Lemmy

I've made an open source tool for scheduling posts to Lemmy, you can find it at https://schedule.lemmings.world. It can be used by users from any instance and it can be self-hosted if you wish so!

Changes since the last time I posted about it:

• you can now login with 2FA enabled
• you can schedule pin and unpin of posts in a community if you're the mod
• you can schedule pin and unpin of posts in an instance if you're the admin
• when creating a post, you can choose to pin it to the community (if you're a mod)
• you can choose the language of your posts
• an official support community has been created at !schedule@lemmings.world
• you can post the same post into multiple communities easily, just select the communities and multiple scheduled posts will be created

Let me know what you think!

Is this accurate? I just deleted my comment and none of the child comments were visible anymore

Why does "most comments" not feature a time frame?

Why is there no choice of default sorting for comments?

Lemmy isn't an advertiser oriented platform. It's a discussion platform. I strictly believe default sorting by new comments and most comments being improved is absolutely necessary. I would go as far as to suggest making sorting by new comments the default and most comments (last 24h) the default for sorting feed. I believe that would tremendously improve the user experience AND engagement because they'd have more stuff to engage with. Sure, there's an argument to be made about burrying less active threads, however, the users who won't see those threads I believe to be the users who'd just scroll past them anyway.

There are a couple of browser extensions for the other place that show you what subreddits a given URL are posted to. If you're looking for discussion about a current link/page/site, it's very handy. Also, if you're submitting links, it's helpful to show where a given link has already been submitted and when.

Searching Lemmy instances can be daunting. An extension like this would be amazing.

I may have bumped into a bug while testing comment functionality.

• Go to https://lemmy.ml/comment/2566997
• Click '2 more replies'

I think those two other replies were comments that I deleted. I assume the cause of the bug is comment 2566997 having a child_count value of 2.

The number of Lemmy instances are growing and the list on join-lemmy is getting bigger and bigger. There are too many instances on the page and it is hard for new user to find which instance is suitable for them.

In my opinion, the instances should be categorized on the basis of the region, topic, etc. Something also should be done to promote smaller instances and reduce the traffic on the main instance and lemmy.world instance.

Mastodon categorizes the instances and gives a brief overview of each instance.

https://joinmastodon.org/servers

I did the Memmy Icon recently, here's the Lemmy icon in dark mode as was asked for in the Memmy post.

Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works

Hi, thanks for taking the time to read this.

In order to read communities in foreign languages, you need to have selected that language in your profile. However, I noticed most around select a smaller selection, which totally makes sense. That said, I was wondering what is the actual hardware impact of enabling more languages? Does it require a lot of disk space. I've finally started meeting some people from further afield and I'm grateful for that and hope to see, is it likely to be the language settings that's prevented that until now or am I just not looking around enough?

Thank you in advance for settling my curiosities.

AutoMod for obvious reasons (removing spam, slurs, etc.), and controversial sort to see the spiciest comments in that thread.

I couldn't find any dark mode Lemmy icon. Memmy's icon was close, so I downloaded it and tweaked the background. I hope it's helpful for some folks.

I've made an app that makes it possible to schedule a post in Lemmy at an arbitrary time. It's available at https://schedule.lemmings.world and can be used by people from any instance.

Let me know what you think!

P.S. This post was posted using the app

Edit: And it's open source!

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/3174066

I shared a post about my instance.

Then I hit the cross-post button, chose the community, language and then submitted the form. Although new post created, there is no "cross-posted to" area on both original or target post.

For example here, you can see which communities the post cross-posted to. What am I doing wrong?

Update: looks like both posts should have same URL for crosspost to work. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3827

I used to use the instances view in Liftoff for this, since that client has a really handy "View this on another instance" feature for both communities and posts, but lately that view as well as Liftoff in general has had some pretty serious stability issues for me, so here's the question:

Does anyone know of a tool or client that makes it really easy to move community subscriptions across instances? As I have several accounts across several instances, I tend to use those to organize my subscriptions by things like topic or theme, kinda like one might use multireddits on The Old Site.

Hello. I'm considering hosting a 1-person instance for my personal use. I'm trying to run on my own hardware, and I have used *nix for quite a long time and maintaining it wouldn't be much of a problem. However, I'm not quite sure what kind of hardware should I run it on.

How powerful should my hardware be? Say, would it be OK on a old PC with Northwood Celeron and 512mb of ram with 384GB HDD? Or maybe an android phone running postmarketOS (Alpine Linux) with MSM8916 and 2GB of ram with 32GB eMMC?

Also, my ISP does not allow opening common server hosting ports, and I'd also prefer not doing so due to security problems. Which ports do I need opened to operate a lemmy instance for my personal use (i'm only going to be connecting from home)? Can I use CloudFlare's cloudflared/Argo Tunnel to do this? (I do know CloudFlare is not great and has problems but I'm not aware of any other similar service, I'm not really able to pay for external servers but if there's an alternative service I'm open to suggestions)

Thanks for reading the post, and hopefully answering.

I'd like to host lemmy on my LAN and I'd be the only user, no registration open. I would subscribe to communities on other instances and my instance would get the posts and comments. would that work? I don't need it to be accessible from the internet.

Title, basically.

Unless admins of specific instances are publishing defederation lists, it seems like it's impossible to tell without visiting a community on a defederated instance from your home instance only to see "no posts." While I like federation overall, I feel like most users are going to end up with a few accounts or setting up their own Lemmy instances just so that they can see stuff from all other instances without running into errors.

Maybe adding some sort of message when viewing a community from an instance not federated with it would be a good idea, with a generic catch all of "Your home instance is not federated with the instance that this community is on. Please contact your instance administrator for details" with the option for instance admins to customize the message per instance if they want to. I'm not really a programmer-type so I wouldn't know if that was even feasible.

I know there's a purge function, but i had a problem currently with people posting porn picture in my instance(which is not allowed), then later edit out the link so i couldn't get the picture purged as well. Is there a way to do it?

I know it's just a far of dream but it'd be cool if someone found a way to pull it off. Not super experienced with federated media so I have no idea the logistics behind it but I just think it would be neat even if it's a smaller board.

Admins of Lemmy.ml please consider defederating from rammy.site it has been taken over by right wing malicious actors from exploding-heads.com and the admin is nowhere to be found.

It is imperative that you take action as soon as possible the users on rammy are using the site to spread their messages to a further audience, we must nip this in the bud. If you don't believe me check the instance for yourself, you'll see it dominated with bigoted right wing posts and spam communities.

I currently have to use this CSS overload with the Stylus extension to avoid having videos (and also gifs since they are converted to mp4 videos by Lemmy) stretched to fill the whole page width:

video {
    width: 25vw !important;
}

The !important is there because the HTML uses a 100% width for videos:

(I have to use a screenshot here since Lemmy now filters any HTML code away even if it's inside code tags)

Found this when logging into the Lemmy.world Place canvas

https://canvas.toast.ooo/