Lemmy / Site Discussions

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Introduction to bookwormstory.social and Lemmy (bookwormstory.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ludrol to c/metadiscussions

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What is bookwormstory.social

bookwormstory.social is a server that hosts Lemmy software that mimics behavior of reddit. It enables community to host Our own place for discussion about Ascendance of a Bookworm. But it is more than that, it also has protocol called ActivityPub that connects different servers and their communities. It provides ability to send massages, replays and posts between servers.

Technical Jargon

Instances - Servers hosted by individuals or groups

Communities - Subreddits or places where similar content gets posted

Fediverse - all the projects using ActivityPub protocol

What if I wanted to see other Communities or Instances?

If you wanted for example see other communities I would suggest going to lemmyverse.net/communities and searching for your community. For example we will search for Hermitcraft a minecraft SMP server.

Then we will copy a link to the community and put it into a search bar on bookwormstory.social. To access it press magnifying glass in the top right corner. After we will press the "Search" button we need to wait 3-10 seconds. Worth noting that results will be populated by comments mentioning that community.

After that we should see an icon with the name of community and subscriber count from our instance. When we click the link to the community and it will direct us to the community page. On the right side or hidden under the "Sidebar" button there will be "Subscribe" button that will enable us to see new posts.

Now we can comment, upvote and post in community that isn't hosted on bookwormstory.social. After subscribing to your community of choice, our instance will receive updates from subscribed communities and will display posts under subscribed tab on the front page. Please note that currently comments take a while to load (5-15 min).

I want to have better experience across Lemmy.

You can install „Instance Assistant” add-on for your browser. It is available for Firefox, Chrome or Edge

This add-on adds a button to automatically open linked communities and posts on an instance that you made an account. It enables easy way to comment on undiscovered posts. It has also various other QOL features.

Hey there's a bug!

Due to software being in practically alpha state there is a lot of bugs so please report them to @Neshura@bookwormstory.social or to @ludrol@bookwormstory.social

What if I have more questions?

You can ask them in the comments or in FAQ post

Different look for Lemmy

You can use alternative look on this instance by going to photon.bookwormstory.social or old.bookwormstory.social
Try them out, and see if you like them.

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Frequently Asked Questions (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by neshura to c/metadiscussions

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Are there tags?

Sadly there aren't (yet), for now please put the tag in brackets with the text in caps like so: [ART]

I can't see comments in the posts when viewing the community on another lemmy instance

Federation currently does not fetch past comments only future ones if subscribed, the devs recently have decided to change that but there is no estimate on when

Can I post AI generated Art?

Yes but only if you clearly tag it as such. 1st occurence is a warning and an explanation, second occurence is a ban.

Is this instance only for Ascendance of a Bookworm content?

Yes and No. On this instance communities will be revolving around Ascendance of a Bookworm, but you can still subscribe and contribute to remote communities on other instances.

Can I sign up even though I don’t read the series?

Yes you can, there should be plenty of content for you in the all feed or in one of the federated communities (you can see a list of those here.

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PSA: Instance Update to 0.19 on Wednesday (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 6 months ago by neshura to c/metadiscussions

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The initial hiccups with Federation seem to be resolved with 0.19.1-rc.1. Since I also managed to test the new Version of the Mestionora Bot (it should now actually post Part 2 and Part 3 Manga discussions in parallel instead of only Part 3, hooray) I will update the instance after PrePub discussions die down a bit.

Expected Timeframe is Wednesday 16:00 UTC - Wednesday 18:00 UTC.

During the Update changes to the expected downtime can be checked on status.bookwormstory.social.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask away.

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Defederation Policy Update, Adding Taglines And Vote For Spoilers in Emojis. (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 9 months ago by ludrol to c/metadiscussions

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Taglines

We want to add Taglines that will be displayed at the top of the site. We would like your help with populating it with quotes from the book. Please leave your suggestions in the comments. They should be quite brief, no longer that two sentences.

Vote For Emojis With Spoilers

We have added some emojis to the instance but they all are anime safe. We would like to know your opinion on adding emojis that are covering characters from part 3, 4 and 5. I will leave a comment and please upvote all the option that you are comfortable with seeing.

Defederation Policy

We would like to incorporate defederation from instances that are part of censure list on fediseer.com. It would help us catch toxic instances quite early. There will also be provided reasoning why we defedarated from certain instances.

- Ludrol

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[Fixed][Bug] Follow up email broken on bookwormstory.social BE:0.18.4 (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Deemo to c/metadiscussions

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Hi guys I recently tested lemmy's email feature and found on lemmy.world there are no issues with email (both in recieving the verification email and replies/messages).

When testing bookwormstory.social however I am unable to recieve emails (both in recieving the verification email and replies/messages).

Background context:

Lemmy.world version --> BE: 0.18.4

bookwormstory.social version --> BE: 0.18.4

same gmail account was used testing.

A silly conversation with myself (for testing)

https://bookwormstory.social/comment/462332

https://lemmy.world/comment/2537944

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[iOS/macOS] Shortcut to auto blur images (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 10 months ago by Deemo to c/metadiscussions

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Hi guys I made a shortcut that autoblurs a selected image, uploads it to catbox.moe, and copies the link. It also automatically uploads a unblured image in markdown syntax so you can directly paste it in post body.

Shortcut:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c17814055c3a42b78c82984049deb13d

Actions app (required for blur, its free and open source):

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1586435171

https://github.com/sindresorhus/Actions

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[Bug] Send notifications to Email not working (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Deemo to c/metadiscussions

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Around after July 30th send notifications to email doesn't seem to work.

