Lemmy

This platform could be a viable alternative for forums (cuz we know in which state they currently are), but the lack of general attachments (any mime/file type) is what I believe stands in the way. I have an electronics forum I run (a local one, nothing too serious) and I believe Lemmy can make it more intereactive (not die out) because people from all over the world will get the feed and not just people that are online on the forum at that time.

Still, we frequently exchange PDFs, schematics (not always in image form), archives, etc., which makes Lemmy useless if there are no plans to implement something like this, even if disabled by default.

So, are there plans for anything like this being implemented?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/578734

And vice versa I guess.

Is it possible? Will they get reports? Messages? Can they do mod actions?

I've found previously that Lemmy content on kbin gets delayed, and edits and comments don't transfer perfectly.

Also there's that remote mod bug, which I hear is fixed in 18.x. Are there any other potential issues with remote mods?

Hey Fediverse,

We've been working on something cool and wanted to share it with you. It's a new project called Lemmy.link, and it's all about making RSS feeds more accessible and useful on Lemmy.

We've noticed there's been a lot of talk in various communities about people shifting back to traditional RSS aggregators like Feedly, TT-RSS, and Newsblur. It got us thinking: why not bring those RSS feeds directly to Lemmy instead?

That's how Lemmy.link came to life. Right now, we have 10 communities collecting from over 30 RSS feeds, covering topics from World News and Technology to Business, plus some popular YouTube communities like News, Technology, and Explainers.

But we're just getting started, and this is where you come in. We'd love your ideas for new communities or RSS feeds to include. There's just one thing - to keep things running smoothly, we're focusing on shared interests and staying away from personal communities with custom feeds.

Also, please note, for now, lemmy.link is closed for signups. You'll need to subscribe from your current Lemmy instance. Once we've incorporated the upcoming 0.18.1 captcha update, we'll take a fresh look at this.

So, take a tour of Lemmy.link and let us know what you think. We believe there's huge potential for this project in the Fediverse and your input is a big part of that. Please provide any feedback on !meta@lemmy.link

Thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoy what we've built so far with Lemmy.link.

-- Notorious

I hope this is the right place to discuss a potential feature for lemmy.

I've been reading a lot of the defederation calls from instances and their users. More often than not, this was due to very specific elements of those instances; trolls, extremists, etc... But in my opinion, defederating a whole instance because of that is a sad pity.

I was thinking a way to solve this would be to have a federated blacklist. Instance Admins would ban user accounts from their instance and that would be added to a list that could be consulted/automatically used by other instance owners. They would ideally be able to set parameters, like banning users from a list accepted by a number of other instances, a specific reason for the ban, or banned by specific instances.

This would lessen the administrative load, protect instances, allow different instances with shared concerns to help each other while allowing their own users to interact with the 'compatible' users and communities from other instances.

Just an idea and wanted to bring it up and hear some thoughts.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/813606

From the article:

An angry, lawbreaking employer just became $39,000 poorer.

Fox 5 Atlanta reports:

“A decision has been made in the case involving the Fayetteville man who was given 91,500 oil-covered pennies in January 2021 as his final paycheck by the owner of Peachtree City auto repair shop A OK Walker Autoworks.

The former employee named Andreas Flaten contacted the Department of Labor when Miles Walker refused to give him a final paycheck. The Wage and Hour Division contacted Walker. The shop owner then dumped the thousands of pennies in the employee’s driveway along with a pay stub marked with an expletive and published defamatory statement about the former employee on the company’s website.

The US Department of Labor announced a lawsuit against Miles Walker in January 2022.

It was determined Walker violated the FLSA’s overtime provisions by paying the complainant and other employees straight-time rates for all hours worked, including for hours over 40 in a workweek when an overtime rate-of-pay was legally required.

The court has now ordered the Walker to pay nine former employees $39,934 in back wages and damages and has forbidding the owner from additional discrimination and retaliation against any employee.

The court ordered the auto shop operator to pay $39,934, representing back wages owed and an equal amount in liquidated damages, to nine workers.”

For the full story, visit Fox 5 Atlanta here.

Can somebody let me know how I would remove an account from the posgreSQL database?

I can see the tables, but don't know where the accounts are held or the sql statement to delete them.

Thank you.

An underrated accessibility feature on Lemmy is the ability to add alternative text to images in Markdown. The image above will be read as "photo of a snail" by screen-readers. The Markdown for that one is:

![Photo of a snail](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f9281257-b8bc-4c77-9aad-be5038e0758f.jpeg)

As you can see, the alternative text simply needs to be inserted between the two brackets, which are empty by default when you insert an image.

I just set up my lemmy instance today (yay!). I am noticing that when I search for communities, the community is being fetched, but the posts, comments, votes, and pretty much all the other data is not always being fetched. Probably around 2/3rds of the time no data is fetched aside from the community itself. Sometimes one or two posts which may be years old, and maybe a couple of comments.

Is this a known issue or is this perhaps the product of a mechanic I am not understanding? From reading the documentation here, I was under the impression it should fetch 20 posts, and I would expect it to get the comments and votes for those posts as well.

