Lemmy

Hey everyone, I am looking to change the domain name of my self hosted instance and had a question.

I used the Ansible installation instructions originally and am now curious if it would be as easy as editing the "hosts" file and the "config.hjson" file before running the playbook again?

Will this overwrite the necessary configurations and grab a new SSL while keeping the content of the instance intact?

My main concern is breaking federation.

Thanks for any insight.

I wonder if there is or will be a functionally providing the possibility to "hide" communities for a user? For instance I am not a soccer fan. So hiding communities with particular soccer teams as topic would be great. Later maybe I am interested so "unhiding" would be the other way around.

I don't know the code nor am I a Rust developer. But in my happy little programmer world this doesn't sound too complicated.

What do you think?

P.s. I didn't get a response to my last RFC and am a little concerned that stuff like this is not the point of this community. So please correct me if I'm wrong here :)

I've read that it should be possible, but my experience seems to show that that is incorrect, that you need a login for every instance where you wish to make a post or comment. Could someone who knows clarify this?

If you need a login for every instance of Lemmy to participate in non-local communities, then that will, I think, be the #1 issue with Lemmy adoption, and the main reason folks bounce off.

When I try to add 2FA, I see the following in my settings, but clicking on it tries to open some external program through my browser: I just want to add an OTP through my 2FA app on my phone. Does lemmy not support this? How do I use what it does have? I saw this issue on GitHub, which appears to say that 2FA was added, but I'm not sure if it is referring to this or something else.

(Reddit got so pissed at me for coming back every time they banned me, they increased their anti ban-evading measures against me, now I can't make new reddit accounts even changing IPs and emails now, so yeah, I belong to Lemmy now lol)

Due to the nature of the default robots.txt and the meta tags in Lemmy, search engines will index even non-local communities. This leads to results that are undesirable, such as unrelated/undesirable content being associated with your instance.

As of today, lemmy-ui does not allow hiding non-local (or any) communities from Google and other search engines. If you, like me, do not want your instance to be associated with other content, you can add a custom robots.txt and response headers to avoid indexing.

In nginx, simply add this:

# Disallow all search engines
location / {
  ...
  add_header X-Robots-Tag noindex;
}

location = /robots.txt {
    add_header Content-Type text/plain;
    return 200 "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /\n";
}

Here's a commit in my fork of the lemmy-ansible playbook. And here's a corresponding issue I opened in lemmy-ui.

I hope this helps someone :-)

It would help a lot to speed up moderation if there was a way to have an RSS feed with the latest comments of a given community.

Hello folks!

My apologies if this is not the appropriate place for this, I'll take it down if so. I spent the better part of the last 11 hours getting this project put together.

The README in the repository goes over just about everything regarding what this tool is about (and how to get it up and running), but the quick elevator pitch is that I wanted a way to monitor the stats of my instance because of the bot spam issues that have been going around in a lot of places. As of now, Lemmy keeps track of a lot of data that could be useful to at least be cognizant of what is going on, but doesn't actually expose it on the UI side.

Originally my idea was to just read the database info straight into Grafana, but of course due to my very little experience with Grafana I didn't realize that this wasn't going to quite work out the way I wanted, as the data in Lemmy's table isn't super well suited for what Grafana expects in terms of time-series data. Which then lead me to wanting to connect it with InfluxDB - another thing that I "knew of" but didn't have any experience with.

The end result was building a tool that could export/stream data from Lemmy's PostgreSQL database over to Influx, allowing me to then make some really nice visuals in Grafana! There are a couple of screenshots at the bottom of the README (I don't know how to scale images when inlining them into posts here and don't want a massive image in the post), along with a link to a snapshot/demo version of the dashboard.

Maybe it'll help some other instance admins, or maybe everyone will think its terrible (I do mention that I'm quite new at Rust), but either way its been frustrating, yet fun, and a good learning experience thus far!

By default Lemmy currently stretches videos so that they fit the whole horizontal space that's available.

You can apply this simple override using for example the Stylus extension with Firefox to disable that behavior:

video {
    width: auto !important;
}

This applies for videos and also for GIFs since they are currently converted to MP4 videos by Lemmy anyway.

