Lemmy

tl;dr: With Lemmy Go you type lg beekeeping on the address bar and it takes you to the most popular beekeeping community, or you can pick one from the given suggestions.

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More information about Lemmy Go on GitHub

Why

On Reddit, I had a simple search keyword for navigating directly to subreddits, where I could just type r firefox and be taken to reddit.com/r/firefox.

I wanted to have the same behavior for Lemmy, but the Fediverse makes this a lot more complicated.

So I made Lemmy Go to try and make it as simple as possible to jump to a community, or even find new ones more easily.

It's still a work in progress, so it might be a bit unstable and missing a bunch of features. But I've been using it myself for a few days, and it's already pretty helpful.

Usage

Type lg followed by a space (some browsers also accept tab instead), and then type the name of the community you're looking for.

Example: lg linux

Lemmy Go will search its database for any community that has the text linux in its name (e.g. linux_gaming) or title (Linux Gaming).

If you just type a community name and press enter, Lemmy Go will take you to the most popular community from that list.

If you don't press enter right away, you will be shown a list of communities that match that query. You can then select the specific one you want.

Preferred Instance

If you set your preferred instance in the user settings (click the extension icon), Lemmy Go will try its best to navigate to that community in your preferred instance, although this isn't always possible (in which case Lemmy Go will just navigate to the remote instance instead).

For instance, if your preferred instance is set to lemmy.ml and you select firefox@lemmy.world, Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.ml/c/firefox@lemmy.world.

But if lemmy.ml blocks the lemmy.world instance, then Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.world/c/firefox instead.

Read the readme on GitHub for more information about how Lemmy Go works

Did anyone else have to block the meme communities cuz that’s all they see? 😂

As an enthusiastic supporter of Lemmy, I am eager to contribute to the project. However, I hold strong reservations about writing a single line of code for a project hosted on a Micro$oft server. While I have created a few issues on GitHub, I firmly believe that my contributions could be significantly amplified if there were a mirror of Lemmy that utilized Forgejo hosting outside the United States. I would be absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to contribute more actively to this incredible project if such an alternative hosting option were available.

hello, does anyone know if there is a bot to automatically post to certain Lemmy communities from an RSS feed?

I found this: https://github.com/Ategon/Lemmy-Mega-Bot but it says it is not compatible with Lemmy's new API.

I'm toying about with writing a client in Rust.

Example code online uses the API endpoint https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/post/list, and when I go to this link in a browser, it doe indeed load data. However, when I try to load it from a program, it gives me a 403 Forbidden. Does anyone know why this could be?

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Due to variable subject length and these items being part of the same line as the subject they get pushed around a lot which makes them hard to see find when scrolling through history.

Would be nice if these links / scores where at the front of the subject OR the "next line" to be consistent.

Is there a way to upload videos on Lemmy? If there is no native way to do it, are there any good services where we can host the vidoes and link it here?

I think for a while leading up to the recent session stealing hack, there has been a massive amount of positivity from Lemmy users around all kinds of new Lemmy apps, frontends, and tools that have been popping up lately.

Positivity is great, but please be aware that basically all of these things work by asking for complete access to your account. When you enter your Lemmy password into any third party tool, they are not just getting access to your session (which is what was stolen from some users during the recent hack), they also get the ability to generate more sessions in the future without your knowledge. This means that even if an admin resets all sessions and kicks all users out, anybody with your password can of course still take over your account!

This isn't to say that any current Lemmy app developers are for sure out to get you, but at this point, it's quite clear that there are malicious folks out there. Creating a Lemmy app seems like a completely easy vector to attack users right now, considering how trusting everybody has been. So please be careful about what code you run on your devices, and who you trust with your credentials!

I just signed up for @lemmy checking it out :)

Just from a performance perspective, when your feed is being retrieved, I can only presume that the more communities you're subscribed too the more intensive the query is?

At some point does it not get prohibitive? Is there a limit on the number of communites one can subscribe to.

