What are you guys' fitness goals and plans for near future? :sparkles_indigo:

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I just created a Technology community here and you should join it!

I think the more communities that are spread out on smaller instances, the better. We should aim to avoid centralized like reddit.

So join up, post something interesting. :)

How is the instance performance for everyone? Just wanted to ask so there is no weird things going on.

If you notice images are loading slowish, it's because of how Lemmy software works. Images are stored on the instance where they were created, so if they were created on Lemmy.world and they are slow, you may see them loading slower here as well.

But the text content should be really fast since it's local on the instance.

There are people joining every day but we are still small, and if there is a need for more performance, I will upgrade the instance. Right now it looks like things are humming along fine.

What site do you guys use to find yours?

I went to https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/avatar and just searched a bit for something cool.

Hi guys,

The lemmy software was just updated to 0.18.3 that came out yesterday.

Major changes

This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations.

The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.

In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult.

Other than that, there are numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Lemmy software updated to latest version that has some important security fixes.

I updated the instance to Lemmy version 0.18.1 that was released just an hour ago.

Major changes from patch notes:

• Major improvements to performance, specifically optimizations of database queries.
• Fix for another cross-site scripting vulnerability.
• Captchas are supported again.