Lemmy

I’m on Safari iOS 15, not sure if that matters. Anytime I post a comment, it doesn’t actually get posted. Doesn’t matter if I disable content blockers, they just never appear.

PMs work, upvoting works, I’m not even sure if this post will work though. Any ideas?

What do you think about that?

Content is needed to get more users

Okay - Lemmy is cool, and is experiencing a boost...

It would be important (while there's lots of eyes looking on it, especially the folks who will look on June 12-13th) for the instance picker to look presentable.

Something that doesn't look like a monoculture of one political ideology..

Right now, it starts off with Marxist / communist stuff right at the top (if that's your cup of tea, and you won't read, just down vote and move on).

However - I would argue the viability of a reddit alternative is one that starts off as a neutral pallet cleanser: just the tame instance descriptions on page one. If you want a themed instance you'll most certainly pick that tag or category while browsing.

I don't want it vanishing into obscurity because people write it off as a fringe gab-like offshoot that got kicked out of other places.

The software itself shouldn't spiral into only one sort of person using it, while driving away others.

Gotta have some way to slowly turn people socialist :) boiling the frog here, don't go all RMS extreme and be all gross and out of touch.

Being a refugee is a real life-threatening experience that happens to real people in response to real violence. Not when your favorite website closed down your favorite 3rd party app.

It's like saying you were raped when you get killed in fortnight bc some kid 360 no scoped you. It takes away from the experience of real rape victims.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1149454

Don't exactly know the best way for this to be made. I'm guessing a special page built into the platform might actually be the best way. It'd just provide a list of all communities the instance federates with in order of ascending age.

Or, maybe more easily, an admin run community for people to post about their new communities?

My email at the moment

Image Description: A screen snippet from an email client showing 18 emails reading "- has applied to join lemmy.blahaj.zone". The usernames have been manually edited out. of the image snippet.

I see there's a /c/technology on lemmy.ml, but also a /c/technology on beehaw.org. As far as I can tell, they're completely independent and unrelated. This feels like it will create fractured communities, especially as more servers come online. Is there any plan for avoiding fragmentation? Is the expectation that the community for a particular topic will congregate around a single one of the instances?

This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.

However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.

You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

Hello,

I'm new here (go reddit exodus go). I've joined a Formula 1 community which has one moderator who appears to no longer be active.

Is there a process in place which allows for members of an orphaned community to become moderators?

Thanks!

I am relatively new to Lemmy, although I’ve had my account since before the current Reddit uprising and migration. I want to create a community for pen lovers, since that was one of my favorite subs over on Reddit and there’s not one here.

I was able to go to the main page on Lemmy.ml and choose to create a community. I put in the sidebar text, an icon, a banner, etc., and pressed “Create”, but I keep getting a popup telling me to “Match the requested format” over name at the top. I’ve tried “pens”, “!pens”, “c/pens”, “/c/pens”, and “https://lemmy.ml/c/pens%E2%80%9D, and nothing seems to work. Any idea what it’s asking for?

(And yes, I did a Google search and fell down several rabbit holes, but came up empty for an answer.”

There is no way for an instance like lemmy.ml to know about all lemmy servers, because there’s no central server keeping track.

-- https://lemmy.ml/comment/447791

I was reading the above comment and it made me think about the relays and how they could help lemmy/kbin/other Group software. Relays were a solution the microblogging sector of the fediverse used to jumpstart instances, which would have an empty federated feed making it difficult for local users to find new users to follow.

The way I envision it working would be a community relay would be an AP server with a Service or Application type Actor. This actor could receive a copy of a community's Create message and could then Announce that community to its followers. Lemmy/kbin instances could follow relays to be alerted of new remote communities and notify the relay about their own new communities.

In this way, users/instances could learn about new communities across the fediverse in a participatory way without relying on a central authority.

I'm thinking about deploying my own instance where I'd be the only user and most probable I won't have any communities.
The only thing there will be my account to interact with as many other instances as I want.

What would be de pros and cons of having my account like this?
Would it be harder to interact with other instances in some way?

Subs like off my chest or r advice?

We all know about how Reddit closed-sourced back in 2017 and will be killing off third-party apps this July, what will Lemmy.ml do to avoid facing the same fate? Reddit started off like this (open, aiming for freedom) and it all went downhill from there.

I've seen lots of discussion on reddit of users trying to get others to join Lemmy and the prevailing reply is that it is too difficult to navigate and comprehend. Having to answer multiple questions and wait for manual verification is combersome and is limiting growth at a time when nothing should be standing in Lemmy's way. Combine this with server/instance selection analysis paralysis, and you get my point.

