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I know about https://<home_instance>/instances, but this only shows which other instances my home instance has defederated from. To check which other instances have defederated from my home instances, I would have to check https://<other_instance>/instances for each and every other instance, which is not feasible.

Is there a one stop shop for checking which other instances have defederated from my home instance?

I've tried searching for such a tool, but most search results are about https://<home_instance>/instances. I've also seen mentions of https://defed.xyz/, but that site doesn't seem to do anything - when I visit that URL, all I see is a broken image placeholder.

Thank you!

cross-posted from: https://indie-ver.se/post/39594

I am the admin of the newly created instance https://indie-ver.se/, and it's been going great. But as I was looking to migrate all images to a S3 bucket, I noticed, the images take up more space than I had anticipated, a bit over 1 GB. And I know for a fact, that there has not been many images uploaded to this instance directly.

My best guess is, that it's because lemmy by default creates local thumbnails for external posts, via. the setting "image_mode: StoreLinkPreviews". Lemmy does allow me to disable this behavior, i.e. it would not cache the thumbnails on my instance, and instead have browsers request the image from the other instances.

The question is, what impact would that have on my users, and what impact would it have on the fedi-verse in general? I believe it would save me a lot on future storage costs, but I don't know if it's worth it.

- ssnoer

@lemmy_support

Hey everyone, i'm new to the fediverse, i have rescently posted several images of an art piece in one post from mastodon to art share on lemmy, but i just noticed that i can't add a lemmy title to click on, and only the first image (of five) is showing on lemmy (and that's a bummer for me, i was sharing pictures of details of the piece) !
I suspect it might be because the "conversion" from one instance to another that's not from the same social media shows incompatibility of some sort, but if by chance anybody has any ideas on how it works, it would be greatly appreciated 🤗
Cheers everyone !

When a mod wishes to add a new mod to their community, they first have to search for a post / comment that the person that they wish to add made in the community.

My suggestion is, instead, consider potentially offering community mods the ability to search for the user, and then add them, without requiring any posts/comments in the community.

a la how reddit handles it.

I have both Undetermined and English in my account setting but each post and comment have those two options but i leave those it on "Select language"

Ideally i would want my posts and comments to be visible as many people as possible, hence why i selected Undetermined along since English on the assumption that most English users have Undetermined as their default

How does everyone else do it? Do you bother to select language setting for posts and comments?

Also, right now this post language setting is "Select language"

Hi again!

I am trying to improve the security for my website, but I am unsure of which paths federation and API traffic hits, and which paths should be exempt from e.g. Javascript challenges? Could somebody give me some insight into this?

I think there is an issue with ani.social federation, namely that the instance is linked as http//ani.social (notice the missing colon). When looking at the list at https://lemmy.ml/instances hovering over ani.social, the name appears correct, that is, with the colon present, but the link itself doesn't contain it.

I noticed this because an ani.social users comments on a post don't show up on lemmy.ml but they do on blahaj.

Update:

Seems to be related to me being on an Irish server on my VPN. Spoke with the admin, they're blocking VPN's due to bad actors in the past.

It says "Join lemmus.org", but clicking on it returns an error - either the instance doesn't exist anymore or it's temporarily unavailable.

Either way, it's not great. I'm on this reddit thread and people are saying how the whole "choosing a server" is a difficult barrier and was going to show them the join-lemmy site, but... yeah.

How does the join-lemmy.org site determine which instance to send users to?

I know this is a broad question, and dont expect to be able to filter everything. Is there a way to filter out news on Lemmy so I can just scroll saving my mental health at times?

@lemmy_support hello I'm new I want to subscribe to lemmy posts here on mastodon but on my feed it appears the comments to the lemmy posts, how can I adjust them so it can only show the main post instead of it's comments? Thank you!

I was curious whether Lemmy has ever considered (or discussed) adding some form of group chat / group messaging functionality, to the already existing DM system.

One area where this could be especially useful is community mod-mail or instance admin-mail.

