Lemmy

Is it possible to disable auto-refresh on the homepage?

It is causing the following observed issues:

• The dropdown menu flickers when in it's open state, even if there are no updates. I assume the DOM is being updated even when there are no updates?
• The refresh causes images which have been expanded to be hidden again.

Personally, I would just like the option to disable auto-refresh. I can do that myself once I have read everything on the page.

Damn I made a post in the gaming@beehaw.org complaining about Battle Royale games and I'm happy to notice that posts on Lemmy now have actual engagement!

Actually even more than all the posts i've made on reddit since there's no algorithm meant to close us in fucking echo-chambers

Same posting federated to other servers, currently:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/59798
1 vote, 2 comments

https://lemmy.ml/post/1228901
11 votes, 2 comments

https://beehaw.org/post/525078
1 vote, 0 comments

Seems to only happen with lemmy.ml for whatever reason. Hitting the "subscribe pending" button and trying again makes zero difference.

I know that many of us already know this, but it should repeated as often as needed.

we are the network -- the network is us.

social is nothing without the interactions that we create. reddit was just a place; a place that, because of a centralized power dynamic, abused us all.

we have are now at a cultural juncture, an opportunity to bring back what each of us knows to be true. our interactions do not need to capitalized, marketed and sold.

we are not products. we are the network.

please, find communities that even mildly interest you or catch you eye, join them and comment on posts.

just had this conversatin with the wife and she is joining Lemmy to start her own federated social journey.

/end_rant

Maybe no one cares, but in case you are interested. This drama with Reddit was not only the last straw for me after over 12 years of faithful membership, it was a catalyst.

I have been interested in a more decentralized internet for a handful of years now and Lemmy is my first step. I have dabbled in Freenet and I2P and now I'm going to roll up my sleeves and get involved.

I have started my own Lemmy instance and invited people to use it to access the community.

My next step is to spin up a Freenet node. After that I will be making some more intro videos to explain what it is and how it works.

After that I will start looking more into I2P and doing the same.

During this time I will be following closely the development and growth of all 3 and reporting on it as well on my new YouTube channel.

The internet should be for the users, not for profiteering corporations. This should be our bastion from their greed. I will do my part to make it so.

How do moderation notifications work between moderators and admins (on the same instance)?

Lets say that someone reports a post that breaks a community rule for a community that is hosted on an instance that I admin, but that doesn't break any instance rules. As an admin, I don't need to take any action, so I mark it as completed without doing anything else.

Do the community moderators still see that report?

Similarly, lets say that someone posts something so bad that they need to be banned from the instance, but a community moderator gets to it before I see the notification. Will I still see a notification and have a chance to take action even after the moderator has removed the post?

Isn't the .ml TLD administered by freenom? How can we be sure that lemmy.ml is safe from a hostile takeover by this shady company with a history of hijacking high-traffic domains and demanding more money?

This article perfectly explains why large social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit) are trash.

What you’ll get is a place where everyone is a stranger, where being a jerk is the norm, where there is no sense of belonging, where civility and arguing in good faith is irrelevant because you’re not talking to someone, you’re performing in front of an audience to make the number next to your comment go up so you can briefly feel something that almost resembles belonging and shared values.

I was trying to subscribe to the !reddit@lemmy.ml community so it can appear on my feed at Lemmy.one. But it's been stuck at "Subscribe Pending" for about 6 hours now. Is lemmy.ml just still having performance issues or is this a bug? I've subscribed to other lemmy.ml commuities from lemmy.one with no issue before.

It's kind of annoying to be looking at a post, and then a community decides to update and my feed is spammed with posts from one community. Is there currently a fix to this?

If my home instance is lemmy.ca, and I want to create and moderate a community about, say, Japanese woodworking (random example of a subreddit I follow), isn't it a bit odd for that community to be hosted by lemmy.ca? If somebody else later created a community of the same name on lemmy.ml or lemmy.jp, would people be more likely to join those communities as they seem more "official"?

On one hand, joining multiple instances just for "better" vanity URLs for new communities seems wrong (and annoying to manage), on the other hand it's odd that I'd arbitrarily impose the traffic associated with a community completely unrelated to Canada onto lemmy.ca. How is this supposed to work?

