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##### How do I participate on Lemmy instances outside my own? If it's already discovered (see the next section on that) you can go directly by URL in this format. https://yourlemmy.server/c/coolcommunity@coolserver.com or by searching for coolcommunity in the search bar. You will stay logged in with your home server this way but can vote, comment, post using your current identity on that other server meaning you don't need a separate account. Neat right? ##### Discovering: Hey I can't see [x] newly started community on my server! I can't find [y] popular community from my small server! What gives? (IMPORTANT) Some communities might not appear from All, until any logged in user of that server searches for it in the lemmy-ui (web) searchbar. For example, to "discover" coolcommunity @coolserver.com from instance yourlemmy.server, you would type "!coolcommunity@coolserver.com" within yourlemmy.server's search bar and wait 10 seconds. Ensure that community has at least one post that can sync, and even then it may take a while to actually appear in some cases. If you set the filter to "communities", enter the community in that format and press search and nothing happens, that means it is discovered. If it says No results, try again after 10 seconds, check that you have spelled and formatted correctly. That causes your server to "discover" it and will start syncing posts and be searchable and also available on apps like Jerboa. Only after it is discovered can you use a URL link to it in this format: https://yourlemmy.server/c/coolcommunity@coolserver.com I coined the term discovering here but in essence it's initiating federation and post-fetching from that community. ##### I signed up but nothing happened/Some notification came up but I missed it. What do I do next? This server has a manual approval process. Usually requests are approved within 30 minutes but it can take up to 12 hours to get approved. Try logging in after an hour, if it works you are successfully registered. You won't get any notification at all of your approval unless you inquire about your application through outside channels like the monero matrix rooms. ##### How do I find more communities? The communities page or [searching for communities](https://browse.feddit.de/). ##### Help! Why can't I see any/many posts and comments on an active thread? Check your Language settings. Select English, Undetermined and your native language(s) using Ctrl+Click in the webui. ##### Where are the "Hot" and Important posts on Lemmy? Whichever server you decide with, you can use the All page from the home of your server, sort by Hot, New, Active. Just keep in mind again, if your server has few "discovered" communities you won't see much outside your own server. Subscribe to major, active communities that you might be interested in then you can look in your "Subscribed" page as your feed for buzzing posts. ##### Statspage on number of Lemmy users etc.? Sure! [FediDB](https://fedidb.org/network/instance/monero.town), this page is also useful to find new servers to join. ##### Anything else I need to know? Please be careful with what you share on the internet. This should be common sense as even content on Reddit can be archived before deletion. This post is based on this [Lemmy FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Lemmy/comments/143gozf/lemmy_faq/).
I‘d like to know who owns monero.town. Is it a single individual? Or ist it multiple people?
I am more and more (and almost always now) only receiving 1 year old posts in my Lemmy feed for this instance on mobile, even with the "New" filter. The issue is independent of the exact mobile app used as I have it with Jerboa and Thunder. The monero.town website is working fine though. Anyone else got this?
I was coming here less and less often since the DDOS because Jerboa wasn't working anymore to show posts from here. It seems to be working now. Is the ddos over and the annoying cloudflare captcha (this is the ddos protection that was causing issues with the mobile apps) gone? Otherwise I was going to suggest a kuno so that the admins can implement something better.
Lemmy without federation is kinda pointless. Please look into what causes this issue
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For the last couple of days we were offline due to a DDoS attack originating from Tor. We are now behind cloudflare (💀) but at least we are online. We might switch to a different CDN in the future. 
Some of my friends are going against me because "you're monero shiller always pessimic". OK, but guys. I could be happy to see gains in my wallet. But seeing all these non-sense with brc/ordinals/ETFs & one of my friends extradited to the US, I simply can't feel right. I tried to warn them about if they had samourai XPUB leaked coins, they should have swapped them for monero and get back for a bigger UTXO. And yet again I'm called of 'shitcoiner', but if it's to see them in jail the next year. I can't mentally profit of life by seeing people going out of my life trough prison & suicides. I even started to take benzos to calm down dark toughts.
