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  • Make Lemmy thrive, Privacy & Censorship.

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6788379

    > Hi, > > As we might all know ( Early adopter of Lemmy ). > Lemmy has been (also) made to give an alternative to the censor kingdom of Reddit ! > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software) > > And further more Lemmy is fLOSS 😍 > > Great ! but watch out ! we don't want that Lemmy take the same path as Reddit did ! ( hopefully this is limited as it run as a ~Federated model ) > > Anyways, I believe to avoid censorship and jeopardize users privacy the following should be considered by Instance admins and moderators. > > - Avoid as possible a mandatory email to register > Doing so is not reducing spam or whatever you're afraid ! > It's limiting users to create account that preserve their anonymity ! > If you don't know why anonymity is important I'll suggest you to dig this website to start with https://www.laquadrature.net/en/support/#chiffrement > BTW if I couldn't be anonymous, I wouldn't write any post on Lemmy, as I'm not living in a free country !! > Look on other instances some admin have found clever way to circumvent bots without the need of an email. > > - Also Lemmy don't require too much of moderation ! as any user can use the block feature in their options ! > so you should not censor content in behave of others ! > > If the freedom of expression is limited to the ideas that we like, it is not freedom of expression. > Noam Chomsky. > > Cheers,

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  • [Guide] Improve your Lemmy feed!

    Hi all 👋

    Here with a small guide for the Eternity app for Lemmy, on how to setup your own custom filters, so you can weed out unwanted content 🙂

    Motivation: I was getting sick of my feed being bombarded with war related content.. So in this guide, that's what we'll be filtering out.

    Guide: => Open Eternity app => Tap Hamburger menu icon (Top left) => Tap Settings => Tap Post Filter => Tap Plus icon (Bottom right) => Fill in: Post Filter Name = No War => Fill in: Title: Exclude Keywords = Gaza,Hamas,Israel,Palestine,Pakistan,Ukraine,Russia => Tap Save icon (Top right) => Tap new No War filter => Tap Apply To => Tap Plus icon (Bottom right) => Tap Subscribed => Tap Plus icon (Bottom right) => Tap Search => Tap Back Arrow (Top left) => Close / re-open Eternity app

    This was just an example, adjust as desired + can create filters for whatever you (don't) want 😉

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  • Too few Czechs on Lemmy.

    I want to talk about Czech topics with someone other than my alter-egos... How do i get people to join?

    I tried to lobby on Reddit, with predictable results.

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  • [HELP]

    Hi all,

    I accidentally used the same email address to sign up to another Lemmy instance, and I haven't received the email to verify my account. I tried logging in with the credentials I signed up with and nothing happens.

    Does anyone know if it's possible to sign up with the same email address on different instances? I've tried using the contact support but I'm getting a 502 Bad Gateway.

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  • What is the most official Android app for Lemmy?

    Like there is the Official Mastodon app for Mastodon, and Element app for Matrix, which app is considered the most official lemmy app for Android [possibly also for ios]

    Or atleast, the app which supports most(if not all) the features available in Lemmy

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  • iOS app supporting native sharing

    I'm new to lemmy and today I tried 4 iOS apps (Memmy, Mlem, Liftoff and Lemmios). None of them seem to support native link sharing. Isn't it a typical use case to post based on a link? I'm confused because I thought that would be one of the 1st features any lemmy client would offer. Please enlighten me where I got it wrong.

