Hi.

I'm using the elest.io automated lemmy thing to start my a WSB specific node. I can't find a specific guide to the federation aspect. Is there an instruction set for how to federate/ get federated?

Is this something I can do from the admin console?

This seems like something really obvious that I'm just missing.

Reddit used to have something similar to health bar showing how much "gold" was bought to support the website. but later on out of greed they started using it as a paywall.

We can have a health bar that doesnt paywall ANY features and very transparently displays funds raised\used for a server. It can be used to display how much funds its being supported, how much server costs are, salaries for open source maintainers, mods, etc.

I filed an issue on the lemmy and kbin issue trackers to address duplicate communities. If you have an #ActivityPub development experience/knowledge, please take a look and offer feedback. If not, please offer any feedback here.

The homepage for a particular Lemmy instance gives you a few options to filter the feed of posts. You get Subscribed, Local and All. The problem I am having is that I want to see more than what I am subscribed to in order to find new communities, but I don't want to be limited by the local instance. However, when you select all the amount of communities is exceedingly large and scrolls too quickly.

It would be nice if there was a way to subscribe to an instance in general. Some kind of instance whitelist. Maybe this defeats the purpose of every instance being as good as any other instance, but I feel like there needs to be some kind of advanced filtering options here.

Let's consider this horror scenario:

Suddenly Lemmy.ml fails, and the admins realise with a shock, that the backup didn't work properly.

What would happen if Lemmy.ml was setup from scratch or only old backup where there were only a small fraction of the users present?

• Communities/posts/comments that don't exist anymore after the reinstall → Obviously they can't be accessed anymore, and I guess this will be federated to other instances (they won't also be available there anymore)
• Communities/posts/comments of Lemmy.ml users that were made on other instances → These are stored there, they should still be accessable, but
  • Would the unavailable users just be linked to nothing
  • Would the users names that were available in the old backup be linked back to Lemmy.ml? Would these posts again be visible in the Lemmy.ml user history?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.pt/post/399347

A cool new guide for new users, share it.

A helm chart to help ease deployment on kubernetes clusters. At the moment it's only designed to run as a single "node" but will work on adding horizontal scaling in time. Thought others might find it a useful.

I am fairly new to creating helm charts, so feel free to comment, critique, or contribute!

Unidan could just create an account on multiple instances and vote for his posts/comments with all these accounts. That way his content would gain more attention than those of sincere users.

In case of malicious bots (like those annoying bootleg bots on reddit), it might even be profitable for them to create their own instance(s) just for that purpose.

Is there a mechanism to prevent that? (other than user/instance banning and the introduction question on user creation)

First I want to say that I love the idea of Lemmy. I think it's very reminiscent of the old days of BBS's and networked message boards (FIDOnet).

With that in mind I'd like to suggest that maybe some thought should go into guiding people to the right instances to sign up on.

I think more instances should try to specialize in certain content and host communities that cater to that. Much like the BBS's of the olden days you could have an instance that is all about sports, or an instance specializing in comic book communities, or an instance that caters to a certain region or state.

With that in mind, it would be great to have a page that indexes instances by interest groups so people could make better decisions about which instance to join rather than just everyone trying to pile up on lemmy.ml.

Thoughts?

As a new user I would like to point out some issues I encountered getting off the ground with lemmy in the hopes that ironing these out will help the network welcome more users.

1. join-lemmy.org is really hard to find without the "join". On startpage.com there is exactly 1 link related to the link aggregator software out of 10 pages. And that one links to the github. You're gonna lose a whole bunch of possible users on this hurdle.
2. join-lemmy.org doesn't do what it says on the tin. The home page is almost exclusively dedicated to get people to self host. In terms of overall population these people are a rounding error. The focus of a site called "join lemmy" needs to be to get people to join lemmy. To that end: explain what it is then move them along
3. picking an instance to join is not something the average user wants to do. They want to join LEMMY. They do not have the information to make an educated decision at this point.
   • there should be a short list or wizard to guide them. language? country? nsfw content yes/no/maybe? Then give them a few recommendations for ACTIVE instances.
   • there needs to be accounting for the fact that if they register on a non-NSFW instance they will not be able to consume NSFW content. This is an important information regardless of what you want, as picking the wrong one means you have to do it all over again. An appreciable number of users will just leave at that point.
   • there should be an option for users to move all their contributions from one instance to another. There will inevitably be instances that go under. I don't know about others but I would like to be able to take my history with me if I'm forced (or decide) to move.
4. The initial content offered to new users is often suboptimal. Firstly, it defaults to showing only the local communities, which is fine if you consider instances as their own ecosystem but horribly disappointing for someone looking for a reddit replacement. There should be an initial community selecton like on reddit. A few busy quality general interest slices (group of lemmings) to get people started and engaged. Maybe have each instance curate their own collection? Then default to that.
5. figuring out which new community to subscribe is annoying. There are currently a LOT of duplicate communities with little to no content. In addition to subscriber stats there should be an activity stat.
6. community groups and collectives could help in this regard. Say you're interested in TTRPGs. There are currently like half a dozen communities (slices).
   • If a user could subscribe them into a larger (personal) group they could check on each of them in one go instead of visiting each individually
   • The communities themselves could organize into "collectives" in a similar way as hashtags are born. These could be a very useful first point of contact for the corresponding interest.
7. auto reload pushing new content in at the top is hugely annoying. we have refresh buttons for a reason.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1232795

Its been a hectic week everyone, so I apologize that I haven't been as responsive as usual. We realized that we could either spend all our day answering questions, or coding to make lemmy better, so we're prioritizing the latter.

