What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to resolve this.

Changes

Recently some malicious users started to use an exploit where they would post rule violating content and then delete the account. This would prevent admins and mods from viewing the user profile to find other posts, and would also prevent federation of ban actions.

The new release fixes these problems. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to solve this.

Upgrade instructions

There are no breaking changes with this release.

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We’d like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We’re glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to resolve this.

Changes

Recently some malicious users started to use an exploit where they would post rule violating content and then delete the account. This would prevent admins and mods from viewing the user profile to find other posts, and would also prevent federation of ban actions.

The new release fixes these problems. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to solve this.

Upgrade instructions

There are no breaking changes with this release.

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We’d like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We’re glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency

We’re still working hard on the 1.0 release, needing a few more major additions to lemmy-ui, and some less critical items for lemmy.

Then it will be a period of performance and bug testing, as well as giving time to allow app devs to update to the API changes.

The major changes during November were:

• Upgrade to latest Rust version 1.91 (after being stuck with 1.81 for over a year)
• Backwards compatibility with API v3
• Multi-community UI
• Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page
• Merged modlog tables

## flamingos-cant - Fix truncate_for_db ## dessalines - Use rusts Url::parse with post_url_only - Add test for backslashes in urls. - Adding multi-community counts, and full querying to list_multi_communities - Mark post or comment notif as read after liking. - Upgrading pg_format to 5.8 - Adding multi_communities_created to PersonDetails, and multi_community_follows to MyUserInfo - Adding a last_application_duration_seconds field to GetSite. - Adding multi_community_name to list_posts. - Fixing ModlogKind comment. - Updating .rustfmt edition to 2024 - Use a jauderho/prettier docker image. - Upgrade inferno to 9.0.5 - Adding post_url_only to search page. - Fixing show-score logic - Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page. - Multi community support - Open text post links in new tab (if setting exists). - Fixing fastlane changelog ## Nutomic - Restore Activitypub audience field - Sidebar federation - Support more api v3 - Pull in rate limiter logic - Compile db view joins in parallel, add instance join - Various API route changes - Disable old Mastodon workaround for empty names - Fixes for merge modlog migration - Notify mod actions fixes - Change multi_community_user to system_account - Crate lemmy_diesel_utils - Add helper methods for resolve - Add missing attribute optional_fields for ModlogView - Support api v3 - Upgrade to latest stable Rust (fixes #6006) - Show list of active plugins in sidebar - Fix bug which prevented setting registration to open - Fix bug with comments pagination (fixes #3612) - Dont alter crosspost body for own post (fixes #3603) - Notify about mod actions (fixes #3488) - In image upload form hide preview and delete button if none - Enable blank issues - Merge modlog tables - Make instance page working again (fixes #3571)

Or see the full list of changes at the links below:

• Backend
• Frontend
• Jerboa

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. 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 we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

Donate

We’re still working hard on the 1.0 release, needing a few more major additions to lemmy-ui, and some less critical items for lemmy.

Then it will be a period of performance and bug testing, as well as giving time to allow app devs to update to the API changes.

The major changes during November were:

• Upgrade to latest Rust version 1.91 (after being stuck with 1.81 for over a year)
• Backwards compatibility with API v3
• Multi-community UI
• Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page
• Merged modlog tables

## flamingos-cant - Fix truncate_for_db ## dessalines - Use rusts Url::parse with post_url_only - Add test for backslashes in urls. - Adding multi-community counts, and full querying to list_multi_communities - Mark post or comment notif as read after liking. - Upgrading pg_format to 5.8 - Adding multi_communities_created to PersonDetails, and multi_community_follows to MyUserInfo - Adding a last_application_duration_seconds field to GetSite. - Adding multi_community_name to list_posts. - Fixing ModlogKind comment. - Updating .rustfmt edition to 2024 - Use a jauderho/prettier docker image. - Upgrade inferno to 9.0.5 - Adding post_url_only to search page. - Fixing show-score logic - Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page. - Multi community support - Open text post links in new tab (if setting exists). - Fixing fastlane changelog ## Nutomic - Restore Activitypub audience field - Sidebar federation - Support more api v3 - Pull in rate limiter logic - Compile db view joins in parallel, add instance join - Various API route changes - Disable old Mastodon workaround for empty names - Fixes for merge modlog migration - Notify mod actions fixes - Change multi_community_user to system_account - Crate lemmy_diesel_utils - Add helper methods for resolve - Add missing attribute optional_fields for ModlogView - Support api v3 - Upgrade to latest stable Rust (fixes #6006) - Show list of active plugins in sidebar - Fix bug which prevented setting registration to open - Fix bug with comments pagination (fixes #3612) - Dont alter crosspost body for own post (fixes #3603) - Notify about mod actions (fixes #3488) - In image upload form hide preview and delete button if none - Enable blank issues - Merge modlog tables - Make instance page working again (fixes #3571)

Or see the full list of changes at the links below:

• Backend
• Frontend
• Jerboa

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. 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 we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

Donate

It’s been a busy month, with a lot of work to add new features to lemmy-ui which were already added to the Lemmy backend before. There were also a lot of bug fixes for the development version. We are gradually getting closer to a 1.0 release.

