Lemmy

Hello, creating a community on firefox fails currently, the button turns to a loading button but never proceeds to send a request anywhere

New Reddit refugee here! One thing I noticed when signing up for Lemmy is the lack of multi-factor authentication to protect my account. Just curious if this on the roadmap?

This seems like the most relevant community. I have so many questions - some from pure curiosity, and some from actually considering hosting an instance.

There seems to be different UIs for Lemmy, but it's instance-wide and thus configured by the admin of that instance.

There seems to be an instance that isn't federated that uses a different UI, the only instance that I know of is Hexbear, that properly utilizes space of a desktop web browser to display content.

So what I'm wondering is, are there any federated instances that use that UI? I would obviously like to stay part of the fediverse with good moderation, I just want to find something that has UI that takes advantage of more screen real estate.

Also if there is anyone who is more familiar with the UI, hosting your own instance etc., is there any reason in particular why someone who is setting up a new instance couldn't or shouldn't use the UI that Hexbear is using?

Due to lemmys focus on communities instead of individuals it seems like some level of centralization is going to occur or already has. As an example !privacy@lemmy.ml is going to be a way more active community than !privacy@somerandomserver.org. now if i run a terrible server called terribleserver.net and lemmy.ml bans it as they should then nobody on terribleserver.net will be able to interact with the largest communities such as !privacy, !technology, etc. Other servers may have their own versions of these but they will most likely be rarely used. Mind, i doubt lemmy.ml's mods would do this, but a rogue mod could really break things by just banning other instances for no reason. I have been on mastodon for years but am decently new to lemmy so if i am misunderstanding this please correct me

Trying to create a new community and I get that error for the name. I try tapping the ? In the circle and nothing. What am I missing?

@lemmy I just realized that you can submit posts to any lemmy community from any mastodon / fediverse account. This is pretty cool!

I'm genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?

Fellow reddit refugee here. I'm having trouble logging in using LibreWolf (basically firefox) with multi account containers turned on. I can log in fine with Chrome or in a LibreWolf Private Window, and most other sites work fine, so apparently I've got something configured weird or lemmy.ml is doing some weird cross-site authentication or setting a cookie from another site.

I have lemmy.ml set to always use a Lemmy container, Google set to always use a Google container, Hachyderm.io using a Mastodon container, etc., and those all work fine, but Lemmy just spins when I click the button to log in.

Anyone know what else I should whitelist to log in normally?

Hello, is there a way I can request or create a lemmy.ml community be created? I want to create a lemmy team fortress 2 community to be created through lemmy.ml. is there a possible way to request it?

Hello everyone!

I recently posted about asking third party devs switch APIs from reddit to lemmy on the open source community here. As we know, lemmy should obviously be seeing a lot of new users join, and I have some humble suggestions to the developers of Lemmy @nutomic@lemmy.ml, @dessalines@lemmy.ml and the other devs.

Just like Mastodon did, can we redesign the homepage to appear more user friendly welcoming? Don't get me wrong, not that the current homepage is bad or so, but it appears to look tech nerdy for the average user, a constant feedback I've been getting on my recent posts promoting Lemmy at Reddit.

Here are some improvements in my mind:

• Change background in lemmy's website to be plain colour, and increase the explanations' font size as well as more explanations, like what a server is in the server page, add some lemmy style modern icons next to the explanations. (example: Lemmy is open source, so throw an icon that represents open source). Right now for the average user, the homepage might seem a little overwhelming due to lots of text going on, like Mastodon's new design, make the explanations appear bigger and give some space between them, even if it means more scrolling.

• Make and link an "API" page on the homepage, like we have for "join, news, app, donate and etc" saying "welcoming third-party developers" and explaining how Lemmy is open source and how API will remain freely accessible forever. This page should also consist information and links to API, helping devs migrate from reddit to Lemmy or even start making their first third-party app from scratch. At the moment I even got some comments from my other posts regarding Lemmy on reddit, and people are asking where is Lemmy's API or they are unaware of an API, it's not as visible. So we need an API page.

• Remove Remmel as iOS app and replace it since it's no longer developed, a common question on reddit as people don't realize it's abandoned.

• Provide some explanation as to how web apps can be added on platforms like iOS (and android, etc), especially since we lack a stable iOS app right now.

If you have anymore, please feel free to shoot a comment below guys! I will add em here :)

So, as another Reddit refugee, I was wondering if there's also a way to view the posts I've voted on here?

On Reddit I liked to use that to quickly find posts I wanted to check back on, while "saved" was only for really exceptional content.

The docs link in fr page gives 404

this is pretty useful when using RES or baconreader.

Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.

I think there's a bug somewhere :)

New sign ups info https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/286085

Crossposts are a great way to follow posts from one community to the next, and discover more user contributions. I would love to see that on Lemmy.

Something I made quite extensive use of back on Reddit was the ability to wrap related subreddits into a single multireddit, which I could then browse as I wanted.

e.g. a multireddit for tech related subreddits, another for memes of all varieties, and so on

Just curious if there were any plans to implement this.

I have a question about communities. Are communities server-specific, for example, is the "Gaming" community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org and will I need to join both?

Today I noticed an interesting bug in lemmy-ui.

If you open a post in one tab and then open a new tab where you subscribe to a different community, the sidebar and "target community" of the post in the previous tab will be updated to the newly subscribed community.

However, this only happens when you subscribe to remote communities.

I suspect the reason for this is that the FollowCommunityResponse is sent to both websockets of the open tabs.

I don't know if the upcoming removal of the websocket API will make this bug a non-issue, so I haven't reported it on Github.

(Browser is Firefox 113.0.2 btw)

It's a good reminder to use the language feature.