Lemmy

I like being able to edit titles!

When I switch to Hot/All, I see a ton of posts from a German language community (and I don’t speak German). If I block the community to keep it from showing up, does it hurt them in any way? Like, I don’t want to contribute to them getting banned or something for being blocked too many times…

Like many of you, I’m here thanks to the Great Reddit APIocalypse. In order to keep our active, tight-knit subreddit hobby community intact, I decided to create a server for our community to be able to continue no matter what happens on Reddit. Despite some challenges, things are going pretty well and our active user base is growing.

I really need help with federation, though. I managed to federate my server with Lemmy.ml, but when I look at Lemmy.ml communities from my account on that server I only see posts and comments from people at Lemmy.ml. I’d like to be able to federate with all servers so the users of our server can join communities all over Lemmy and see comments from users of all other Lemmys. Can anyone point me in the right direction of how to make that happen? Also, are there some Lemmys that I should ban no matter what?

Thank you!

What are your other Fediverse (KBin/Lemmy/Pixelfed/PeerTube/Calckey/Mastodon) accounts?

With the rapid ongoing implosion of Reddit I've noticed a number of the people I follow on Mastodon now have accounts on Fediverse-based Reddit replacements such as KBin and Lemmy.

There's also a growing number of people who now have accounts on other services, such as PeerTube, Pixelfed, Friendica, and ever WordPress sites on the Fediverse.

So I thought it might be a good idea to do a thread where people share their different accounts on the Fediverse. That way, your followers can follow your accounts and see your posts, no matter which service you post to.

For me, the main accounts I use are:

@ajsadauskas
@ajsadauskas@pixelfed.social
@ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml
@ajsadauskas@fedibb.ml
@ajsadauskas@urbanists.video

What are yours? Please reply and share widely.

@fediverse #fediverse @technology #mastodon #lemmy #kbin #pixelfed #calckey @lemmy

With all this growth on Lemmy, I'm noticing many more languages when browsing All. I imagine there will be instances and communities within instances using different languages. Is there a way to filter out languages we don't speak?

Trying to follow Kbin communities from my Lemmy instance is a bit broken. If I try to open one, e.g. https://lemmy.nauk.io/c/linux@kbin.social from my instance, It gives me 404 and the logs show the following error:

2023-06-11T11:01:46.475407Z  WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: couldnt_find_community: error decoding response body: missing field `properties` at line 1 column 182
   0: lemmy_apub::fetcher::resolve_actor_identifier
             at crates/apub/src/fetcher/mod.rs:16
   1: lemmy_apub::api::read_community::perform
           with self=GetCommunity { id: None, name: Some("linux@kbin.social"), auth: Some(Sensitive) }
             at crates/apub/src/api/read_community.rs:30
   2: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
           with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy.nauk.io http.target=/api/v3/community otel.kind="server" request_id=e1b55819-fd89-4c89-a145-3ba606fb28b7 http.status_code=400 otel.status_code="OK"
             at src/root_span_builder.rs:16
LemmyError { message: Some("couldnt_find_community"), inner: error decoding response body: missing field `properties` at line 1 column 182

Caused by:
    missing field `properties` at line 1 column 182, context: "SpanTrace" }

Is this a known error in 0.17.3, if not, I should file an issue.

Edit: filed an issue

I'm noticing that the upvote/downvote counter on various posts is a bit erratic. I saw it in realtime going to 1.1K up to 2 up and 13 down to 8 up.

I made a post a little bit ago and the instant I posted it it had 8 upvotes on the total counter. Hovering over it revealed it had only 1 upvote.

How do I subscribe to different communities on the app? Thanks in advance.

What caused users to sign up to specifically lemmy.ml, instead of other servers? I am aware a lot of users signed up after the spez AMA, but even before the AMA the site was overloaded.

ChatGPT tells me it was named after Lemmy Kilmeister, but this seems off. Who named it?

Since NSFW is not allowed on this instance, we should block that instance to avoid seeing their posts here. What do you think?

Regarding my recent indefinite siteban on lemmy.ml

I'd never thought I'd make a post like this, but I wanted to be fully accountable

I want to start by thanking every person that reported me, as I realize I made many people uncomfortable with my posts or comments.

Until I was banned I did not realize that I had a pattern of spamming, I would also like to apologize for my silence.

I now understand the devastation others may have experienced after being banned by me.

When I was banned I was in a state of shock, I was riding a high of commenting, but when the ban page appeared I didn't know how to react.

During my time away I thought about the people I have done wrong by and with that being said I really appreciate the other users not saying "another kkkracka down unlimited genocide on the first world" I realize that took restraint.

Going forward, I promise to reply in Chinese once per day. Thank you for reading

Also, I want to thank the Lemmy Admins, Developers, and Moderators without you this would not be possible.

I'm on lemmy.world and found myself wanting to create several communities that I thought hadn't been created yet. It took me a while to figure out that communities don't propagate between instances until at least one person has searched for it by full name (with !).

I understand the technical reason for this, but now that lemmy.ml is maxed out and people are being encouraged to use other instances, it makes the lemmiverse feel much smaller than it actually is, because the search field on these smaller instances won't turn up anything that someone else hasn't already started searching.

The best case scenario is that there is a bunch of duplication as people create communities they think are missing. More likely, a lot of people who would otherwise participate will see the sparse community list on their instance and think that means there's nothing for them to see.

Is there something we can do to make communities more discoverable between instances?

Whereas I might’ve been less generous with upvotes on Reddit, I think it’s important in these early formative stages to let others know that I appreciate their contributions. I hope it encourages growth and activity!