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  • Infinity for Lemmy
    codeberg.org Eternity

    A Lemmy client forked from the Infinity for Reddit project

    Eternity

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.toldi.eu/post/20880

    > Hello everyone, > > I'm not sure this is the right community for this, but I want to announce my new project: Infinity for Lemmy. > > Basically, this is a fork of the Infinity for Reddit application, modified to get it to work with Lemmy. > > But I must remind you to temper your expectations as this project is still in its infancy. It has some basic features already in place, but there’s a lot more to be accomplished. > > What Infinity for Lemmy Can Currently Do: > > • Browse posts > • Handle multiple accounts > • Upvote and downvote posts > > What Infinity for Lemmy Cannot Do (Yet): > > • Load comments > • Handle subscriptions > • Search for posts, users, or communities > • Write posts or comments > • Send private messages > • And many more > > So, while Infinity for Lemmy is in its current state not a feature-rich client, but it’s a promising start. > > For those interested, here’s the link to my git repository: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy > > I invite everyone to contribute in whatever capacity they can, whether it be through coding, reporting bugs, suggesting features, or even just providing feedback and insights. Let’s shape the future of Infinity for Lemmy together! > > !Screenshot 1 > > > > !Screenshot 2 > > > > !Screenshot 3

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  • Can I create custom feeds / channels?

    I'm looking for a way to create a custom feed of multiple Lemmy communities. Reddit does something similar, calling it "custom feeds" or some clients refer to it as "channels." I've attached an image of my custom reddit feeds from the Satelite desktop app.

    Use case: You could combine a bunch of news communities into a single custom feed, so you can have a feed that's filled with news.

    Sometimes I want to view just news, but I don't want to unsubscribe from all the non-news communities I follow.

    Is there any Lemmy client that makes this possible? Currently I use Jerboa on Android.

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  • Using Lemmy from Mastodon account
    vijayprema.com Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon

    Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

    Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon
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  • PSA: Lemmy.world has been compromised!

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1895271

    > FYI!!! In case you start getting re-directed to porn sites. > > Maybe the admin got hacked?

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  • There are new themes on Lemmy 0.18.1 (including compact ones)

    If your instance is updated to version 0.18.1 (you can check the version at the bottom of the page). You can find some new themes under profile settings.

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  • Web app that makes Lemmy look like old.reddit
    mlmym.org mlmym instances

    mlmym instances. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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  • YSK: Mastodon bots work here too— there IS a remindme bot already!

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1143350

    > Why YSK: I've seen several commenters asking if there were specific bots such as RemindMe > > However, there are so many bots already on mastodon that will federate with us! Check out botsin.space, a masto-instance specifically made for hosting bots > > Just tag @remindme@mstdn.social and say the time after (I recommend you not do it on this post unless you have an actual reason though as it could spam their servers)

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  • Announcing a new Search Engine for Lemmy

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/963301

    > I shared bits and pieces of this before, but it's officially up and running now: https://www.search-lemmy.com/ > > This is an enhanced search engine for Lemmy. With a few primary goals: > * You can choose a preferred instance. After choosing what your primary instance is, and performing a search ALL links will open in that instance. > * This aims to be a replacement for using site:reddit.com in Google, but just for the fediverse. > * You can filter the search results by: > * Instance -- This will filter the results to only show communities that belong to a particular instance. Just type something like instance:lemmy.wrold or instance:https://lemmy.world/. This is separate from your preferred instance, such that you can search for posts on lemmy.world while still opening them on lemmy.ml. > * Community -- You can refine the search by a specific community. You use the same syntax that you'd use here community:!fediverse@lemmy.world. > * Author -- Similar to the above you can also filter by a specific author such as: author:@marsara9@lemmy.world. > * The entire thing is open-source. You can view the code and even host your own instance... See more details here: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search. > > NOTE: This only supports Lemmy instances for now. Other fediverse type instances may be in the future depending on how this works out. > > I've been working on this over just the last few weeks, so it hasn't had a chance to crawl much of the fediverse yet. For now it only supports lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but other preferred-instances will come online as time goes by. > > If anyone finds any bugs, and I'm sure you will, or if anyone has any suggestions PLEASE raise an issue on GitHub for me to track. Lastly, if anyone wants to help contribute please feel free to reach out. > > **NOTE TO SERVER ADMINS: You can prevent your site from being crawled by adding lemmy-search to your robots.txt for the user-agent.search` to your robots.txt for the user-agent.

