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  • This is pretty terrible really. Governments, cities, states use twitter for alerts and news. Now I have to agree to be tracked and monetized to view information from my government. I think everyone needs to write to all your cities, states, schools, law enforcement etc and demand they stop using twitter for anything. Our taxes should not go to padding twitter’s wallets.


  • However I don’t seem to be able to subscribe to kbin magazines. I can see lemmy sending out the follow message to the kbin servers’ inbox, no error messages, but no activity from the kbin server follows up and it stays at ‘subscription pending’.

    Same here. I haven’t been able to fully subscribe to anything on Kbin. Running my own lemmy instance and I get the magazine added as a community and get the magazine description but subscribing never returns anything. I re-try every once in a while but noting so far. I assume it will be fixed sometime in the future. I may just set up a kbin instance as well but I don’t want to manage both.




  • Hopefully this will help someone. This seems to work for me. Subscribed communities update, I am able to post. I’m the only user right now on my server. NPM took me a bit of messing around with the config but I think I have everything working, some of this may be redundant / non functional but I don’t have the will to go line by line to see what more I can take out. Here is how I have it configured. Note that some things go to the Lemmy UI port and some to the Lemmy port. These should be defined in your docker-compose if you’re using that. (Mine is below)

    On the first tab in NPM, “Details” I have the following:

    Scheme: http
    Hostname: <docker ip>
    Port: <lemmy-ui port>
    Block Common Exploits and Websockets Support are enabled.
    

    On the Custom Locations page, I added 4 locations, you have to do one for each directory even though the ip/ports are the same.

    Location: /api
    Scheme: http
    Hostname: <docker ip>
    Port: <lemmy port>
    

    Repeat the above for “/feeds”, “/pictrs”, and “/nodeinfo”. The example file they give also says to have “.well_known” in there but as far as I know that’s just for Let’s Encrypt which NPM should be handling for us.

    On the SSL tab, I have a Let’s Encrypt certificate set up. Force SSL, HTTP/2 Support, and HSTS Enabled.

    On the Advanced tab, I have the following:

     location / {
    
       set $proxpass "http://<docker ip>:<lemmy-ui port>";
       if ($http_accept = "application/activity+json") {
    
         set $proxpass "http://<docker ip>:<lemmy-ui port>";`
       }
       if ($http_accept = "application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"") {
         set $proxpass "http://<docker ip>:<lemmy-ui port>";
       }
       if ($request_method = POST) {
         set $proxpass "http://<docker ip>:<lemmy-ui port>";
       }
       proxy_pass $proxpass;
       
       rewrite ^(.+)/+$ $1 permanent;
        # Send actual client IP upstream
       proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
     }
    

    I probably should add in my docker compose file as well… I’m far from a docker expert. This is reasonably close to their examples and others I found. I removed nginx from in here since we already have a proxy. I disabled all the debug logging because it was using disk space. I also removed all the networking lines because I’m not smart enough to figure it all out right now. If you use this, look out for the < > sections, you need to set your own domain/hostname, and postgres user/password.

    version: "3.3"
    
    services:
      lemmy:
        image: dessalines/lemmy:0.17.3
        hostname: lemmy
        restart: always
        ports:
          - 8536:8536
        environment:
          - RUST_LOG="warn"
          - RUST_BACKTRACE=full
        volumes:
          - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson:Z
        depends_on:
          - postgres
          - pictrs
    
      lemmy-ui:
        image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.17.4
        # use this to build your local lemmy ui image for development
        # run docker compose up --build
        # assuming lemmy-ui is cloned besides lemmy directory
        # build:
        #   context: ../../lemmy-ui
        #   dockerfile: dev.dockerfile
        ports:
          - 1234:1234
        environment:
          # this needs to match the hostname defined in the lemmy service
          - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy:8536
          # set the outside hostname here
          - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=< domain name>
          - LEMMY_HTTPS=false
          - LEMMY_UI_DEBUG=true
        depends_on:
          - lemmy
        restart: always
    
      pictrs:
        image: asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-beta.19
        # this needs to match the pictrs url in lemmy.hjson
        hostname: pictrs
        # we can set options to pictrs like this, here we set max. image size and forced format for conversion
        # entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs -p /mnt -m 4 --image-format webp
        environment:
          - PICTRS_OPENTELEMETRY_URL=http://otel:4137
          - PICTRS__API_KEY=API_KEY
          - RUST_LOG=debug
          - RUST_BACKTRACE=full
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__VIDEO_CODEC=vp9
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_WIDTH=256
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_HEIGHT=256
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_AREA=65536
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_FRAME_COUNT=400
        user: 991:991
        volumes:
          - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt:Z
        restart: always
    
      postgres:
        image: postgres:15-alpine
        # this needs to match the database host in lemmy.hson
        # Tune your settings via
        # https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/#/
        # You can use this technique to add them here
        # https://stackoverflow.com/a/30850095/1655478
        hostname: postgres
        command:
          [
            "postgres",
            "-c",
            "session_preload_libraries=auto_explain",
            "-c",
            "auto_explain.log_min_duration=5ms",
            "-c",
            "auto_explain.log_analyze=true",
            "-c",
            "track_activity_query_size=1048576",
          ]
        ports:
          # use a different port so it doesnt conflict with potential postgres db running on the host
          - "5433:5432"
        environment:
          - POSTGRES_USER=< dbuser >
          - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=< dbpassword>
          - POSTGRES_DB=lemmy
        volumes:
          - ./volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data:Z
        restart: always
    

    There’s another post over here https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/277 with a similar setup, less stuff in the Advanced tab. If I’m bad at explaining maybe another guide will help.