The linked mastodon blog post sums up my thoughts, but the TLDR is essentially this:

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don't let dreams of decentralization interfere with the greater goal of achieving the network effect.

We should all be telling people to go to lemmy.ml and sign up. The devs should be too, and they should rethink/remove the questions and waiting period. Hell, just put a captcha. Discussions about servers and analogies to email as an example of federated service we all already use is a waste of breath. We shouldn't have barriers to entry.

Thoughts?

EDIT: I've just found kbin.social and find it has superior signup options. It's just: make an account (email/password), or sign up with Google or Apple. No server talk. Upside is the layout is nice and it acts as a Lemmy instance (threads) as well as a mastodon instance (microblogging). Only downside currently is that their android/iOS app is in development and isn't ready yet, so desktop only.

https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

https://kbin.social/

I think this might be the better recommendation for newbies at the moment.

Every time I look at reddit or twitter they're designed to be filled with the most vile or annoying posts imaginable to keep you scrolling and this place just... doesn't have that. It's relieving to not be inherently angry just scrolling through new posts

Grouping interests is really convenient.

Rule #2 is possibly our most important one:

Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.

Learn to disagree without being rude or disrespectful.

It can be difficult sometimes, since western social media thrives on collective outrage, and they knowingly ingrain this into us for years. But please do adhere to this rule, and it will make this place much more enjoyable.

We will not hesitate to issue temp bans (usually a day or two) for those who make everyone's experience unpleasant.Hit the report button if you see this behavior.

Thanks!

Hey guys, just joined Lemmy and noticed that there isn't any searching tool like on reddit. I was scrolling yesterday and saw a cool post but didn't have time to save it and I tried searching and realized that there was no searching feature, at least not in Jerboa on Android. Anybody come up with a solution for this or maybe it's a secret hidden icon?

I really love Boost for reddit, I know it's not open source but I'm sure there are open source apps that are similar enough. Does anyone know how to adjust one of these open source reddit apps to work with Lemmy? I am using an open source android app from f-droid, and it lacks some of my favorite features like tapping to collapse comment chains, customizable UI, etc.

Active seems to order based on discussion length while hot lets you discover newer content that's also popular.

I changed my default settings to hot, since it seems to be better for discovery.

I saw Jerboa while scrolling through random apps to potentially install, and became excited that finally there's a REDDIT alternative as well, instead of just Twitter. Mastodon might be nice, but I don't use Twitter, and I probably won't use Mastodon, either. Reddit, on the other hand, oh man...

Reddit is honestly so important to the internet at this point that you're trolling if you do web searches without "reddit" appended at the end (be it technological, physiological, historical, political, or any other type of topic that you're looking for information or opinions about).

However... Reddit is going towards a terrible corporate direction, and something like Lemmy has been desperately needed for a while now, and I hope it can eventually somehow become the new "reddit" at the end of web searches eventually, as nobody knows what could happen to Reddit soon...

I find the most random, but also INCREDIBLY important and crucial bits of information deep within Reddit thread replies, since each one can go anywhere, no matter what the original post was about, such as finding out that fabric softeners are damaging for everything, especially humans, and that they should just generally not be used... on a gaming-related subreddit. Of course I start doing my research afterwards as well, now specifically regarding what I just learned to make sure and verify I know the correct information from multiple sources, but even just that initial random warning is great to start off with.

And the worst part? We might lose ALL of these things since we're at the mercy of Reddit's shareholders (even more so in the future, most likely), and these incredible resources and HUMAN EXPERIENCES that one shares, and MANY others learn from, could just... disappear...

A quick major policy change, and goodbye Reddit...

I'm looking forward to Lemmy taking off!

Is there a way to have Lemmy instances render in wide-screen mode (sort of like old reddit or older themes of Wikipedia)? I really dislike the default look of everything being in the center with tons of blank space on both sides (I use 1440p monitors).

For what it's worth, I came up with the following Stylus css script to work on the lemmy.ml (also works on github.com for what it's worth if you so choose):

.container,
.container-lg,
.container-md,
.container-sm,
.container-xl {
    max-width: 2560px !important;
}

.col-md-8 {
    flex: 0 0 85% !important;
    max-width: 85% !important;
}

.col-md-4 {
    flex: 0 0 15% !important;
    max-width: 15% !important;
}

Can just adjust max-width under the .container* options to whatever you want (I chose to set it to my monitor's width). The col-md-8 and col-md-4 are for the main content and sidebar respectively, so I have main content at 85% of the width and sidebar at 15% of the width. Result looks similar to this: https://i.imgur.com/FMAZYbh.png

Published my style here for use on Stylus: https://userstyles.world/style/10168/1440p-lemmy