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  • Err.. huh! Is Reddit now conspiring with Google to screw with off-site Fediverse links? (see examples)

    Near the end of my little 'Euro comics' rant, you may notice how I tried to slip in an offsite link, in this case from my instance, lemm.ee.

    Now it looks like it... got blocked, maybe? See the before & after here.

    Mateys-- Am I going crazy, or is this something we're going to need to work around, in future?

    EDIT: As stated below, re-editing the message (even with the very same link) cleared up the problem. Still, I could see Reddit trying to block content from the Fediverse, the more the FV grows.

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  • Azzu Azzu @lemm.ee
    [UserScript] Lemmy Universal Link Switcher now rewrites post/comment links! 1.2.0 Release!
    greasyfork.org Lemmy Universal Link Switcher

    Ensures that all URLs to Lemmy instances always point to your main/home instance.

    Lemmy Universal Link Switcher

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/530162

    > #### Please report issues with this version either here or at the issue tracker. > > ### Changelog v1.2.0 > > * Add rewrite support for posts/comments > * Try to not rewrite federation links > > > > ---- > > ### Description > > Lemmy Universal Link Switcher, or LULs for short, scans all links on all websites, and if any link points to a Lemmy instance that is not your main/home instance, it rewrites the link so that it instead points to your main instance. Currently only works for community/user links. > > Also works on Firefox Android with the Tampermonkey extension! > > ### Features > > * Rewrite links to Lemmy posts/comments to point to your home instance. Only after hovering over them, because getting home posts/comments links require communicating with the Lemmy servers, and we don't want to spam the servers. > ! > * Instantly rewrite all links of <em>communities</em> or <em>users</em> to Lemmy/kbin on all websites everywhere to your new instance! The rewritten links will have an icon next to it, and hovering/touching the icon will show you the original link, allowing you to go there if you want to. > [!](https://greasyfork.org/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNHUxQVE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ab4ca68d48f3174ff9fe6cfd7820c66fa4c08ee9/2023-06-23%2006_00_01.png?locale=en) > > * If you are already on a page that has a corresponding page on your home instance, a link will automatically be added to the page header. > [!](https://greasyfork.org/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBeGEyQVE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e824ea55c69b88fb392b9ab0cfd093746ad255a0/2023-06-25%2004_58_33.webp?locale=en) > > > ### Home Instance Setup > > Simply visit the Lemmy instance you want to set as your home while the script is active. You will be asked if you want to set this instance to your home instance: > [!](https://greasyfork.org/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNW0xQVE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7ff60350e91d895b6c5f91bbd8b198e46494efb3/2023-06-23%2006_15_41--pn.png?locale=en) > > If you initially set your home instance wrong or just want to change it, no worries - simply go to your settings on your new home instance and press the button for it! > [!](https://greasyfork.org/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNDIxQVE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ef9561d216033a3afe2175dca219f85e3560d321/2023-06-23%2006_00_03.png?locale=en) > > ### Coming soon > > * Rewrite kbin post/comment links > * Better rewriting support for kbin community/user urls (e.g. sort options are currently ignored) > * Nicer tooltip styling (fit into page theme) > * Signify that "Show at home" button is loading for posts/comments >

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  • FYI for community mods: If pinned/featured posts don't appear pinned on remote instances, unfeaturing then featuring it again should fix that.

    From what I understand, federation doesn't currently fetch historic actions, so if your community was fetched onto a new remote instance after you featured/pinned the post, then it won't appear like it's pinned on that instance.

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  • Migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account
    github.com GitHub - wescode/lemmy_migrate: Migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account

    Migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account - GitHub - wescode/lemmy_migrate: Migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account

    GitHub - wescode/lemmy_migrate: Migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account

    Quick guide on how to use this python script (on Windows) to copy subscribed communities to another account.