  • Hopefully this will help someone. This seems to work for me. Subscribed communities update, I am able to post. I’m the only user right now on my server. NPM took me a bit of messing around with the config but I think I have everything working, some of this may be redundant / non functional but I don’t have the will to go line by line to see what more I can take out. Here is how I have it configured. Note that some things go to the Lemmy UI port and some to the Lemmy port. These should be defined in your docker-compose if you’re using that. (Mine is below)

    On the first tab in NPM, “Details” I have the following:

     Scheme: http
     Hostname: <docker ip>
    Port: <lemmy-ui port>
    Block Common Exploits and Websockets Support are enabled.
    

    On the Custom Locations page, I added 4 locations, you have to do one for each directory even though the ip/ports are the same.

    Location: /api
    Scheme: http
    Hostname: <docker ip>
    Port: <lemmy port>
    

    Repeat the above for “/feeds”, “/pictrs”, and “/nodeinfo”. The example file they give also says to have “.well_known” in there but as far as I know that’s just for Let’s Encrypt which NPM should be handling for us.

    On the SSL tab, I have a Let’s Encrypt certificate set up. Force SSL, HTTP/2 Support, and HSTS Enabled.

    On the Advanced tab, I have the following:

     location / {
    
       set $proxpass "http://<docker ip>:<lemmy-ui port>";
       if ($http_accept = "application/activity+json") {
    
         set $proxpass "http://<docker ip>:<lemmy-ui port>";`
       }
       if ($http_accept = "application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"") {
         set $proxpass "http://<docker ip>:<lemmy-ui port>";
       }
       if ($request_method = POST) {
         set $proxpass "http://<docker ip>:<lemmy-ui port>";
       }
       proxy_pass $proxpass;
       
       rewrite ^(.+)/+$ $1 permanent;
        # Send actual client IP upstream
       proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
     }
    

    I probably should add in my docker compose file as well… I’m far from a docker expert. This is reasonably close to their examples and others I found. I removed nginx from in here since we already have a proxy. I disabled all the debug logging because it was using disk space. I also removed all the networking lines because I’m not smart enough to figure it all out right now. If you use this, look out for the < > sections, you need to set your own domain/hostname, and postgres user/password.

    version: "3.3"
    
    services:
      lemmy:
        image: dessalines/lemmy:0.17.3
        hostname: lemmy
        restart: always
        ports:
          - 8536:8536
        environment:
          - RUST_LOG="warn"
          - RUST_BACKTRACE=full
        volumes:
          - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson:Z
        depends_on:
          - postgres
          - pictrs
    
      lemmy-ui:
        image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.17.4
        # use this to build your local lemmy ui image for development
        # run docker compose up --build
        # assuming lemmy-ui is cloned besides lemmy directory
        # build:
        #   context: ../../lemmy-ui
        #   dockerfile: dev.dockerfile
        ports:
          - 1234:1234
        environment:
          # this needs to match the hostname defined in the lemmy service
          - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy:8536
          # set the outside hostname here
          - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=< domain name>
          - LEMMY_HTTPS=false
          - LEMMY_UI_DEBUG=true
        depends_on:
          - lemmy
        restart: always
    
      pictrs:
        image: asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-beta.19
        # this needs to match the pictrs url in lemmy.hjson
        hostname: pictrs
        # we can set options to pictrs like this, here we set max. image size and forced format for conversion
        # entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs -p /mnt -m 4 --image-format webp
        environment:
          - PICTRS_OPENTELEMETRY_URL=http://otel:4137
          - PICTRS__API_KEY=API_KEY
          - RUST_LOG=debug
          - RUST_BACKTRACE=full
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__VIDEO_CODEC=vp9
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_WIDTH=256
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_HEIGHT=256
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_AREA=65536
          - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_FRAME_COUNT=400
        user: 991:991
        volumes:
          - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt:Z
        restart: always
    
      postgres:
        image: postgres:15-alpine
        # this needs to match the database host in lemmy.hson
        # Tune your settings via
        # https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/#/
        # You can use this technique to add them here
        # https://stackoverflow.com/a/30850095/1655478
        hostname: postgres
        command:
          [
            "postgres",
            "-c",
            "session_preload_libraries=auto_explain",
            "-c",
            "auto_explain.log_min_duration=5ms",
            "-c",
            "auto_explain.log_analyze=true",
            "-c",
            "track_activity_query_size=1048576",
          ]
        ports:
          # use a different port so it doesnt conflict with potential postgres db running on the host
          - "5433:5432"
        environment:
          - POSTGRES_USER=< dbuser >
          - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=< dbpassword>
          - POSTGRES_DB=lemmy
        volumes:
          - ./volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data:Z
        restart: always