Additonally I found the Verify your email address for bookwormstory.social prompt doesn't work.

Edit looks like this is a lemmy bug fro BE 0.18.3

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3783

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[Discussion] Stance/Limits of cross posting art from r/HonzukiNoGekokujou to Bookworm Lemmy (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Deemo to c/metadiscussions

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Hi guys, kinda curious on what the stance is on cross posting art from r/HonzukiNoGekokujou. If its allowed (not sure if it is or isn't) kinda curious about how much cross posting would be considered to much.

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Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator/Backup tool (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Deemo to c/metadiscussions

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A handy tool which allows you to backup your profile settings, subscriptions, blocked users, and blocked communities and port it to other instances.

Limitations:

Cannot backup your saved posts
Cannot backup/auto set your profile description/Profile image picture/Profile banner art

Kinda inspired by this post:

https://bookwormstory.social/post/146

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Alternative Lemmy Frontends (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by neshura to c/metadiscussions

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Newly Available Feature since 0.18.1, now actually implemented by a couple of projects.

Additionally hosted on this Instance:

Instance Agnostic:

I will expand this list as I find or am told about more alternative UIs.

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[Discussion] CORRS issue on 3rd party web lemmy clients (bookwormstory.social)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Deemo to c/metadiscussions

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I noticed that 3rd party web lemmy apps like alexandrite.app seem to not funciton with bookwormstory.social due to CORRS. Other instances like lemmy.world seem to work fine.

Not sure if there is an environmental variable change needed to get corrs working (not sure how lemmy works under the hood).

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3191

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3109

Also as a side note vger.app (wefwef) mobile web client does work since it has a proxy function though not sure if it will be removed in the future.

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Spoiler image demo (no bookworm spoilers) (reupload) (bookwormstory.social)

submitted 11 months ago by Deemo to c/metadiscussions

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federation not completely syncing (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 11 months ago by Deemo to c/metadiscussions

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Hi guys kinda found a weird bug on some communities limited amount of content being synced.

Example voyager (only two posts synced over the course of a day)

https://bookwormstory.social/c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/c/voyagerapp

Example floating is fun (only new posts are syncing no prior content is syncing)

https://bookwormstory.social/c/FloatingIsFun@fedia.io

https://fedia.io/m/FloatingIsFun

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[Discussion] Risks of .ml domains and lemmy (bookwormstory.social)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Deemo to c/metadiscussions

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Not sure if this topic fits in this community but recently my account on a lemmy instance with a .ml extension (lemmy.fmhy.ml) was rendered inaccessible.

While the instance works to a degree (I can set a dns overide to gain acess) due to the broken domain it effectivly renders my account (and the instance lost due to federation).

While bookworm is fine I worry about other instances like lemmy.ml which has the same domain prefix and hosts many communities.

Image from https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za

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[Discussion] Image upload reliability on smaller and larger instances (i.imgur.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Deemo@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/metadiscussions

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Hi guys out of curiosity how reliable is image uploads on bookwormstory.social? (curious since this instance has a relativly small userbase 100-200).

On lemmy.fmhy.ml (10k users) image uploading is kinda hit/miss with json errors when uploading images (frequently need to fall back on imgur).

Curious if these errors are due to bugs in lemmy or just the massive load in storing/serving images to users.

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Incident Report XSS Attack on lemmy.world (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 11 months ago by neshura to c/metadiscussions

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Last night the instance lemmy.world suffered a JavaScript injection attack. The attack set out to steal login cookies of users upon visiting infected threads, primarily targeting admins.

Potentially Affected Data

E-Mail address stolen and/or changed (if provided in user settings)
Password changed

Mitigations

Malicious comments have been replaced by a removal message. I have deployed the UI hotfix and @ludrol@bookwormstory.social has deleted all Custom Emoji until it is clear whether those are safe to use. Additionally all login sessions have been invalidated as a safety precaution as well, any cookies that were stolen are now rendered useless.

Conclusion

So far it does not seem like this instance was affected.

If you are not using bookwormstory.social and your instance is not on UI Version 0.18.2-rc.1 please be aware that you are likely still at risk of the attack, please check for any announcements of your instance administrators.

Details of the vulnerability are here

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[PSA] Blocked Instance: threads.net (self.metadiscussions)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by neshura to c/metadiscussions

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I have decided to block Meta's Fediverse platform threads.net. The three reasons pushing me to do so are:

Meta's known history of the Embrace-Extend-Extinguush playbook (XMPP)
Meta's disturbing data collection practices when it comes to threads.
I don't trust Meta to keep their platform properly moderated. Especially since large parts of the fediverse already defederated, reducing the number of independent moderators checking over their content.

Edit: This is preventitive, threads.net does not offer ActivityPub support currently but has announced plans to do so in the future.

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[Discussion] RSS Poll rate for push notifications (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Deemo@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/metadiscussions

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Hi guys weird question, I use lemmy's inbox RSS as a sort of pseudo push notification (currently using monito RSS discord bot polling at every 10 min).

I was considering dropping the poll rate to every 1-2 min. Out of curiosity is a rss poll rate of every 1-2 min acceptable or considered excessive.

Primary reason I was considering dropping the poll rate this low is to prevent a notification lag (ie when brosing lemmy via a 3rd party app after viewing and marking a message as read 10 min latter I get a inbox notification for the same message).

Curious on your thoughts