Lemmy

I feel like a much talked about criticism of getting started with Lemmy is that the 'average person' doesn't understand it. I see a lot of technical people, myself included, use words that the 'average person' shies away from. Mentioning concepts like servers and Fediverse requires some background knowledge. I propose we start using 'providers' instead of servers, as it helps understand the function of it instead of the implementation. There might be more words that could be confusing, so let's have a conversation about them. Are there any you recognize as being able to be simplified, or is this a non issue?

last night for example, i was looking at the joinlemmy page, just lemmy.world went from like 400 to 1.3k in a night! hope it keeps up

@dessalines just wanna say I really appreciate all your effort with @lemmy your work is inspiring!

Hello, I'm new to lemmy. Can't figure out how to make image posts expanded by default. I'm on lemmy.ml if that matters

I wrote a guide to help users with their migration to Lemmy

• https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

This guide will help new lemmy users find and subscribe-to (remote) lemmy ~~subreddits~~ communities

Reddit has one (or perhaps it’s RES) and I am way too used to it. Having to middle-click everything is annoying.

I want to start doing programmy things, is there any documentation on API endpoints I can use for reference? Or do I just have to reverse-engineer the code from github?

Reddit made it impossible to have long-term discussions like forums do. Posts would just fade into irrelevance after a day or so, whereas with forums new comments would bump the thread.

Lemmy has a sorting option just like forums:

"New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they receive a new reply analogous to the sorting of traditional forums"

And Lemmy also has the "Active" sorting method, which says:

"Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time"

so Active seems like a compromise between Hot like Reddit and the way forums do it by New Comments

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

I like being able to edit titles!

When I switch to Hot/All, I see a ton of posts from a German language community (and I don’t speak German). If I block the community to keep it from showing up, does it hurt them in any way? Like, I don’t want to contribute to them getting banned or something for being blocked too many times…

Like many of you, I’m here thanks to the Great Reddit APIocalypse. In order to keep our active, tight-knit subreddit hobby community intact, I decided to create a server for our community to be able to continue no matter what happens on Reddit. Despite some challenges, things are going pretty well and our active user base is growing.

I really need help with federation, though. I managed to federate my server with Lemmy.ml, but when I look at Lemmy.ml communities from my account on that server I only see posts and comments from people at Lemmy.ml. I’d like to be able to federate with all servers so the users of our server can join communities all over Lemmy and see comments from users of all other Lemmys. Can anyone point me in the right direction of how to make that happen? Also, are there some Lemmys that I should ban no matter what?

Thank you!

What are your other Fediverse (KBin/Lemmy/Pixelfed/PeerTube/Calckey/Mastodon) accounts?

With the rapid ongoing implosion of Reddit I've noticed a number of the people I follow on Mastodon now have accounts on Fediverse-based Reddit replacements such as KBin and Lemmy.

There's also a growing number of people who now have accounts on other services, such as PeerTube, Pixelfed, Friendica, and ever WordPress sites on the Fediverse.

So I thought it might be a good idea to do a thread where people share their different accounts on the Fediverse. That way, your followers can follow your accounts and see your posts, no matter which service you post to.

For me, the main accounts I use are:

@ajsadauskas
@ajsadauskas@pixelfed.social
@ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml
@ajsadauskas@fedibb.ml
@ajsadauskas@urbanists.video

What are yours? Please reply and share widely.

@fediverse #fediverse @technology #mastodon #lemmy #kbin #pixelfed #calckey @lemmy

With all this growth on Lemmy, I'm noticing many more languages when browsing All. I imagine there will be instances and communities within instances using different languages. Is there a way to filter out languages we don't speak?

Trying to follow Kbin communities from my Lemmy instance is a bit broken. If I try to open one, e.g. https://lemmy.nauk.io/c/linux@kbin.social from my instance, It gives me 404 and the logs show the following error:

2023-06-11T11:01:46.475407Z  WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: couldnt_find_community: error decoding response body: missing field `properties` at line 1 column 182
   0: lemmy_apub::fetcher::resolve_actor_identifier
             at crates/apub/src/fetcher/mod.rs:16
   1: lemmy_apub::api::read_community::perform
           with self=GetCommunity { id: None, name: Some("linux@kbin.social"), auth: Some(Sensitive) }
             at crates/apub/src/api/read_community.rs:30
   2: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
           with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy.nauk.io http.target=/api/v3/community otel.kind="server" request_id=e1b55819-fd89-4c89-a145-3ba606fb28b7 http.status_code=400 otel.status_code="OK"
             at src/root_span_builder.rs:16
LemmyError { message: Some("couldnt_find_community"), inner: error decoding response body: missing field `properties` at line 1 column 182

Caused by:
    missing field `properties` at line 1 column 182, context: "SpanTrace" }

Is this a known error in 0.17.3, if not, I should file an issue.

Edit: filed an issue

I'm noticing that the upvote/downvote counter on various posts is a bit erratic. I saw it in realtime going to 1.1K up to 2 up and 13 down to 8 up.

I made a post a little bit ago and the instant I posted it it had 8 upvotes on the total counter. Hovering over it revealed it had only 1 upvote.

How do I subscribe to different communities on the app? Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to follow myself in Lemmy from my Akkoma instance. I can search for @pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io from my Akkoma instance, and find myself just fine. Clicking follow sends a follow request, but it just pending forever and I see no notifications or anything on my Lemmy instance. Do I need to do something from Lemmy to allow following from other instances? Should this even work?

What caused users to sign up to specifically lemmy.ml, instead of other servers? I am aware a lot of users signed up after the spez AMA, but even before the AMA the site was overloaded.

ChatGPT tells me it was named after Lemmy Kilmeister, but this seems off. Who named it?

Open an issue on GitHub or make a post here?

I’d really like to see a “hide” for a post. For example as a go through Memes community and look at one… I’m done with the post and don’t need to see it anymore.

On Reddit you’d just hide the post and then you’d not need to worry about it - you can always look at all your hidden posts to remove the flag.

Since NSFW is not allowed on this instance, we should block that instance to avoid seeing their posts here. What do you think?

Regarding my recent indefinite siteban on lemmy.ml

I'd never thought I'd make a post like this, but I wanted to be fully accountable

I want to start by thanking every person that reported me, as I realize I made many people uncomfortable with my posts or comments.

Until I was banned I did not realize that I had a pattern of spamming, I would also like to apologize for my silence.

I now understand the devastation others may have experienced after being banned by me.

When I was banned I was in a state of shock, I was riding a high of commenting, but when the ban page appeared I didn't know how to react.

During my time away I thought about the people I have done wrong by and with that being said I really appreciate the other users not saying "another kkkracka down unlimited genocide on the first world" I realize that took restraint.

Going forward, I promise to reply in Chinese once per day. Thank you for reading

Also, I want to thank the Lemmy Admins, Developers, and Moderators without you this would not be possible.