Lemmy

Hello there, there are some Mastodon communities I like. Unfortunately I hate the Twitter format of Mastodon. I was hoping to be able to access them through lemmy, but "/c/main@community" only returns me a 404 error.

I constantly get a timeout message and I don't know what it means. Is it a known bug or something I can maybe even fix myself? I'm using the Jerboa app btw.

Right now, we are only able to view an instance's specific community, but I'd love to be able to view what's popular in that instance, especially that I do not know what communities that instance has.

EDIT And this is where it gets confusing...

If you want to view another instance from your home instance you need to do https://lemmy.world/c/thecommunityyouwanttoview@lemmy.ml

But there is no https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy.ml <-- this will return a 4040

Ideally there would be a https://lemmy.world/c/all@lemmy.ml or a https://lemmy.world/c/popular@lemmy.ml

I really like the concept of a federated message board. This is what I wanted for my life. However, Lemmy.ml is kinda difficult to surf through comments and it's actually bothering me. It actually clones the new reddit, while the old reddit was much better in terms of reading.

Watching the network tab of Chrome when I have a Lemmy instance open I can watch the websocket data coming in from the server. Even though I have "Subscribed" communities selected, the data stream seems to contain all post data (at first glance it looks like new posts and vote changes) from all communities federated to the instance.

It's manageable for the moment but if the network grows a lot, that could end up being a huge amount of data that's sent to users and probably not desirable if users are on slow metered connections. Is this by design?

So that if you paste a link to one of those big social media platforms, it offers to replace it with a working alternative front-end.

It's a bunch of days that the federated feed is filled with ads of this popular centralized lemmy clone. Can't you just enjoy being here and stop giving any visibility to lousy platforms?

I've spun up a new instance and understood that there would be no initial communities under All.

I know I needed to search for a community to get the federation to get started, but do I need to search for every community for the to appearing the list?

The servers been up for almost 24 hours and I still only have the 2 communities I searched for in the list.

You're likely already aware of this, but when making POST requests to endpoints such as /post/like or /comment/create, even though the operation does succeed, the request times out after 60 seconds and returns a 504 error. This happens even whenever GET requests go through just fine.

Some of you may have noticed that federated actions are slow to synchronize between Lemmy instances. This is most likely because of the setting "Federation worker count" under /admin. It determines how many federation activities can be sent out at once. The default value is 64 which is enough for small or medium sized instances. But for large instances it needs to be increased.

Grep the server logs for "Maximum number of activitypub workers reached" and "Activity queue stats" to confirm that this affects you. For lemmy.ml I just changed the value to 512, you have to experiment what is sufficient. The new value is only applied after restarting Lemmy. In my case changing the value through the website didnt work (maybe because its overloaded). Instead I had to update local_site.federation_worker_count directly in the database.

Edit: I had to increase the value to 160k for lemmy.ml. Now the stats arent getting logged anymore, so Im not sure if the pending queue is still building up or not.

I see kbin.social mentioned here and there where lemmy is discussed. How are those two related? Are they linked up, or are those completely separate communities?

ok, so I get that there's a multitude of lemmy instances and they're not exchanging data, in the sense that if there's community jimbo on instance rambo, all comments are stored there.

so if the operator of rambo goes "man fuck this" and shuts it down, the posts/comments are gone? there's no way to replicate them or sync them or whatever?

if there's multiple jimbos on different instances is there some aggregation type of deal or do I have to subscribe to all the jimbos out there? and if I have something important to say about topic jimbo, I just spam/crosspost my idea to all the jimbos out there?

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/292797

Would like to know if people are trying it and how well it's working.

I was served this page just now, it appears to be for a moderator or admin as there are some extra tools in the toolbar. After reloading this it went away and I couldn't make it happen again.

Possibly there are some caching settings that need adjusting? Thinking of the admin team on this tough day with tons of traffic thank you for your hard work.

You don't need to DELETE all your comments, you can edit them all. I used the PowerDeleteSuite. Set the options to delete my posts, but not delete my comments. I then had it edit my comments with a paragraph about Lemmy and moving to it.

This is a great way to advertise Lemmy, over the long term.

So far it's at a staggering 7500 comments edited. All advertising Lemmy.

So that's an option. Then it's done and reddit is behind me. Lemmy all the way.

I hope this helps

for legal reasons this is a joke

Can't get enough of this song.

I've saved my preferred sorting settings on my profile, but they don't seem to stick. Anyone knows when it might be resolved? Or am I missing something?

edit: Link provided by @Threen@aussie.zone for a bug report looking into the issue.

This is on the mobile web, hasn't happened so far on the desktop site but I haven't been using desktop as much. So, sometimes just randomly although more often when I'm sorting by new on all (federated), infinite random posts from months or even years ago will just start randomly showing up and scrolling infinitely.

We have Jerboa for Android and looks like mlem for iOS (idk how well that one is doing, not on iOS personally). I know some of the reddit 3rd party app creators were considering adding Lemmy to their apps, any updates on that?

Following @lemmy was a bad idea. It's literally every comment with subpar context. Which is fine, the mental models of twitter and reddit are different, after all, but it's not digestible from the stream as it's just an excessive amount of noise.

I can share the link of a post like https://lemmy.world/post/58535 but if I change the domain to lemmy.ml it links to a different post.

I understand that the post Id is local but, is there a way to generate a global link that contains the information about the server, community and post?

I think it will be useful to make mirror sites, index in Google, addons to redirect to your Lemmy server...

As per title, I do think this could be a pivoting factor on whether Lemmy (and other federated services) can reach critical mass.

Doing a simple search on major search engines would likely yield a Quora or Reddit result or more on the first page.

It's critical that Lemmy posts have that same kind of traction to attract a large enough user base.

That's just my observation.

I haven't tried embedding a video on Lemmy yet so I don't know exactly how well it works, but it would be nice if in addition to being able to embed videos from the standard video sources like YouTube, the Lemmy team made it so you could embed videos from other sources too like PeerTube and Odysee.