Right now, if a user wants to contact a community’s moderators (or instance admins), they generally have to message individuals one by one. A group chat or shared inbox system would allow:

Users to message all community moderators at once

Users to contact instance admins as a group

Mods/admins to see and respond collaboratively in a single thread

This would be similar in spirit to Reddit’s mod-mail system, but adapted to Lemmy’s federated model.

Potential benefits:

Easier and clearer communication for users

Less duplicated effort for mods/admins

Better moderation transparency and coordination

A single canonical place for moderation-related messages

From a user’s perspective, it would feel like contacting “the mods” as a single entity rather than guessing who to message

I’m curious:

Has this been discussed before?

Are there technical or federation-related reasons this might be difficult?

Would this be something better handled at the client level, or would it require core Lemmy support?

EDIT: I would have posted this to the GitHub, but GitHub never works for me, no matter what GitHub account I use, so I just decided to post it here instead.

I had a quick question and thought it might spark some discussion.

I know that Lemmy currently uses the NSFW tag/filter, which is great, but I’ve noticed that it tends to get applied to a wide variety of content—everything from mildly suggestive posts to very graphic material.

This got me wondering: has Lemmy ever considered adding more granular content filters or tags?

For example:

NSFL (Not Safe For Life) for particularly graphic or disturbing content (ie graphic war footage)

Political for sensitive Political Posts

Other potential tags for things like triggering content, or etc.

The goal would be to give users a bit more control over what they see, and help communities categorize content more accurately without overloading the single NSFW tag.

Curious if this has ever been discussed, or if there are plans to expand filtering options in the future.

I recently made a feature suggestion post for the Lemmy app Summit, which I personally use.

https://lemmy.world/post/41709672

The idea was a small UI/UX enhancement:

Summit already visually distinguishes roles well:

Community Mods → green

Instance Admins → red

I suggested potentially adding a distinct colour for the Head Mod / Top Mod of a community, for example:

Instance Admin: Red

Head Mod: Yellow

Other Mods: Green

Kind of like a stoplight system (red / yellow / green).

The motivation was to make it easier at a glance to tell who ultimately runs a community, especially in larger mod teams or when reading mod comments in threads.

When I posted this to summit@lemmy.world, idunnololz@lemmy.world (the app’s creator and sole community mod) replied that they don’t think this is currently possible, because there doesn’t appear to be any notion of a “head mod” in the data returned by the API.

So my question for Lemmy devs / maintainers here:

Does Lemmy currently track any concept of a “top mod” or mod hierarchy internally?

If not, is the mod list intentionally flat by design?

Would adding an explicit “community owner” / “head mod” role be technically feasible or aligned with Lemmy’s design philosophy?

Are there federation or governance reasons this hasn’t been modeled?

Not trying to push a specific feature — I’m mostly curious about the architectural and philosophical reasoning behind how moderation roles are represented today.

On Reddit, subreddit moderators can comment as regular users by default, and only show the green MOD badge when they intentionally “distinguish” a comment as an official moderation response.

It got me thinking about Lemmy.

On Lemmy, mod comments are often immediately identifiable, even when the mod is just participating casually in a discussion rather than speaking in an official capacity. That can sometimes unintentionally shift the tone of a thread or discourage open conversation.

Do you think Lemmy should consider:

A clearer opt-in distinction system for mod comments

The ability for mods to participate by default as regular users unless explicitly marking a comment as “mod voice”

Or is the current transparency model preferable for federated communities?

Curious how other instance admins, mods, and users feel about this — especially from a trust, power-balance, and community-health perspective.

Is this something Lemmy should copy from Reddit, or is it intentionally different for good reason?

~~I was notified at my ani.social account of a report in !sanfrancisco@lemmy.world

As explained in the message, I cannot view reports in my ani.social account, and have to have a native alt on lemmy.world

I created an alt !zabadoh@lemmy.world promoted it as a moderator...

