Hey guys, just curious, can we have multiple nodes for the same lemmy instance? If not, is this something that's on the radar?

This would really help alleviate the load on a single server and make things much more stable and help with availability. I'm not sure if this functionality exists or if it is planned. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks!

In the absence of relays it should be trivial for instance admins to follow each other's "discovery" community.

Only admins would be allowed to post to that community and they should publish a post on a weekly basis so that new servers who've just subscribed to their discovery community can fetch the post and show it to their users.

The post itself would contain an updated list of that instance's communities so that users from remote instances can click on them and subscribe to them. If an instance is very large, the weekly post could contain only the recommended communities and maybe some interesting instance stats or information.

Edit: to give some context, due to the way federation works communities of instance A are only visible to users of instance B if at least one person from instance B has already subscribed to that community.

Mastodon has relays to solve the kick-starting problem. But in the absence of relays it should be fairly easy to have a single specific community that's highly discoverable and from where users select other communities that they could be interested in and thus become the first user that makes those communities visible to other users of their instance.

First off, I apologize if I'm asking something that has been talked about over and over, but I didn't find much relevant information so far (aside from what I will discuss below).

From what I understand, post tags/flairs are a requested feature, but from @dessalines@lemmy.ml's comment here, tags are already a thing?

Or does his answer mean that people can use a special syntax (like [foo] or ::bar::) in post titles, which can then be searched like any other token?

Either way, I think it makes sense to allow tags in posts, like mastodon allows #hashtags, if only for the purpose of classification and moderation.

Indeed, I was looking at an eventual way to link https://lemmy.ml/c/Jerboa to the Jerboa issues on GitHub using GitHub actions and this action, and the main problem I can see with this is the lack of machine-readable marker to differentiate bug reports and issues from the rest of the conversation on the community.

Do Lemmy mods have the permissions to edit a post's title? In which case they could indeed prefix bug reports and issues with [bug] or [issue].

It would be September 1, 2017 over again 🤭

With forewarning about a huge influx of users, you know Lemmy.ml will go down. Even if people go to https://join-lemmy.org/instances and disperse among the great instances there, the servers will go down.

Ruqqus had this issue too. Every time there was a mass exodus from Reddit, Ruqqus would go down, and hardly reap the rewards.

Even if it's not sustainable, just for one month, I'd like to see Lemmy.ml drastically boost their server power. If we can raise money as a community, what kind of server could we get for 100$? 500$? 1,000$?

I’m on Safari iOS 15, not sure if that matters. Anytime I post a comment, it doesn’t actually get posted. Doesn’t matter if I disable content blockers, they just never appear.

PMs work, upvoting works, I’m not even sure if this post will work though. Any ideas?

Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about coding or how this stuff works in the background.

But I’m a fairly old reddit user excited with Lemmy who thinks that the the limitation to the creation of communities is a good thing and that there’s always a chance to make stuff differently.

The concept I would like to brainstorm is: branching.

Instead of simply giving the ability to create new communities to users, would it be possible (and desirable) to just branch existing communities? As an example, let’s imagine that DnD discussions start to dominate the gaming community (yeah, I know, it’s just for theoretical hypothesis). Could the mods at a certain point decide to create a sub community for DnD inside the gaming community? When people would subscribe to “gaming” they would see the existing branches and decide if they want to subscribe to gaming in general or just that one set of games in particular. Apart from the benefit to the user, a mapping of Lemmy’s communities would also be much more easy to visualize.

I don’t know… this just occurred to me and wanted to share.

What do you think about that?

Content is needed to get more users

Okay - Lemmy is cool, and is experiencing a boost...

It would be important (while there's lots of eyes looking on it, especially the folks who will look on June 12-13th) for the instance picker to look presentable.

Something that doesn't look like a monoculture of one political ideology..

Right now, it starts off with Marxist / communist stuff right at the top (if that's your cup of tea, and you won't read, just down vote and move on).

However - I would argue the viability of a reddit alternative is one that starts off as a neutral pallet cleanser: just the tame instance descriptions on page one. If you want a themed instance you'll most certainly pick that tag or category while browsing.

I don't want it vanishing into obscurity because people write it off as a fringe gab-like offshoot that got kicked out of other places.

The software itself shouldn't spiral into only one sort of person using it, while driving away others.

Gotta have some way to slowly turn people socialist :) boiling the frog here, don't go all RMS extreme and be all gross and out of touch.

Being a refugee is a real life-threatening experience that happens to real people in response to real violence. Not when your favorite website closed down your favorite 3rd party app.

It's like saying you were raped when you get killed in fortnight bc some kid 360 no scoped you. It takes away from the experience of real rape victims.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1149454

Don't exactly know the best way for this to be made. I'm guessing a special page built into the platform might actually be the best way. It'd just provide a list of all communities the instance federates with in order of ascending age.

Or, maybe more easily, an admin run community for people to post about their new communities?

