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Jerboa app and Lemmy 0.18 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The 0.18 version of Lemmy was announced. This will solve many issues.

But we can't upgrade yet because the captcha was removed, and captcha relied on Websockets, which are removed in 0.18 so despite the devs agreeing on my request to add captcha back, this will not be until 0.18.1. Without captcha we will be overrun by bots.

Hopefully this 0.18.1 will be released soon, because another issue is that the newest version of the Jerboa app won't work with servers older than 0.18. So if you're on Lemmy.world, please (temporarily) use another app or the web version.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ELI5?

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

there's a couple of points here

  1. current website is version 0.17.4 (you can check this at the very bottom)
  2. version 0.18 is ready, but there's no captcha yet (the thing where you have to identify objects on squares, or click a box that'll turn into checkmark)
  3. without captcha, bot accounts (not real users) can register to the site too easily
  4. so we're gonna wait for version 0.18.1, the one with captcha active.
  5. the Jerboa app, the android app for browsing Lemmy has also recently updated, and will only work for Lemmy version 0.18 up, thus it's advised to use another app or just the web for now

note : the site version 0.18 is already out for the main Lemmy instance, which is lemmy.ml, but lemmy.world (where we are now) is gonna wait for version 0.18.1

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm using Jerboa and everything seems to be working fine. Edit: Jerboa started playing up mainly crashing on opening it. Binned it off and now using Connect

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I first thought my Jerboa was fine (despite the popup warning about version), since I could browse a bit without it obviously exploding. But no, it crashes regularly now (closes, no warning or messages).

I don't understand why a Lemmy update would be considered for release that removes security features like captcha support. (Especially during this time of high rates of signups, and well known bot wave in some instances.)

Combined with Jerboa update that needs the Lemmy update, and popularity of instances that need captcha, it's unfortunately causing a mess for many users.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

yeah i agree. This setup is really dumb. I just joined and this took way too much fiddling already for new 'simple' reddit users. Helps i'm used to linux.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm currently using the app called lemmy connect without issues.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's not bad, I prefer jerboa (really I'm waiting for sync) but connect works fine

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy.world is running Lemmy version 0.17.4 right now (check the bottom of any Lemmy instance and it'll tell you what version is running). The new version fixes a lot of things, but lemmy.world can't upgrade to that new version yet because it'll be overrun by bot accounts. We have to wait for the next version and skip this update because that has the protections for bot accounts.