Lemmy

Under "Communities I have three options, Subscribed, Local, All. That's awesome.

Could we get another one, "Unsubscribed" or "Unfollowed" or "Unjoined" or... you get the idea.

This would make discovering new communities a bit easier.

I made a post to funny@Lemmy.world, then in another tab I subscribed to science@lemmy.ml. Back in the tab I made the post in, the page updated itself to look like I made the post in science@lemmy.ml instead. I didn't refresh the page or do anything else... It just changed by itself.

Upvotes are blue and downvotes are orange.

I love this details, didn't realize before.

Title says it all. Gotta bring my favorite online community to Lemmy

https://lemmy.world/c/amish

Is it possible to block entire instances? I see I can block by user or community, but not by instance.

This would be useful as there are some instances based around politics etc. that I don't care about.

I can see posts from lemmy.ml on lemmy.world. But when I go on lemmy.ml directly, I get 502 Bad Gateway. The pictures on the lemmy.ml posts I see are also missing. Does this happen to anyone else? Or am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: I can now visit lemmy.ml after forcing ipv4. If you also get 502 Bad Gateway, you can try forcing ipv4 or go to other instances like lemmy.world or sopuli.xyz.

Does it go to the mods of the community that the comment is in? Does it go to the admins of the instance that community is in? The admins of the instance I'm logged into? All of the above?

Can we appreciate that Lemmy architecture design and dedication of instance admins made it possible for this to happen:

https://the-federation.info/lemmy
I wonder how many other projects could scale up this quickly as well as Lemmy did.

Posts commonly freeze up and I'm not sure if they are posted/not most of the time.

Is this an issue anyone else faces when click the "create" button?

post-script:

This was evidently made in a hurry, so I'll need some help from you all in the comments to polish it or add anything important that I have overlooked. Or, you know, apply actual basic graphic design principles. Regardless, I think it will serve as a prototype guide for newcomers.

I encourage using the crosspost feature to share this around where appropriate (this place has grown so much I haven't found all the relevant meta communities). All rights reversed, none reserved

One more thing I didn't explicitly say was: seize this opportunity to do something new! While it is good to see a lot of fun communities moving over, we naturally run the risk of just replaying the same old game. Even just the little things like people recycling 'sub-lemmy' or 'lemmiquette' (which isn't even a pun anymore) and the same old in-joke memes. Be creative and fresh! That's how you build a community and prevent people just leaving after a month.

If you're a Lemmy dev and reading this, the problem is in pict-rs. I have sent an email to asonix with the needed changes, please tell them to check their inbox (since I can't register on their git server, I can't submit a formal PR).

Send me a PM if the email gets lost and I'll give you the line you need.

If you're not a Lemmy dev: Have you encountered an image that is suspiciously rotated here on Lemmy? Perhaps you even tried posting an image that looks right yourself and found it rotated itself! Why?!

The reason is that Lemmy strips all metadata from images you upload to it. This is because image metadata can contain, among other things, GPS coordinates or where it was taken. The problem is that when you take a picture with your phone in landscape, instead of rotating the image in memory, your phone saves the image sideways (because that's how it came off the sensor) and then adds a metadata tag that tells everyone to rotate the image as they are displaying it. You guessed it, that tag also gets deleted. In most cases, this is fine because either the picture wasn't rotated to begin with, or Lemmy image hosts actually save the properly rotated image before stripping the tag, but in some image formats, this isn't the case due to a programming oversight. I have found the fix and sent it to the person responsible for the image hosting code.

awesome-lemmy-instances adds two new columns:

1. BI - The number of instances that this instance blocks
2. BB - The number of instances that block this instance

Now you can quickly see which instances censor (or are censored) in the lemmyverse:

• https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

I think this is small and not usable, specially for vertical videos

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8091

If that fucker thinks they can just chill and wait until we come back crawling, they've got another thing coming...

Hi, I used to be the moderator of the (now dead) LibreOffice community. After a while, I kinda forgot about Lemmy and went back to lurking Reddit, using Teddit and RedReader. In light of the API protests, I decided to come back here to see how Lemmy was doing, and I'm surprised by the amount of users it's getting!

I'm gonna try and spend some more time on Lemmy, even after the protests are over. This place just seems much more chill than Reddit.

Cheers, and let's hope more people learn about the Fediverse!

P.S. Remember to donate to keep the server costs at bay!

Just wanted to say that the upgrade process was really simple. So far so good! 🤞

It feels like something is different visually, but I can't put my finger on it.

When visiting a new lemmy instance to find communities, you have to copy the !community@server link from the description to your instance's search bar. If a chrome/firefox extension could detect that a lemmy instance is loaded and automatically add "Subscribe on [homeinstance.url]" buttons where the normal subscribe button would be, I think it'd go a long way toward making the "Fediverse" easy for new users. Apologies if this exists and I just couldn't find it.

I created accounts on Lemmy and Mastodon, thinking to replace both reddit and Twitter, but I’m able to see my Lemmy account and its posts by searching on Mastodon. However I’m not able to log in to the Mastodon app with my Lemmy username.

The apps for Lemmy are still super new and not very reliable- is there any chance of being able to browse and post on Lemmy servers using the Mastodon app instead?

I know I can link directly to a community on my local server with /c/community@instance, but is there a way to do that for posts or comments?

So there's a button in your settings that you can click - "show read posts." If it's off, then you won't see posts you've already clicked on. Trouble is, in some cases you want to see already-read posts - notably, in your profile. As is, if you have the box unchecked and go to your profile, it will be empty. Any fix for this other than turning it on and off?