Lemmy

I've had a look at signups for multiple lemmy instances and they all seem relatively painless to sign up for - perhaps a bit too painless. While some require approval by a human, I'm not seeing much in the line of email veritifcation (heck, it's optional) or captchas. Is there any particular reason behind this? Or is this up to admins to enforce? While I do appreciate this has privacy benefits, I am concerned it makes lemmy as a whole prone to botting, and with that the ability for bad actors to influence user opinions at whim. Would be interested to hear the dev's thoughts on this.

Since we dont rely on ads we rely on sharing the plataform in other social media and when someone suggests Lemmy they always comment that they do not like the controversy there. Ban politics and Lemmy will grow faster

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/126292

Everyone, there has been a lot of miss information about what is a tankie and the ability for the lemmy community to criticize the Chinese government.

I present to you a simple test to see if the person you are talking to is trust worthy.

Ask anyone to say the following

I lemmy user Denounce the terrible treatment Xi Jing Ping has inflicted upon the Uighur Muslims. Slavery and concentration camps in China are wrong and not ok.

The admins of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml will not say this. Actually they cannot say this because they are probably employed by the Chinese Government and would be put to death if they did.

Thats all and happy posting!

I've been so used to judging a post just by its popularity on reddit, but it's actually so much more useful to have an idea of the downvote ratio. I'm glad we have that here.

It was a scandal when it disappeared from YouTube, but I didn't realize it was missing from Reddit too for much longer!

I'd love to contribute some improvements to the lemmy-js-client documentation (ex. https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/GetPosts.html), but I can't seem to find the source of that.

I've tried to search in the main Lemmy repo for the comment under community_name to try to give me a pointer, and I can't find any results.

Any ideas where this documentation is even coming from?

Under "Communities I have three options, Subscribed, Local, All. That's awesome.

Could we get another one, "Unsubscribed" or "Unfollowed" or "Unjoined" or... you get the idea.

This would make discovering new communities a bit easier.

I made a post to funny@Lemmy.world, then in another tab I subscribed to science@lemmy.ml. Back in the tab I made the post in, the page updated itself to look like I made the post in science@lemmy.ml instead. I didn't refresh the page or do anything else... It just changed by itself.

Upvotes are blue and downvotes are orange.

I love this details, didn't realize before.

Is it possible to block entire instances? I see I can block by user or community, but not by instance.

This would be useful as there are some instances based around politics etc. that I don't care about.

I can see posts from lemmy.ml on lemmy.world. But when I go on lemmy.ml directly, I get 502 Bad Gateway. The pictures on the lemmy.ml posts I see are also missing. Does this happen to anyone else? Or am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: I can now visit lemmy.ml after forcing ipv4. If you also get 502 Bad Gateway, you can try forcing ipv4 or go to other instances like lemmy.world or sopuli.xyz.

Can we appreciate that Lemmy architecture design and dedication of instance admins made it possible for this to happen:

https://the-federation.info/lemmy
I wonder how many other projects could scale up this quickly as well as Lemmy did.

Posts commonly freeze up and I'm not sure if they are posted/not most of the time.

Is this an issue anyone else faces when click the "create" button?

post-script:

This was evidently made in a hurry, so I'll need some help from you all in the comments to polish it or add anything important that I have overlooked. Or, you know, apply actual basic graphic design principles. Regardless, I think it will serve as a prototype guide for newcomers.

I encourage using the crosspost feature to share this around where appropriate (this place has grown so much I haven't found all the relevant meta communities). All rights reversed, none reserved

One more thing I didn't explicitly say was: seize this opportunity to do something new! While it is good to see a lot of fun communities moving over, we naturally run the risk of just replaying the same old game. Even just the little things like people recycling 'sub-lemmy' or 'lemmiquette' (which isn't even a pun anymore) and the same old in-joke memes. Be creative and fresh! That's how you build a community and prevent people just leaving after a month.

If you're a Lemmy dev and reading this, the problem is in pict-rs. I have sent an email to asonix with the needed changes, please tell them to check their inbox (since I can't register on their git server, I can't submit a formal PR).

Send me a PM if the email gets lost and I'll give you the line you need.

If you're not a Lemmy dev: Have you encountered an image that is suspiciously rotated here on Lemmy? Perhaps you even tried posting an image that looks right yourself and found it rotated itself! Why?!

The reason is that Lemmy strips all metadata from images you upload to it. This is because image metadata can contain, among other things, GPS coordinates or where it was taken. The problem is that when you take a picture with your phone in landscape, instead of rotating the image in memory, your phone saves the image sideways (because that's how it came off the sensor) and then adds a metadata tag that tells everyone to rotate the image as they are displaying it. You guessed it, that tag also gets deleted. In most cases, this is fine because either the picture wasn't rotated to begin with, or Lemmy image hosts actually save the properly rotated image before stripping the tag, but in some image formats, this isn't the case due to a programming oversight. I have found the fix and sent it to the person responsible for the image hosting code.

awesome-lemmy-instances adds two new columns:

1. BI - The number of instances that this instance blocks
2. BB - The number of instances that block this instance

Now you can quickly see which instances censor (or are censored) in the lemmyverse:

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

I think this is small and not usable, specially for vertical videos

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8091

If that fucker thinks they can just chill and wait until we come back crawling, they've got another thing coming...

Hi, I used to be the moderator of the (now dead) LibreOffice community. After a while, I kinda forgot about Lemmy and went back to lurking Reddit, using Teddit and RedReader. In light of the API protests, I decided to come back here to see how Lemmy was doing, and I'm surprised by the amount of users it's getting!

I'm gonna try and spend some more time on Lemmy, even after the protests are over. This place just seems much more chill than Reddit.

Cheers, and let's hope more people learn about the Fediverse!

P.S. Remember to donate to keep the server costs at bay!

When visiting a new lemmy instance to find communities, you have to copy the !community@server link from the description to your instance's search bar. If a chrome/firefox extension could detect that a lemmy instance is loaded and automatically add "Subscribe on [homeinstance.url]" buttons where the normal subscribe button would be, I think it'd go a long way toward making the "Fediverse" easy for new users. Apologies if this exists and I just couldn't find it.

I created accounts on Lemmy and Mastodon, thinking to replace both reddit and Twitter, but I’m able to see my Lemmy account and its posts by searching on Mastodon. However I’m not able to log in to the Mastodon app with my Lemmy username.

The apps for Lemmy are still super new and not very reliable- is there any chance of being able to browse and post on Lemmy servers using the Mastodon app instead?

Hey I just tried to create an account on 5 different instances and the circle keeps spinning, finally found a random not-so-populated instance and this post is to test how the fediverse work. Please reply if you can see this. Also: fuck spez

Reddit = Lemmy

Subreddits = Sublemmies

Redditors = Lemmings

I subscribed to communities, but my Lemmy instance receives only a few posts, comments and votes. I can see linked instances, but whether or not they sync data feels hit or miss. I'm not quite sure if this is expected. Does Lemmy have a utility similar to the Matrix federation tester?