    1. Install Python.
    2. Go to repo page. Click Code >> Download ZIP
    3. Extract the ZIP file
    4. Open the extracted folder
    5. Open config.ini file with the text editor (e.g., Notepad) and type your credentials and corresponding instance links (and save it)
    6. Click on the path field within the folder, type cmd and press enter to open up Command Prompt within that folder. !
    7. Type lemmy_migrate -c config.ini , press enter.
    8. Wait for it to finish.
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  • Shortcut to go to YOUR instance from ANY Sublemmy

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/530489

    > The issue: You find a link to a neat lemmy community on some random instance. In order to subscribe, you have go to your instance, search for the community, find it, open it, subscribe...blah! > > The fix: Use a simple browser bookmark to go to your home instance and open the federated community in one click. > > This works through modifying the URL of the page your on and puts the host name (e.g. lemmy.ml) after an "@" symbol after the community and then changing the host name to your own, hard-coded one. > > How to steps: > > 1. Create a bookmark in your browser and then "Edit" it. > 2. Change the URL to this text (modify the "lemmy.world" bit with whatever your home instance is): > > For lemmy.world users: > javascript:(function(){location.href="https://lemmy.world/c/"+location.href.match(/(?:.*)\/c\/(.*(?=\/)|.*$)/i)[1]+"@"+location.host.toString();})(); > > For lemmy.ml users: > javascript:(function(){location.href="https://lemmy.ml/c/"+location.href.match(/(?:.*)\/c\/(.*(?=\/)|.*$)/i)[1]+"@"+location.host.toString();})(); > > 3. Change the name of the bookmark to whatever you want. Mine is named "lemmy.world". > > ! > > 4. You're all set! > > Now, from any federated community main feed page, click on the bookmark and you'll magically be taken to the same community on your local instance. Magic! > > _______ > > Disclaimers: The community must be federated with your instance. You can only do this from a URL that has the community in url (e.g. not from a post or anything). >

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  • There are now close to 10 iOS / Android apps in development for kbin & lemmy!

    cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/71764

    > link to post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/311799 > > > The amount of apps being developed for iOS / Android is getting really crazy now and new apps keep popping up every day. Updated list below: > > > > * Artemis (Kmoon): /c/ArtemisApp@kbin.social > > * Memmy: /c/memmy@lemmy.ml > > * Mlem: /c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml > > * Morpha: /c/morpha@vlemmy.net > > * Thunder: /c/thunder\_app@lemmy.world > > * Beyond: https://beehaw.org/post/647773 > > * Limbo: Join the Limbo for Lemmy beta on iOS - !limboapp@lemmy.world > > * Jerboa: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa > > * Slide: https://lemmy.world/post/379068 > > * Sync: /c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world > > * Lemmynade: https://bigfoot.ninja/post/3026 > > * Connect: https://beehaw.org/post/698247 > > > > Most apps on the list are lemmy apps, meaning they don't work with kbin. Artemis is specifically designed to work with kbin, not sure if or when any of the other ones will go in that direction or become interoperable as there are some challenges with the kbin API at the moment. Having said that, a new API is in the works so things should get better with time. > > I made a neat table, here u go: > > ::: spoiler Click to see table > > | Name | Platform | OS | Stage | Link | > |-------------------|------------------------------|-------------|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Artemis (Kmoon) | Kbin, Lemmy (Upcoming) | Android, iOS | Private Beta (Starts End of June) | /c/ArtemisApp@kbin.social | > | Memmy | Lemmy | Android, iOS | Android Release (Pending Play Store Approval) | /c/memmy@lemmy.ml | > | Mlem | Lemmy | iOS | Submitted for App Store Review (July 1) | /c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml | > | Morpha | Lemmy | Android, iOS | Under Development | /c/morpha@vlemmy.net | > | Thunder (FOSS) | Lemmy | Android, iOS | Alpha Release | [Thunder on GitHub] [Thunder Community] | > | Beyond | Lemmy | Android, iOS | Under Development | Beyond on Lemmy | > | Limbo | Lemmy | iOS | TestFlight Beta | Join the Limbo for Lemmy beta on iOS | > | Jerboa | Lemmy | Android | Released | Jerboa on GitHub | > | Slide | Lemmy | Android | Under Development (More information coming) | Slide on Lemmy | > | Sync | Lemmy | Android | Research | /c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world | > | Lemmynade (FOSS) | Lemmy | Android | Beta (Github) | Lemmynade | > | Connect | Lemmy | Android | Beta (Play Store) | [Connect Release Post], [Connect Community] | > | Lemon | Lemmy | iOS | Development, Beta in Early July | Lemon Introduction, Lemon Community | > > >