But http://lemmy.world/reports still results in an error page.

Please advise...~~

Oh never mind, wrong instance...

Lemmy is federated, meaning independently hosted instances interact with one another. Instances often also have significant measures in place to prevent the automated creation of multiple accounts. However, anyone can host an instance. Wouldn't it be possible for someone to host their own instance without any spam prevention measures, automatically create multiple of their own accounts, and use those accounts to flood a post with upvotes/downvotes? I'm aware that instances can block interaction from other instances, but if done correctly it would be easy to do it without raising much suspicion. Does Lemmy have any safeguards against this, and if not, is it even possible to fix?

Note: I don't plan on doing any of this, I'm simply just curious about how it works.

Running my own instance I've had some issues sending the verification email, getting completely filtered by spamlists that block all residential IPs, as I run a home server.

I think I've fixed the issue by using an SMTP service. But it seems like there's no button for resending the verification email, so I have to purge the user's original signup and they have to fill out the signup form again. This is very inconvenient.

Am I missing something? Otherwise this seems to be a pretty important missing feature.

What can you do if pinged by a user on a comm you have blocked? Asking as seem to be or about to be targeted by MWOG and goat's users.

Just ignore it? Can't report it as already have the comm blocked.

ex https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/6925053/25392699

Hello kind people, does anyone know why I can not post comments on some posts that I see in my feed? I have tired using Voyager and Blorp.

A error message just comes up

"Couldn't create comment" (On Blorp)

"Problem posting your comment" (on Voyager)

My account is on lemmy.world and the post was also on lemmy.world.

Any ideas?

Cloudflare's "Bot Fight Mode", the Cloudflare captcha, is great at preventing bots, but I am afraid it might block federation related traffic.

Does anybody have actual experience in this regard? Is there anyone who has successfully deployed Lemmy with "Bot Fight Mode", maybe with some exceptions configured?

When trying to login to lemmy.ml I am being told my password is now too short. That's fine but how can I change it if I can't login?

Right now I'm posting from the Jerboa client which I dare not log out of. Checked within the app but don't see where I can change anything.

I'm not sure whether this is an Mbin or Lemmy bug, but it looks like there's some sort of breakage involving their interaction.

A user on an Mbin home instance (fedia.io) submitted a post to a community on a Lemmy instance (beehaw.org).

https://beehaw.org/post/23981271

When viewed via the Web UI on Lemmy instances (at least all the ones, I tried, lemmy.today, lemmy.ml, and beehaw.org), as well as at least Eternity on lemmy.today this post is a link to an image, possibly proxied via pict-rs if the instance does such proxying:

https://fedia.io/media/93/77/937761715da35c5c9fb1267e65b4ea54c2b649c2eebbf8ce26d2b4cba20097bf.jpg

https://beehaw.org/post/23981271

https://lemmy.ml/post/41016280

https://lemmy.today/post/44629301

It contains no link to the URL that the submitter intended to link to.

When viewed via the PiedFed Web UI (checking using olio.cafe) or, based on what I believe to be the case from other responses, the Mbin Web UI, the post apparently links to the intended URL in a link beneath the title:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-could-prioritize-sponsored-content-as-part-of-ad-strategy-sponsored-content-could-allegedly-be-given-preferential-treatment-in-llms-responses-openai-to-use-chat-data-to-deliver-highly-personalized-results

https://olio.cafe/c/technology/p/78253/chatgpt-could-prioritize-sponsored-content-as-part-of-ad-strategy-sponsored-content-could-a

Just wanted to make the devs aware of the interaction.

i've been using jerboa since i've been on lemmy, and i quite like it, but my one gripe is that upon opening the app, the app is automatically set to browse "active" posts on "local" communities.

i'm subscribed to many off-instance communities, and i enjoy interacting with new posts. i'm wondering if there is client that i can set to browse in this manner (new posts, from all subscribed communities) by default, so i don't have to switch every time i open the app. thanks.