Posts and communities are still visible from other instances, but going to lemmy.blahaj.zone just shows an error. Anyone know what’s going on? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still new to this)

I think the only thing worse than something not being private, is if the fact that it's not private is not common knowledge leading to tons of people thinking it's private.

Lemmy doesn't even show a list of what you the logged in user voted on. But it's trivial to use an external tool to see who voted on what regardless of whose account it is. I think obsecuring information like this does more harm than good, since a lot of people won't actively go out and research what kind of data in their Lemmy account is publicly accessible beyond the data they can see from the website itself.

It's been discussed before that there isn't an easy way to hide who voted for what on a federated platform while still having all the instances correctly count votes for everyone. Therefore, if actually making votes anonymous seems not to be viable, why not just make it public for everyone like Mastodon does? I don't think we should make them inbox items like on Mastodon, or at least not the same inbox as the rest of the notifications so votes don't drown them out. I think a dropdown on the content itself showing who voted on it and in which direction is probably enough. Also a tab on the user page showing a list of everything the user voted on, at least on the logged in user's own page (I mainly want this so I can keep track of what I voted on).

I've been working on a guide to getting started on Lemmy. What do you think I should add?

I was reading this post https://lemmy.world/post/3049732 and it seems like there are lots of different desires and uses for people to want to hide certain types of content.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this: sometimes I do want to hide memes, sometimes I want to hide politics, etc. But sometimes I want to hide different things. That is, some days I come to Lemmy for comica and memes, other days for news, other days for discussion or technology, etc.

It might be a cool feature to let people create different "viewing modes" or "content filter profiles" or something like that. So I could have a "sports profile" that only shows certain communities of my choice, a "politics profile" etc. Not entirely sure if it would make more sense for these lists to be inclusive or exclusive or what. But the idea would be that I could edit and save these profiles and select between them in my user settings.

I don't want to post this as an enhancement suggestion in the Lemmy git repo so willy-nilly though, figured I'd ask on Lemmy first if anyone else thinks this is desirable? Personally I think it could have a huge payoff while not being too technically challenging or taxing from an instance data management standpoint. It may allow people to engage with Lemmy in a much more healthy and enjoyable way, using it sometimes for comfort, sometimes for information, etc. depending on their mood and needs. Basically, blocking is a great and powerful feature to improve a user's experience, but I hardly ever block any communities because I often will want to see that sort of content sometimes without needing to go directly to the community.

If others think this sounds nice, I would be happy to post it on the Lemmy repo as well as try to contribute code for the feature. But I'd really like input first, especially on whether it should be inclusive or exclusive lists, or something expose UI to choose (seems to risk bloat imo), or any other suggestions.

Hi Lemmy community,

I’m running into some strange federation issues with my instance (buddyverse.one) and could use some advice. A few months ago, I shut down my instance due to storage constraints and deleted the database, as there was no clear way to remove old posts to free up space. Today, I recreated the instance from scratch, but I’m facing several problems:

1. Subscription Pending Issue: When I try to subscribe to communities (both from my instance and from lemmy.ml to a community on my instance), it gets stuck on "Subscription pending." It’s not resolving even after waiting.

2. Old Content Persisting: My profile on other instances (e.g., lemmy.world) still shows old posts and comments from before I shut down the instance. It seems no Lemmy instances removed my content when I deleted my database.

3. Old Replies Resurfacing: I commented on a thread recently, and it pulled up old replies people made to my comments from months ago, before the shutdown.

It looks like the federation didn’t properly handle the deletion of my instance’s content, and now it’s causing issues with the new setup. Has anyone dealt with something similar? How can I:

• Fix the "Subscription pending" issue for community subscriptions?
• Ensure old posts/comments are removed from other federated instances?
• Prevent old replies from resurfacing on new comments?

Any guidance or troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated. I’m running the latest Lemmy version and have checked the basic federation settings (enabled, no strict allowlist). Thanks in advance!

Instance: buddyverse.one
Lemmy Version: 0.19.11 Logs: Happy to share relevant logs if needed—just let me know what to look for.

Hi! It’s me as usual.

I was wondering if there could be a way for lemmy when federating to at least fetch:

• community names
• community nicknames
• usernames

I’m a fan of the fact that it doesn’t fetch everything because it would be a mess very quickly and it makes no sense to fetch a whole server because one user of your instance maybe wants to follow a single community from a super big instance… But names? So when people search for communities don’t need to “force” federation check using the exact syntax.

