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I'm new to Lemmy. I've been on Mastodon for a while. I tend to access social media on the web and by app. I use Fedilab for Mastodon and I am comfortable with it.

What apps should I consider for Lemmy? I'm android, btw.

Thanks!

If you try to create an account and it does not work - no error message, no timeout, just starring at a spinning wheel forever -, look at your chosen username. If it is longer than 20 characters, try a shorter name.

After you have gotten through the process of account creation, you might think to yourself, yo, but I can totally choose a display name, right? If you go to your account settings and change your display name and find yourself again, without an error message or anything, starring at a spinning wheel forever - try a shorter display name.

I have been told that the standard for usernames is 3 to 20 characters, though this can vary from instance to instance. But Lemmy does not tell you that. Which can be very confusing.

Disclaimer: I post this as a "for your information", not a support request. I don't know if the admins of this instance would even be able to help here. This is a Lemmy problem, not a Blahaj problem.

I just wanted to say hi to everyone as I'm new to Lemmy and blahaj.zone :3

I'm Evelyn and I use she/they pronouns, what about you guys? Introduce yourselves!

Pros of cons of living in canada

Pros: nice people, queer friendly, free healthcare

Cons: bri'ish, fr*nch

For legal reasons, this is a joke and meme

Facebook is planning to join the Fediverse by releasing a Twitter-like service that runs on ActivityPub. This would flood the Fediverse with content (and trolls) from Facebook, allow Facebook to mine data from the Fediverse, and would do irreparable damage to this small part of the internet which has not yet been marred by corporate greed.

Will the admins of this instance agree to block any instance that is set up by Facebook?

Good night, hydrate, and stay safe you hecking gremlins.

Hey, I'm Rose, a self taught furry artist and author

I use she/they pronouns, and I am transfemme

My favorite animal is the fennec fox, but I love all foxes equally

I am a very sensitive creature so please be patient with me, nice to meet you. I migrated here because of the shitshow that is Reddit right now, and I do not really vibe with Tumblr

Here is my current ref sheet though, if you wanna know. Nice to meet y'all

Hey everyone,

I'm your local server godess. I usually sit in the background doing things, while my lovely partner @ada does her thing moderating the server, but I do pop in every now and then to let you know when important things happen like the server gets an upgrade etc.

So earlier today we were running a slightly old version of lemmy on the same hardware as the database server, which started causing problems as our instance has grown significantly over the last few days.

So tonight we're running a freshly upgraded lemmy 0.17.4, moved onto its own dedicated server instance.

Hopefully this should resolve the issues we were having and let me or Ada know if you notice any issues or glitches.

Also Ada has relented and setup a ko-fi donations page for those that want to donate AND can afford it.

We want to stress that we are running these instances to support our community, so the last thing we want is to add financial stress to the members of that community.

If you're privileged enough to be able to help with a donation without causing yourself financial stress, you're welcome to help cover some of the running costs. But if you're not, please do not feel any obligation to do so as that would undermine the goal behind creating these spaces in the first place. We'd rather keep covering the costs ourselves than pull funds away from the members of our community that need it.

Lots of love! Kaity (and Ada).

Politics are one thing, but there are servers that without-a-doubt bad. Some for example literally have "lolicon" in the URL. Not doing that also may or may not invite trouble, depending on your local laws.

You dont't have to deal a_troll_and_their_2_or_3_friends.lol, but there are lists of known-bad servers (#FediBlock brings up some results). Im talking about defederating those, that can almost universially be considered bad.

I love the concept of the blahaj zone, however, I've noticed it goes down quite often and I get left stuck on 504 Bad Gateway errors that I don't get from my secondary account, which is on a different instance.

If it's due to costs or traffic, the instance owner needs to set up a donation link or otherwise, I would gladly chip in!

This is potentially a very silly question but it also occurs to me that this may be far more complicated than first glance. It could even vary by instance. Are reports sent only to the moderators of the given community or admins as well? Maybe even the admins of the troublemaker's instance?

I just made an account, this is my first post. hai!!

I've used Reddit for almost a decade across multiple accounts and I'm looking for a new aggregator to lurk on cuz like many other ppl I'm not super happy with changes Reddit's making to their API

1. Is there a way for me to organize, like, collections of communities like Reddit's custom feeds/multireddits? This was the main thing that made Reddit useable for me, as I have many interests that I fall in and out of in cycles, and it was easier to just browse my multireddits with the content I was interested in seeing at any given time instead of browsing r/all or browsing a feed of all the subreddits I was subscribed to.

2. is there a way to stop post feeds from automatically updated when there are new posts? often when i'm about to click on a post, the feed updates, and the post i was about to click on gets pushed down and i end up clicking on something else that i didn't want to click on. I would rather it not do that personally.

thx :3

Hello all :3

I'm slowly moving over to Lemmy from the other site and was just wondering what the etiquette about instances is? Should we use one instance for everything? Or should certain topics (aka non queer related items) be done on another server. Obviously not talking about stuff like racist or bigoted things but in terms of server space and bandwidth. Obviously on reddit all my subreddits - whether I created or just was a member of - were on reddit.com but I just wanted to know what the general feelings of instance membership was for the Fediverse?