In the mlem community, I clicked on this post:

https://lemmy.ml/post/1223230

I was shown the title and post abouta protest taking place at Reddit HQ and in Ireland. You can see in the screenshot, the post doesn't really match the community and you can see it was posted to the Reddit community. The comments were all about the mlem app.

There was another post I saw earlier today about someone being shown another user's page when refreshing. Very interesting.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/81779

Here’s the trick:

[some community](/c/some_community@server.tld)

So:

[WowThisLemmyExists](/c/wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca)

Gives us this link: WowThisLemmyExists

Which links to that community... but within the instance you’re currently in! So you can actually subscribe to it!

(Many thanks to the Lemmy Project Chat on Matrix!)

I made a post in !guitar@lemmy.studio from here on lemmy.ml, and then wanted to crosspost it to !guitars@lemmy.world (again, from here on lemmy.ml). When I clicked on the cross-post button in the original post, nothing I typed in the Community field seemed to pop up as a match for the desired federated community to cross-post to.

So I simply copied the URL, Title, and Body of the original post, but added [Crosspost] in the Title, and Crossposted from ... in the body with a lemmy.ml link to the original, and blockquoted the copied body text.

Original - https://lemmy.ml/post/1178638 Crossposted - https://lemmy.ml/post/1207214

If you look at them both, you will see these little tidbits

Original

Crosspost

So .. it did actually get recorded in the back-end as a cross-post, even though the front-end didn't look like it was possible. So is this a UI bug that you can't select a federated community as the destination of a crosspost? Was it the inclusion of Crossposted from <lemmy.ml link to original> that made it identify as a crosspost?

WE HAD A GOOD THING YOU STUPID SON OF A removed!

We had 3PA's, we had all the free labor in the world, just from passionate people who wanted to share some topic, we had bots to fight spam, and extremely talented developers who made your stupid website work on mobile. It all ran like clockwork, if you could have just shut your mouth we'd all be fine right now.

But no, you just had to blow it up. YOU, AND YOUR GREED AND YOUR EGO.

Fuck u/spez

title, apologies for maybe newbie question

The server has ample resources with double the max used RAM and CPU usage doesn't go above 25%. Yet there seems to be some bottleneck and it wasn't as slow when I first created the instance.

This affects local posts and comments as well, so I doubt it's the federation settings that were mentioned this morning.

Thank you!

I noticed that if I am on the main page for Lemmy, it has a websocket open and is constantly refreshing with new posts. This makes it impossible to use if you look at all new posts as there is a ton of content flooding in. That's not a bad thing, but it does make it impossible to read what's there.

Is there a way to disable the live feed and just show a static list of posts, then when I choose to refresh the page it will get more?

I'm loading https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml and the username display in the top right is showing other people's usernames, not mine. It showed one, and I refreshed, and now it's showing another. Here's what is showing right now for me:

Edit to add just to show that it's changing:

Like many here I share concerns that as people migrate to Lemmy, they will gravitate towards the larger communities. In my opinion, the best way to curb this issue is by appealing to people's sense of local community.

To me regionality is a natural way to structure/organize instances. Rather than joining a random, or the most popular, instance I think people would be much more willing to join local instances, because it's something easily identifiable for them. These regional instances can of course have their genericlocal community, just like the regional city/state/country subreddits, but also have their own local interest communities. Even when there is community overlap with large generic/global communities, there is still a distinction with the regional community being geared towards local information and content.

Shouldn't be too hard to promote this. Lemmy just needs to encourage regional instances. Then in the join Lemmy page push people to the regional instances.

Maybe I'm off base though, and the main interest/draw to Lemmy is the fact that there is no structure? What does everyone think?

Is it possible to block an entire instance?

I'm noticing a lot of content I'm not interested in is coming from a specific instance. I started by just blocking the communities but I'm thinking it may be easier to just block the instance.

If that is even possible, what kind of effect might that have on my experience? Would I still be able to see comments and posts from users of that instance on other instances?