It's easy to discover communities on my instance via the dedicated page in the hamburger menu. But let's say I want to follow a community on another instance, such as !lemmy@lemmy.ml . I might have found its name mentioned in a post or comment. When I click on the provided link, I'm thrown on that instances web page, from which I of course can't subscribe.

So what I instead have to do is to copy the description of the link and paste it in my instance's search bar. Which isn't easy, since it's a link, so there isn't even a straightforward way to select the link text without clicking the link. This seems very unintuitive and makes the process of joining a whole bunch of communities tedious. Is there a better way?

My email at the moment

Image Description: A screen snippet from an email client showing 18 emails reading "- has applied to join lemmy.blahaj.zone". The usernames have been manually edited out. of the image snippet.

I see there's a /c/technology on lemmy.ml, but also a /c/technology on beehaw.org. As far as I can tell, they're completely independent and unrelated. This feels like it will create fractured communities, especially as more servers come online. Is there any plan for avoiding fragmentation? Is the expectation that the community for a particular topic will congregate around a single one of the instances?

From what i can gather, it could be beneficial to, for example, have an instance which would become the main place to get videogame content on Lemmy. Most communities would be for specific games or AAA companies, but it could also have c/general for asking questions or topics which are non specific to any community, or c/meta, which would work as a place to discuss the state of the instance.

Overall, nothing that different from the actual status quo, but this way, we could consider instances as hubs for certain topics, which would then specialize with the /c/s within said instance. Instead of having 7 c/technology across instances, we could have @Tech.no and subdivide it into c/topic1, c/topic2, etc. (was supposed to come up with smthing but came empty handed shut up i dont browse that sub) .

What im mostly seeing here is that popular instances themselves are not different from reddit. The most popular instances on lemmy are beehaw.org and lemmy.ml, which have the same m.o, if you will, of reddit. Which is good, theyre popular for a reason, but in a way, theyre competing with each other. Not financially, but there will be overlap between certain /c/s.

Of course im not asking if its possible. Its just a matter of running the server and having the right infrastructure. My question is if you think its feasible to decentralize lemmy from the main instances, or even a good idea in the first place. Maybe you think its ok the way things currently are? Or maybe what i said is supposed to be the goal and im just late to the party? What are your thoughts?

If I want to push a config change to my config.hjson, can I just re-run the ansible script per the documentation? (When I initially setup my instance, I didn't have email configured - trying to rectify that with a new config -- unless there is a better way I should be going about this)

This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.

However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.

You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

Hello,

I'm new here (go reddit exodus go). I've joined a Formula 1 community which has one moderator who appears to no longer be active.

Is there a process in place which allows for members of an orphaned community to become moderators?

Thanks!

• Switching from a consumer to a creator: I realized that if I want more people to engage w/ content, I have to be the change I want to see. I interact w/ content more regularly as a result
• Update settings so that 'Sort Type = New': There isn't as much content as Reddit just yet, and so the default 'sort by active' threads results in seeing the same threads for too long in many communities. Changing my view to 'new' highlighted new content more clearly, and seeing others make the effort to create new conversations encouraged me to try to comment on their content.
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I am relatively new to Lemmy, although I’ve had my account since before the current Reddit uprising and migration. I want to create a community for pen lovers, since that was one of my favorite subs over on Reddit and there’s not one here.

I was able to go to the main page on Lemmy.ml and choose to create a community. I put in the sidebar text, an icon, a banner, etc., and pressed “Create”, but I keep getting a popup telling me to “Match the requested format” over name at the top. I’ve tried “pens”, “!pens”, “c/pens”, “/c/pens”, and “https://lemmy.ml/c/pens”, and nothing seems to work. Any idea what it’s asking for?

(And yes, I did a Google search and fell down several rabbit holes, but came up empty for an answer.”

Basics

Subreddit = Community

1. Make an account on this or an other Server.
2. Search here for an community, e.g. "linux".
3. Copy the URL form step 2 into the search.
4. Shortly you should be able to join your desired community.

Clients

• Android
• iOS
• Other

Could it be more complicated?

Surely.

There is no way for an instance like lemmy.ml to know about all lemmy servers, because there’s no central server keeping track.

-- https://lemmy.ml/comment/447791

I was reading the above comment and it made me think about the relays and how they could help lemmy/kbin/other Group software. Relays were a solution the microblogging sector of the fediverse used to jumpstart instances, which would have an empty federated feed making it difficult for local users to find new users to follow.

The way I envision it working would be a community relay would be an AP server with a Service or Application type Actor. This actor could receive a copy of a community's Create message and could then Announce that community to its followers. Lemmy/kbin instances could follow relays to be alerted of new remote communities and notify the relay about their own new communities.

In this way, users/instances could learn about new communities across the fediverse in a participatory way without relying on a central authority.

It's not that the current UI is bloated or anything. That's very far from being true. But basic HTML version can also be great like DDG HTML

I'm thinking about deploying my own instance where I'd be the only user and most probable I won't have any communities.
The only thing there will be my account to interact with as many other instances as I want.

What would be de pros and cons of having my account like this?
Would it be harder to interact with other instances in some way?