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Lemmings.world donations (donations.lemmings.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Just FYI, if you like using the instance and have some spare money, I'd appreciate if you donated to the instance. You can see a detailed breakdown of my costs and donations on the donations page.

If you don't have the extra money (or don't want to spend them here), it's fine as well, the instance is not going down and I can fund it, but if you can help cover a part of the current negative balance of ~466 USD, I'll be very grateful!

Edit: This post will stay pinned for a few days so more people notice, afterwards I'll unpin it.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 
  • This is a general-purpose Lemmy instance where you can create anything from hobby communities to NSFW ones as long as you follow the rules.
  • This instance is here to stay and is intended as a permanent home instance
  • The instance is hosted in Germany and thus respects GDPR
  • Your personal data are protected
  • The admins will not censor something just because we don't like it, as long as the aforementioned rules are followed.
  • Advertising is fine if the specific community is ok with advertising, there are no instance-wide rules for advertising.
  • This instance will not federate with Threads or other similar projects.
  • If you don't like it here, find some instance that you like.
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  • You can't post anything that's illegal in Germany or Czechia
  • All NSFW posts must be tagged NSFW
  • No hate groups promotion and no hate speech
  • You can create any community you want (even NSFW) as long as it complies with the above rules

I hope I don't have to specify individual items (for example, racism is part of "no hate speech", child porn is part of illegal stuff and so on).

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Edit: It's done.


Around 10 PM CET, you can check what time it is for you here.

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Hey folks,

Made a post yesterday on [email protected]

Here it is on our instance: https://lemmings.world/post/21083652

It shows up whether I'm logged in or not, but I was surprised to see it at +1 after a day - so I checked [email protected] , and it's missing from the New queue where I would expect to see it based on its position as seen on: https://lemmings.world/c/[email protected]

Thank you very much folks!

💭Wonder how often this has happened to various Lemmings over the years... hopefully most folks know to try again somehow and don't think they're ignored! 🙂

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Edit: It's done.


The image storage is currently being upgraded, for the time being you might not see any pictures and you'll be unable to upload any pictures. The upgrade shouldn't take more than a few hours.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Edit:

It's done


The previous attempt did not work out well, so today at 10 PM CET I'm trying again!

The outage will again be around 30 minutes to 2 hours.

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Edit: Okay, didn't work, gonna try again tomorrow.


You can check your local date and time here.

I'll be updating to the latest version, the outage should be around 30 minutes to 2 hours.

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It’s officially midnight where I live, so Merry Christmas to all the users of this instance (and everyone else)!

It’s been another year running this instance, and I think we’re doing pretty well. The instance is more stable than it was last year and generally works much better—we went from ~97% uptime to ~99.7%, which is pretty sweet and about as high as we can get without spending too much money. We could push it a bit higher, but hey—what would I do in 2025 if I solved all the problems in 2024?

The world seems to get crazier every year, so I’m really happy to have this instance as a place where we’re not bombarded with corporate-driven “algorithmic” craziness. It’s refreshing in a world where every piece of information is curated to squeeze the most money out of you.

I’d like to thank all the users of my instance—honestly, you’re great! Aside from a few trolls here and there, you make the community a wonderful place. If every instance had users like you, Lemmy would be pretty close to an online paradise!

I also want to thank the other admins who work alongside us to make Lemmy (and the threadiverse in general) better. I won’t name everyone (and I don’t want to forget anyone), so I won’t tag people individually, but here’s a list of instances I love working with, in no particular order: lemmy.world, lemmy.dbzer0.com, feddit.org, feddit.uk, reddthat.com, sh.itjust.works, discuss.online, lemmy.cafe, lemmy.ca, lemmy.nz, dubvee.org, programming.dev, and probably others I’m forgetting (sorry if I missed you—my memory isn’t what it used to be).

I don’t want to make this post any longer than it already is, so I’ll just say: I hope everyone reading this has a pleasant holiday season and a fantastic 2025. See you around!

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Just to be clear, they defederated from us, not the other way.

Hopefully it's only temporary, but just a FYI if you are subscribed to any communities there.

As for the reason, recently there have been many spam accounts being created on lemmings.world, which I'm banning daily, and piefed.social decided they'll be defederating as a response.

I'll update this post if something changes.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

I wrote an app that makes it possible to have your Lemmy saved posts in a RSS feed. For example, if you're like me and save posts because you want to come to them later when you have the time.

How to do it?

Few simple steps:

  • you must be logged in to lemmings.world instance
  • you visit https://lemmings.world/rss/init
  • the response will contain a JSON string which contains, among others, the unique URL of your RSS feed (looks like https://lemmings.world/rss/4e64935e0613f6e2e03cd420f71df14476e769b11704652921c1a7b2150f0888)
    • the URL can be accessed publicly, but the URL is completely random and cannot be guessed
    • that means no one will find out by accident, but if you post the link publicly anywhere, everyone has access
    • if the URL ever gets compromised and you'd like to remove it, send me a PM
    • by default you only get posts, but you can modify it by adding optional parameter include
      • it's a comma separated list that can contain posts and comments
      • ?include=posts - only posts (same as omitting the include parameter)
      • ?include=comments - only comments
      • ?include=posts,comments - include both comments and posts
  • afterwards just put the URL in your favourite RSS client
  • if you ever forget the URL, just visit https://lemmings.world/rss/init (while logged in), you can copy the URL again

If you're from another instance, you can either join lemmings.world or ask your admins to include the RSS app on their instance as well, it's open source and can be found at https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyPersonalRss

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We're running the latest 0.19.3 version of Lemmy. You might need to log out and log back in to fix problems in some clients.


