Hello Reddthat,

Another month has flown by. It is now “Spooky Month”. That time of year where you can buy copious amounts of chocolate and not get eyed off by the checkout clerks…

Lots has been happening at Reddthat over this last month. The biggest one being the new admin team!

New Administrators

Since our last update we have welcomed 4 new Administrators to our team! You might have seen them around answering questions, or posting their regular content. Mostly we have been working behind the scenes moderating, planning and streamlining a few this that 1 person cannot do all on their own.
I’d like to say: Thank you so much for helping us all out and hope you will continue contributing your time to Reddthat.

Kbin federated issues

Most of the time of our newly appointed admins have been taken up with moderating our federated space rather than the content on reddthat! As discussed in our main post (over here) https://reddthat.com/post/6334756 . We have chosen to remove specific kbin communities where the majority of spam was coming from. This was a tough decision but an unfortunate and necessary one.

We hope that it has not caused an issue for anyone. In the future once the relevant code has been updated and kbin federates their moderation actions, we will gladly ‘unblock’ those communities.

Funding Update & Future Server(s)

We are currently trucking along with 2 new recurring donators in our September month, bringing us to 34 unique donators! I have updated our donation and funding post with the names of our recurring donators.

With the upcoming changes with Lemmy and Pictrs it will give us the opportunity to investigate into being highly-available, where we run 2 sets of everything on 2 separate servers. Or scale out our picture services to allow for bigger pictures, and faster upload response times. Big times ahead regardless.

Upcoming Lemmy v0.19 Breaking Changes

Acouple of serious changes are coming in v0.19 that people need to be aware of. 2FA Reset and Instance level blocking per user

All 2FA will be effectivly nuked

This is a Lemmy specific issue where two factor authentication (2FA) has been inconsistent for a while. This will allow people who have 2FA and cannot get access to their account to login again. Unfortunately if someone outthere is successfully using 2FA then you will also need to go though the setup process again.

Instance blocks for users.

YaY!

No longer do you have to wait for the admins to defederate, now you will be able to block a whole instance from appearing in your feeds and comment threads. If you don’t like a specific instance, you will be able to “defederate” yourself!

How this will work on the client side (via the web or applications) I am not too certain, but it is coming!

Thankyou

Thankyou again for all our amazing users and I hope you keep enjoying your Lemmy experiences!

Cheers
Tiff,
On behalf of the Reddthat Admin Team.