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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

A few times I've seen a user get banned in my instance when they got banned elsewhere. how does that work?

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.

I made my own instance finally. Hope to polish it off a bit and make it public soon.