There is a rc for version 0.18 that fixes this, but it still has bugs. Currently, posts that are received by the web sockets appear on top and this feature will be removed in version 0.18.
On feddit.de itself, the community also isn’t available anymore under its above address, but it still exists with @feddit.de added: https://feddit.de/c/japanesemusic
It also does not appear when you search for local communities on feddit.de. For some reason, the instance seems to think it is a foreign community. That's why it probably stopped federating the community to other instances. I'm not sure, of course, but it really is a weird situation.
With tools like this (https://nopecha.com/) existing they might be right. This is not even the only tool, it really looks like captchas are no longer useful because of AI.
I too played a bit with the API today and it is very easy to do everything that a user can do as a Lemmy Bot. So please take this into account when securing your Lemmy instance.
We can also use this power to protect our users. For example a bot could send a welcome message with a link to the instance rules, the first time a user comments or posts on the instance.
I was playing a bit with the API today and yea it might even be a bit too easy at the moment. You can easily use that army of Lemmy bots to upvote all your posts.
We should probably make it very clear in tutorials and setup guides that no email verification is insecure and leaves your instance open to bots.
I only used the official Reddit app when reading Reddit on my phone. It was quite annoying to write posts with the app, but reading them was fine. I prefered using the website on my laptop though.
If instances know that they are serving a defederated post they could maybe show a warning banner. That sounds like a reasonable suggestion, but the devs already have a huge workload so something like that might take some time.
In the source code of LemmyNet/lemmy there is a docker-compose file for setting up multiple instances trough docker that can federate with each other. That is a better practice then federating with other pruduction instances.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/federation/docker-compose.yml
The article makes some good points, cooperation can easily get greedy when their platform gets too large. It does feel like it tries to connect FOSS to privacy, though, and that's a bit more controversial, especially when it comes to the Fediverse. For a platform like Lemmy the most important thing is to share the post that you published, there is limited development time, security is hard, and when things go wrong it is hard to point at someone.
For example, sending private messages often leads to these private messages being readable by the admins of the instance. In the same way, instance admins can also see the email address that you provided. So we just have to trust the instance admin to be capable enough to protect our data and not leak it out on the internet.
Of course, these issues also exist in companies that want to push out new features to attract users instead of spending time to test if everything is secure. It simply is a difficult point for both FOSS and commercial software, and we need to hold both FOSS and commercial parties responsible for respecting our privacy. At least with FOSS, we can switch to a fork if a maintainer does not do their job well.
I actually really like being this early on the platform, last time that happened was Google+ and that went nowhere. But this time it feels like you can actually contribute to the platform. This can be done by posting interesting things, just chatting in the communities you like, and can even help with the development of Lemmy if you have the skills.
I hope this will be the first Open Source project that I can help, I always wanted to contribute to open source, but that never went further than publishing my own projects (that were way too specific to be useful to anyone else) under an open source licence.
There are pull requests for a sort of super communities, that are basically a view over multiple communities. That would be the only way to merge communities, I think. I don't see any options on my current 0.17.3 version of Lemmy to move posts from a community to another community, so if you would want to delete a community, all posts will just end up being linked to a deleted community.
That's quite disappointing.. I understand that it was a lot for this quest though and if they would want to get the prayers right, they would probably have to delay the quest release. I think it wasn't a bad idea to try to create an alternative prayerbook instead of just a better prayerbook, but that is just really hard. And I think they should stick a bit closer to ancient curses, if they just wanted to create a better prayerbook. I guess this also means we won't see skilling prayers for a while.