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Alternative Lemmy Frontends; Other changes (lazysoci.al)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Along with the upgrade to 0.19.10 today I have made the following additional changes

Added Photon frontend
- Based on the project at https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon
- Available at
  - https://photon.lazysoci.al/
  - https://p.lazysoci.al/
Added Voyager frontend
- Based on the project at https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
- Available at
  - https://voyager.lazysoci.al/
  - https://v.lazysoci.al/
Added Alexandrite frontend
- Based on the project at https://github.com/sheodox/alexandrite
- Available at
  - https://alexandrite.lazysoci.al/
  - https://a.lazysoci.al/
Added Tesseract frontend
- Based on the project at https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract
- Available at
  - https://tesseract.lazysoci.al/
  - https://t.lazysoci.al/
Removed the Lemmy UI gearbox debug icon
- Thanks for pointing this out @[email protected] @Blaze
Created this community
- Another blaze idea, keep them coming :)

2025-06-07 Mitigating bots (lazysoci.al)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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lazysoci.al comes under immense pressure at times due to bots scraping the site. As all data is federated, they can essentially target any instance, small or big and scrape most of lemmy.

Usually the server hosting lazysoci.al can keep up with it. Sometimes, like today, the response times of the site suffer and it triggers an alert.

If I'm at my PC (which is like 18 hours a day /nerd) then I'll add another rule to Cloudflare to target the bots. Today the response was to block Tencent's AS#, which is a LOT of IP addresses. I'll check later today if I've snagged a Lemmy instance on this range and make adjustments.

Today was slightly special though, as the sheer number of unique IP addresses was 781 (!!). Any sort of rate limiting on a per-IP/visitor basis is not going to get triggered when they have this number of IPs to play with.

Usually Lemmy doesn't use much RAM, but today the server had to use its swap-space due to the number of concurrent requests. So I am going to double the RAM of the server in a few minutes.. Downtime will be short, likely go unnoticed.

I dunno if Lemmy adds weights to local users ... (lazysoci.al)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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but @LadyButterfly is killing it in my feed.

2025-04-30 Upcoming updates (lazysoci.al)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I shall shortly be updating Lemmy to 0.19.11 which fixes a security issue. Downtime is expected to be minimal.

At the same time I shall also be updating all alternative frontends to their latest versions.

Update

Upgrade completed, we are now on Lemmy 0.9.11! 👍 The update took 6 minutes, which is 5 minutes longer than I had expected. The update included a refresh of database indexes which wasn't documented in the upgrade notes. Sorry for the inconvenience if you tried to access during that period.