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?

In a recent discussion it was mentioned that the search function in Lemmy is awkward to use and could be improved. As a result I already made two small changes:

• Change community selector to use [!community@example.com](/c/community@example.com) format (#3218)
• Search field in community sidebar (#3217)

Are there any other UI or UX changes you can think of to improve searching in Lemmy? Im mainly looking for frontend changes, such as reorganizing the input positions, changing default values etc.

I started to notice that my posts get no interactions at all and that a lot of communities seem to be empty. At first I thought that it's just the effect of Lemmy. ee shutting down, but after checking some of the communities from my current alt account I started to notice that .Dev does not pull the latest posts and does not federate my posts.

I really like an idea for making a mascot have a full body I even added one that look close to the lemming (4th image)

ignore the 3rd one I made this as a joke

I feel like non political posts are controversial more often now than they were before. Ive seen it on some communities I visit often.

Maybe I'm seeing smth that isn't there.

Maybe its to do with more reddit migrations who aren't as accusatomed to Lemmy?

Has anyone else noticed it?

This might be a client thing, but... I'm subscribed to several overlapping communities: !linux on one server, !linux on another, !linux on two others. Same with !lemmy, !commandline, and a couple other communities with the same topic and slightly different membership and/or focus.

Crossposting is a valid and useful tool, but I'm noticing an increase of crossposting where the submitter automatically crossposts to 4 similar communities at the same time. Seems reasonable, and yet... I'm starting to get annoyed by seeing the same post 4 or 5 times in a row. I sort by New and since the posting happens concurrently, they just spam my feed with a page of identical posts.

I could unsubscribe from some similar communities, but the content doesn't exactly overlap and I feel like this is solving the wrong problem. I could decide that automatic crossposting by the same author is "bad behavior" and downvote crossposts, but I feel like this solves the wrong problem and violates a valid use case.

What I think a solution might look like involves a unique ID that persists between crossposts, and a corresponding way to filter s.t. only one post is shown. Some communities are more active than others, and comments on a filtered crosspost would be invisible, so it would be necessary to aggregation crosspost comments, interleaving them under the single, unique, unfiltered post. All comments on all subscribed communities where the post was crossposted would be aggregated; replies to any specific comment would reference the comment in its source community and therefore show up in the right community, for folks who aren't subscribed to multiple duplicate communities.

It requires a more complex solution than it might initially seem. Whatever the solution, I feel as if something should be done, because there's an increasing noise-to-signal ratio resulting from increased crossposting.

Had an account on there. Couldn't access it. Just tried getting on the website and didn't work either.

Am I making some mistake or is it over?

Posts and communities are still visible from other instances, but going to lemmy.blahaj.zone just shows an error. Anyone know what’s going on? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still new to this)