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  • How to apply a custom CSS theme to your Lemmy page using Stylus (a browser extension)
    • Install Stylus browser extension: Firefox, Chrome
    • Go to userstyles.world and search for "Lemmy"
    • Pick one and click !
    • It will open a new tab, where you will have to click one more ! button.

    Style may not apply to the URL of your instance, and in that case, you need to do it yourself.

    • Click on the Stylus extension icon, and then click manage.
    • New tab will open with a list of all installed styles. Click on the style that you just installed.
    • That will open the style editor. You want to look for a field that looks like this and click on the + button. !
    • That will add a new field just below it. In the empty field, type the URL of your instance.
    • In the top left corner of the page, there is a Save button. Click that, and you are done.
    Preview of some styles

    Click on the image to go to style page. [!Lemmy dark theme](https://userstyles.world/style/10416/lemmy-dark-theme)

    [!Rediggit for Lemmy](https://userstyles.world/style/10440/rediggit-for-lemmy)

    [!DreamySweet's Custom Lemmy Theme](https://userstyles.world/style/10384/dreamysweets-custom-lemmy-theme)

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  • How to get people come to your community: instance agnostic links for federation

    If you created a sub, by default not a single person get notified about it: it can only be seen in the communities list of your instance. But don't worry it's pretty easy to change it

    How to get people see your community

    1. Write good description of what it is about, what is going to be posted, what's to be expected
    2. Craft instance agnostic link to it. Replace "!sub-name@instance" for yours in this link (see the footnote for Lemmy 0.18+)[^1] [Search to federate this sub to your instance](/search/q/!sub-name@instance/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1). It will direct people to search for your community on their own instance.
    3. Post it to meta/main community of your instance: for example !meta@sopuli.xyz
    4. Also post it to lemmyverse community-promo sub
    5. Start posting!

    That's it, by reposting it just twice you dramatically increase discoverability of your community. Of course you may find additional community-promo subs but posting in at least these basic two is a good start

    Good luck!

    [^1]: Lemmy 0.18.0. [This link will fetch CommunityName to your instance](/search?q=!communityname%40instance&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll) Change communityname with community name, and instance with instance link (without https://)

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  • Bookmark tip for Lemmy in Firefox

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/276633

    > Been using this one for over a decade. Works with Firefox's bookmark keywords feature. > > Make a new bookmark, set the link as follows: > > https://lemmy.world/c/%S (or your own Lemmy instance) > > And in the "Keyword" field, use "c" or "lemmy" or whatever. > > Now, when you want to visit a specific Lemmy community on your home instance, you can simply type: > > "c community_name" in the address bar, or "lemmy community_name" in Firefox and it will open the community.

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  • See where Reddit communities migrated to
    sub.rehab sub.rehab ·&nbsp;Find your next diving spot

    Find your next diving spot. A list of subreddit alternatives on different platforms.

    sub.rehab ·&nbsp;Find your next diving spot

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/151060

    > Someone recently asked if there was a neat way to see where all of the now broken down subreddits moved. > > Some moved to Discord, some to Lemmy, and some are somewhere else. > > This seems to be a good place to find your communities again: https://sub.rehab/

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  • Site to help you search the fediverse
    fedi-search.com FediSearch — Easily Search the Fediverse

    Easily search the fediverse in your preferred search engine

    FediSearch — Easily Search the Fediverse

    created by @TenorTheHusky@kbin.social

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    from the original post: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/52753

