I think the fundamental issue is lemmy is very fragmented and has a hard time building hobby communities and dumping users into the largest community for that interest. There needs to be a way to 'merge' communities across the fediverse without spreading out moderator burden. Moderators I think should be able to consent to this merger of interest communities across site lines. There also needs to be some sort of recommendation algorithm for users to find communities.

Maybe multicomms can be used as an advertisement mechanism for communities of similar interest, maybe moderators could pin a multi-community that they support?

Quick idea about how to show multicomms that are popular and thus advertise similar communities. The multicomm in the multicomm sidebar must include the community in question in the multicomm of course. Currently they just seem like a way to share a subscription list and nothing more. To prevent harassment of certain communities, moderators should be able to choose what multis are allowed to be listed in the sidebar I think.

Obviously this all requires work. I've built a lot of communities from scratch before and frankly it seems very hard here without being able to leverage algorithms and SEO to congregate people around an interest like ttrpgs, gardening, etc. You essentially have to spam your comm with anything and everything and hope it attracts eyeballs so that hopefully other people will post too. There seems to be very little passive trickle of subscribers into communities, it looks like most people just look at the front page or segment interest by new websites (e.g. ttrpg.network or lemmy.ca for canadians) rather than a overarching ttrpg community network across the whole fediverse.

Hey! I’m building a social media site and hit a snag. I’m still getting the hang of using AI for coding, I wanted to get some practice and I’ve used it to tackle one of Lemmy’s good first issues. Is this fine or am I wasting people's time?

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5468#issuecomment-4971893333
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5360#issuecomment-4973380615

... across multiple instances, that is, and then automatically switch to the corresponding account per notification.

https://lemmy.ml/c/paradoxplaza

https://lemmy.ml/c/paizo

I've found content on these games from all across lemmy but unfortunately the content is scant. I intend to post all of my musings here and would appreciate if others do the same :)

I hate reddit gatekeeping these hobbies as I feel they are the only thing I look at reddit for. I decided to do a large, single community for both companies as I think being too specific (e.g. hoi4 only or pathfinder only) is a detriment to overall use of the communities. I also chose to host the communities on lemmy.ml because of server reliability reasons and allowing the community to access more of the fediverse. If the communities grow and become active enough I will branch them out into specific game communities.

Difficulty: 6, Speed: 8.689kH/s

I saw that messages have different identifiers on different servers. What should I write in my text to make the hyperlink to work on all servers?

https://xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf/post/15
https://lemmy.ml/post/49064481

15 ≠ 49064481

The site https://lemmy.ml/ is unreachable from my computer because of government politics. I want to refer to the copy of message, which is downloaded into my instance. But it have a new ID in my DB.

Im an ancient in internet years: 33. Y'all remember user flair? Lemmy needs that first-class. I want people to label me as a spouter of deranged ideas and have it visible across clients. Its like you setting an avatar for specific people. Having it as a client specific thing ruins the community aspect and if it aint a default it wont be done.

I am trying to see
!rust_rus@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf
community in community search

here it's web page:
https://xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf/c/rust_rus
https://лемми.опенсорс.рус/c/rust_rus

but button says "Waiting subscribtion" and stays yellow.
So, I am unable to subscrite to that community as a user of lemmy.ml

ok so this is a follow-up on my previous post [is this a bug?] how do i see lemmy content from mastodon

i might have been stupid.

i tried following the !shitpost@lemmy.world community from mastodon and it didn't show any posts or comments there.

i pasted the wrong link. the actually correct link is to follow the @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world account from mastodon. then it works!

sorry for the confusion

So i'm trying to see lemmy content from a mastodon server.

I go to https://troet.cafe/ (which is one of the larger german-speaking mastodon servers), register an account there, enter https://lemmy.world/c/shitpost into the search field, it displays a user. So far so good.

However, when i click on that user, it does not display any content. Following that user does not seem to change that so far.

("Keine Beiträge vorhanden!" means there are no posts)

Is this a bug? Is this an intended feature? In that case, why?

What's weird is that this seems to work with some other communities. For example, when i enter https://feddit.org/c/dach (which is the largest german-speaking community), it does display posts and comments.

I have yet to understand what causes the difference in behavior.

I just saw !germanrap@feddit.de as #6 in Communities/All (sorted by Hot) (web archive) on feddit.org. This feels weird because the feddit.de server has been down for almost 2 years and the community seems to have no content (the home server cannot be contacted to verify but no posts seem to have been federated to other popular instances like feddit.org) and obviously never will have. As for the subscriber count, feddit.org keeps its own tally, which is currently (archive) at 64. This does not include new subscribers after the last federation with feddit.de, except local ones. These can also be checked separately, and the number is... one. This suggests that only one person ever subscribed to !germanrap@feddit.de in the past 1.5 years (as far as feddit.org, a 1k-weekly-active-user instance, is concerned), and yet the community is very high in Hot for a day.

