Lemmy

Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn't the thing that makes a social media site, it's the engagement

So even if you're used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they're more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they'll just go back to reddit

Some projects have a public roadmap or a list of priorities that give an idea of the direction that the maintainers want to take.

Is there anything like this for Lemmy currently?

I'd love to find interesting things to subscribe to.

Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It's probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn't apologize at all). Allegedly they're trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it's not working well enough lol

A good problem to have although long term we're going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.

It seems the devs wont be joining, but many instance admins are present.

Matrix join link: https://matrix.to/#/#xmpp_lemmy_muc.xmpp.fi:matrix.org

This is what I mean...Left is tchncs.de, right is Lemmy.ml

Edit: Also, trying to access those communities that don't appear in the search result for specific instance, gives this message

404: couldnt_find_community

back in that other platform i had changed to cross posting to my own profile rather than saving a post. it was just more convenient and prevented losing stuff if the op deleted it

Curious, since I know I can block communities of instances. Is instance-wide blocking only available to admins of instances?

@lemmy Hi I am planning on joining Lemmy however I was reading about some privacy issues with the platform. I am going to share some of them and what do you think about it?

--Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible

-Deleted account usernames remain visible too

-Anything remains visible on federated servers!

-When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server

So spam it more ;)

I have a lemmy account on lemmy.sdf.org

When searching for communities to join I can see several in the list from lemmy.ml and beehaw.org

but while searching for some communities that I know exist on lemmy.ml or beehaw.org I am getting no results

will a community from instance A only appear in search results on instance B if a user from instance B has already manually subscribed to that specific community from instance A?

basically, there is no scraping of 'all available' communities even when two instances know of each others existence? only 'specific communities' are indexed when a user has manually found/subscribed?

For example, !lemmy starts with an !, but why not start with a # symbol?

I have created two communities, but it seems like I can no longer create new ones since when attempting to create one, it gets stuck in a looping circle.

Right now, NSFW-marked communities are by default(?) not shown by their home instance to non-logged-in users in the community list, and even if you go to them manually no posts are shown.

Fine, but they also aren't shown to logged in users on other home instances, unless somehow already federated over. If you go to the community's instance, it can't tell you are logged in, and if you go to your home instance you can't see a list of all communities on the other instance that might be available.

Also, older posts that are marked NSFW can't be gotten by anyone with an account anywhere other than the instance they were posted to. When you subscribe to a community on another instance it federates over a few posts, but to doesn't request and federate older posts as you try and page back through the archive. The normal solution is to view the old posts on the source instance, but if the community is marked NSFW the source instance won't let you read the archive there without a local account.

I really like the Lemmy Community Browser at browse.feddit.de for locating communities across instances.

When I first stood up my instance, I guess it was crawled and my community showed up there. Awesome!

I've since rebuilt on a new domain and federated again, and my old instance dropped off (as expected). However, a day or so later, my new instance still isn't showing up there. The new instance is known to join-lemmy.org and fediverse.observer, so it is discoverable.

I'm curious if anyone knows how often it updates and if that tool is based on a project I can clone to spin up another instance. I'm interested in both running a replica of it to act as another entry point as well as using it as a base to develop some quality of life enhancements. e.g. a click to subscribe option that ties into your home instance and does the initial search and subscribe steps.

I'm new to Lemmy, your typical Reddit refugee, and I'm missing some of the more niche subs I followed. I would like to start one or two of those here, but I'm a bit intimidated.

As I understand it, if I start a community I'm also the moderator. What kind of work does that entail?

Can I only create a community on the instance I joined, or can I also create a community elsewhere?

Is there a guide for creating new communities out there, especially for people who don't know much about the technical side of Lemmy?

Thanks!

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I stole this from u/fuckass on Hexbear

issue: menus are not always immediately apparent

suggestion: style menus like sidebars (outlines and backgrounds)

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issue: user menu elements on mobile are jammed against left edge

suggestion: add left padding

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issue: content and comments are too narrow on large/wide displays

suggestion: add option to set min and max widths relative to viewport (CSS VW)

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issue: main menu (from hamburger button) elements on mobile/narrow displayed as block is unsightly

suggestion: elements should be inline-block until they cannot fit on one line

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issue: comment action icons are unnecessarily hidden

suggestion: show all comment icons persistently (could be grouped as [up/down/reply] on left, [message/flag/block/fav/source] on right; could be a user profile option to show/hide additional comment options persistently)

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issue: message notification (bell icon) often indicates unread count when all messages are read

suggestion: fix

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issue: auto-refresh on posts causes elements to move down as reading when scrolled

suggestion: implement option to disable auto-refresh OR move scroll position down correspondingly to total height of dynamically loaded post elements

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issue: (if above feature implemented) must refresh page if auto-refresh disabled

suggestion: add soft-reload button (reloads posts)

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issue: [subscribed|local|all] default from user profile doesn't work (always selects local)

suggestion: fix

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issue: no function to block a specific community from your feed

suggestion: add function

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issue: notifications view has no stateful awareness of viewing mode [unread|all] or [all|replies|mentions|messages]

suggestion: add stateful awareness to enable browser <|> navigation

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issue: replying to inbox comment/message does not display after submitting reply

suggestion: display reply to comment after submitting reply

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issue: [show context] from inbox comment does not display immediate parent comment

suggestion: [show context] from inbox comment should display immediate parent comment

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issue: when viewing context from comment on a non-local instance, you are not authenticated and cannot reply from context

suggestion: implement cross-instance authentication OR link to context in the currently-authenticated instance

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issue: [next] buttons have no stateful awareness (displays an empty page when clicked from the last page in a set)

suggestion: [next] should be statefully aware of page and be disabled when viewing last available page

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issue: when inbox messages appear as a notification, there should be a button to mark them as read

suggestion: add function

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issue: inbox messages are only marked read when explicitly clicking [read] checkmark button

suggestion: messages should be marked read when replying or navigating to context

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Hope this helps make some improvements to the UX! :)

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EDIT another one while I'm thinking of it: it would be nice for the top toolbar to be fixed at the top so you don't need to scroll back up to use it.

I love the growth and population, but I really want to help foster the decentralization of this platform, since that’s (to me) the best part of the fediverse.