Sorry if I'm not making sense ;P

Also is there a way to donate to blahaj.zone server costs? I didn't see anything under /about but I just thought I'd ask!

Wrote this as a comment, but was too long. Feel free to disagree.

I think that lemmygrad should be defederated, but i think that lemmy.ml should not be defederated, not for now anyway. The vast majority of people on lemmy.ml are not tankies, and politics or tankieism is not a major topic of discussion on lemmy.ml.

Idk if this is true, but I heard that they suppress anti-ccp views, but as long as they don't defederate from other instances, you can always just post them here or on whatever other instance and they'll still be fully visible from lemmy.ml (i'm pretty sure this is true but not 100%, still pretty new to all this fediverse stuff). If they did however start defederating from every instance that allowed truth about "left" auth governments, then yeah ok you can defederate. But that is not what lemmy.ml is doing, at least not right now.

There's different rules based on instance, this will probably be a sticking point and has the potential to derail lemmy entirely if every instance is only federated with the "correct" instances. Lets say lemmy has 100,000 users, its not that much yet but for example. If there's 10 different "networks" that only talk to each other from that same network that has the same rules (obviously, bigotry/"don't be an asshole" rules need to be enforced for every instance), that site is doomed to failure vs if there's 1 network with everyone talking to each other and generally agreed upon default communities for each topic, or even the idea of "multireddits" in whatever form.

I'm not saying federate with every instance, I'm just saying it should be a HIGH bar, not a low bar like a differing signup policy. Being focused on porn makes sense or even if an instance was 50% porn, that'd make sense. Or obviously if there's bigotry, extremism or violence coming from an instance. Which lemmygrad.ml passes, but lemmy.ml doesn't.

If you defederate based on small things, then there'll be 10 gaming communities, 10 NFL communities, 10 "ask reddit" communities. Which is not sustainable obviously. This was one advantage of reddit, it was a "hub" that had 1 (maximum 2 if a split, there was never 3 that were totally equivalent for any topic) forum for literally every topic in the world. A single for profit company controlling pretty much every equivalent to a 2000s forum on the web was very convenient, but was always going to end badly.

Beehaw.org just defererated lemmy.world and shitjustworks, because of the open signups policy (as opposed to the waist high fence of a few paragraphs explaining why you're not an asshole)

That's a major mistake imo and i don't think I'll be using that account as my "main" anymore. Not like I dislike the instance or anyone from it, but a lot of lemmy is now invisible entirely from there.

TL;DR defederating should be used only when you are fundamentally opposed to the core of an instance. Otherwise the lemmy universe will fracture and fail

Apologies to all for today's performance issues and downtime.

Logging for our lemmy instance filled our main partition and brought everything to a halt. Our lemmy instance shares hardware with blahaj.zone, and the significant growth in lemmy over the last 10 days has caused the logs to grow in size exponentially! As a result of the logs filling up the main partition, both lemmy.blahaj.zone and blahaj.zone itself went down.

We've freed up some space, upgraded the hardware and spun everything up again, and it looks everything is back to normal.

Apologies for the inconvenience, and welcome back to everyone!

If I understand correctly, every instance is hosted on a private server - is it along with all the content like images, videos and text?

If so, how is it funded?

Sorry to bother but I was wondering if anyone could help me with this issue I’m having

I made a post here !WaltDisneyWorld@kbin.social (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/121864) here’s the direct link to the post

But when I went on the kbin site on my phone I realized there where posts on the kbin site that I couldn’t see from blahaj zone and that my post wasn’t visible to users on kbin ( https://kbin.social/m/WaltDisneyWorld ) , I’m not sure if im doing something wrong or what again sorry to bother!

Ps sorry if this is the most noob question ever!

Hi! As far as I know a warning about Undetermined languages should show up in a box in the Settings page, but instead the text "undetermined_language_warning" shows up. I think that's a bug.

Before lemmy.ml was down I remember the message correctly showing on my account on that instance.

I was thinking I would like to block the avalanche of low effort memes.

Is this possible? I'm super new, just made my account this week.

My wonderful co-admin @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone has made a modification to the downvote system. It's not currently enabled, but if we were to turn it on, downvotes would be available for use, but they would weigh 5 times less than an upvote.

Which is to say, it would take 5 downvotes to counter an upvote. This would let downvotes have an impact on what appears in the hot topics sort, but hopefully mitigate some of the more negative impacts of downvoting.

Are there any strong objections from Blahaj Lemmy users to enabling downvotes with this modification?

I just want to say that the admins here are great and deserve appreciation, especially during this whole kerfuffle with Reddit :)

Have a good one, mods and admins!

For those of us who don't necessairly like to browse during the brighter areas, is there a plan for a dark mode or themes for this instance?

Sorry dunno if this is the correct place to ask, but get an error whenever i try uploading an image in a post or try setting my pfp.

"SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data"

As much as I like the wholesomeness of the concepts of upvotes only, I'd love to downvote idiots on other instances

I cant seem to open feddit.nl through this instance, a community i wanted to subscribe to. I cant seem to find a link to that community in the communities tab when searching for all, and when typing it in the browser i get a 404. Does every instance have to manually link every instance or something? Or am i using it wrong?