There is a pull request which adds a new setting show_downvotes with these settings:

• Show (current behaviour)
• Hide (all downvotes hidden in ui)
• ShowForOthers (only downvotes on other user's posts are visible)

Importantly the last option would become the new default, which means that users wont be aware that their post or comment was downvoted unless they manually change the setting. This may be good for mental health, but may also make it harder for users to realize that their content is unpopular. What do you think about it?

Here is the pull request

I've discovered Lemmy quite recently and I'm still learning how it works. One of the things I don't get is how small communities can become known? On the main page I can only see communities that I've already subscribed to. I can also see popular posts on this instance. But how post in a community can become popular if no one has already joined it?

cross-posted from: https://gregtech.eu/post/11282076

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/19629409

Pump-and-dump schemes, fraud, ransomware, multi-level marketing, spam, incentivizing selfishness, greed, and general unethical behaviour, buying elections, quasi Nazis creating their own coins, et cetera. In my opinion, over the years the evidence has piled up tall enough to show that crypto"currencies" are an overal detriment to society.

It therefore surprised me to discover that behind the ♡ donation button on top of most Lemmy instances except for Beehaw, there is an option to donate "crypto". This sets a bad example. Thoughts?

Hi, can anyone point me to discussions or e.g. working groups focusing on user experience aspects of Lemmy?

I'm new to Lemmy but have been working in non-profit tech for many years.

Currently, my day job is in UX, broadly speaking. As a volunteer gig I'm looking to help a local group that's investigating the pros and cons of spinning up Fediverse instance(s). My focus is on the question of how we could help people in our town get signed up and using these services fluently.

Lemmy seems like a good candidate platform (to me) for meeting some of our group's needs. So I'm keen to get up to speed with the state of play (current priorties, known issues, plans and work in progress) in terms of making it as user-friendly as possible. I may have also capacity to contribute skills and time to these aspects of the larger Lemmy project. Where can I read about the current goals and plans? Who are the people bringing UX tools and human-centred design to Lemmy and how can I reach them?

Thanks!

This is a follow-up to my previous post asking for design suggestions for the new donation dialog. It gave a lot of valuable feedback which is why I'm making another similar post.

This time it's about the donation page on join-lemmy.org (linked above). What can be done to improve the texts and design? For a start I already changed the text to the same one from the donation dialog. Here more space is available, so a longer text with more details could be written (possibly below the donation buttons).

What do you think about the available donation options? Do they work for you or would you prefer to donate through a different platform? On the other hand it is possible that the number of available options is already too confusing. Would it help to add a short description for each button?

Below are lists of contributors, translators and sponsors. They haven't been updated in two years and no one complained, which indicates that they don't serve as motivation for people to contribute or donate. So I would remove that whole section which will leave a lot of free space. What else can we put there, maybe a list of reasons why people should donate?

By the way I plan to make a recurring series of posts like this. The next ones will likely cover onboarding for new users, the reports page and more. If you know a catchy name for this series you can also comment it below.

Edit: The changes are now deployed, but you are welcome to make further suggestions.

Help Design Lemmy

Lemmy Release v0.19.11

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Changes

This release fixes a security vulnerability which allows an attacker to delete images uploaded by other users. You can read the details in the security advisory. Thanks to @Nothing4You for discovering and fixing it.

A new donation dialog is shown to users once per year, to help fund Lemmy development.

There are also various backports from the development branch. Importantly the "Private instance" setting can now be used with federation enabled. This way only logged-in users can browse posts and comments, which stops AI crawlers from overloading the server. Also moderators can now view votes in the post/comment options.

Backend

• Remove unnecessary pictrs purge calls (#5566)
• Donation dialog (#5559)
• Send out email after registration denied, email confirmed (#5553)
• Change private instance setting to allow federation (#5530)
• Proxy post.url if it is an image (#5545)
• When creating community copy allowed languages from creator profile (#5490)
• Include image alt text in post search (#5449)
• Add config option to enable json logging (#5471, #5557)
• Embed images in RSS feeds (#5488)
• Fix federation of sticky posts (#5593)
• Deleted user shouldnt break federation outbox (#5443, #5573)
• Fix some image embeds by escaping alt text (#5506)
• Properly federate distinguish comment (#5586)
• Increase default registration rate limit to 10 per hour (#5600)
• Remove debug ratelimit being used in production (#5551)

