Lemmy

I'm no programmer but I do know basic networking and computers. I have about 5TB worth of storage (more is to come) to spare, a 1Gbps connection and a public (although dynamic) IP address. Is there any need for hardware contributions, as in, for instance, hosting, doing backups, anything?

Recently one of the posts I made got a porn spam comment and I also saw a lot of porn spam in my instance's communites. Also just now I got an abusive DM telling me to kill myself and accusing me of being an astroturfer.

Has anyone else experienced anything like that lately or is it just me?

Lets not forget that there is a lot of traffic. Why Redlib and lemmy join forces?

Are there any projects associated with Lemmy to create (1) a signal/messenger- (2) teams/zoom -like functionality?

Picture of the current 0.19.15 version

The devs and designers are not playing around, this is looking amazing.

If you'd like to see: voyager.lemmy.ml

so, this is a bit of an abstract mathematical post.

I think that a fediverse service consists mostly of three parts: identity provider, data hoster, and feed provider.

The data hoster is the machine that hosts the posts and comments and upvote/downvote stats. The feed provider is the service which gives you a nice, scrollable overview over new content for you. This is today the same system that provides the data, but it could be separated, such as having a custom "search engine" that gives you content, that you use independently of where the data is stored.

The identity provider basically only makes a proof that "you are you" : you give it your login credentials and it gives you a kind of token that authenticates (proves your identity) to other services. like, i'm on discuss.tchncs.de, but i can post to lemmy.world. this is because the discuss.tchncs.de server says to lemmy.world that i indeed have this account on this server. so they prove my identity in a way.

What i argue now is that such an identity providing server is not technically necessary. You could use something like an ~/.ssh/id_rsa file that you generate on your own computer and use that public key to identify yourself on the fediverse. I don't think that this approach has any inherent advantages over how things are being done today, but it could be done that way and that in itself is fascinating.

:D

join-lemmy.org runs a crawl of all active Lemmy instances every four hours in order to keep the instance list up to date. These statistics are now publicly available in the following git repo:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-statistics

As described in the readme there are a few different output files available. From full crawl data with the entire output of /api/v3/site and /api/v3/federated_instances, to minimal data which only includes the number of users, posts etc. You can also access historical stats through the git history. In the future we may also to provide additional data, such as a full list of communities.

So here are some ideas what you could do with this data:

• Graphs which can be shown directly on join-lemmy.org (#532).
• Website with detailed filters for instance settings.
• Map of Lemmy instances, showing who they federate or defederate with (like the discontinued lemmymap)

Interestingly our stats differ significantly from other websites. It would be interesting to analyze and find out what's causing the differences:

(this is a bit of a rant, i'm sorry)

what in particular do you mean by lack of discoverability?

like, i want to see posts from communities that i already subscribed to, but because there's more than 1000 communities on the fediverse and i'm only subscribed to a small countable subset of them, i inevitably lose out on a lot of content. (The "all" feed sucks unfortunately). So how to solve this?

The lack of discoverability is non-starter for many.

The Fediverse significantly lacks behind on the Content Discoverability technology.

I guess this is because there was a loud public outcry in the last 20 years that whoever makes your feed (this is called an "recommendation algorithm" or abbreviated "the algorithm") has a lot of political power to decide what you see and what you don't see, and that's frowned upon. Because everybody that has power over what you see and what you don't see is bad. That is why nobody wanted to provide an recommendation algorithm for the fediverse, because they would expose themselves to wild accusations. There should be an open-source recommendation algorithm, though; I'm sure of it.

I think one of the devs mentioned .ml runs on a 16 GB quad-core VPS (dedicated?). the way it's designed, is it possible to shard or otherwise horizontally scale the server, with multiple fail-over instances under the same domain?

On join-lemmy.org, the project is described as "A forum and link aggregator for the Fediverse". In the previous post, multiple people mentioned that this is not a good description. However I have a hard time coming up with anything better.

So please post your suggestions below, and upvote the ones which are both accurate and easy to understand for new users. Later I pick one of the most upvoted options for the website.

By the way the second title "Follow communities Anywhere in the world" will likely go away (see the pull request for frontpage redesign). After this is decided I may also make another post to get suggestions for the longer description text below ("Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. ...").

Edit: Please only post concrete suggestions in top-level comments, and use replies to discuss. And here you can see how a few other Fediverse projects do it:

• https://joinmastodon.org/
• https://joinpeertube.org/
• https://pixelfed.org/

When people are told about Lemmy and look for it in a search engine, join-lemmy.org is one of the first pages that comes up. Here they should be able to find out what Lemmy is, and be able to register an account to start posting.

At the moment this still seems too complicated, so I'm looking for your suggestions to improve it:

• On the main page, is the text relevant and up to date or should anything be changed?
• How about the instance selection wizard (click "join a server" on the homepage), which lets you select topics and languages to select instances. Do the current options make sense?
• The instance list itself, is there any information missing, or potential design improvements?
• And the list of apps, what can be done here? For one thing the data is rarely updated, so we would appreciate pull requests.
• Any other suggestions you may have.

Since yesterday I already made a couple of improvements:

• Use biased random for instance list, so large instances are always near the top
• Rename Join to Sign Up in instance list
• Fix icon overflows by using inline-flex (by @dessalines)
• Add button to visit random instance (not merged yet)

Edit: Here is a draft for some changes to the frontpage: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/524

Greetings all.