I'm just still figuring this all out sorry if it's a dumb question

EDIT: Thank you all for the answers! I'm honestly loving the entire idea of the fediverse, im a new fan!

cross-posted from: all over the fediverse

(I think this is probably an okay place to post this, lmk if not)

Looking for collaborators to create a new instance of Lemmy. Among other things this instance will differ from existing ones by having a self-governing structure. Check out the very rough draft linked below to learn about my current vision for this community. Much on the doc will change based on other people's ideas. This community's goal is for it to belong to the community. No specific skills needed, but please read through the concept outline before getting in touch. Any type of contribution is amazing. You just have to be interested. Join me in creating a unique and innovative platform.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/350

In case your instance does not federate to something you would like it to, follow these steps:

• Go to your instance URL in a web browser - https://lemmy.cafe
• Click Communities
• Enter something in format !community@instance, e.g. [!general@lemmy.cafe](/c/general@lemmy.cafe). Click the search button.
• Nothing will show up, give it a couple of seconds
• Click Communities again
• Select All
• Your searched community should now be on the list
• Click Subscribe next to it
• ???
• Profit!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/

I didn't realise the sheer scale of protest over at Reddit. I'm using Stealth from F Droid to find out what's going on.

I hope I'm doing Lemmy right by posting this? Edit; apparently the link won't work for some reason. I've fixed it now. Feels like a pleb.

There is a community for my city on lemmy.ml, but it only has one moderator currently, and that user is deleted. Is there a process for taking over moderation for it?

I don’t know if I really want the job, but I’d feel better if there was someone at the wheel in case some yahoo gets on there and starts posting garbage.

I heard that Lemmy and kbin are interoperable, which is good since people are making different choices.

So now I'd like to subscribe to a community on kbin.social, but darned if I can find out how. I've tried putting the name (e.g., @science@kbin.social) into search, I've tried using ! instead of @, I've tried using the URL, nothing comes up.

Am I missing something, or is this simply not an option?

Thanks.

Honestly, this community is great, feel like I can breathe and have some real discourse again

Before reddit goes dark on Monday, I would like to add a short video to the join-lemmy.org site that shows new users how to create a lemmy account and subscribe to (remote) communities.

The video should be about 2-minutes long (shorter is better) with a screen recording and voiceover narration. If you do this, you'll get a lot of traffic to your youtube/peertube account ;)

Here's the outline of the video requested:

1. Mention that lemmy is a federated reddit alterntaive based on ActivityPub where 'subreddits' are called 'communities'. Go to join-lemmy.org in your web browser and click the big Join a Server button.

2. Tell the viewer that it doesn't really matter which instance they pick because you can subscribe to a 'community' from one instance from any other instance. Again reiterate that what reddit calls a 'subreddit' is called a 'community' on lemmy. Then just click Join from a random server from the "Recommended" list of instances. Tell the user to just pick one at random because it doesn't matter which they choose.

3. Signup for an account. Tell the user they may need to wait for the account to be approved.

4. Try logging-in. Wait some hours (for approval), if needed. Login to the account.

5. Show the UI for ~10 seconds, then tell the user that they can browse all communities using the "Lemmy Commnity Browser" run by Feddit. Again, reiterate that what used to be called ‘subreddits’ in reddit are called ‘communities’ on lemmy, and that each lemmy instance can have many communities. Open a new browser tab going to https://browse.feddit.de/.

6. On https://browse.feddit.de/, search for some popular community (eg documentaries) and then click the link. For the purposes of this video demo, make sure you select a “remote” community that’s hosted on an instance that’s distinct from where the user signed-up.

7. Tell the user that there's three ways to subscribe to a remote instance: [1] Search by remote URL, [2] Search by shorthand identifier, or [3] Manually construct the URL for your instance to their instance

8. Show copying & pasting the URL of the remote community (eg https://lemmy.ml/c/documentaries) into the search field of their own instance, and then clicking on the result.

9. Show copying & pasting the shorthand identifier for the remote community (eg [!documentaries@lemmy.ml](/c/documentaries@lemmy.ml)) into the search field of their own instance, and then clicking the result.

10. Open a new tab, and show how to manually construct the URL for the remote community in their own instance's site (eg https://[their.instance.tld]/c/documentaries@lemmy.ml) and load this page in the browser. Then click the Subscribe button

11. Tell the user that after they've subscribed to a bunch of communities, they can click the logo of their instance on the top-left of the UI to return to the Home Page of their instance. Then they can click the "Subscribed" tab to view posts to all the communities they subscribed to across the entire fediverse.

12. Show the changing of the sort from 'Active' to 'New' and 'Top'.

13. Tell the user that for more information on how to use Lemmy, they can read the documentation at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/ or post questions to the Lemmy community on lemmy.ml (https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy or [!lemmy@lemmy.ml](/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml)) that’s moderated by the lemmy developers.

Bonus: Tell that there's an iOS and Android app and show a quick ~5 seconds browsing in one or both.

I'm crowdsourcing this because I'm not much of a video creator, but I think this would be an incredibly useful resource to new lemmy users. And I can tell you that, if you make this video, it will drive a ton of traffic to your channel ;)

Can anyone with some video production skills help-out new lemmy users by making this short video? If you upload this to YouTube, please make sure you mark the license as Creative Commons CC-BY-SA so that we can add it to documentation and share it as widely as possible :)

Looking through the block instances list and saw lemmygrad is blocked? Is it the politics or just cause they are annoying or smth?