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If I remember correctly that sub had about 100K users. A few days ago I criticized major yiff subreddits for not even shutting down the 48h of the initial protest. And now we have the /r/furry subreddit blacked out for over a week.

Does anyone know who their admins / mods are? We should invite them over to here or pawb.social.

I know the adage that self-hosting email is hard. I use a third party smtp server to send emails for my Lemmy instance in order to guarantee delivery, for example.

However, other than potential uptime, what are the disadvantages to setting up self-hosted incoming email?

Incoming email is like 99% of my email usage. I'm happy to use a third party mail provider for outgoing email, but don't see why I shouldn't simply host incoming email myself.

Thank you <3

This userscript is incredibly useful in helping you populate your instance with remote communities.

Whenever you click on a link that gives you a 404 because your instance does not know about a community yet, it will immediately reload your browser and search for it, fetching you that community and making it discoverable for the rest of the users.

This works extremely well with lemmyverse.net when you click on the "home" icon in the communities tab and set your home instance.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/69331

If you try to access a community on your local instance and it gives you a 404, this automatically takes you to your local instance's search instead and puts the community in for you.

Recommended to use with https://sh.itjust.works/post/33762](local instance redirect script) by @soy@lemmy.world

I started using Tampermonkey today, so dunno if this works with GreaseMonkey, but I assume it does.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Lemmings Redirect
// @version      1.0
// @description  Redirect to your local Lemmy instance
// @author       @reddthat.com/u/Fanghole
// @match        https://*/c/*@*
// @icon         https://join-lemmy.org/static/assets/icons/favicon.svg
// ==/UserScript==

var unknownLemmy =
  document.body.textContent === "404: couldnt_find_community";

if (unknownLemmy) {
    // Get URL info
    var splitUrl = location.href.split("/");
    var split2 = splitUrl[4].split("@");
    var instanceUrl = split2[1];
    var community = split2[0];
    var searchUrl =
        "https://" + splitUrl[2] + "/search/q/!" + community + "%40" + instanceUrl + "/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1";

    window.location.replace(searchUrl);
}

cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/81818

I wrote this simile explanation of Lemmy intended for millennials / Gen Z who might be familiar with discord. While I could have left it out completely I included a bit of explanation about Lemmy instances in order to highlight why it's different from Reddit or other centralized Reddit-like platforms.

Everything written here is copyleft/public domain.

The audio was generated with Elevenlabs AI TTS with a paid account and I'm fairly confident that I can also give it the Public domain / copyleft license.

Audio: https://voca.ro/1cZOHPZo8shQ

Transcript:

"So, you're probably familiar with discord right?

On discord you've got one user account and that lets you participate in countless discord servers, each of them with their own channels, moderation style and possibly even dedicated to a particular community or topic.

Lemmy is very similar. With one account you can participate in countless of Lemmy servers, each of them with their own Lemmy communities, which are basically equivalent to a subreddit.

Now, this is basically what you need to know in order to start using Lemmy, but there's a couple of differences that are worth pointing out if you want to know how it works under the hood.

One big difference is that Lemmy servers are actually servers, as in an actual computer. These Lemmy servers basically know how to talk to each other so that it's easy to use them with a single account.

Unlike reddit or even discord, these servers aren't owned by a big centralized corporation. Instead, they're run by anyone who wants to create an online space for their communities. It is harder to run a Lemmy server than a discord server because it requires actual computing resources, that's true, but it also means that there's no for-profit business that controls the Lemmy network or all the Lemmy communities.

Joining Lemmy and giving it a try is quite easy. Because there's no owner of the Lemmy network, in order to sign up you just need to sign up on one of the hundreds of Lemmy servers available. This first server will become what's known as your "home instance" and with that account you can interact with countless other Lemmy servers and each of their subreddits slash communities.

If you want to give it a try, just vist join-lemmy.org and choose a server to become your home instance. And that's it!"

I wrote this simile explanation of Lemmy intended for millennials / Gen Z who might be familiar with discord. While I could have left it out completely I included a bit of explanation about Lemmy instances in order to highlight why it's different from Reddit or other centralized Reddit-like platforms.

Everything written here is copyleft/public domain.

The audio was generated with Elevenlabs AI TTS with a paid account and I'm fairly confident that I can also give it the Public domain / copyleft license.

Audio: https://voca.ro/1cZOHPZo8shQ

Transcript:

"So, you're probably familiar with discord right?

On discord you've got one user account and that lets you participate in countless discord servers, each of them with their own channels, moderation style and possibly even dedicated to a particular community or topic.

Lemmy is very similar. With one account you can participate in countless of Lemmy servers, each of them with their own Lemmy communities, which are basically equivalent to a subreddit.

Now, this is basically what you need to know in order to start using Lemmy, but there's a couple of differences that are worth pointing out if you want to know how it works under the hood.

One big difference is that Lemmy servers are actually servers, as in an actual computer. These Lemmy servers basically know how to talk to each other so that it's easy to use them with a single account.

Unlike reddit or even discord, these servers aren't owned by a big centralized corporation. Instead, they're run by anyone who wants to create an online space for their communities. It is harder to run a Lemmy server than a discord server because it requires actual computing resources, that's true, but it also means that there's no for-profit business that controls the Lemmy network or all the Lemmy communities.

Joining Lemmy and giving it a try is quite easy. Because there's no owner of the Lemmy network, in order to sign up you just need to sign up on one of the hundreds of Lemmy servers available. This first server will become what's known as your "home instance" and with that account you can interact with countless other Lemmy servers and each of their subreddits slash communities.

If you want to give it a try, just vist join-lemmy.org and choose a server to become your home instance. And that's it!"

Non-exhaustive shout out to @asonix@masto.asonix.dog who wrote the pict-rs component that Lemmy uses, @crashdoom@pawb.social who created the pawb.social instance, @alyaza@beehaw.org who runs beehaw.org and @TenorTheHusky@kbin.social who created a Lemmy/kbin search tool at programmer2514.github.io