I noticed a lot of down-vote attack on whatever topic about Monero. If down-vote spam continues, I have more than 800 trash accounts to suppress your unindexing attempts, I could even put posts in trending. Don't make me "evil" (by starting botting activities) please, because I'm a winner in this domain.
Hello guys. In about 50 days the 1 year hosting runs out for the current server. Fitting, since it has only a 100 GB disk that can't easily be expanded and we currently take up about 40 GB of that. There will be an announcement post once everything has been prepared for the migration and I'll attempt to restore the entire instance on the new server. Ideally the instance should come back up after minimal downtime and all the content remains exactly like it was before. Consider joining the [matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#monero.town:monero.social) to stay up to date even while the site is potentially down :)
[Patchnotes.](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-01-22_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.3_-_A_Few_Bugfixes)
For some reason posts on our instance have recently gotten more downvotes from outside instances than usual and many posts look like this:    I personally don't like the idea of disabling downvotes but if the feature is mostly going to be used by outside users because crypto is "le bad" we might as well turn it off.
The instance is now over half a year old and so far we've experience decent growth and minimal downtime. I'm quite happy with it. Even though most content is still on r/Monero, we do get a handful of posts every week. Since this was primarily set up as a fallback for the subreddit without any spam/scam bots thanks to strict whitelisting I think the initial goal has been more than fulfilled :) What do you guys think?
I was posting on other instances (lemmy.world) and checked their modlog to make sure I'm not banned or defederated. Know most people here probably just follow Monero news, so it's fine if it's better to for me to just make an account on a larger instance. Anyways, it's been a while since I've seen a meta discussion. How have you all been this year, and what do you all think of the fediverse from these past six months?
I made one post, that's it. I never wanted to mod that community and never agreed to it. It seems like the original mod appointed me somehow and then left? If anyone is interested in modding this very quiet community please speak up, otherwise I'll close it by end of year. Edit: If you want to take over this role, please comment on [[Meta] Looking for new mod to take over](https://monero.town/post/1509372)
[Patchnotes](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-20_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.1_-_Outgoing_Federation_fix).
Here are the [patchnotes](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.0_-_Instance_blocking,_Scaled_sort,_and_Federation_Queue) :D
I notice that monero.town is not accessible via ipv6.
On the front page of monero.town, sm.ms and catbox.moe are recommended as image hosting services. Unfortunately both are not Tor-friendly, esp. Catbox blocks Tor. The Cock\.li guy [comes up](https://shitposter.club/notice/AcTuTzIlT0JJ7RpTCi) with a [solution](https://fatbox.moe/). 1) Solution about Catbox: Just change **cat** in the URL to **fat** and the image is viewable for Tor users! > **Example** https://monero.town/post/1025717 where > https://files.catbox.moe/6z3p3z.jpg is not viewable via Tor > https://files.fatbox.moe/6z3p3z.jpg would be viewable via Tor 2) How to use an inline image (in general, not only Catbox) > The syntax is **``** so…\ > `` > > Result: >  3) How to make it a Clickable thumbnail > Text link would be `[Text](URL)` you can replace `Text` with an inline image, `URL` with the image URL, i.e.\ > `[`**``**`](URL)` so…\ > `[`**``**`](https://files.fatbox.moe/6z3p3z.jpg)`\ > Result [](https://files.fatbox.moe/6z3p3z.jpg) *** Note: Optionally you can put Alt text in **`![]`** as in\ **`![`**`Monero-chan is happy`**`]`**`(https://sample.net/happy-monerochan.png)` *** Another hosting service imagebam.com is iffy but Tor friendly, easy to upload images there from Tor Browser & you can direct-link to the uploaded full image. Using 3rd party image hosting services has privacy implications, but it will save the server resource of monero.town.
I have been having long load times and a number of APIException errors lately when trying to use an app.
