Lemmy

EDIT: The script has been updated a few times. It now has new features. You should check it out again, even if you already have.

exactly what is says on the can. put in the multireddit URL of all your subs (explained in script), get a list of lemmy communities of the same name.

Even better if it was customizable.

Also generally I'd love if most features come with an option to turn them off. For example the pop-up of new replies. I can see that getting annoying really fast on very active accounts.

An idea that just occurred to me. I was looking for communities on machine learning to join, so I searched https://browse.feddit.de/ and found a bunch. They don't have much content but together they have at least 4 or 5 posts each, which adds up to a few posts, so I subscribed to all of them.

However, now I have no way of "grouping" them so that I can view posts of all communities in my feed related to the topic of machine learning.

I was wondering if some concept of "super communities" could be interesting for Lemmy, similar to "multireddits". People could curate their collection of favourite communities around a topic, over multiple instances, and users could easily subscribe and browse the whole bunch of them.

See thread from the reviewer here: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/110550824230711531

They’ve apparently only shared it on some matrix room so far but will publish it.

You can read the comments in the thread for slightly more detail, but the essence of it is that lemmy (and especially kbin?) and too immature in terms of moderation tooling and shouldn’t really be opening themselves up to the public as anything more than an alpha test.

Some sort of response or discussion here makes sense, especially in light of Beehaw.org’s recent defederation from lemmy.world, because of, it seems, lemmy.world’s open signup policy and what beehaw find to be insufficient moderation tooling (see discussion here: https://lemmy.world/post/170911 or same but on lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/1281130 )

My posts don’t seem to be appearing on mastodon.

See this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/1277519

And its view on mastodon (where it was created by a mastodon user): https://fosstodon.org/@infinimitsu/110549583572695199

Meanwhile federation to lemmy.world seems fine: https://lemmy.world/post/163816

Incidentally, all the other lemmy comments that appear to federate originate from lemmy.world. Is there a block?

I've gone a full week without Reddit and I'm realizing the sheer amount of time I wasted on that fucking site. I'm taking back control of my time, my mental real estate, and mindfulness. I don't need new content every single waking moment, checking the app multiple times a day. If I check Lemmy every other day, that SHOULD be the relationship I want with an app like this.

And if I'm really really bored, I'll check "All instances" and sort by New on Jerboa!

I have been finding a lot of great content by setting my view to "All" and sort type to "Hot" or even "Top Day". However, it is kind of infuriating how those modes automatically scroll with seemingly no way to disable it. Am I just missing an option somewhere or is there a known workaround for this? This is on the lemmy.ml web view.

Hello I am unable to log into lemmy.world at all via Safari. Once clicking log in, it just spins forever and I disabled all of the extensions and so on.

However, all other browsers work no problem, like Firefox, Edge or Chrome...

Anyone encountering similar issue with Safari? 🤔

Basically title - will anyone be able to see what I up- and downvoted?

I read that they "defederated"... What does this mean? And why did they do this? And what are the consequences?

Is there a way to find these communities across instances other than by waiting until a post appears?

I'm sure this has been asked and answered before but I can't find it.

How do I subscribe to a community from another instance? I read you just search communities with the url of the community you want to join, but that didn't work for me. Even with variations in formatting: !community@instance, for example.

Perhaps there should be a sticky somewhere that explains the slight complexities of the fediverse since it's clearly a bit foreign to most users. I've been on lemmy for over a year and I'm constantly discovering functionality I was unaware of thanks to all the new lemons coming in and asking questions.

Is there a way to automate community discovery across the federation?

I started my own lemmy but I'm finding I have to search for and subscribe manually for them to appear. Right now I'm the only person on my lemmy so its gonna be slow going till I grow my community.

Is there an automated way to do this?

Also, are there any good bot scripts for lemmy? I want to get some bots set up to create some daily posts automatically.

Might be a dumb question, but I mod a few subs and wanted to clarify something. If I block a random user on my account, will I see their posts in the communities I moderate? It dawned on me that I might be missing bad behavior because I can't see it.

So today I tried finding a way to search comments in Lemmy, but I couldn’t find one (at least one that worked for every instance), so I decided to make my own one :) you only need to log in once and the program will automatically detect it for you after that (your credentials are stored locally in a file called login.json, so don't share it with anyone). This would be really embarrassing if it turns out that there’s a way to Search for comments inside of communities XD

Lemmy.world has quickly gathered 22,000 users within just two weeks of its launch. However, only 6,000 users are considered active on a monthly basis. This raises an intriguing question: what criteria must a user meet to be classified as an active user? Is it a certain frequency of engagement, specific actions taken within the platform, or perhaps a combination of factors?

@dansup@mastodon.social made a special page on fediDB to make it easier to track growth.

I'm impressed that Lemmy only needs 150 MB RAM and uses virtually no CPU

This seems like an ideal thing to install on an embedded system such as a Raspberry Pi.

Problem: Where are the builds?

In the installation page, you have three options: Docker, Ansible, From Scratch

I'm currently doing the from scratch option since my OS distributor is not a fan of docker or ansible (and neither am I), but the build is taking ~1hr.

Are there no nightly builds with .deb packages?

I find it annoying to have to check posts from multiple instances just to make sure I'm seeing all the comments. How can I find instances with open registration that block or are blocked by the fewest number of other instances?

I will probably have to take into account the instance size and the total number of users blocked.

Lemmy Pro Tip

You can find your default views within your profile settings.

Doing this will give you a more reddit like experience.

I guess I should try @lemmy

There is a new Lemmy app called Memmy in alpha right now!

It's being made by @gkd and has a repo up at https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy/

@lemmy @fediverse

Hey guys, as I'm sure many of you are already aware there's a couple of bugs that are plaguing the home page. I've made a hotfix for these bugs:

1. New posts popping up and pushing all the other posts downwards - this is more prevalent on the larger lemmy instances, you'll just be scrolling and suddenly everything's pushed down because new posts are being added to the top of the page as they're being created
2. Default "All" not working - this is more something admins would be aware of but in the site settings you can set the default "Listing Type" to "All" instead of "Local", but if you do this the home page doesn't properly load "All", it'll show you the "Local" feed with "All" selected in the tabs. Seems this feature wasn't implemented correctly in time for 0.17.4

Since 0.18 is still a little while out, and I'm sure the devs are both really busy on it (they also said they won't be making another 0.17 release), I went ahead and made a hotfix for these. I have it up on jcgurango/lemmy-ui:0.17.4-hotfix so if you're using docker you can just upgrade to that image. I'm not really sure how ansible works, so I can't help with that.

Here's the repo I have these changes on for those who want to check or build it themselves: https://github.com/jcgurango/lemmy-ui - I've based it on the v0.17.4 tag on the upstream repo.