Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/81779

Here’s the trick:

[some community](/c/some_community@server.tld)

So:

[WowThisLemmyExists](/c/wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca)

Gives us this link: WowThisLemmyExists

Which links to that community... but within the instance you’re currently in! So you can actually subscribe to it!

(Many thanks to the Lemmy Project Chat on Matrix!)

WE HAD A GOOD THING YOU STUPID SON OF A removed!

We had 3PA's, we had all the free labor in the world, just from passionate people who wanted to share some topic, we had bots to fight spam, and extremely talented developers who made your stupid website work on mobile. It all ran like clockwork, if you could have just shut your mouth we'd all be fine right now.

But no, you just had to blow it up. YOU, AND YOUR GREED AND YOUR EGO.

Fuck u/spez

title, apologies for maybe newbie question

I noticed that if I am on the main page for Lemmy, it has a websocket open and is constantly refreshing with new posts. This makes it impossible to use if you look at all new posts as there is a ton of content flooding in. That's not a bad thing, but it does make it impossible to read what's there.

Is there a way to disable the live feed and just show a static list of posts, then when I choose to refresh the page it will get more?

I'm loading https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml and the username display in the top right is showing other people's usernames, not mine. It showed one, and I refreshed, and now it's showing another. Here's what is showing right now for me:

Edit to add just to show that it's changing:

Like many here I share concerns that as people migrate to Lemmy, they will gravitate towards the larger communities. In my opinion, the best way to curb this issue is by appealing to people's sense of local community.

To me regionality is a natural way to structure/organize instances. Rather than joining a random, or the most popular, instance I think people would be much more willing to join local instances, because it's something easily identifiable for them. These regional instances can of course have their genericlocal community, just like the regional city/state/country subreddits, but also have their own local interest communities. Even when there is community overlap with large generic/global communities, there is still a distinction with the regional community being geared towards local information and content.

Shouldn't be too hard to promote this. Lemmy just needs to encourage regional instances. Then in the join Lemmy page push people to the regional instances.

Maybe I'm off base though, and the main interest/draw to Lemmy is the fact that there is no structure? What does everyone think?

Hello there, there are some Mastodon communities I like. Unfortunately I hate the Twitter format of Mastodon. I was hoping to be able to access them through lemmy, but "/c/main@community" only returns me a 404 error.

I constantly get a timeout message and I don't know what it means. Is it a known bug or something I can maybe even fix myself? I'm using the Jerboa app btw.

Right now, we are only able to view an instance's specific community, but I'd love to be able to view what's popular in that instance, especially that I do not know what communities that instance has.

EDIT And this is where it gets confusing...

If you want to view another instance from your home instance you need to do https://lemmy.world/c/thecommunityyouwanttoview@lemmy.ml

But there is no https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy.ml <-- this will return a 4040

Ideally there would be a https://lemmy.world/c/all@lemmy.ml or a https://lemmy.world/c/popular@lemmy.ml

I really like the concept of a federated message board. This is what I wanted for my life. However, Lemmy.ml is kinda difficult to surf through comments and it's actually bothering me. It actually clones the new reddit, while the old reddit was much better in terms of reading.

Watching the network tab of Chrome when I have a Lemmy instance open I can watch the websocket data coming in from the server. Even though I have "Subscribed" communities selected, the data stream seems to contain all post data (at first glance it looks like new posts and vote changes) from all communities federated to the instance.

It's manageable for the moment but if the network grows a lot, that could end up being a huge amount of data that's sent to users and probably not desirable if users are on slow metered connections. Is this by design?

So that if you paste a link to one of those big social media platforms, it offers to replace it with a working alternative front-end.

It's a bunch of days that the federated feed is filled with ads of this popular centralized lemmy clone. Can't you just enjoy being here and stop giving any visibility to lousy platforms?

I've spun up a new instance and understood that there would be no initial communities under All.

I know I needed to search for a community to get the federation to get started, but do I need to search for every community for the to appearing the list?

The servers been up for almost 24 hours and I still only have the 2 communities I searched for in the list.

Some of you may have noticed that federated actions are slow to synchronize between Lemmy instances. This is most likely because of the setting "Federation worker count" under /admin. It determines how many federation activities can be sent out at once. The default value is 64 which is enough for small or medium sized instances. But for large instances it needs to be increased.

Grep the server logs for "Maximum number of activitypub workers reached" and "Activity queue stats" to confirm that this affects you. For lemmy.ml I just changed the value to 512, you have to experiment what is sufficient. The new value is only applied after restarting Lemmy. In my case changing the value through the website didnt work (maybe because its overloaded). Instead I had to update local_site.federation_worker_count directly in the database.

Edit: I had to increase the value to 160k for lemmy.ml. Now the stats arent getting logged anymore, so Im not sure if the pending queue is still building up or not.

I see kbin.social mentioned here and there where lemmy is discussed. How are those two related? Are they linked up, or are those completely separate communities?

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/292797

Would like to know if people are trying it and how well it's working.

I was served this page just now, it appears to be for a moderator or admin as there are some extra tools in the toolbar. After reloading this it went away and I couldn't make it happen again.

Possibly there are some caching settings that need adjusting? Thinking of the admin team on this tough day with tons of traffic thank you for your hard work.

You don't need to DELETE all your comments, you can edit them all. I used the PowerDeleteSuite. Set the options to delete my posts, but not delete my comments. I then had it edit my comments with a paragraph about Lemmy and moving to it.

This is a great way to advertise Lemmy, over the long term.

So far it's at a staggering 7500 comments edited. All advertising Lemmy.

So that's an option. Then it's done and reddit is behind me. Lemmy all the way.

I hope this helps

Can't get enough of this song.

I've saved my preferred sorting settings on my profile, but they don't seem to stick. Anyone knows when it might be resolved? Or am I missing something?

This is on the mobile web, hasn't happened so far on the desktop site but I haven't been using desktop as much. So, sometimes just randomly although more often when I'm sorting by new on all (federated), infinite random posts from months or even years ago will just start randomly showing up and scrolling infinitely.

We have Jerboa for Android and looks like mlem for iOS (idk how well that one is doing, not on iOS personally). I know some of the reddit 3rd party app creators were considering adding Lemmy to their apps, any updates on that?

Following @lemmy was a bad idea. It's literally every comment with subpar context. Which is fine, the mental models of twitter and reddit are different, after all.