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This post suggests that Kbin magazines can be subscribed to in the same way as Lemmy communities, by searching for them, possibly waiting for one's instance to pull info about the magazine in, and then visiting the magazine through one's instance. However, although my home instance is federated with kbin.social, I am not able to get any search results for kbin.social magazines, and it seems that I am not the only one; see here, here, and here, though that last case seems to have fixed itself on its own. The behavior is the same whether I search by URL (e.g., https://kbin.social/m/fediverse), by magazine name with an at-sign (e.g., @fediverse@kbin.social), or by magazine name with a bang (e.g., [!fediverse@kbin.social](/c/fediverse@kbin.social)).

How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

@lemmy hi I'm trying to sign up on lemmy.ml but its not working.

Hello! I wrote a simple bot that periodically checks for new reddit posts and posts them to lemmy, so that people migrating from reddit to lemmy can still be able to see their favourite posts, but familiarizing with lemmy.

currently the coments are not synced, but this may change in the future (perhaps)

Yes, it uses the Reddit API, so it will stop working on the 1st of July, but I think that then I can implement a sort of web scraper to access Reddit posts without the official API, so this may eventually keep working for a while.

this script is currently on my laptop so it will be offline most of the time, but if I get the approval I may host it somewhere to get it running 24h/24.

now the question... Is this allowed? having this bot running 24h/24 on large subreddits will mean a very high quantity of posts. will this cause any problem to Lemmy?

if you want a preview check out https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/reddit_memes, where I started syncing a few posts from r/memes

let me know your opinion on this!

==== EDIT

here's the bot source code

The bot is now running in https://sh.itjust.works/c/reddit_memes, let's try to see if it work (I hope that shit just works)

I'm a bit concerned about the legality of this, if anyone has any info please tell me!

What's the opinion/recommendations on banners? I've put up some banners onto communities but I'm finding them annoying if anything, at least for my mobile browsing, so I took most of them back down. I'm undecided about meme subs.

I see most communities don't have banners either, I guess other mods tend to come to the same conclusion?

I would be interested in the number of (new) Lemmy users. Similar to @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social

Are there any graphs that show users over time for all instances?

Since Reddit content being used to train AI was part of what triggered their Dumb Actions™️, is there a way to deal with this on Lemmy? If there's a way to license API access or the content itself under, say, LGPL to prevent commercial AI from using it that would be awesome. With the way ActivityPub works I'm not sure if that's possible though.

I'm making a client for Lemmy but am planning to make the calls myself rather than use a library, is there any good documentation of the HTTP API that I can use as a reference?

Sorry if I say something wrong, I'm not that experienced in this area.

So, when you connect to google.com, you're not connecting to one IP regardless of location. Your request is routed to the closest google server's ip address (using anycast? Yes, I just googled this lol).

I'm guessing the Lemmy servers don't do this yet? So, would it be best to sign up to a server near you, lag wise? Especially with the continuing and ever escalating avalanche of Reddit refugees to reach a zenith on June 12-14?

I'm making this post because I was thinking of making a small website or app thing showing new users a random instance (to reduce load on lemmy.ml or any one individual server). And then that becomes the default "go here to join Lemmy" link for new users. But then I realised I could get the IP (or manually input) location of the user and randomly choose an instance out of the pool of instances nearby.

Anyways, I'm probably not gonna do this myself because lazy (I know) but I think it'd be a good idea.

I thought lemmy would only cache text from remote instances to avoid replicating images across the lemmyverse. But I'm seeing a lot of images stored in volumes/pictrs/files/ so maybe that's not the case? Anyone have any insight into this?

I think that to get more people to become interested in Lemmy, the onboarding process is going to be a huge stopping point. I’ve seen suggestions on how to change the service, but I think it can be solved just by how we present the information to new users who aren’t super familiar with the tech involved.

I’ve seen people explain it like email, but even as someone actively running a Lemmy Server, with years of coding experience, some of those explanations even confuse me.

I think it’s just a presentation problem, choosing a server should be explained as like choosing a digital home that suits your interests. For instance, if you live in the northeastern US, you might choose NortheastUSA.net as your home server. If your following a Reddit community migration, sign up where they are. From there, you can browse other servers much like you'd browse different subreddits, like hopping over to a NY Jets fan server if you're into football. The main Lemmy.ml server is a good point to start if your unsure, but it shouldn’t matter in the end.

Over time, communities dedicated to general news, politics, or the best memes will emerge. But your choice of server, while based on your interests, is just your starting point - you're free to explore beyond that. So what if in the end the best memes are on !memes@italianfood.it? Maybe the best place for coding help will be !python@idaho.social. The aim should be to make the server domain nearly transparent to the user.

If this sounds complex, users can think of their server as your internet homepage, a base from which you start exploring. For tech-savvy users, hosting a personal instance on a VPN like Racknerd, is a breeze if you're comfortable with docker or ansible. I'm actually just hosting my own instance for my home and some friends, running on a $20/year racknerd VPN. Super easy to setup for anyone familiar with docker or ansible. I’m sure one of the web hosting providers will have a one click spin up before long.

To simplify navigation, we'd need a way to search across all servers from the app or site, without wrestling with server domains. Feddit has a great listing started.

We just need a good search, like if you're looking for 'python,' you'd see the top 5 Python communities across all servers. Ideally, an aggregator would also be present, showing popular communities and trending posts from all servers.

If anyone has anything to add, or that I’m wrong about, please let me know.

The GitHub repo that provides a comparison table of different lemmy instances now includes server uptime %

• https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

Thanks to David Morley for providing this data via the Fediverse Observer API

• https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

I have English set as the primary language in my phone settings, but Spanish set as an additional one so I can swipe type in it – estoy probiendo practicar más lol. When I visited Lemmy the interface kept defaulting to Spanish for whatever reason.

Anyway after making my account I was able to change the language in my Lemmy account settings from "browser default" to English without having to delete the secondary language on my phone. Not sure why this is the only site that thinks Spanish is my default!

(Chrome, Android 13, Google Pixel 7 if anyone is curious.)

Exiting to see so much new traffic in Lemmy the past few days.

While I don't think recreating Reddit in the Fediverse is necessarily a good idea, there were a few subs that really helped me discover new content. I looked, and didn't see anything directly comparable, so I created two new communities:

https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy411 - yep - can't find what you're looking for (or perhaps what instance it might be on?) ask here.

https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists - find something cool? post about it here for others to discover as well.

(this will be cross-posted to a few other places like other instance main communities as well)

I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.

The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.

While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.

It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.

I suggest Lemmiwinks.

Agora estamos no @lemmy

https://lemmy.world/c/rpg_brasil

Espaço brasileiro dedicado à discussão de Role-Playing Games (RPGs) nacionais e internacionais e assuntos pertinentes.

Traga sua espada, prepare seu grimório e junte-se à discussão!

Considering that Kbin lets you browse Lemmy communities

What I mean by this is... Is it as friendly as Reddit is to provide full public access on a Google search, allowing search engines to fully index each post correctly? Or is it like Instagram where almost nothing but profiles are indexed?

The title, I'm curious to know since kbin ≠ lemmy. Can you see magazines and posts on your feeds?
Can you find magazines on your search bar?

Edit: Magazines are to kbin what communities are to Lemmy.
Also keep in mind that the communities on kbin are much smaller.

Edit 2: For example, if you look for this community https://kbin.social/m/EASportsFC on your search bar like @EASportsFC@kbin.social does it appear?

I've seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don't show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in "!communityname@instance.domain"

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.