Lemmy

This post suggests that Kbin magazines can be subscribed to in the same way as Lemmy communities, by searching for them, possibly waiting for one's instance to pull info about the magazine in, and then visiting the magazine through one's instance. However, although my home instance is federated with kbin.social, I am not able to get any search results for kbin.social magazines, and it seems that I am not the only one; see here, here, and here, though that last case seems to have fixed itself on its own. The behavior is the same whether I search by URL (e.g., https://kbin.social/m/fediverse), by magazine name with an at-sign (e.g., @fediverse@kbin.social), or by magazine name with a bang (e.g., [!fediverse@kbin.social](/c/fediverse@kbin.social)).

How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

@lemmy hi I'm trying to sign up on lemmy.ml but its not working.

Hello! I wrote a simple bot that periodically checks for new reddit posts and posts them to lemmy, so that people migrating from reddit to lemmy can still be able to see their favourite posts, but familiarizing with lemmy.

currently the coments are not synced, but this may change in the future (perhaps)

Yes, it uses the Reddit API, so it will stop working on the 1st of July, but I think that then I can implement a sort of web scraper to access Reddit posts without the official API, so this may eventually keep working for a while.

this script is currently on my laptop so it will be offline most of the time, but if I get the approval I may host it somewhere to get it running 24h/24.

now the question... Is this allowed? having this bot running 24h/24 on large subreddits will mean a very high quantity of posts. will this cause any problem to Lemmy?

if you want a preview check out https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/reddit_memes, where I started syncing a few posts from r/memes

let me know your opinion on this!

==== EDIT

here's the bot source code

The bot is now running in https://sh.itjust.works/c/reddit_memes, let's try to see if it work (I hope that shit just works)

I'm a bit concerned about the legality of this, if anyone has any info please tell me!

I want to know if there are other instances that federate with more instances than lemmy.ml, have similar rules regarding bigotry and spamming, and run the latest release of the UI: 0.17.4-rc.4 and BE: 0.17.4-rc.1.

I would be interested in the number of (new) Lemmy users. Similar to @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social

Are there any graphs that show users over time for all instances?

Since Reddit content being used to train AI was part of what triggered their Dumb Actions™️, is there a way to deal with this on Lemmy? If there's a way to license API access or the content itself under, say, LGPL to prevent commercial AI from using it that would be awesome. With the way ActivityPub works I'm not sure if that's possible though.

The GitHub repo that provides a comparison table of different lemmy instances now includes server uptime %

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

Thanks to David Morley for providing this data via the Fediverse Observer API

• https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.

The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.

While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.

It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.

I suggest Lemmiwinks.

I've seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don't show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in "!communityname@instance.domain"

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn't the thing that makes a social media site, it's the engagement

So even if you're used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they're more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they'll just go back to reddit

Some projects have a public roadmap or a list of priorities that give an idea of the direction that the maintainers want to take.

Is there anything like this for Lemmy currently?

Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It's probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn't apologize at all). Allegedly they're trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it's not working well enough lol

A good problem to have although long term we're going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.

It seems the devs wont be joining, but many instance admins are present.

Matrix join link: https://matrix.to/#/#xmpp_lemmy_muc.xmpp.fi:matrix.org

This is what I mean...Left is tchncs.de, right is Lemmy.ml

Edit: Also, trying to access those communities that don't appear in the search result for specific instance, gives this message

404: couldnt_find_community

Curious, since I know I can block communities of instances. Is instance-wide blocking only available to admins of instances?

For example, !lemmy starts with an !, but why not start with a # symbol?