While the API changes for 1.0 are mostly finalized, we still have many more lemmy-ui 1.0 tasks to complete.

Some of the major additions:

• Simplified lemmy-ui development.
• Audio file support in lemmy-ui.
• Added comment locking (which also locks children). Thanks to @flamingos-cant)
• Post time filtering, with a smart dropdown.
• Added ability to block all users from an instance (separate from blocking all communities)
• Added ability to make a note for a person, and view the vote totals you’ve given to them.
• Fixed remote RSS feeds.
• Added ability to do actions on report items, from the reports page.

## salif - Fix data URL syntax in webmanifest ## Meri-Dax - Saving video width and height alongside embed_video_url ## flamingos-cant - Use more standard AP fields for community tags - Don’t populate embed fields when the Opengraph tag is empty - Add urls for moderators and featured collections on local communities - Comment lock ## MV-GH - Restore deprecated apk post processing config - Regenerate baseline profiles - Bump to Android SDK 36 - Fix too large images in comments being cutoff - Add option to disable video auto play ## dessalines - Fixing missing shortcode from emoji updating. - Validate saving default_items_per_page local user setting. - Fixing show_scores -> show_score DB name. - Fixing LockComment and ModLockCommentView - Fixing local_user table column order. - Adding type_ to PostOrCommentOrPrivateMessage enum. - Fix post like not decrementing vote totals. - Add ability to mark a notification as unread. - Changing rss inbox feed -> notifications - Fixing admin list users not using query. - Adding ban_expires_at to views - Adding a post undelete delay to fix federation tests. - Add voyager development as the default test server for test.sh - Adding default posts_per_page setting. - Add ability to lock comments - Adding post time filtering with defaults. - Upgrading pnpm to 10.16 - Collapse removed comments that have no children by default. - Updating to new 1.0 names. - Adding ability to visit a random community. - Highlight new comments using the last read comments time. - Fixing scheduled publish time. - Adding read and hidden content for your profile. - Add ability to show banned users and all users. - Fixup notifs - Add @nutomic to codeowners - Fix profile radios spacing. - Add ability to block all persons from an instance. - Add ability to create a note for a person, and view vote totals - Add ability to resend verification email. - Use the getCommentsSlim variant for post comments. - Fixing build tools to version 36.0.0 ## Nutomic - Include error message for rate limit error (fixes #6019) - Proper null check for mod-reason-mandatory (fixes #6021) - Update dependencies, use latest diesel-cli - Set image_mode: None for development - Correct name for instance default theme - Avoid unnecessary requests to w3.org (fixes #5999) - Fix remote user/community rss feeds (fixes #5997) - Dont allow write api actions for banned user - Exclude LocalSite.multi_comm_follower from public api - Let banned users login - Make reason mandatory for mod actions (fixes #1948) - Remove local_user.enable_keyboard_navigation (fixes #5988) - Rename FederationState.next_retry and NotificationType - Rename person banned columns - Show most used languages first - Restrict max length of community title - Reenable plugin hook (fixes #5925) - Sorting for instance list - Print diff-check errors to stdout (fixes #5937) - Avoid regenerating metadata for unchanged post url (fixes #5956) - Dont allow removing only mod/admin, remove leave_admin endpoint - Provide federation context collection (fixes #5283) - Add report actions (fixes #501) - Convert buttons for view all, show context to links (fixes #3229) - Enable various lints - Enable alt text for videos (fixes #2779) - Fetch emoji data separately (fixes #3470) - Downscale proxied thumbnails (fixes #2591) - Insert emojis at current cursor position (fixes #1983) - Simplify translation code - Fix Arabic user/community names (fixes #2207) - Correct name for instance default theme (fixes #2371) - Fetch similar posts when copying suggested title (fixes #2029) - Fix community link in modlog title (fixes #2209) - Properly render multi-line deny reason (fixes #3103) - UI changes if current user is banned (fixes #989) - RSS feed should use local domain (fixes #2012) - Add button to expand all images (fixes #1273) - Remove env var LEMMY_UI_DEBUG, use NODE_ENV instead - Add new modlog filters - Extend readme - Improve development instructions to use remote instance - In search results show number of posts/comments for users/communities - Add checkbox for title only search (#3220) - Use params instead of string concat (fixes #1350) - Setting for community/post notifications - Extend admin user list with more info - Allow blocking community that banned you (fixes #3267) - Multiple language input using checkboxes (fixes #1935) - More details about crossposts (fixes #3386) - Instance list changes (fixes #3261) - Respect link target for post domain (fixes #3256) - Show community languages in sidebar (fixes #1009) - Implement donation dialog - Hide bio for banned users (fixes #961) - Indicate when registration is disabled (fixes #2070) - Add icon to indicate new accounts (fixes #2389) - Remove outline for username button

Or see the full list of changes at the links below:

• Backend
• Frontend
• Jerboa

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. 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 we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

Donate