I'm looking for a method to view all comments on Lemmy without missing any content. Currently, there doesn't seem to be a direct solution available. One approach I've considered is joining multiple instances and subscribing to the same communities across these instances. This way, I can compare the comments and content from different instances to ensure I'm not missing any discussions. Is there a website that allows me to choose instances with the fewest number of blocked users, similar to the example provided here? Are there any other methods to ensure I see everything and not feel like I might be missing out on the best replies because they are on a blocked instance?

Is there some way to hide deleted posts? When someone spams a bunch of posts and then they get deleted the post is still there taking up space. It would be nice if there was a setting to hide such posts or have them minimized in some way until you expand them.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/579630

Hi all,

I've put together some code on on Val Town that easily allows auto-publishing videos on Youtube channels to a Lemmy community.

It's simple enough that hopefully anyone should be able to set it up, and Val Town has a free tier which should be enough for anyone to publish a few feeds for free. There's a "README" on top showing how it's used.

Anyway, let me know what you think! If you end up using it, I'd love to get some thoughts on how easy it was to set up etc.

The line-height might have to be increased a little bit in the post listing as we can see in the screenshot that lines are currently slightly overlapping? It seems to be fine in the comments however.

While browsing all, with the hot setting, there are several posts that are days, even months old. Doesn’t take long to reach them either.

Thought it had to do with Lemmy.world being on 0.17, but it’s still a problem on 0.18

How many times can replies be nested (as in I post a comment, someone replies to that comment, then another replies to that comment, and so on)?

I'm assuming that this means that if you select a language, you will only be shown posts of that specified language; therefore, if you choose an uncommon language, you will see very little content (I'm assuming the most common language that is used on Lemmy, currently, is English). The warning, on its own, is rather nebulous, to me.

For all of my comments and posts, I have been selecting the "English" tag (side note, it would be fantastic if I could configure a default. Better yet, it would be nice if a community could set a default, and I default to that). Is this good practice? Or is this having some unintended side effect that I am not aware of? I'm guessing that it just makes filtering easier for people that filter by a language so that they only see posts of that language.

If this is possible, what exactly does that entail?

I think the way federation currently works spells doom for the fediverse, should any service of it get major traction. Currently, if you subscribe to a community on Lemmy or follow a user on Mastodon, your instance will pull the content of that instance/user and make it available for all to see and interact with. What seems like a good idea to spread content however is becomming the achilles heel of the fediverse: The admins of Lemmy/Mastodon instances are liable in many juristictions for the content their servers are distributing. This means in practice that many Lemmy/Mastodon instances block NSFW content for example, as the admins, understandably so, are either unwilling or incapable of making sure they are not running afoul of any laws.

As such, I think that the fediverse needs to offer a way for users to follow content from other instances without having that content be stored, let alone shared by their home instances.

A question I have at this point is where this criticism is best levied against. Is it the job of Lemmy/Mastodon to provide such a form of federation, or does the ActivityPub protocol needs to be ammended?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/925265

I've been working on a new Lemmy client for iOS and Android and will be looking for testers in the coming weeks. I'll be starting with iOS and then later rolling out to Android.

Features (so far) include:

• Compact and card views
• Multi-account support
• Gestures
• Nested/Threaded comments
• Themes

Let me know some of your favourite features of other Lemmy / Reddit apps that you liked that I may not have thought of!

Please follow the link if you're interested in testing. Here are some screenshots of the app so far and you can check out my thread on its development on Mastodon.

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Are server admins able to selectively modify user's content? Do they have the power to selectively edit, move, delete etc.? Or does the collective federation prevent a single bad actor from taking authoritative control?

There are weird things happening in the-federation.info page:

1. Users count is fluctuating for a few days
2. Some instance report wrong numbers such as lemmyonline.com which reports 97,024 posts where as the actual posts are less than 50 posts

I opened an instance for Turkey/Turkish content. I'm currently only partially able to access federated content. Posts, comments, upvotes are either partially missing or not coming at all. What can I do about it?

If I increase the server specs, is there a chance of improvement or is it a general situation?