The 0.18 version of Lemmy was announced. This will solve many issues.
But we canโt upgrade yet because the captcha was removed, and captcha relied on Websockets, which are removed in 0.18 so despite the devs agreeing on my request to add captcha back, this will not be until 0.18.1. Without captcha we will be overrun by bots.
Hopefully this 0.18.1 will be released soon, because another issue is that the newest version of the Jerboa app wonโt work with servers older than 0.18. So if youโre on Lemmy.world, please (temporarily) use another app or the web version.
thereโs a couple of points here
- current website is version 0.17.4 (you can check this at the very bottom)
- version 0.18 is ready, but thereโs no captcha yet (the thing where you have to identify objects on squares, or click a box thatโll turn into checkmark)
- without captcha, bot accounts (not real users) can register to the site too easily
- so weโre gonna wait for version 0.18.1, the one with captcha active.
- the Jerboa app, the android app for browsing Lemmy has also recently updated, and will only work for Lemmy version 0.18 up, thus itโs advised to use another app or just the web for now
note : the site version 0.18 is already out for the main Lemmy instance, which is lemmy.ml, but lemmy.world (where we are now) is gonna wait for version 0.18.1
Iโm using Jerboa and everything seems to be working fine. Edit: Jerboa started playing up mainly crashing on opening it. Binned it off and now using Connect
I first thought my Jerboa was fine (despite the popup warning about version), since I could browse a bit without it obviously exploding. But no, it crashes regularly now (closes, no warning or messages).
I donโt understand why a Lemmy update would be considered for release that removes security features like captcha support. (Especially during this time of high rates of signups, and well known bot wave in some instances.)
Combined with Jerboa update that needs the Lemmy update, and popularity of instances that need captcha, itโs unfortunately causing a mess for many users.
