Lemmy

There's so many niche instances but I'm yet to see a football (soccer) or general sport one. Why is that?

There's a link on https://join-lemmy.org/instances to https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances which is no longer updated (due to this bug), should the link still really be there given the fact that many new users will join through there?

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/778691

While I want to block content bots, I don't want to block useful bots like @CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world @remindme@mstdn.social. Because of this, I will block them one by one. I am sharing it here for community benefit. Any addition/removal is welcome.

• @linkbot@lemmy.link
• @bot@lemmit.online
• @KensandRssBot@lemmy.kensand.net
• @PostBot@chat.maiion.com
• @lemmybot@lemmy.staphup.nl
• @philly_bot@fanaticus.social

gist for programmatic use: https://gist.github.com/ismailkarsli/0c6c7aa4f70d1905adea1b30271f16f7

I couldn't find this using the search.

For example this comment: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/984558 and this post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/873681 I both deleted, however from other instances they still appear to be there.

In case of the post others can still interact with it (comment and vote) except me, OP. In case of the comment, it just keeps the original text instead of deleted by creator, it can be interacted with, but it is also accessible to me as OP.

This is how the comment and the post appear from lemmy.ml. Still there, alive.

Edit: As per other lemmy user, this is already a known bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3588
The comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/1133649

See title. A nice feature in Mastodon is the ability to set the federated feed to remote only, helping give it more utility in terms of community discovery. I think on the latest versions they've even made this the default for the federated feed, but I don't know that that needs to be the case here.

In general I'd just appreciate the option to view only remote communities in All to help find other remote communities & posts within the Lemmy web interface.

Hey folks, was just thinking that one of the major benefits of forums is that it stores and indexes knowledge for the rest of time. I still regularly look up stackoverflow questions written years ago.

Are lemmy instances (such as https://programming.dev) going to be similarly indexed?

If there's been no thought on how to implement this, I was thinking that meta tags could be used to indicate to search engines that homegrown content (i.e. content that belongs to your own instance) should be indexed while federated content (i.e. content on your instance that was federated from other instances) should remain non-indexed.

That way, searching the title of this post on Google will only lead to a single result on the single instance that owns it.

Thoughts?

tl;dr: With Lemmy Go you type lg beekeeping on the address bar and it takes you to the most popular beekeeping community, or you can pick one from the given suggestions.

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More information about Lemmy Go on GitHub

Why

On Reddit, I had a simple search keyword for navigating directly to subreddits, where I could just type r firefox and be taken to reddit.com/r/firefox.

I wanted to have the same behavior for Lemmy, but the Fediverse makes this a lot more complicated.

So I made Lemmy Go to try and make it as simple as possible to jump to a community, or even find new ones more easily.

It's still a work in progress, so it might be a bit unstable and missing a bunch of features. But I've been using it myself for a few days, and it's already pretty helpful.

Usage

Type lg followed by a space (some browsers also accept tab instead), and then type the name of the community you're looking for.

Example: lg linux

Lemmy Go will search its database for any community that has the text linux in its name (e.g. linux_gaming) or title (Linux Gaming).

If you just type a community name and press enter, Lemmy Go will take you to the most popular community from that list.

If you don't press enter right away, you will be shown a list of communities that match that query. You can then select the specific one you want.

Preferred Instance

If you set your preferred instance in the user settings (click the extension icon), Lemmy Go will try its best to navigate to that community in your preferred instance, although this isn't always possible (in which case Lemmy Go will just navigate to the remote instance instead).

For instance, if your preferred instance is set to lemmy.ml and you select firefox@lemmy.world, Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.ml/c/firefox@lemmy.world.

But if lemmy.ml blocks the lemmy.world instance, then Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.world/c/firefox instead.

Read the readme on GitHub for more information about how Lemmy Go works

Did anyone else have to block the meme communities cuz that’s all they see? 😂

As an enthusiastic supporter of Lemmy, I am eager to contribute to the project. However, I hold strong reservations about writing a single line of code for a project hosted on a Micro$oft server. While I have created a few issues on GitHub, I firmly believe that my contributions could be significantly amplified if there were a mirror of Lemmy that utilized Forgejo hosting outside the United States. I would be absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to contribute more actively to this incredible project if such an alternative hosting option were available.

hello, does anyone know if there is a bot to automatically post to certain Lemmy communities from an RSS feed?

I found this: https://github.com/Ategon/Lemmy-Mega-Bot but it says it is not compatible with Lemmy's new API.

I'm toying about with writing a client in Rust.

Example code online uses the API endpoint https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/post/list, and when I go to this link in a browser, it doe indeed load data. However, when I try to load it from a program, it gives me a 403 Forbidden. Does anyone know why this could be?

(code)

Due to variable subject length and these items being part of the same line as the subject they get pushed around a lot which makes them hard to see find when scrolling through history.

Would be nice if these links / scores where at the front of the subject OR the "next line" to be consistent.

Is there a way to upload videos on Lemmy? If there is no native way to do it, are there any good services where we can host the vidoes and link it here?

I think for a while leading up to the recent session stealing hack, there has been a massive amount of positivity from Lemmy users around all kinds of new Lemmy apps, frontends, and tools that have been popping up lately.

Positivity is great, but please be aware that basically all of these things work by asking for complete access to your account. When you enter your Lemmy password into any third party tool, they are not just getting access to your session (which is what was stolen from some users during the recent hack), they also get the ability to generate more sessions in the future without your knowledge. This means that even if an admin resets all sessions and kicks all users out, anybody with your password can of course still take over your account!

This isn't to say that any current Lemmy app developers are for sure out to get you, but at this point, it's quite clear that there are malicious folks out there. Creating a Lemmy app seems like a completely easy vector to attack users right now, considering how trusting everybody has been. So please be careful about what code you run on your devices, and who you trust with your credentials!

I just signed up for @lemmy checking it out :)

Just from a performance perspective, when your feed is being retrieved, I can only presume that the more communities you're subscribed too the more intensive the query is?

At some point does it not get prohibitive? Is there a limit on the number of communites one can subscribe to.

If true, I see this as a good reason for user created multi or meta-communities. This way, I can look at a feed of only a subset of communities at a time which should lessen the load on the server, and also be a better interface because I honestly don't want all of the communities I'm interested in being fed into a single feed.

PLEASE excuse the compression.

When viewing a feed or a community, you can view either the posts or the comments.

These comments are presented in a flattened "Chat room" style structure with replies and parents disconnected.

Having always thought that kbin provided a microblogging interface like mastodon, I've only recently worked out (though I might be wrong) that it's actually a microblogging-like view of conversations in their communities.

That is, it's a "comments" view that isn't flattened but retains comment threads. Which is something we could do here.

Not entirely sure we would want it or that it should be done, but my immediate reaction is that it might actually be nice, especially for getting a sort of "birds eye" view of what's happening in a relatively focused community.

The unit of such a view would be, as I see it, top level comments to posts, presented with all replies in a indented/hierarchical format. Which is exactly the same as the view of the comments to a post, including all of the sorting options at the top.

So, a "threaded comments" view of a whole feed or community would simply be the merge of all of the comment views of all posts in the feed or community.

This seems viable (without knowing the technical details of implementing it).

Thoughts??

Something small that has been annoying me about Lemmy. I keep clicking posts I think are images that are actually just links and get redirected, when I go back everything has changed.

Sorry if this is not the best place for feedback. Thanks for reading.