Updating lemmy instance
I'm not sure how to update properly to the new version without breaking my instance. I tried following the directions in the instructions but I'm not sure if I have to have my original ansible files when I first set up the instance or not. Can someone give me a simple step by step?
Could you go to lemmyfi.com from your browser and tell me if it works for you?
I tried it but it didn't work for me. I'm the instance admin btw. This is on my own instance.
Can't load website (solved)
Lemmy website on my instance won't load (connection times out) but I'm able to access it through apps. Any idea what's wrong?
Edit more info: it fails with error 504 gateway timeout
Edit: I guess it didn't work on a different network I was on. It wasn't blocked just unreachable. Will have to check my DNS.
6.6k spam users
I made a mistake. I forgot to cahnge the setting after updating to screen for bots. This is getting out of hand. Luckily database commands aren't too hard.
How would it benefit an instance to be on the top of the leaderboard. Having more people on your instance means higher server costs. The optimal situation is to have a small group of people on each instance but just more instances.
No problem! Hopefully others that had this problem can fix their instance too. Since we don't know when the spam accounts will become active and start posting or if that spam attack was just to mess with us.
You have to delete them from local_users and person tables. Be careful with person table to not delete entries from users outside your Instance. It worked for me and fixed the user count in my sidebar.
What worked for me is manually deleting those entries from the database through the console. Gotta delete it from the postgresql database if you don't have any real user sign ups during the spam sign ups, you can just delete all entries after a certain point. That's how I did it.
so i've heard. very unfortunate. I left a comment on the bring back captchas open issue on github.
this happened overnight for me. I turned on captcha and email verification. captcha is important. I was watching the logs and all activity stopped after captcha got enabled.
E-Mail verification on, captcha on, hunker down
Just deleted over 800 users from my database that joined in the last few hours from obviously fake emails and botted usernames. Make sure to either close registration or have some sort of safety check in place because things are getting hairy out here.
My modlog got spammed today by some script banning a lot of people for spam automatically. It's getting wild. This was inevitable with the growth of Lemmy as a platform though.
EMail Verification Setup
Posting this just to let new instance admins who may have faced the same problem as me with email verification know a solution. It is important to set up SPF record so big email providers won't reject your email. All you have to do is configure the TXT entry in the DNS configuration of your domain name provider to include "v=spf1 mx -all"
Note: this won't prevent it from going to spam folder, that requires more verification, but this will at least allow emails to go through.
Just keep an eye on the GitHub page if you want to stay updated at all times. Other than that just check up on your storage use from time to time. You can also set up a job to restart the server every once in a while but that's not really necessary.
This applies to any website. by visiting the website you give them your IP. the only way to mitigate this is to use a VPN.
what instance? I don't have this problem on Brave(Chromium)
No. Does this only happen when you're accessing a community from your instance?
Question?
Why did you choose to manually add a ton of instances to the allowed list instead of letting it naturally federate as you use it?
How long ago did you start the instance. It took my instance 3 days to stabilize before things started working properly.
Why do bans in other communities sometimes show up in mine?
A few times I've seen a user get banned in my instance when they got banned elsewhere. how does that work?
My instance seems to be not syncing well
A lot of things aren't syncing well with other instances. I'm not sure what I did wrong. I used the ansible method. What should I check. I did the troubleshooting steps but that didn't help.
Lemmyfi.com is born
I made my own instance finally. Hope to polish it off a bit and make it public soon.