Lemmy

I couldn't find any dark mode Lemmy icon. Memmy's icon was close, so I downloaded it and tweaked the background. I hope it's helpful for some folks.

I've made an app that makes it possible to schedule a post in Lemmy at an arbitrary time. It's available at https://schedule.lemmings.world and can be used by people from any instance.

Let me know what you think!

P.S. This post was posted using the app

Edit: And it's open source!

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/3174066

I shared a post about my instance.

Then I hit the cross-post button, chose the community, language and then submitted the form. Although new post created, there is no "cross-posted to" area on both original or target post.

For example here, you can see which communities the post cross-posted to. What am I doing wrong?

Update: looks like both posts should have same URL for crosspost to work. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3827

I used to use the instances view in Liftoff for this, since that client has a really handy "View this on another instance" feature for both communities and posts, but lately that view as well as Liftoff in general has had some pretty serious stability issues for me, so here's the question:

Does anyone know of a tool or client that makes it really easy to move community subscriptions across instances? As I have several accounts across several instances, I tend to use those to organize my subscriptions by things like topic or theme, kinda like one might use multireddits on The Old Site.

Hello. I'm considering hosting a 1-person instance for my personal use. I'm trying to run on my own hardware, and I have used *nix for quite a long time and maintaining it wouldn't be much of a problem. However, I'm not quite sure what kind of hardware should I run it on.

How powerful should my hardware be? Say, would it be OK on a old PC with Northwood Celeron and 512mb of ram with 384GB HDD? Or maybe an android phone running postmarketOS (Alpine Linux) with MSM8916 and 2GB of ram with 32GB eMMC?

Also, my ISP does not allow opening common server hosting ports, and I'd also prefer not doing so due to security problems. Which ports do I need opened to operate a lemmy instance for my personal use (i'm only going to be connecting from home)? Can I use CloudFlare's cloudflared/Argo Tunnel to do this? (I do know CloudFlare is not great and has problems but I'm not aware of any other similar service, I'm not really able to pay for external servers but if there's an alternative service I'm open to suggestions)

Thanks for reading the post, and hopefully answering.

Title, basically.

Unless admins of specific instances are publishing defederation lists, it seems like it's impossible to tell without visiting a community on a defederated instance from your home instance only to see "no posts." While I like federation overall, I feel like most users are going to end up with a few accounts or setting up their own Lemmy instances just so that they can see stuff from all other instances without running into errors.

Maybe adding some sort of message when viewing a community from an instance not federated with it would be a good idea, with a generic catch all of "Your home instance is not federated with the instance that this community is on. Please contact your instance administrator for details" with the option for instance admins to customize the message per instance if they want to. I'm not really a programmer-type so I wouldn't know if that was even feasible.

I know there's a purge function, but i had a problem currently with people posting porn picture in my instance(which is not allowed), then later edit out the link so i couldn't get the picture purged as well. Is there a way to do it?

I know it's just a far of dream but it'd be cool if someone found a way to pull it off. Not super experienced with federated media so I have no idea the logistics behind it but I just think it would be neat even if it's a smaller board.

Admins of Lemmy.ml please consider defederating from rammy.site it has been taken over by right wing malicious actors from exploding-heads.com and the admin is nowhere to be found.

It is imperative that you take action as soon as possible the users on rammy are using the site to spread their messages to a further audience, we must nip this in the bud. If you don't believe me check the instance for yourself, you'll see it dominated with bigoted right wing posts and spam communities.

I currently have to use this CSS overload with the Stylus extension to avoid having videos (and also gifs since they are converted to mp4 videos by Lemmy) stretched to fill the whole page width:

video {
    width: 25vw !important;
}

The !important is there because the HTML uses a 100% width for videos:

(I have to use a screenshot here since Lemmy now filters any HTML code away even if it's inside code tags)

Found this when logging into the Lemmy.world Place canvas

https://canvas.toast.ooo/

The idea for me is to build a client which is solely focused on media consumption.

Currently the client is working completely without a separate backend, storing everything locally and these things are already implemented:

• Search communities
• Show recently visited communities (split by safe/nsfw)
• Login to view NSFW communities
• Different sort modes
• Link extraction from Posts for albums
• Saving posts locally (without images)
• Show saved posts by community or all
• URL mappings to remap from full URLs to embed URLs per provider
• Keyboard navigation (Prev/Next Post/Image, Save Post)

These are planned additionally:

• Proper instance selection / Login
• See (follow) user posts (F keybind)
• Block user posts (B keybind)
• Show original post (O keybind)
• Auto advance images (adjustable time)

Probably needs a nicer web UI as well but I plan to push it live this weekend to get some early feedback. Do you have any more suggestions?

I have installed connect for lemmy on my phone, but I don't particularly like the way the website looks, are there any web apps for lemmy?

Just wanted to ask: what do you not like in Lemmy (Lemmy as communities, server and clients)?

This is just a way for me to get some feedback from the community.

Subscription models only make sense for an app/service that have recurring costs. In the case of Lemmy apps, the instances are the ones with recurring hosting costs, not the apps.

If an app doesn’t have recurring hosting costs, it only makes sense to have one up front payment and then maybe in app purchases to pay for new features going forward

Otherwise, if we have a lot of medium sized instances but the most popular communities are hosted on just a few huge instances, doesn't that defeat the purpose of distributing load across many instances?

If that's the case, how do we solve the cumbersome user experience of having to subscribe to the same community over and over again across a ton of medium instances?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the Show Context link is meant to work, but I would think when you click Show Context, it should show the comment being replied to so you can see the...Well, context.

Currently, at least on Lemm.ee, clicking Show Context does nothing. No parent comments are shown whatsoever, so the comment being viewed remains isolated & without context. The only way to see the context is to open all comments and search through for the comment you were linked to/saw and then read what it was replying to.

You can find it here. Source code in the link.

The platform/service is still in beta and opening up invites to its first users now.

The main developer is on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@reiver

Their webpage if you want to signup for early access: https://spacehost.live/

From what I've gathered, they intend to support a variety of fediverse platforms, but have started with lemmy with kbin close behind.

I ask generally out of curiosity. I was just thinking that as big social media fractures, old school isolated forums might become "cool again", and that one of the achievements of lemmy might be as a nice platform for simply running a forum for whatever community you want all without needing to worry about federation.

If it turns out that work of federating data is a substantial part of the resource overhead, and that an isolated server would actually be quite efficient, that'd be quite a nice feather in the lemmy cap I'd say. Hexbear seems to have been using lemmy this way for a while and it seems to have been successful too.