    > I had been having trouble getting meaningful results from the fediverse on Google, and after seeing this post, it seems I'm not the only one. So, I created a site that helps search the fediverse in your search engine of choice (it currently supports Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Dogpile). > > It currently only searches the top 15 lemmy/kbin instances due to search engine query limits (I'm not sure how to fix this short of making my own search engine), but I've tested it and it seems to provide access to the majority of fediverse content. > > If you have contributions or ideas for improvement, feel free to check out the project here or shoot me a message. Hope this helps people! :) > > https://fedi-search.com/ > > Edit: Update in progress including improved search queries and support for Mastodon/PeerTube (Google only, unfortunately)

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  • FYI: If your subscription to a community is stuck on pending, try toggling it off and back on

    I got this tip from someone else but apparently this is just a bit of a bug with so much new traffic. It might not work the first time you try. If it doesn't, try again later.

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  • FYI: Post and comment character limit on Lemmy is 10000

    If you go over that limit, there won't be any kind of indicator/message saying so. If you try to submit a post, you will get a forever loading icon, and the post will never be submitted. So make sure to check your character count.

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  • How to find communities and fetch them to your instance.

    So you signed up on one of many Lemmy instances, and now you want to start joining communities you are interested in.

    There are a few ways to do so...

    Using the Communities page:

    The most obvious one... Communities link at the top of the page. Once you are on the Communities page, you will see 3 tabs:

    • Subscribed - obvious enough
    • Local - communities that are made on your instance
    • All - a bit misleading because these are not actually all communities, but rather all communities that have been fetched by your instance so far. ----

    Browsing the front page:

    More specifically, browsing the front page with the filter set to All (Subscribed | Local | All) If you are on a fairly popular instance, you will most likely run into posts from all kinds of new communities as other people from your instance fetch them.

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    Using the community browsers:

    These websites index communities across all instances, and you can use them to search for remote communities.

    In order to subscribe to or even see remote communities (communities hosted on other instances), they have to be fetched by your instance.

    How to fetch them:

    • Copy the link to the community you want to fetch.
    • Go to the Communities page on your instance and set the filter to All.
    • Paste the link in the search field and click the Search button.
    • When the text saying "No results" under the Search button disappears, that means that the community has been successfully fetched by your instance (it can take a bit longer to fetch it, especially if the instance is overloaded).
    • That's it! Now you can delete the URL from the search field and find the community by its name. ----

    Browsing the communities that promote new communities:

    There are a few different communities that you can use to find new and interesting ones. Some of them:

    Browsing Kbin magazines (communities):

    Process of subscribing to Kbin magazines is the same as subscribing to remote Lemmy communities. If you go to https://kbin.social/magazines (or any other kbin instance and add /magazines at the end), you can browse and search for magazines. To subscribe to one of them, follow the "How to fetch them" instruction from above.

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  • Defederation explained (beehaw.org and lemmy.world case)

