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Over time, Lemmy instances are going to keep aquiring more, and more data. Even if, in the best case, they are not caching content and they are just storing the data posted to communities local to the server, there will still be a virtually limitless growth in server storage requirements. Eventually, it may get to a point where it is no longer economically feesible to host all of the infrastructure to keep expanding the server's storage. What happens at this point? Will servers begin to periodically purge old content? I have concerns that there will be a permanent horizon (as Lemmy becomes more popular, the rate of growth in storage requirements will also increase, thereby reducing the distance to this horizon) over which old -- and still very useful -- data will cease to exist. Is there any plan to archive this old data?

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I've been thinking about how great this feature would be. I don't know how Lemmy's codebase could handle it, but this just makes sense to me and would solve the big issue of community fragmentation.

In general the idea is that when you open the comments section of a given post, it should fetch all other comments from crossposts (ones with the same link). Since Lemmy already keeps track of crossposts by linking to their threads, it's just a matter of fetching those comments and showing them in conjunction with the comments in this community. When you reply to a comment that's federated from another community, your reply will go over there.

Also, from what I understand, copies of posts and comments are stored in the instance's local database, so it shouldn't be very expensive to fetch these comments from different posts, right?

How viable would something like this be? Are the Lemmy devs considering something like this?

Over the weeks I've sent a bunch of messages, like offering mod positions, asking for things etc. and I get no responses to about half of them.

Sure, nobody owes me a reply, but I'm wondering if there's a different reason, such as:

1. Ignoring all notifications, because there's no immediate distinction between a DM or a comment reply

2. Using an app that doesn't support messages (which one would that be?)

3. Federation issues (when sending a DM to a different instance)

Thoughts?

That's three major instances that have gone down in the last couple days. Clearly u/spez is trying to kill lemmy.

The Lemmy.world hack made a good opportunity to explore other instances out there. Found one based in my area. Back in action!

I would like to propose replacing up and down voting on comments with emoji reactions. Since Lemmy doesn’t have a consequential karma system, I don’t believe the gamification of comment upvotes helps engender a discussion with a diversity of opinions. Instead of a binary choice, we will be able to express a far greater range of reactions. I see emojis as being especially helpful as a replacement for downvotes since it will help the author understand why the reader disagrees. While I agree that replying instead of downvoting is a better choice, it’s not realistic for everyone to have the time to do so.

For posts, voting serves a useful purpose in creating a curated list of most popular posts in each community. This is important for people who don’t have time to follow all posts in their subscribed communities.

I made a guide on how to go from zero to hero: Self hosting a lemmy server. All you need is an old pc, a thumb drive, and some time.

Please let me know if there are errors. This is the first draft. Thank you!!!

I wrote a Python script that takes your Lemmy credentials and outputs your subscribed communities to an OPML file. The script can also take an OPML file as input and subscribe a user to all of the communities listed in the file.

The motivation behind the script is to allow users to:

• easily follow their subscribed communities from an RSS feed reader;
• back up their subscribed communities in case their account is lost or they want to migrate to a different instance; and
• share their subscribed communities with each other, thus facilitating discoverability of communities.

Hopefully people find it helpful. More information in the README.

A fusion of leopard and the looks of Lemmy logo. It is the part of new macOS application for browsing Lemmy, !leomard@lemm.ee.

• 🧑‍💻 App developer: athlon
  • Lemmy
  • Mastodon
• 💾 SVG: leomard.inkscape.svg
• 🔄 Logo announcement
• 🔄 Leomard announcement

Artist: vintprox

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Pretty much all of these subs show no content or content from 3 years ago and the activity is 1 user per 6 months. They don't even change if i refresh the page. Why are they considered trending?

I'm inclined to say it happens to comments that are too long but I'm not sure it's the only case where it happens. It seems the API simply returns a 400 error with "invalid_body_field" as the response. The web UI however just displays an infinite spinning wheel with no helpful error message.

Hello! I'm the developer of Summit, one of the Lemmy apps.

I want to be able to mark a post as read using an API call.

I understand that fetching the post itself using the account JWT will mark the post as read for that account, however this also fetches a lot of data.

Trying to be as server friendly as possible, what is the least resource intensive way to mark a post as read and nothing else?

Also if there is a better place to ask this, please let me know.

I would like to make a bot that gets the top posts from specific subreddits and posts them here. Is there any useful guide to do something like this?

Would this be bad Lemmy etiquette?

I only found the Connect app able to hide read topics, while Jerboa and Liftoff does not have this feature. Is read status built-in into Lemmy protocol?

Just wanted to thank the team for the vaporwave themes. They great!

Would it eventually possible to create our own themes via a CSS editor?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.rocks/post/3214

So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.

Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google's servers.

You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot

You can find Piped's source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

PS: I'm the author of Piped :P

In the past, we would type something like site:reddit.com into a search engine to get to the resource we needed. In the meantime, I have already found a few useful tips on Lemmy instances by using the Lemmy search. But since all Lemmy instances are named differently, a simple site:lemmy won't work well in a search engine.

Do you see a solution for this? Or do we leave this to the search providers to figure out?

Title says it all. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see a way to do anything wiki related at the subs I've created.

Supposedly you are on the 1st page of the timeline. Click the next page button twice so that you are now on the 3rd page. Enter any post by left-clicking it, now click the "back button" of the browser of your choice You are now on the 2nd page.

The fediverse isn’t going anywhere, and just getting started!

Cross-posting this from https://lemmy.ca/post/1271596 due to the current federation situation:

A new version of my Rediggit theme for Lemmy has dropped, and with it comes a name change...

Rediggit is now Lemonberry, to better reflect the separation from Reddit.

I've also added a much-requested dark mode, adapted from Lemmy's default darkly theme. Those familiar with the Reddit Enhancement Suite's dark mode should find this pretty comfortable.

The latest version of Lemonberry is optimized for Lemmy v0.18.1 only and is available on GitHub and UserStyles. I will likely keep the optimizations in sync with only the larger instances as Lemmy development is changing rapidly, and it's proving difficult to maintain compatibility with older versions.

You can also find older versions of the theme, and additional screenshots, at the GitHub repo.

If you have no idea what any of this means, Lemonberry is a flexible, full-width light and dark theme for Lemmy. It is just one of many user-made themes for this community. These themes can be installed and enabled with the use of a CSS injector browser add-on, such as Stylus (Firefox, Chrome). UserStyles.world is a good place to start exploring the available themes.

Cheers