If anyone wants to help then feel free to place some pixels.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Additionally hosted on this Instance:

• Old Reddit Style
• Photon

Instance Agnostic:

• Alexandrite
• Voyager

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

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.

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/[email protected]

https://lemmy.world/c/voyagerapp

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

https://bookwormstory.social/c/[email protected]

https://fedia.io/m/FloatingIsFun

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

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 @[email protected] 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

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.

I'm new to this service, but it looks like a promising replacement for Reddit. Hope it'll prosper!

Does Lemmy implement a spoiler mode for images? Or perhaps it can be implemented with a custom CSS?

I'm writing is as an author who lost all her work after a hard disk failure. Please make sure to make a daily backup of the site on a USB!

Better safe than sorry.

General discussion for improvements that can be made here

Currently known problematic:

• lemmy.ml
• beehaw.org

I'll look into possible causes for the problem, as of right now the most likely culprit is the excessive server load on these two instances preventing the federation actions from completing.