Lemmy

Like my home instance is lemmy.one, but if I wanted to create a community on some other instance would I be able to do that? I assume not, and that I'd need to create another account on the instance the community is local to. Is that correct?

Still learning this whole fediverse thing.

I can initiate it via a browser on a desktop as well as the mobile, but the app never returns the search results. Am I missing something?

There is a community for my city on lemmy.ml, but it only has one moderator currently, and that user is deleted. Is there a process for taking over moderation for it?

I don’t know if I really want the job, but I’d feel better if there was someone at the wheel in case some yahoo gets on there and starts posting garbage.

I heard that Lemmy and kbin are interoperable, which is good since people are making different choices.

So now I'd like to subscribe to a community on kbin.social, but darned if I can find out how. I've tried putting the name (e.g., @science@kbin.social) into search, I've tried using ! instead of @, I've tried using the URL, nothing comes up.

Am I missing something, or is this simply not an option?

Thanks.

what's stopping 8 different instances from hosting a 'politics', 'funny', 'fediverse', community?

these duplicate communities defeat the goal to replace reddit.

Honestly, this community is great, feel like I can breathe and have some real discourse again

Google Trends of Lemmy or Lemmy + Reddit in the past 30 days

Before reddit goes dark on Monday, I would like to add a short video to the join-lemmy.org site that shows new users how to create a lemmy account and subscribe to (remote) communities.

The video should be about 2-minutes long (shorter is better) with a screen recording and voiceover narration. If you do this, you'll get a lot of traffic to your youtube/peertube account ;)

Here's the outline of the video requested:

1. Mention that lemmy is a federated reddit alterntaive based on ActivityPub where 'subreddits' are called 'communities'. Go to join-lemmy.org in your web browser and click the big Join a Server button.

2. Tell the viewer that it doesn't really matter which instance they pick because you can subscribe to a 'community' from one instance from any other instance. Again reiterate that what reddit calls a 'subreddit' is called a 'community' on lemmy. Then just click Join from a random server from the "Recommended" list of instances. Tell the user to just pick one at random because it doesn't matter which they choose.

3. Signup for an account. Tell the user they may need to wait for the account to be approved.

4. Try logging-in. Wait some hours (for approval), if needed. Login to the account.

5. Show the UI for ~10 seconds, then tell the user that they can browse all communities using the "Lemmy Commnity Browser" run by Feddit. Again, reiterate that what used to be called ‘subreddits’ in reddit are called ‘communities’ on lemmy, and that each lemmy instance can have many communities. Open a new browser tab going to https://browse.feddit.de/.

6. On https://browse.feddit.de/, search for some popular community (eg documentaries) and then click the link. For the purposes of this video demo, make sure you select a “remote” community that’s hosted on an instance that’s distinct from where the user signed-up.

7. Tell the user that there's three ways to subscribe to a remote instance: [1] Search by remote URL, [2] Search by shorthand identifier, or [3] Manually construct the URL for your instance to their instance

8. Show copying & pasting the URL of the remote community (eg https://lemmy.ml/c/documentaries) into the search field of their own instance, and then clicking on the result.

9. Show copying & pasting the shorthand identifier for the remote community (eg [!documentaries@lemmy.ml](/c/documentaries@lemmy.ml)) into the search field of their own instance, and then clicking the result.

10. Open a new tab, and show how to manually construct the URL for the remote community in their own instance's site (eg https://[their.instance.tld]/c/documentaries@lemmy.ml) and load this page in the browser. Then click the Subscribe button

11. Tell the user that after they've subscribed to a bunch of communities, they can click the logo of their instance on the top-left of the UI to return to the Home Page of their instance. Then they can click the "Subscribed" tab to view posts to all the communities they subscribed to across the entire fediverse.

12. Show the changing of the sort from 'Active' to 'New' and 'Top'.

13. Tell the user that for more information on how to use Lemmy, they can read the documentation at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/ or post questions to the Lemmy community on lemmy.ml (https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy or [!lemmy@lemmy.ml](/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml)) that’s moderated by the lemmy developers.

Bonus: Tell that there's an iOS and Android app and show a quick ~5 seconds browsing in one or both.

I'm crowdsourcing this because I'm not much of a video creator, but I think this would be an incredibly useful resource to new lemmy users. And I can tell you that, if you make this video, it will drive a ton of traffic to your channel ;)

Can anyone with some video production skills help-out new lemmy users by making this short video? If you upload this to YouTube, please make sure you mark the license as Creative Commons CC-BY-SA so that we can add it to documentation and share it as widely as possible :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/38848

If anyone here is running an instance on Lemmy, I'd like to know the system requirements recommended. I want to run an instance on a VPS, probably just as an account server.

What type of VPS can I get by on, for just accounts on an instance? How much storage space would I need to do just an "account instance", and how much would I need for a full instance with maybe a few small communities?

Just curious. Couldn’t find out on Google.

Since Lemmy instances are self hosted, I imagine that it would be much less than most social media sites.
What about types of files? Could you upload an animated image sequence or video if the file was small enough?
Does this vary between instances?
Could you even upload stuff such as .zip if admins wanted to specifically allow it?