Lemmy.ml is now testing lemmy 0.19.0-rc8 which means that lemmy 0.19 should be released soonish.
https://monero.town/post/1144305 > Bicoin Black Friday: BusKill (Open-Source Hardware Dead Man Switch) Announces 10% Discount There are 4 reports saying this is spam, and it is indeed cross-posting link spam, and feels slightly excessive but not extremely so (?). The thing is, Monero.town doesn’t forbid ads, and freedom of speech is important even if what is said is unpleasant for me or for someone else. Thoughts? *** Edit: Since someone has appointed me as a mod in !privacy, where https://monero.town/post/1144305 is, I can remove it, except I don’t want to remove anything unless really necessary. The lack of guidelines about ads in monero.town means, the OP didn’t do anything against the rule(s). I couldn’t remove the new one in !moneromarket https://monero.town/post/1142415 Not sure if [@admin@monero.town](https://monero.town/u/admin) thinks it’s bad enough, either. Monero is censorship-resistant, meaning we tend to hate deleting someone else’s speech/expression just because it’s subjectively disagreeable. *** Given that Monero is money after all and some for-profit services are useful for its users too, probably commercial posts (ads) should be allowed in general, *if not excessive*. And BusKill ads are not excessive in terms of frequency, like only once a month. Perceived link spamming (self-promotion) advertising SimplifiedPrivacy has been also noticed by many including myself, which has been like once or twice a week, and explicitly questioned here ( https://monero.town/post/1085883 ); but many (including myself) think these posts can be useful nevertheless, the poster being knowledgeable.
For example "3 (1 New)" is understandable: there are 3 comments, of which 1 is new. But I sometimes also see things like "6 (-3 New)", "5 (-1 New)", where the number of new comments is negative. Is this some kind of known bug, or is it by design actually meaning something? It's totally harmless, but weird... 
Title. I had a fantastic experience with a company that accepts monero and wanted to post about it. I am not sure if [/c/monero](/c/monero@monero.town) is the correct place for that.
Why did you remove the “How do I start mining monero?” post? Because the OP may have been a child? Or simply because it should have been asked in Monero Mining rather than in Monero? Or perhaps because the question was trivial (too basic)? While I do feel (a few more) rules are necessary here, I’d like them to be explicit and transparent, if possible. Thank you.
I have not been back since mid June when i deleted my reddit account. So, i am curious if people have noticed fewer discussions over their since this instance opened, or has there been no effect?
courtesy of [fba.ryona.agency](https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=monero.town) Instances that block monero.town reject (10)  solarpunk.moe ↘ monero.town2023-06-18 01:432023-08-21 01:37  polyglot.city ↘ monero.town2023-06-18 02:152023-08-21 02:08  freethought.online ↘ monero.town2023-06-18 11:062023-08-21 11:15  icosahedron.website ↘ monero.town2023-06-19 02:022023-08-21 02:05  sunbeam.city ↘ monero.town2023-06-19 02:082023-08-20 02:12  vtuber.house ↘ monero.town2023-06-19 05:152023-08-21 05:20  fruef.social ↘ monero.town2023-06-19 07:502023-08-21 08:02  cutie.city ↘ monero.town2023-06-19 15:262023-08-21 15:46  fuckcars.social ↘ monero.town2023-07-14 18:532023-07-14 18:53  karas.social ↘ monero.town2023-07-17 16:342023-08-21 16:51 followers_only (3)  toot.cat ↘ monero.town2023-06-20 01:232023-08-21 01:24  orbsafe.masto.host ↘ monero.town2023-07-30 02:382023-08-21 02:22  partyparrot.social ↘ monero.town2023-08-14 09:302023-08-14 09:30
To be honest, no idea what this entails. I was bullied into updating the instance and the official patchnotes are just all the github changes instead of a proper write-up 😂
Something to think about. It is pointless to interact with any of those posts directly here, so as a result they get no engagement. They're just links to Reddit, and I feel like they're just funnelling engagement back there. I can't help but notice, possibly incorrectly, that activity here sharply dropped as soon as that bot went active. If we want the content here, wouldn't it make more sense to pull non self post content directly and post it as a first class Lemmy post here without linking to the reddit post? If our goal is to make this the new Monero home, wouldn't a better approach be adding this site to the sidebar on the subreddit, or having automod inform every poster about it's existence? *Is moving here even our goal anymore?*
I view this website with Firefox, and the thumbnails and images (eg Monerochan Memes) don't display because they are webp. I have the "Don't accept image/webp" add-on active but this makes no difference. Is it possible to configure the website so another inline image format is available? Edit: I notice that accessing via <https://mlmym.org/monero.town/?sort=Hot&listingType=Local> some thumbnails appear, while normally none do.