Using voyager for iPhone. In the past , when clicking a media link, controls (play, pause, ff, red) all worked as always. Recently, time bar, time elapsed, and time remaining all appear normal, but no actual controls are available. Any help?

What do you think of an option to ban politics from the feed on account registration like this:

Effectively, when you click "no politics", it should block the !news@lemmy.world, !politics@lemmy.world, !politicalmemes@lemmy.world, !pravda_news@news.abolish.capital communities and such for the newly registered user.

It would help clear up the feed and be more attractive to new users. Maybe this could even be the default view when you're not logged in.

I just wanted to link to this post in this comment but when others click on it, i think it opens the post in another instance, when looked at from the web browser. Is there a good way to properly link to posts and comments?

Now hear me out: I think we need a more attractive content recommendation system. I don't mean "intransparent way to manipulate your opinion", but ways to discover content you like.

I recommend: Add a custom listing, in other words modify this box:

to include an extra category "recommended" or something like that.

When you click on it, it displays you content not only from the local instance, but other from other instances and communities that you're not yet subscribed to, but are somehow similar to what you're already subscribed to. There should be a way to figure out which communities are "similar", somehow I'm willing to provide further details about this once i thought about it in more detail. An example is: Every community can have links to other communities in its sidebar, and those are considered "similar" then. So if you're already subscribed to a community A, and A links in its sidebar to B, then B can be "recommended" to you. I'd be glad to provide further details if questions remain. I'm good with maths so i could write a few formulas on how to do the exact calculation or sth. It should all be open-source, of course.

Thanks for considering it! The lemmy software already works great (big thanks to the lemmy developers) and this would be an improvement IMHO.

I accidentally posted this: https://lemmy.zip/post/56692643 because I made a mistake while checking to see if anyone posted it already so I immediately hit delete after I saw it was "crossposted".

However I still saw the post on Zip and other instances like World and ML so I then hit hide post and it seemed to fix the problem on Zip but not yet other instances.

Is the issue that I just need to be patient for it to federate or am I misunderstanding these features? My assumption would be deleting the post would make it go away for everyone but perhaps people or maybe just moderators and myself could still see the post by clicking on my profile which is fine with me, I just wanted to delete it since the same article was just posted a day ago.

Is there any way for users to see their own content that got deleted by a mod? I had one deleted, but have no clue what it was so no sure what I did wrong - all they did was cite a rule number with no explanation. I get taking it down for everyone else if it was a violation, but it’d be a lot easier to not do it again if at least I could see it.

I used to daily drive this app for browsing Lemmy/PieFed and stopped due to random annoying bugs and design issues popping up. Now I just found this file in the codebase and it made everything click. What do you guys think?

i cannot find a way to filter modlog for ''local moderation history'' not littered by actions of every federated community and so only local subs actions

This is a feature suggestion – primarily for the API, but it could also be built purely in any client by filtering outputs of existing API capabilities.

Description: On each user profile page, where you currently have the tabs (or dropdown options) Overview, Comments, Posts, create a filtering option to only show those entries that contain an URL.

How this helps combat advertising spam: Putting links in comments (especially through later edits) is an established tactic of Reddit spammers. Whenever we get a feeling that some account seems spammy, but we don't want to spend inordinate amounts of time sifting through their comments, viewing only those comments that have links in them would be a powerful tool to estimate whether it's worth to dig further and possibly report that account. (Keep in mind that a big part of Mastodon's resilience against spammers seems to be based on the active rejection of spam by its community.)

Privacy considerations: This feature would merely shorten the time it takes to see what link-containing comments someone has posted; the information itself is already out there for everyone to see and crawl. Besides, the URLs that people post don't usually reveal much more about them than their writings, and if someone does wants to stalk somebody, they'll go through everything anyway. An exception would be links that accidentally share more than what was intended, but such exceptions will remain a needle in a haystack. On the other hand, anything that reduces spam links will enhance our privacy, as we'll less often be misled to click on worthless spying websites. Nonetheless, I'm open to hear if anyone sees bigger concerns with this proposal.

i just woke up, and this is a little test - i just got banned from !slop@hexbear.net, and i'm NOT even sure if this is the right community to post this on. does anyone know?

that said, first off, i would like to sincerely apologize for calling the genocide over in gaza a "feud". i called it a feud because the countries of israel and palestine have been a war, but i realize now that me calling it a "feud" is sort of an understatement and is a bit insensitive. oh and i WASN'T pulling the ol 'both sides are bad' card - i strongly support palestine in this war in gaza.

secondly, i sincerely promise to act in good faith and learn a bit more when it comes to socialism/communism. i sincerely hope you forgive me.

if anyone has any resources to watch without losing focus, i'd appreciate it. thank you!

edit: i just edited the slop link. seriously!

Will the multi-communities be able to handle communities from multiple instances?

Like communities from lemmy.eco.br and lemmy.pt that are country agnostic, like !dev@lemmy.eco.br and !devpt@lemmy.pt, that are development communties, but pulverized across instances, so creating multi-communities across both instances would make good onboarding on both sides.

Just asking to see what would be capable, to atract more people easily, showing more "content", etc.

Is there, or is there going to be, a way to "follow" Lemmy users apart from subscribing to communities?

Title. Just curious if there's any workarounds (like external hosting or linking to Pixelfed albums), or any solutions on the horizon, since I haven't seen any posts about it, at least not recently.