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/149743

    > ou might have seen that we've been defederated from beehaw.org. I think there's some necessary context to understand what this means to the users on this instance. > > ## How federation works > > The way federation works is that the community on beehaw.org is an organization of posts, and you're subscribed to it despite your account being on lemmy.world. Now someone posts on that community (created on beehaw.org), on which server is that post hosted? > > It's hosted on both! It's hosted on any instance that has a subscriber. It's also hosted on lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, etc. Every instance that has a subscriber is going to have a copy of this post. That's why if you host your own instance, you'll often get a ton of text data just in your own server. > > And the copies all stay in sync with each other using ActivityPub. So you're reading the post that's host on lemmy.world, and someone with an account on beehaw.org is reading the same post on beehaw.org, and the posts are kept in sync via ActivityPub. Whenever someone posts to that community or comments on a post, that data is shared to all the versions across the fediverse, and these versions are kept in sync. So up until 5 hours ago, they were the same post! > > ### "True"-ness > > A key concept that will matter in the next section is the idea of a "true" version. Effectively, one version of these posts is the "true" version, that every other community reflects. The "true" version is the one hosted on the instance that hosts the community. So the "true" version of a beehaw.org community post is the one actually hosted on beehaw.org. We have a copy, but ours is only a copy. If you post to our copy, it updates the "true" version on beehaw.org, and then all the other instances look to the "true" version on beehaw to update themselves. > > The same goes for communities hosted on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml. Defederation affects how information is shared between instances. If you keep track of where the "true" version is hosted, it becomes a lot easier to understand what is going on. > > ## How defederation works > > Now take that example post from earlier, the one on beehaw.org. The "true" version of the post is on beehaw.org but the post is still hosted on both instances (again, it has a copy hosted on all instances). Let's say someone with an account on beehaw.org comments on that post. That comment is going to be sent to every version of that post via ActivityPub, as the "true" version has been updated. That is, every version EXCEPT lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. So users on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works won't get that comment, because we've been defederated from beehaw.org. If we write a comment, it will only be visible from accounts on lemmy.world, because we posted to a copy, but our copy is now out of sync with the "true" version. So we can appear to interact with the post, but those interactions are ONLY visible by other lemmy.world accounts, since our comments aren't send to other versions. As the "true" version is hosted on beehaw, and we no longer get beehaw updates due to defederation, we will not see comments from ANY other community on those posts (including from other defederated instances like sh.itjust.works). > > The same goes for posting to beehaw communities. We can still do that. However, the "true" version of those communities are the ones on beehaw, so our posts will not be shared to other instances via ActivityPub. And all of this is true for Beehaw users with our communities. Beehaw users can continue to see and interact with Lemmy.world communities, but those interactions are only visible to other Beehaw users, since the "true" versions of the Lemmy.world communities (the ones sent to/synced with every other instance) is the Lemmy.world one. > > Communities on other instances, for example lemmy.ml, are unaffected by this. Lemmy.world and beehaw.org users will still be able to interact with those communities, but posts/comments from lemmy.world users won't be visible to beehaw.org users, as defederation prevents our posts/comments from being sent to the version of these posts hosted on beehaw.org. However, as the "true" version is the one on the third instance, we can still see everything from beehaw.org users. So we see a more filled in version than the beehaw users. > > ### Why can I still see posts/comments from beehaw users? > > Until they defederated us, posts/comments were being sent to lemmy.world, so we can see everything from before defederation. After defederation, we are no longer receiving or sending updates. So there are now multiple versions of those posts. > > ### Why can I still interact with beehaw communities? > > This won't ever stop. You'll notice that all posts after defederation are only from lemmy.world users. You won't see posts/comments from ANY other instance (including instances that ) on beehaw.org communities. > > Those communities will quickly suck for us, as we're only talking to other lemmy.world users. Your posts/comments are not being sent to any other lemmy. I highly recommend just unsubscribing from those communities, since they're pretty pointless for us to be in right now. > > ### Why do I still see comments from beehaw users on lemmy.world communities? > > Again, comments from before defederation were still sent to us. After defederation, it will no longer be possible for beehaw users to interact with the "true" version of lemmy.world communities. Their posts/comments are not being sent to any other lemmy. They also aren't getting updates from any other lemmy, as the "true" version of those communities is on our instance. > > ### Why do I see posts/comments from beehaw users on communities outside lemmy.world and beehaw.org? > > That's because the "true" version of those posts is outside beehaw. So we get updates from those posts. And lemmy.world didn't defederate beehaw, so posts/comments from beehaw users can still come to versions hosted on lemmy.world. > > The reverse is not true. Because beehaw defederate lemmy.world, any post/comment from a lemmy.world users will NOT be sent to the beehaw version of the post. > > ### This seems like it's worse for beehaw users than for us? > > Yes. In my opinion, this is an extraordinarily dumb act by the beehaw instance owners. It's worse for beehaw users than for us, and will likely result in many beehaw users leaving that instance. They said in their post that this is a nuke, but I don't think they fully assessed the blast area. Based on their post, I don't think they fully understand what defederation does.

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