Is there any known fix or workaround for this? Is there a way to trigger downloading the posts in a community manually or retry fetching the data?

Memmy is an early fave (posting from it now) but it reminds me so much of the Dec-Feb app development days for Mastodon. So many fun options to try out!

Does the config Lemmy domain need to match the actual accessed domain?

For instance, can I use the domain example.com to produce users like @dave@example.com but still access the UI using lemmy.example.com?

See THIS POST

Notice- the 2,000 upvotes?

https://gist.github.com/XtremeOwnageDotCom/19422927a5225228c53517652847a76b

It's mostly bot traffic.

Important Note

The OP of that post did admit, to purposely using bots for that demonstration.

I am not making this post, specifically for that post. Rather- we need to collectively organize, and find a method.

Defederation is a nuke from orbit approach, which WILL cause more harm then good, over the long run.

Having admins proactively monitor their content and communities helps- as does enabling new user approvals, captchas, email verification, etc. But, this does not solve the problem.

The REAL problem

But, the real problem- The fediverse is so open, there is NOTHING stopping dedicated bot owners and spammers from...

1. Creating new instances for hosting bots, and then federating with other servers. (Everything can be fully automated to completely spin up a new instance, in UNDER 15 seconds)
2. Hiring kids in africa and india to create accounts for 2 cents an hour. NEWS POST 1 POST TWO
3. Lemmy is EXTREMELY trusting. For example, go look at the stats for my instance online.... (lemmyonline.com) I can assure you, I don't have 30k users and 1.2 million comments.
4. There is no built-in "real-time" methods for admins via the UI to identify suspicious activity from their users, I am only able to fetch this data directly from the database. I don't think it is even exposed through the rest api.

What can happen if we don't identify a solution.

We know meta wants to infiltrate the fediverse. We know reddits wants the fediverse to fail.

If, a single user, with limited technical resources can manipulate that content, as was proven above-

What is going to happen when big-corpo wants to swing their fist around?

Edits

1. Removed most of the images containing instances. Some of those issues have already been taken care of. As well, I don't want to distract from the ACTUAL problem.
2. Cleaned up post.

The issue: You find a link to a neat lemmy community on some random instance. In order to subscribe, you have go to your instance, search for the community, find it, open it, subscribe...blah!

The fix: Use a simple browser bookmark to go to your home instance and open the federated community in one click.

This works through modifying the URL of the page your on and puts the host name (e.g. lemmy.ml) after an "@" symbol after the community and then changing the host name to your own, hard-coded one.

How to steps:

1. Create a bookmark in your browser and then "Edit" it.

2. Change the URL to this text (modify the "lemmy.world" bit with whatever your home instance is):

   For lemmy.world users: javascript:(function(){location.href="https://lemmy.world/c/"+location.href.match(/(?:.*)\/c\/(.*(?=\/)|.*$)/i)[1]+"@"+location.host.toString();})();

   For lemmy.ml users: javascript:(function(){location.href="https://lemmy.ml/c/"+location.href.match(/(?:.*)\/c\/(.*(?=\/)|.*$)/i)[1]+"@"+location.host.toString();})();

3. Change the name of the bookmark to whatever you want. Mine is named "lemmy.world".

4. You're all set!

Now, from any federated community main feed page, click on the bookmark and you'll magically be taken to the same community on your local instance. Magic!

Disclaimers: The community must be federated with your instance. You can only do this from a URL that has the community in url (e.g. not from a post or anything).

Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/14hb7h3/one_week7_more_days/jpcby48

Correction: the pop up for Lemmy should start to appear sometime this weekend

https://www.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/comments/14fhi9u/using_sync_for_reddit_as_a_marketing_tool_come/jp2bts8/

Also apparently confirmed in discord that kbin support will be coming:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/comments/14g8eix/q_will_sync_for_lemmy_be_able_to_handle/jp4uvh5/

Hi, my train of thoughts started with my "home" instance Lemmy.ml disabling the creation of communities. I did write this already somewhere as a comment, but I think it deserves its own topic ;)

TLDR; I have 2 big questions: do admins have too much power? Should an account be easily transferrable to another instance?

To be clear: I have no problems with that decision. I understand it. What I am writing here is a theoretical issue.

Let me explain:

So, the current problem is not being able to create a community on Lemmy.ml, so on Lemmy in general, for all Lemmy.ml member. The solution is easy. Create and alt account on another platform, create the community, make my prime account the mod et voila, problem solved.

However, my “problem” is theoretical. I joined Lemmy.ml “per accident”. I did not pick it for a specific reason, I just stumbled on it (being a Reddit refugee) and selected this instance. (I know now that this instance will always “do good” because it is run by the creators of Lemmy (I did not know this when joining) - so my issues will probably always be theoretical FOR ME, but hear me out. ). If someone would join another instance, and that instance would suddenly stop providing essential services of Lemmy (let’s say, commenting, participating, cross posting or any other feature) OR if the instance would stop alltogether, you kinda loose everything. Yes, you can create an alt, but your post/comment history belongs to the other, severely limited in features, account - or the account is lost forever. I think, from a theoretical standpoint, I would feel better if I was able to “move” my main account to another instance. Not sure how this would technically work (federating accounts might be a huge GDPR / privacy nightmare), but it would give me some peace of mind knowing that I can’t be… euh… fucked over by an instance admin.