Frontend

• Implement donation dialog (#3034)
• Hide images in private message reports (#3053)
• Dont render images in private message (#3043)
• Changed checkbox text "Only moderators can post to this community" from legend to label on the Create Community page (#3046)
• Trigger toast error on community request failure (#3045)
• Add local link next to fedilink on posts (#3033)
• Add banned badges to post and comment listings (#3030)
• Linkify user @ mentions (#3029)
• Adding ability for mods to view votes. (#3027)
• Upvote, downvote, view source, and favorite icons become larger when pressed to improve visibility on grayscale screens (#2960)
• Improve colour contrast of the mini-overlay in the top right corner of link or image post thumbnails (#2961)
• Improve screenreader accessibility by adding a main element to more pages (issue #2891) (#2944)
• Using input group for allowed and block instance buttons. (#2905)
• Moving totp and delete account settings into their own cards. (#2907)
• Hide NSFW field for create post form, for NSFW communities. (#2887)
• Modify the logic for appending the URL after uploading an image, placing the image URL after the cursor. (#2804)

Upgrade instructions

There are no breaking changes with this release.

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We are able to develop Lemmy as an open source platform free of tracking and ads thanks to the generosity of our users. Once a year we ask you to consider donating to support our work. Financial security allows us to continue maintaining and improving the platform. If you’d like to make a one-time or recurring donation simply use the links below. Thank you for using Lemmy.

Nutomic and Dessalines, Lemmy Developers

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency

I know Nicole has kinda become a meme but for me it's just annoying. Is there a way we can get some type of plugin one inboxes so that we can set up a regex to look out for, "hi, I'm Nicole, the Fediverse chick" and all variations of and automatically bounce them?

Are we nearing 1.0.0? What does such a release mean?

I really like public endorsements in forums, when the comment/post shows the names of ppl who like it, it lets me know if I can trust an opinion, especially if I've seen those names before, which is common here.

Instead of ppl commenting seconded or I agree, they could endorse a post to publically show their name next to a like/upvote. The inverse would also be nice as well, downvote/disagree and show your username, both would be helpful information, becoming more valuable overtime.

As an addition to upvoting/downvoting, not replacing it.

The next Lemmy version will add a donation dialog, which is shown once a year to every user, in order to increase the amount of donations for Lemmy development. You can see the current text in the screenshot above and in the translations repo. You can also checkout the frontend PR. Is there anything you would change about the text?

Edit: This is how the final design looks like:

Will it just edit the link to point to a server's local copy of a post? Will it use ap:// links, or some other fancy type (for example !comm@instance/post or similar.)?

Is there a way to disable DMs? I keep being spammed by users from an instance called sh.itjust.works promoting some weird out-of-platform personal profiles.

They usually send this stuff and then immediately seem to get banned, but I still see their stuff since images are displayed by default. Seems like a big oversight to allow this.

Is there a way to block receiving DMs? Or at least have some sort of Accept/Decline dm feature like on Reddit?

Nutomic:

This is implemented in the main branch now. If you want to develop a plugin for Lemmy, have a look at the RFC and the examples. If you have questions about plugin development, feel free to post in the Matrix dev chat, !lemmy@lemmy.ml or open an issue.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3562#issuecomment-2760779122

Examples in multiple languages: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-plugins#lemmy-plugins (only a few examples currently, more languages are possible including Python)

Anyone planning to start working on a plugin?

I've noticed an issue with the search functionality on Lemmy. When using the search filters for "top" posts, it doesn't seem to matter whether you select "day," "week," "month," or "year" – the results always show the top posts of all time. This makes it difficult to find recent discussions or trending topics within a specific timeframe.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there already an issue for it on Github?

This comes up surprisingly often, but this comment chain in the recent AMA prompted me to start a general discussion to maybe put this discussion to rest.

The only other place I'm aware that this has been discussed in detail is this pull request from 2023, which the creator ultimately closed.

What I'm ultimately in favour of, and what actually gets requested (one, two, three), is letting mods edit the metadata around a post. Things like the NSFW toggle, or post tags in 1.0.

But I'm throwing this out to the floor. What, if anything, do you think mods should be able to change about a user's content?

Title. I'd like to filter some posts from Lemmy. Can this be done, either natively, either by some extensions (for chromium, in my case), either using a different frontend...?

Thank you in advance.