If true, I see this as a good reason for user created multi or meta-communities. This way, I can look at a feed of only a subset of communities at a time which should lessen the load on the server, and also be a better interface because I honestly don't want all of the communities I'm interested in being fed into a single feed.

PLEASE excuse the compression.

When viewing a feed or a community, you can view either the posts or the comments.

These comments are presented in a flattened "Chat room" style structure with replies and parents disconnected.

Having always thought that kbin provided a microblogging interface like mastodon, I've only recently worked out (though I might be wrong) that it's actually a microblogging-like view of conversations in their communities.

That is, it's a "comments" view that isn't flattened but retains comment threads. Which is something we could do here.

Not entirely sure we would want it or that it should be done, but my immediate reaction is that it might actually be nice, especially for getting a sort of "birds eye" view of what's happening in a relatively focused community.

The unit of such a view would be, as I see it, top level comments to posts, presented with all replies in a indented/hierarchical format. Which is exactly the same as the view of the comments to a post, including all of the sorting options at the top.

So, a "threaded comments" view of a whole feed or community would simply be the merge of all of the comment views of all posts in the feed or community.

This seems viable (without knowing the technical details of implementing it).

Thoughts??

Something small that has been annoying me about Lemmy. I keep clicking posts I think are images that are actually just links and get redirected, when I go back everything has changed.

Sorry if this is not the best place for feedback. Thanks for reading.

Over time, Lemmy instances are going to keep aquiring more, and more data. Even if, in the best case, they are not caching content and they are just storing the data posted to communities local to the server, there will still be a virtually limitless growth in server storage requirements. Eventually, it may get to a point where it is no longer economically feesible to host all of the infrastructure to keep expanding the server's storage. What happens at this point? Will servers begin to periodically purge old content? I have concerns that there will be a permanent horizon (as Lemmy becomes more popular, the rate of growth in storage requirements will also increase, thereby reducing the distance to this horizon) over which old -- and still very useful -- data will cease to exist. Is there any plan to archive this old data?

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I've been thinking about how great this feature would be. I don't know how Lemmy's codebase could handle it, but this just makes sense to me and would solve the big issue of community fragmentation.

In general the idea is that when you open the comments section of a given post, it should fetch all other comments from crossposts (ones with the same link). Since Lemmy already keeps track of crossposts by linking to their threads, it's just a matter of fetching those comments and showing them in conjunction with the comments in this community. When you reply to a comment that's federated from another community, your reply will go over there.

Also, from what I understand, copies of posts and comments are stored in the instance's local database, so it shouldn't be very expensive to fetch these comments from different posts, right?

How viable would something like this be? Are the Lemmy devs considering something like this?

Over the weeks I've sent a bunch of messages, like offering mod positions, asking for things etc. and I get no responses to about half of them.

Sure, nobody owes me a reply, but I'm wondering if there's a different reason, such as:

1. Ignoring all notifications, because there's no immediate distinction between a DM or a comment reply

2. Using an app that doesn't support messages (which one would that be?)

3. Federation issues (when sending a DM to a different instance)

Thoughts?

That's three major instances that have gone down in the last couple days. Clearly u/spez is trying to kill lemmy.

The Lemmy.world hack made a good opportunity to explore other instances out there. Found one based in my area. Back in action!

I would like to propose replacing up and down voting on comments with emoji reactions. Since Lemmy doesn’t have a consequential karma system, I don’t believe the gamification of comment upvotes helps engender a discussion with a diversity of opinions. Instead of a binary choice, we will be able to express a far greater range of reactions. I see emojis as being especially helpful as a replacement for downvotes since it will help the author understand why the reader disagrees. While I agree that replying instead of downvoting is a better choice, it’s not realistic for everyone to have the time to do so.

For posts, voting serves a useful purpose in creating a curated list of most popular posts in each community. This is important for people who don’t have time to follow all posts in their subscribed communities.