DDoS protection etc. Clients/bots/scripts/etc (like FediDB) don’t see our server IP addresses directly, they see Cloudflare IP addresses. FediDB uses the IP address it sees to assume what country the server is in.

The same is true for a bunch of other Lemmy servers as well - a lot of the ones FediDB shows as “United States” are actually hosted in Europe (or elsewhere).

We briefly had some database issues, it should be solved now, but I will continue to monitor.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

What I mean is that some posters have a bunch of alts on different instances, and if they get awards split between their accounts, then they’ll be at a bit of a disadvantage 😄

This is cool!

Any rules for alts? Can people “claim” alt accounts to sum up their votes?

It’s very unlikely lemm.ee will ever be a suitable host for video content. Please host your videos on other platforms, embedding them on lemm.ee posts will work just fine.

Whenever you give your free time and energy to build something open source for the world, there are always some people who say “why aren’t you giving me 10x more, you lazy dev” 😅

Could I ask you to try again with the app and let me know if it’s working for you now?

Hey, sorry for the issues, please see my comment here for explanation: https://lemm.ee/post/57870550/18964440

Hey, sorry for the issues, please see my comment here for explanation: https://lemm.ee/post/57870550/18964440

Hey, for the past few weeks, we have been tuning different rate limits and other bot prevention mechanisms on lemm.ee. We have had a huge increase in traffic lately, as well as a couple of instances of what was effectively a DDoS.

In other words, the problems likely have nothing to do with your app or different versions, and everything to do with our own measures.

For the mark post as read endpoint, I recently made the rate limit a bit more relaxed, so hopefully users won’t see issues there anymore. OTOH, we are also presenting a Cloudflare challenge for some IP ranges currently, which may inadvertently affect legit users. This was necessary to mitigate a recent DDoS, but we will continue tuning and hopefully restore things to normal for legit users soon.

Definitely not 😄

I’ve just restored it

Hey, there isn’t any default community right now. There are a few different databases that track graphs of such things, for example, fedidb.org.

Thank you very much for the support!

Our infrastructure costs are currently quite stable at around 200€ per month, and considering that the instance is right now quite decently supporting nearly 6000 monthly active users, you could say that you are indeed relatively contributing a ton - you are effectively covering server costs for 60 people!

The fact that it’s a monthly amount is particularly great, because with recurring income, we will get advanced warning if there is danger of funds starting to run low.

We had a few really huge days in 2023, but other than those, it seems like the growth so far in March is definitely outpacing our initial wave of new users in 2023.

Hey, could you make a post in that community?

The e-mail successfully went out from our side - please check your spam filters etc

It’s the correct error code (the client is sending a bad request - it’s an already used token), the problem is just that Lemmy UI doesn’t really display a useful error page to the user.