see https://programming.dev/post/20167648 and https://programming.dev/post/20201619, this was an issue with p.d infrastructure
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verification emails are usually sent immediately. if there are delays you should check your junk folder, and if it's not there it probably won't arrive anymore. depending on the instance you signed up on there may be alternative methods to reach out to the instance admins about this. note that private messages from mastodon to lemmy do not work unfortunately.
you may have broken your language settings? check in your account settings. the posts are all tagged as English, you'll want to have at least English and undefined languages selected
fwiw, for Sync users the update to 0.19.5 is not that great, as @ljdawson@lemmy.world still hasn't updated Sync to use the updated APIs for marking posts as read :(
also adding my vote for the second one
lemmy updates did some improvements on the receiving side, parallel sending on the sending side is not yet part of a new release. it'll also likely take some time for that to be deployed on lemmy.world to have those changes be tested by other production instances first. my activitypub-federation-queue-batcher is currently used by at least 2 other high latency instances and would address the issue at the cost of a small (like 3 bucks or so) vps in Europe and some time investment for the setup.
this is only for setting the default user language during registration based on the browsers accept language headers.
this isn't true. it was incorrectly stated in the upgrade guide but has been removed a while ago. it was supposed to be a recommendation due to some issues with postgres 15. there is no postgres upgrade required between 0.19 releases.
account names cannot be changed.
you can only change your display name, which is available in the settings.
whether display names or usernames are shown depends on the interface/client and user settings where available.
the only way to change the username is to create a new account.
Hi, I run this.
What benefit do you expect from longer retention periods and how much time did you have in mind?
The way data is currently collected and stored keeps the same granularity for the entire time period, which currently uses around 60 GiB for a month of retention across all monitored instances.