Reddit caught us right in the middle of one of our larger performance improvements, so I apologize for the instability of instances like this one. But I'm confident that lemmy will improve, especially due to all the new contributors helping out with performance, security fixes, and stability.

Please use our the issue trackers for the various lemmy projects to report issues, otherwise they will likely get lost.

Call for testers

• You can help us test patch releases like this one at https://enterprise.lemmy.ml
• We're readying the 0.18.0 release soon, you can help us test at https://voyager.lemmy.ml , and https://ds9.lemmy.ml
  • App devs should use voyager.lemmy.ml to test and prepare for 0.18.0, which should come in the next few weeks. The API changes and new types can be seen here.
  • 0.18.0 should give servers a big performance boost by removing websockets and switching entirely to HTTP. It also will add a lot of features like 2fa / TOTP.

Hello,

I'm trying to subscribe to: https://feddit.uk/c/britishproblems@feddit.uk however the search function finds neither that string, nor !britishproblems@feddit.uk.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Essentially title. I now have 8 users listed as banned on my instance, although I have not banned anyone, yet:

@outsittingjay@lemmy.blahaj.zone
@okiloki@feddit.de
@FrantixGE@lemmy.fmhy.ml
@Augusto_Pinochet@feddit.cl
Alchemy
@Kaleidoskop@feddit.de
@Revelator@lemmings.basic-domain.com
@PepeSilvia@lemmy.world
@cl0ud5@latte.isnot.coffee

Is this a bug or feature?

Is it possible to make the column with posts wider (like on the screenshot), and get rid of the white space taking up most of the screen, without modifying the source code, or applying userscript?

There is a bug that is causing posts to be created without the user pressing the "Create" button.

I think this is happens when you switch between browser tabs, after opening a "These posts might be related" topic in a new tab.

This post was submitted without me clicking the "Create" button.

Is it possible to disable auto-refresh on the homepage?

It is causing the following observed issues:

• The dropdown menu flickers when in it's open state, even if there are no updates. I assume the DOM is being updated even when there are no updates?
• The refresh causes images which have been expanded to be hidden again.

Personally, I would just like the option to disable auto-refresh. I can do that myself once I have read everything on the page.

Damn I made a post in the gaming@beehaw.org complaining about Battle Royale games and I'm happy to notice that posts on Lemmy now have actual engagement!

Actually even more than all the posts i've made on reddit since there's no algorithm meant to close us in fucking echo-chambers

Seems to only happen with lemmy.ml for whatever reason. Hitting the "subscribe pending" button and trying again makes zero difference.

Maybe no one cares, but in case you are interested. This drama with Reddit was not only the last straw for me after over 12 years of faithful membership, it was a catalyst.

I have been interested in a more decentralized internet for a handful of years now and Lemmy is my first step. I have dabbled in Freenet and I2P and now I'm going to roll up my sleeves and get involved.

I have started my own Lemmy instance and invited people to use it to access the community.

My next step is to spin up a Freenet node. After that I will be making some more intro videos to explain what it is and how it works.

After that I will start looking more into I2P and doing the same.

During this time I will be following closely the development and growth of all 3 and reporting on it as well on my new YouTube channel.

The internet should be for the users, not for profiteering corporations. This should be our bastion from their greed. I will do my part to make it so.

Isn't the .ml TLD administered by freenom? How can we be sure that lemmy.ml is safe from a hostile takeover by this shady company with a history of hijacking high-traffic domains and demanding more money?

This article perfectly explains why large social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit) are trash.

What you’ll get is a place where everyone is a stranger, where being a jerk is the norm, where there is no sense of belonging, where civility and arguing in good faith is irrelevant because you’re not talking to someone, you’re performing in front of an audience to make the number next to your comment go up so you can briefly feel something that almost resembles belonging and shared values.

It's kind of annoying to be looking at a post, and then a community decides to update and my feed is spammed with posts from one community. Is there currently a fix to this?

If my home instance is lemmy.ca, and I want to create and moderate a community about, say, Japanese woodworking (random example of a subreddit I follow), isn't it a bit odd for that community to be hosted by lemmy.ca? If somebody else later created a community of the same name on lemmy.ml or lemmy.jp, would people be more likely to join those communities as they seem more "official"?

On one hand, joining multiple instances just for "better" vanity URLs for new communities seems wrong (and annoying to manage), on the other hand it's odd that I'd arbitrarily impose the traffic associated with a community completely unrelated to Canada onto lemmy.ca. How is this supposed to work?