Content can now be tagged to indicate the language it is written in. These tags can be used to filter content, so that you only see posts in languages which you actually understand. Instances and communities can also specify which languages are allowed, and prevent posting in other languages.
In the future this will also allow for integrated translation tools.
Comment trees
Lemmy has changed the way it stores comments, in order to be able to properly limit the comments shown to a maximum depth.
Included are proper comment links (/comment/id), where you can see its children, a count of its hidden children, and a context button to view its parents, or the post.
Featured posts
Admins and mods can now "feature" (this used to be called "sticky" ala reddit) posts to the top of either a community, or the top of the front page. This makes possible announcement and bulletin-type posts.
Special thanks to @makotech for adding this feature.
Federation
Lemmy users can now be followed. Just visit a user profile from another platform like Mastodon, and click the follow button, then you will receive new posts and comments in the timeline.
Votes are now federated as private. This prevents other platforms from showing who voted on a given post, and it also means that Lemmy now counts votes from Mastodon.
This release also improves compatibility with Pleroma. If you previously had trouble interacting between Pleroma and Lemmy, give it another try.
We've extracted the main federation logic into its own library, activitypub-federation-rust. It is open source and can be used by other projects to implement Activitypub federation, without having to reinvent the wheel. The library helps with handling HTTP signatures, sending and receiving activities, fetching remote objects and more.
Other changes
Admins can now purge content and pictures from the database.
Mods can distinguish a comment, "stickying" it to the top of a post. Useful for mod messages and announcements.
Number of new / unread comments are now shown for each post.
Lemmy now automatically embeds videos from Peertube, Youtube and other sites which provide an embed link via Opengraph attribute.
You can give your site "taglines", short markdown messages, which are shown at the top of your front page. Thanks to @makotech for adding this.
You can now report private messages.
Most settings have been moved from the config file into the database. This means they can be updated much easier, and apply immediately without a restart.
When setting up a new Lemmy instance, it doesn't create a default community anymore. Instead this needs to be done manually.
Admins can choose to receive emails for new registration applications.
An upgrade of diesel to v2.0, our rust -> postgres layer.
Also I apologize that the upgrade here took longer than expected. It was a massive conversion of comments to a different form, that had to work for several hundred thousand historical comments.
🎉 thanks to the developers and everyone who helped!
one bug i noticed after the upgrade: my notifications page shows unread notifications for (what i guess is) every reply i've ever received which was later deleted. the count in the bell icon only reflected the actual new unread notifications I had received since I last looked, but when i click to view my unread notifications then all of these old ones about deleted messages appear to be unread now.
And i tested federation with pleroma.
This is a Posting in Pleroma in my lemmys testcommunity
and this comes in lemmy
It works, but not very good.
"TEST von pleroma" is set as "Subject" in Pleroma, but it ist not recognized in Lemmy.
Pleroma has a Subject. Mastodon not.
the subject from mastadon can be handled by making it whatever is in the first sentence\paragraph. making anything after a line break become the body of the post
There is a bug, when i'm writing a coment and get notification someone comment on one of my earlier comments, everything i'm just writing disappear for good. Lost few walls of text already to this.
Is this suppose to highlight new comments? because if it is it does not seem to work OK, I only visited yesterday yet a comment from 23m ago is not highlighted.
I haven't tested it enough, but that does seem to be the case. For both users and communities you can block/unblock on their page or in your user settings page.
Lemmy users can now be followed. Just visit a user profile from another platform like Mastodon, and click the follow button, then you will receive new posts and comments in the timeline.
does an admin needs to enable the follow button? it is not appearing for me.
Oh I misread; thought it enabled following fediverse users from within lemmy, but now i see it is actually the other way around. Thank you for clarifying!
I choose german as my first language.
Writing a comment here, germsn is selected. Klicking on "Post" gived me an error for wrong language... an a spinning Button.
No chance to change language and post it again. Clicking on cancle, deletes my comment...
The errormessage was "Language not allowed" in the left down corner.
In the browser-console is maybe this:
Error: waitForElement timed out
timeout moz-extension://f70e01a3-f559-457f-b29b-94679a9ff60e/content_script/mastodonInject.js:60
setTimeout handler*waitForElement/< moz-extension://f70e01a3-f559-457f-b29b-94679a9ff60e/content_script/mastodonInject.js:59
waitForElement moz-extension://f70e01a3-f559-457f-b29b-94679a9ff60e/content_script/mastodonInject.js:51
init moz-extension://f70e01a3-f559-457f-b29b-94679a9ff60e/content_script/mastodonInject.js:165
<anonymous> moz-extension://f70e01a3-f559-457f-b29b-94679a9ff60e/content_script/mastodonInject.js:175
``` but i don't know.
And you see the spinner in the "Answer-Button" left under the comment-field. It does not come back. It stays spinning. So i hat do copy the comment, cancel the action and repost it again, choosing "english" as language instead of "Deutsch"
I found that now iframes don't work on lemmy and it's unclear how to embed videos or playlists.
maybe you would consider integrating editorjs? Otherwise, creating comments and posts doesn't look User friendly.