PencilPossessorI'm super new to Lemmy, does anyone who's familiar with it and Jerboa know what this is trying to tell me?
ArtVandelayIt's telling you the instance that you are on hasn't updated their server to the new Lemmy version yet. The admin of lemmy.world mentioned he would update as soon as 18.1 drops, as it includes a vital captcha feature for anti-bot measures. Essentially, you can disregard this, just know things may be wonky for a little bit.
Thanks! I thought it was something along those lines but wasn't sure if I needed to do something about it or if it would fix itself etc
ZombiepirateI think it's because the new version of Lemmy was released. Jerboa updated, expecting this new minimum version, but lemmy.world has yet to upgrade to the latest release.
It works just fine on the website as a temporary workaround.
I'll keep this in mind incase my Jerboa app crashes too much! Thnx :)
- A new version (v0.18.0) of the Lemmy server was released a couple of days ago, and it changes the API used by apps significantly.
- Your account is on the lemmy.world instance, which hasn't upgraded yet because the new version is missing an important bot-acount-signup defense feature that is gonna get re-added in a Lemmy patch-release soon. So it's still running v0.17.
- A new version of Jerboa was released (v0.35) with compatibility for the new version of Lemmy.
If Jerboa is working ok for you, you can ignore the error. It will fix itself "real soon now" when lemmy.world upgrades. If Jerboa is broken you can uninstall it and reinstall v0.34 from https://f-droid.org/en/, https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium, or direct from Jerboa's GitHub. All of these are a little more complicated than installing from the play store, but not too bad. If you downgrade, be prepared for the opposite message to come soon and you'll want to upgrade again.
If Jerboa is working ok, I suggest you wait it out.
Thank you! Sometimes it crashes but it's not often enough for me to care, seems fine otherwise. I'll probably wait it out unless it gets worse. Thank youuuuu super helpful reply!!!
A new version of the Lemmy server software was released recently, version 0.18. It appears that the Jerboa app is now expecting servers to be on that new version. It looks like you're connecting to the lemmy.world server, which has not upgraded yet. They are waiting for a feature that won't be ready until 0.18.1
Unfortunately, there's not a lot you can do to fix this yourself - it's up to the people administrating lemmy.world to upgrade their server when they're ready.
IMO, Jerboa should not have locked out old versions so quickly.
EddieJust curious, what feature are they waiting on?
Captcha support, which is in 0.17 but was dropped from 0.18. It’ll be added back to 0.181, which is what lemmy.world admins are waiting for.
I believe it was dropped because the 0.18 release removed websockets, since that doesn’t scale up to lots of users very well. The developers priority was understandably getting lemmy stable despite massive user growth. Unfortunately without captchas, open sign up instances like lemmy.world will be overrun by bots.
AdoriYeaaaah, im new to Lemmy just today, but already encountering this is rough xD.
I'll just use it on desktop meanwhile.
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There’s been an influx of content surrounding lemmy here. Some of it is open ended: - “What kinds of things from reddit would you like to see Lemmy avoid as the user base grows?” - “Lemmy, what do you call users of Lemmy?” And these are a-ok! There’s also been a lot of questions like - “How do I block a user?” - “How do I join a community on a different instance” These aren’t open ended (at least, relatively). They are objective based, and just need a resolution, rather than discussion. These sort of questions are more relevant to [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support]. I know there’s also questions like “What are you guys doing when there’s multiple communities for the same thing across instances?”. I’m inclined to let those stay, there is lots of opportunity for discussion. It’s a game of discretion from a moderation perspective, but I assume most can easily guess what is cold hard support. At least from me, moderation of support posts has been sporadic at best, despite the long standing rule. I will begin redirecting these questions to [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support], however I’m of course willing to listen to the community here if that’s not what is wanted, as well as other feedback. edit: support posts will now be removed, not locked