Side note: I'm always looking for donations, if you can and want to donate, you can do so at https://donations.lemmings.world/

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New users guide (lemmings.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

We're getting quite a few new users, so I thought it might be a great time to write some quick-start guide. This post will stay pinned for a week or so, afterwards it will be linked from the sidebar.


Right now you're on Lemmy, a federated platform for discussion and link aggregation.

What's the federation thing you're reading about everywhere?

That's a fancy name for a protocol that makes it possible for all Lemmy servers to interact with each other - that means you can read content from other servers here on lemmings.world.

Does that mean that I can log in to any server with my account?

Nope, your account is tied to the server you created it on. But that doesn't restrict you from commenting on posts on different servers, creating posts in communities on different servers, or subscribing to communities on different servers. In fact, that's the whole point of federated platforms!

Note that each server first needs to know that a community exists before it can fetch its posts. That happens when someone from the server subscribes to the community for the first time. If no one subscribed to a particular community, you won't see it in the "All" feed. But hey, you can always be the pioneer and be the first to subscribe.

How do I find communities?

You can always use the search at the top. You can also use the various communities for sharing communities:

And you can use https://lemmyverse.net/communities - a brilliant service which indexes all known Lemmy communities regardless of what server they're on.

Tip: Set your home instance (lemmings.world if you've registered here) on Lemmyverse.net using the home button in the top right corner - all community links will point correctly to your instance.

How do I link to other communities on Lemmy?

You may have noticed already, but the format is !community_name@lemmy_server.tld. For example [email protected]. This is similar to using r/subreddit_name on Reddit. In the same way, you can mention users like this: @[email protected]. Note that this will also notify the user that they have been mentioned.

Some frontends don't render the user link correctly, sadly that's the case for the official one. In that case you have to use a little bit of markdown to help: [@[email protected]](/u/[email protected]) which will be rendered like this: @[email protected]. Note that if you only want to tag someone, just writing @[email protected] is enough, the markdown thing is only if you want to make sure the user link is clickable for all users.

Frontends? What's that?

Aside from the official Lemmy frontend at https://lemmings.world/ there are also alternative frontends written by different people. All those frontends display the same data, they just have different ways to go about it. A sad fact remains that all of them look better than the official one, so I advise you to use a different frontend.

On Lemmings.world you can find these frontends:

Mobile apps

There are many, many apps for your phone, whether you have an Android or an iPhone. There's even a separate community for them: [email protected]. My personal favorite is Eternity ([email protected]) for Android.

NSFW

If you're here for that juicy NSFW, there are two Lemmy servers for that (lemmynsfw.com, pornlemmy.com) and pretty much all porn communities are there. Due to the federated nature, you can of course subscribe to their communities from lemmings.world. If, on the other hand, you don't want to see any NSFW, in your account settings you can check that you don't want to see any NSFW. If you see any untagged NSFW, please report it.

Bots

When you're at the settings page, you may notice two bot related settings: Bot Account and Show Bot Accounts. The first one marks your own account as a bot and the other can be used to disable seeing all bot posts and comments on Lemmy. It's completely up to you, but there are many useful ones. I run three such bots:

  • @[email protected] - just mention the bot in a comment and it will reply to it.
  • @[email protected] - automatically creates TL;DR for linked articles from supported sites
  • @[email protected] - many people use URLs (like https://lemmings.world/c/wwdits) instead of the community name to link them, which doesn't work for people on different instances - if someone from a different instance clicks the link, they won't be logged in to their account and can't comment. This bot replies with the corrected link

While you can disable all bots in the settings, in my opinion it's better to block them individually - you might for example dislike ChatGPT but find automatic TL;DRs useful, so you can simply just block the ChatGPT bot.

Glossary

Defederation

You'll most likely hear this term sooner or later. It means that one instance's admin(s) decide that they don't want to see the content of another instance. The reason might be arbitrary, but on well-meaning instances (like this one) it's usually because of some serious reasons: hate speech, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), spamming other instances and so on. You can check the code of conduct this instance uses to defederate with other instances. We use Fediseer to manage our blocklist, you may view the reason for each defederation there.

If you don't see some of the instancse we've defederated from on Fediseer, that's because one of the other instances we trust has marked it as containing CSAM or loli content

Fediverse

You might hear this term around. Lemmy isn't the only platform that uses the federated protocol (called ActivityPub) for federation with others. There are for example Mastodon (similar to Twitter), Kbin (has sections similar to both Twitter and Reddit), but also Bookwyrm (Goodreads alternative) and so on. These all services are collectively called Fediverse. Some of them can interact with each other (like Lemmy and Kbin), some of them can interact only a little (like Mastodon with Lemmy, but not Lemmy with Mastodon) and some of them not at alll (like Lemmy and Bookwyrm). Over time the integration with other Fediverse services will get better and better.

You might also sometimes see the term Threadiverse for services like Kbin, Lemmy and others similar to Reddit.


That's all I can think of for now, if you have any questions, feel free to ask!