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I built this specifically for monero.town, but anyone can use it anywhere. It is pretty easy to configure, all the info is in the readme and there's an example configuration file to get you started using it. Feel free to aso me any questions you want, recommendations, and also feel free to open issues in the repo.
Mastodon/Lemmy tends to be unreliable due to it's immaturity and server problems. Having a Telegram channel for Meta would help interested parties to get info when needed
Shoutout to the pict-rs dev asonix for helping me with the migration ♥ https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs
Server showed as online on the hosting provider dashboard but it wasn't responding. After contacting support, this was fixed at some point. This led to a config file being reverted because of a setting I didn't change earlier which led to the page only showing "Server error." Everything should work again and in the future that config file shouldn't change by itself anymore. I still have no idea what the problem on the providers side was, let's hope it doesn't happen again :P
Whats difference between of them? I want to follow /r/monero alternative on Lemmy
There is a lot we can do but it might become a bit spammy if we add too much. Some ideas would be: - Monero ecosystem releases (Monero, GUI, Haveno, Serai, etc) either in a special releases community or the regular Monero one - DarknetLive posts to the darknet community - Crypto news to the cryptocurrency community All of these feeds are of high quality and shouldn't completely spam us. #### What do you think? Any other suggestions?
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#### Edit: Similar, [even better tool like this](https://monero.town/post/135533). geteilt von: https://programming.dev/post/587204 > FediRedirect is a browser extension that redirects you to your favorite instance. > > It currently supports: > - [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org) => [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org) > - [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org) => [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org) > - [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org) => [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/) > - [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/) => [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org)
#### Edit 2: This has been replaced with a bot that posts way more reliably, as well as locally to the instance. ~~#### Edit: This doesn't seem to work that well, will be upgraded soon.~~ ~~Posts made to r/Monero can now be seen on monero.town by subscribing to !monero@lemmit.online 🎉~~ geteilt von: https://lemmit.online/post/157129 > ##### This is an automated archive made by the [Lemmit Bot](https://lemmit.online/post/14692). > The original was posted on [/r/monero](https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/14w3vsc/test_post_that_is_supposed_to_get_mirrored_to/) by [/u/monerobull](https://old.reddit.com/u/monerobull) on 2023-07-10 19:36:45+00:00. > *** > If this works as planned, this post should show up in the feed of <https://monero.town/>, a monero-focused Lemmy instance. > > Comments made on either the reddit or Lemmy side don't get synced, just the post itself. > > If you can see this post on .town, congratulations, you don't have to visit reddit anymore 🥳 > >
A bunch of instances got compromised earlier today. Monero.town was not effected since this particular exploit requires a server to have custom emojis enabled. geteilt von: https://lemdro.id/post/42872 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1895271 > > > FYI!!! In case you start getting re-directed to porn sites. > > > > Maybe the admin got hacked? > > > > --------- > > > > edit: **lemmy.blahaj.zone** has also been hacked. **beehaw.org** is also down, possibly intentionally by their admins until the issue is fixed. > > > > Post discussing the point of vulnerability: https://lemmy.ml/post/1896249