I know you can run your own instance to circumvent these issues. I am considering it since my account is stil fairly new, but it seems like a tedious thing, both in technical knowledge as in financial terms. And with the federation/discovery thingy that is around on a not-well-used instance, this is even more difficult.

My 2 cents. Not sure if I’m missing something and/or if someone agrees/disagrees with me?

Any post and community could be accessed through a theoretically limitless amount of instances, which also means a theoretically limitless amount of URLs.

Will this hinder Lemmy from ever coming into the mainstream? If I type any topic in Google, I will get a reddit thread that deals with that. Can something like that ever happen for Lemmy?

cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/241877

Title. 18.0 seems to refresh your feed when you return from having clicked a post. This makes it so you have to scroll back down every time you click on a post. It also refreshes the feed so new posts add to the scrolling. Can we get a fix for this in v18.1?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1485422

So I’ve just now looked into bookwyrm despite knowing of it for a while. From what I can tell, it doesn’t federate with lemmy … please correct me if I’m wrong! And this seems to be largely because bookwyrm is largely user based, or at least that’s how mastodon sees it.

But it seems that lemmy and bookwyrm would actually be a good fit? Lemmy is communities with posts with comments. Bookwyrm seems to be books with reviews with comments. This feels like a one to one mapping could work well, no?

From what I gather, there are various bookwyrm instances with different focuses. So from lemmy you could search specifically to an instance for a book/community using key words, which would also work well. Then you could delve into the various reviews and comments etc.

More importantly, this would cross pollinate between the two platforms! And of course, any good review could be easily cross posted to any relevant community here, where all comments from here would also be federated with bookwyrm.

Thoughts?

The last upgrade with a piece of content in the feed is great and much more fun to browse ! That specific change makes me feel that I can jump from reddit to lemmy definitly.

Good work dudes <3

If you're like me, you're accustomed to setting up 2FA by having 1Password detect a QR code on-screen, but this doesn't work with Lemmy's 2FA since it never displays a QR code. Here's what you should do instead.

Start in Lemmy by enabling 2FA in your settings. When you save, scroll down again to the bottom of your settings. You'll now see a 2FA installation button. My first inclination was to click this button, but my Mac wanted to open it in the macOS keychain instead of 1Password. Instead, right click the button and copy the link. (It's styled as a button, but it's really just a plain link.)

Now, in 1Password, add a one-time password field to your Lemmy login. Paste the URL you copied from the button into the one-time password field. Save the login, and you should now see the one-time password displayed in 1Password.

You're actually done at this point. One thing that threw me off is that Lemmy's 2FA does not require a code validation step like many 2FA systems do. I validated it manually by logging out and logging back in. Lemmy asked me to enter the 2FA code, and I was able to copy/paste it from 1Password to log back in.

Hope this helps others who are confused like I was!

There is a big difference between mild NSFW and full on porno. Suppose there is a News story with photo/video but it's a little bit graphic or violent. Nobody is jacking off to that. Maybe shouldn't view it at work, but in the library is fine.

Maybe it's a funny meme pic but there's a nip slip situation going on. No biggy; it should probably be tagged NSFW. Probably don't want it showing up at actual work. But I want to enable this kind of content away from work without a bunch of actual porn showing up in my feed.

There should be a porn tag. It's not the same as NSFW.

EDIT: The two main devs have done some amazing work here, but as I understand it they are totally booked for the foreseeable future. My rust chops aren't quite up to snuff (yet) and my frontend chops are non-existent, so it might be a quite while before I'm up to speed enough to make a meaningful contribution. In the meantime just thought I'd point out the issue.

I recently started using Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit and there is one major inconvenience that makes it difficult to use. Specifically, there are no iPhone apps that support it (yet?). So instead, I am using it as a web app by adding it to my Home Screen. It works well for the most part, but there are no navigation buttons to allow me to go back and forth between pages. So I might find myself diving deep into a thread, but when I want to go back up a level, I can’t. Instead I’ve been tapping the instances icon at the top to get back to the home page. Then I have to go find where I was at again. Plus, there are no tab options that I could use as a workaround. Is there any way to pop up arrow keys or map them to one of the volume buttons? Is this something that needs to be added into the Lemmy software? Are there any known apps that support Lemmy in development?

I made, in fact, this commentary in another thread. But, for some reason, it shows up as if it was in this thread, in which I made another comment.

Lemmy is certainly a lot faster than new reddit, but I prefer the aesthetic and speed of old.reddit.com and hackernews. I like the minimalism and how everything defaults to the left of the browser rather than the center. I also really enjoy how I can expand the entire text of a post without actually clicking on the post's link.

Just my thoughts. Hoping to see more theme and front-end options emerge over time.

I have the application process enabled for people to join my instance, and I've gotten about 20 bots trying to join today when I had nobody trying to join for 5 days. I can tell because they are generic messages and I put a question in asking what 2+3 is and none of them have answered it at all, they just have a generic message.

Be careful out there, for all you small instance admins.