Lemmy

I think that to get more people to become interested in Lemmy, the onboarding process is going to be a huge stopping point. I’ve seen suggestions on how to change the service, but I think it can be solved just by how we present the information to new users who aren’t super familiar with the tech involved.

I’ve seen people explain it like email, but even as someone actively running a Lemmy Server, with years of coding experience, some of those explanations even confuse me.

I think it’s just a presentation problem, choosing a server should be explained as like choosing a digital home that suits your interests. For instance, if you live in the northeastern US, you might choose NortheastUSA.net as your home server. If your following a Reddit community migration, sign up where they are. From there, you can browse other servers much like you'd browse different subreddits, like hopping over to a NY Jets fan server if you're into football. The main Lemmy.ml server is a good point to start if your unsure, but it shouldn’t matter in the end.

Over time, communities dedicated to general news, politics, or the best memes will emerge. But your choice of server, while based on your interests, is just your starting point - you're free to explore beyond that. So what if in the end the best memes are on !memes@italianfood.it? Maybe the best place for coding help will be !python@idaho.social. The aim should be to make the server domain nearly transparent to the user.

If this sounds complex, users can think of their server as your internet homepage, a base from which you start exploring. For tech-savvy users, hosting a personal instance on a VPN like Racknerd, is a breeze if you're comfortable with docker or ansible. I'm actually just hosting my own instance for my home and some friends, running on a $20/year racknerd VPN. Super easy to setup for anyone familiar with docker or ansible. I’m sure one of the web hosting providers will have a one click spin up before long.

To simplify navigation, we'd need a way to search across all servers from the app or site, without wrestling with server domains. Feddit has a great listing started.

We just need a good search, like if you're looking for 'python,' you'd see the top 5 Python communities across all servers. Ideally, an aggregator would also be present, showing popular communities and trending posts from all servers.

If anyone has anything to add, or that I’m wrong about, please let me know.

The GitHub repo that provides a comparison table of different lemmy instances now includes server uptime %

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

Thanks to David Morley for providing this data via the Fediverse Observer API

• https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

I have English set as the primary language in my phone settings, but Spanish set as an additional one so I can swipe type in it – estoy probiendo practicar más lol. When I visited Lemmy the interface kept defaulting to Spanish for whatever reason.

Anyway after making my account I was able to change the language in my Lemmy account settings from "browser default" to English without having to delete the secondary language on my phone. Not sure why this is the only site that thinks Spanish is my default!

(Chrome, Android 13, Google Pixel 7 if anyone is curious.)

Exiting to see so much new traffic in Lemmy the past few days.

While I don't think recreating Reddit in the Fediverse is necessarily a good idea, there were a few subs that really helped me discover new content. I looked, and didn't see anything directly comparable, so I created two new communities:

https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy411 - yep - can't find what you're looking for (or perhaps what instance it might be on?) ask here.

https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists - find something cool? post about it here for others to discover as well.

(this will be cross-posted to a few other places like other instance main communities as well)

I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.

The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.

While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.

It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.

I suggest Lemmiwinks.

Agora estamos no @lemmy

https://lemmy.world/c/rpg_brasil

Espaço brasileiro dedicado à discussão de Role-Playing Games (RPGs) nacionais e internacionais e assuntos pertinentes.

Traga sua espada, prepare seu grimório e junte-se à discussão!

The title, I'm curious to know since kbin ≠ lemmy. Can you see magazines and posts on your feeds?
Can you find magazines on your search bar?

Edit: Magazines are to kbin what communities are to Lemmy.
Also keep in mind that the communities on kbin are much smaller.

Edit 2: For example, if you look for this community https://kbin.social/m/EASportsFC on your search bar like @EASportsFC@kbin.social does it appear?

I've seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don't show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in "!communityname@instance.domain"

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn't the thing that makes a social media site, it's the engagement

So even if you're used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they're more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they'll just go back to reddit

Some projects have a public roadmap or a list of priorities that give an idea of the direction that the maintainers want to take.

Is there anything like this for Lemmy currently?

I'd love to find interesting things to subscribe to.

Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It's probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn't apologize at all). Allegedly they're trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it's not working well enough lol

A good problem to have although long term we're going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.

It seems the devs wont be joining, but many instance admins are present.

Matrix join link: https://matrix.to/#/#xmpp_lemmy_muc.xmpp.fi:matrix.org

This is what I mean...Left is tchncs.de, right is Lemmy.ml

Edit: Also, trying to access those communities that don't appear in the search result for specific instance, gives this message

404: couldnt_find_community

back in that other platform i had changed to cross posting to my own profile rather than saving a post. it was just more convenient and prevented losing stuff if the op deleted it

Curious, since I know I can block communities of instances. Is instance-wide blocking only available to admins of instances?

@lemmy Hi I am planning on joining Lemmy however I was reading about some privacy issues with the platform. I am going to share some of them and what do you think about it?

--Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible

-Deleted account usernames remain visible too

-Anything remains visible on federated servers!

-When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server

So spam it more ;)

I have a lemmy account on lemmy.sdf.org

When searching for communities to join I can see several in the list from lemmy.ml and beehaw.org

but while searching for some communities that I know exist on lemmy.ml or beehaw.org I am getting no results

will a community from instance A only appear in search results on instance B if a user from instance B has already manually subscribed to that specific community from instance A?

basically, there is no scraping of 'all available' communities even when two instances know of each others existence? only 'specific communities' are indexed when a user has manually found/subscribed?