Obviously, the visibility of the Communities/All (by Hot) list varies by client, for example Voyager shows it unsolicited as "Trending communities" in the Search pane, and even though Lemmy devs didn't include it prominently in default Lemmy UI, they definitely have considered the value of this list in mind since it's made the shortlist in Lemmy's API benchmarks.

ay mates lelkins here. i drew this character based on the lemmy foss project. i never posted on lemmy.ml so please excuse me if i posted somewhere wrong. this may be my first and last post in this instance.

wanted to post on foss art since i used kolourpaint for this and it's for a foss project, but i couldn't find it. i instead chose to crosspost it on "lemmy.ml/c/lemmy" instead

i tried to make one of those characters but for the lemmy open source software. please enjoy. i tried incorporating all the four reasons why the platform is named lemmy from the "Why's it called Lemmy?" part of the source code

the rodent for the hair color and partially the color palette, lemmy motorhead for the long hair and jacket, lemmings and koopaling for the pins because i couldn't incorporate those two very well

i am not good at drawing still, please excuse me for any weird stuff.

idk how to name her so you can all decide i guess

I think it would be better if we have better integration across the fediverse, including integration between Mastodon, Pixelfed and Lemmy.

I know that Mastodon doesn't really have communities, well, Mastodon has hashtags, which come close but are not really the same. Maybe when viewing a mastodon instance from lemmy, it just creates a pseudo-community ("/c/all@mastodon.instance") for each instance that you can browse and subscribe to from lemmy? This way, there would be more content and you could more easily interact with other parts of the fediverse without needing to create multiple accounts on multiple services.

There is this really cool website: https://fediversemap.com/

that shows fediverse instances that are physically close to you.

i think this is a really cool idea because it allows connecting to people that you can meet in real life. it allows organizing of offline events, and that's something that i think we can all use very much.

I would like lemmy to integrate a list of instances that are physically close to you, sothat you can easily find and connect with them. maybe you can automatically browse through their communities and find communities that are relevant to you. communities i.e. about cities that enable organizing and scheduling events.

A while back on kbin.earth, I could only see relies in some threads if someone directly replied to my comments. The instance owner corrected it, but now it's happened in one thread on kbin and another on lemmygrad, each on it's own account. Would instance admins be able to get together and help sort this, please?

Thank you so much in advance.

I've recently added anubis to lemmy.ml, and it seems to be working well.

I have a PR to add anubis to lemmy-ansible (our main installation method), and I could use some help tweaking / optimizing its botPolicy.yaml config, for federated services.

Anyone with experience running anubis, this would be much appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for the easiest way to crosspost content from Reddit to Lemmy or Piefed. Ideally, I’d love a Firefox extension or userscript that can either:

• Directly crosspost, or
• Copy the post’s markdown (including title, text, and images) so I can easily paste it elsewhere.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Lemmy is by default a link aggregator which means users who are browsing posts get 2 things only:

• Link.
• Title.

From my experience, literally those 25 extra characters could just include that word that can be the word that will give a meaning to the previous 200 characters. Especially that the main competitor for Lemmy (Reddit) allows for up to 300 characters titles.

Overall, it seems pretty essential to give people more context about the link they about to click.

Example where extra characters would highly improve the title: https://programming.dev/post/34472919

missing lemmy servers

Inspired by the Low Tech Magazine, I thought about adding a dithering option to Lemmy. When posting a new link or image, you could set the image to "dithered", choose one from a couple different colors and the image will be created in this style. It looks cool, saves bandwith, storage and energy.
What so you think?

Problem

Currently, anyone can attempt to brute-force user passwords almost effortlessly, even without advanced technical knowledge.

Proposed Feature

Introduce a setting that activates after a configurable number of failed login attempts. Users could choose to:

• Block all further login attempts and automatically send a password reset email
• Temporarily block login for a set duration (for example, 10 minutes)

Implementation

Once the failed-attempt threshold is reached, the system applies the user’s chosen block option. The counter resets upon successful login or after completing a password reset.

Benefits

This approach makes large-scale brute-force attacks impractical and takes a proactive step toward stronger account security.

~Rewritten with the help of AI for better formatting and clarity.~

can I send a PM to someone on mastodon, public or private?