For rust app developers, the publishing of lemmy_api_common crate is also discontinued with this release: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/5cd4c6c5868c8bec964b6065d079f3a057885be7

For LASIM I switched to point at the Git Repo + Specific Tag in my Cargo.toml.

Another thread linked to this post which has some digging / speculation into what may have gone wrong: https://lemdit.com/post/262746

Removed “and above” from page and instead added a note to always get the latest version if your version isn’t listed as supported explicitly.

Thanks for your kind words, I’m glad it has helped you!

LASIM author here, ironically on my own alt: Just an FYI that support for Lemmy 0.18.3 is not yet out, but keep an eye out for it soon (I have it working on a branch but I need to test it more before release).

This is the first breaking API change since it’s creation, so here are the limitations:

• Old version (0.1.2) will only support API 0.18.1 and 0.18.2
• New version (0.2.0) will only support 0.18.3 (and above until there are more breaking API changes)
• Profiles downloaded with 0.1.2 (and below) will automatically be converted to work with 0.2.0.

So that all means:

• You can use the old LASIM to migrate between 0.18.2 Lemmy instances
• You can use the new LASIM to migrate between 0.18.3 Lemmy instances
• You can use the old LASIM to download from an 0.18.2 instance then use the new LASIM to upload to a 0.18.3 instance
• You cannot use the new LASIN to download from a 0.18.3 instance and then the old LASIM to upload to a 0.18.2 instance (unless you are comfortable doing some manual work editing the JSON file so “old LASIM” understands it).

This will be true of every release with breaking API changes.

EDIT: PR is out. Once it builds, I’ll publish a new release! https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/pull/21

EDIT 2: Release is published! https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/releases/tag/v0.2.0

My concern is that configuring the site to automatically redirect users sounds like they have pretty large control over the site - the kind of control that I would assume is usually limited to users with root access on the server.

Obviously hope nothing of value is lost and that there is a proper off-site backup of the content.

Edit: See Max-P’s comment, it looks like the site redirection was accomplished in a way that IMO suggests they do NOT have full control over the site. We’ll obviously have to wait for the full debrief from the admins.

4AM in the Netherlands where the instance owner Ruud lives… hopefully his assistant admins can clean it up, but it might be a bit before he even knows anything is wrong.

Well I guess I’ll have to respond with my .ml account instead of my .world account.

Tried to delete this post and post it again, which is what I see from .world, but on .ml both new posts came across, but no deletes did.

So now I can’t access this specific post from .world.

Federation bugs are a trip!