Registration requirements

I’ve had to ban multiple vile accounts this morning. It seems this instance has found itself on the radar of trolls.

To that end, sign-ups now require users to fill in a questionnaire prior to joining. I always thought it was lame, and it won’t really prevent a troll account from joining, but it would slow them down, and likely cause them to find another easier-to-join instance.

Upgrade

I shall be upgrading the instance to 0.19.4 0.19.5 this afternoon on Friday morning, so expect a little downtime

I’ll unpin this notice once the update is complete.

Edit: Unfortunately work got in the way of me performing the update today, so postponing this to first thing tomorrow morning.

Cached images

We use the standard group of services for Lemmy, including the pict-rs image/thumbnail cache. This image cache grew to 700G recently and continues to grow as Lemmy grows. Therefore some effort has been made to keep it under control.

Cached images from other instances are now only kept for 90-days. This doesn’t remove the original image.