Scrolling through the linked instances and noticed Lemmygrad was banned? Is it their politics or are they just annoying or smth.

Looking through the block instances list and saw lemmygrad is blocked? Is it the politics or just cause they are annoying or smth?

cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/1955

Hi all, just wanted to get the discussion around mod tools and a pushshift for lemmy started. Sorry if this is a duplicate but I haven't been able to find any discussion about this topic.

If one thing we learned about reddit and third party API is that mod tools are of the utmost important for developing a thriving community. Pushshift is a powerful tool that allows its users to query aggregated data in their workflows.

The data lemmy users create (posts and comments) is valuable. Moderators use it to make informed decisions and improve the experience of their communities; researchers use it to build their own studies; LLM use it for training; internet searchers use it to find answers and opinions written by real people.

I think as admins we need to be clear up-front about the licensing of the content created on our site. I plan on specifying a Creative Commons license for my instance and would like to get some opinions on which would be best for the community.

Once properly licensed, I think it would be in the lemmy community's best interest to provide our community's data in aggregate (scrubbed of PII of course) for all those that need access to it to build tools for the community. People interested in our data will attempt to retrieve it anyway, whether through scraping or direct API access, so it is not only beneficial for our communities to make this data more easily accessible, but also for our servers.

Finally, once we establish our best practices for aggregating our data, we should begin work on building/forking/integrating with pushshift for lemmy. That will allow developers to build the mod tools our communities need to thrive.

TL;DR: establish open license for our content, provide access to PII-scrubbe data in bulk, build pushshift for lemmy, create better mod tools, (don't) profit.

This post suggests that Kbin magazines can be subscribed to in the same way as Lemmy communities, by searching for them, possibly waiting for one's instance to pull info about the magazine in, and then visiting the magazine through one's instance. However, although my home instance is federated with kbin.social, I am not able to get any search results for kbin.social magazines, and it seems that I am not the only one; see here, here, and here, though that last case seems to have fixed itself on its own. The behavior is the same whether I search by URL (e.g., https://kbin.social/m/fediverse), by magazine name with an at-sign (e.g., @fediverse@kbin.social), or by magazine name with a bang (e.g., [!fediverse@kbin.social](/c/fediverse@kbin.social)).

How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

@lemmy hi I'm trying to sign up on lemmy.ml but its not working.

Hello! I wrote a simple bot that periodically checks for new reddit posts and posts them to lemmy, so that people migrating from reddit to lemmy can still be able to see their favourite posts, but familiarizing with lemmy.

currently the coments are not synced, but this may change in the future (perhaps)

Yes, it uses the Reddit API, so it will stop working on the 1st of July, but I think that then I can implement a sort of web scraper to access Reddit posts without the official API, so this may eventually keep working for a while.

this script is currently on my laptop so it will be offline most of the time, but if I get the approval I may host it somewhere to get it running 24h/24.

now the question... Is this allowed? having this bot running 24h/24 on large subreddits will mean a very high quantity of posts. will this cause any problem to Lemmy?

if you want a preview check out https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/reddit_memes, where I started syncing a few posts from r/memes

let me know your opinion on this!

==== EDIT

here's the bot source code

The bot is now running in https://sh.itjust.works/c/reddit_memes, let's try to see if it work (I hope that shit just works)

I'm a bit concerned about the legality of this, if anyone has any info please tell me!

I want to know if there are other instances that federate with more instances than lemmy.ml, have similar rules regarding bigotry and spamming, and run the latest release of the UI: 0.17.4-rc.4 and BE: 0.17.4-rc.1.

I would be interested in the number of (new) Lemmy users. Similar to @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social

Are there any graphs that show users over time for all instances?

Since Reddit content being used to train AI was part of what triggered their Dumb Actions™️, is there a way to deal with this on Lemmy? If there's a way to license API access or the content itself under, say, LGPL to prevent commercial AI from using it that would be awesome. With the way ActivityPub works I'm not sure if that's possible though.

Sorry if I say something wrong, I'm not that experienced in this area.

So, when you connect to google.com, you're not connecting to one IP regardless of location. Your request is routed to the closest google server's ip address (using anycast? Yes, I just googled this lol).

I'm guessing the Lemmy servers don't do this yet? So, would it be best to sign up to a server near you, lag wise? Especially with the continuing and ever escalating avalanche of Reddit refugees to reach a zenith on June 12-14?

I'm making this post because I was thinking of making a small website or app thing showing new users a random instance (to reduce load on lemmy.ml or any one individual server). And then that becomes the default "go here to join Lemmy" link for new users. But then I realised I could get the IP (or manually input) location of the user and randomly choose an instance out of the pool of instances nearby.

Anyways, I'm probably not gonna do this myself because lazy (I know) but I think it'd be a good idea.

I thought lemmy would only cache text from remote instances to avoid replicating images across the lemmyverse. But I'm seeing a lot of images stored in volumes/pictrs/files/ so maybe that's not the case? Anyone have any insight into this?