Lemmy

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Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

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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

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missing lemmy servers

theme examples of subreddit domain ideas note
outdoor r/outdoors r/ultralight .camp
productivity beware the cringe
travel r/travel r/solotravel .travel
all about pets, dogs bunnies cats etc any pet sub lol especially r/whatswrongwithyourdog .pet could be heavy on images, except for the places where you ask for help about care
what's this r/whatsthissnake/ r/whatisthisfish r/whatsthisrock r/whatsthisbird r/whatsthisplant/ r/whatisthisthing r/whatsthisbug whatsthatbug.com very heavy on images (tbf tho webp are veeeery little)
patient consumers r/onebag r/patientgamers r/patientconsumers .report .review .reviews
european tech workers? r/cscareerquestioneu
movies, animated movies, series, animated series r/gameofthrones r/severance r/bojackhorseman
anime, manga, manwha, webtoon r/onepunchman r/onepiece r/towerofgod .moe discussion focussed otherwise beware the loli shota fanarts
gaming r/patientgamers r/macgaming r/linuxgaming r/steamdeck .gg (country) .games
instance for every city? mabe for every region? could also work as a group or bulletin board shared between mastodon isntances
European Union hub r/europe r/2westerneurope4you r/yurop r/europeanfederalists r/askeuropeans r/askeu .eu europe.pub is not specific enough and in fact it's full of useless posts and subs (or btw every european server could host one of these and then have a shared simple landing page to explain which is where)
medical advices would need very hard and specialized moderation
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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Teppichbrand@feddit.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

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?

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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.~

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

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

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.

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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.

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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

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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?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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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.

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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?

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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)

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I think the only thing worse than something not being private, is if the fact that it's not private is not common knowledge leading to tons of people thinking it's private.

Lemmy doesn't even show a list of what you the logged in user voted on. But it's trivial to use an external tool to see who voted on what regardless of whose account it is. I think obsecuring information like this does more harm than good, since a lot of people won't actively go out and research what kind of data in their Lemmy account is publicly accessible beyond the data they can see from the website itself.

It's been discussed before that there isn't an easy way to hide who voted for what on a federated platform while still having all the instances correctly count votes for everyone. Therefore, if actually making votes anonymous seems not to be viable, why not just make it public for everyone like Mastodon does? I don't think we should make them inbox items like on Mastodon, or at least not the same inbox as the rest of the notifications so votes don't drown them out. I think a dropdown on the content itself showing who voted on it and in which direction is probably enough. Also a tab on the user page showing a list of everything the user voted on, at least on the logged in user's own page (I mainly want this so I can keep track of what I voted on).

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I was reading this post https://lemmy.world/post/3049732 and it seems like there are lots of different desires and uses for people to want to hide certain types of content.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this: sometimes I do want to hide memes, sometimes I want to hide politics, etc. But sometimes I want to hide different things. That is, some days I come to Lemmy for comica and memes, other days for news, other days for discussion or technology, etc.

It might be a cool feature to let people create different "viewing modes" or "content filter profiles" or something like that. So I could have a "sports profile" that only shows certain communities of my choice, a "politics profile" etc. Not entirely sure if it would make more sense for these lists to be inclusive or exclusive or what. But the idea would be that I could edit and save these profiles and select between them in my user settings.

I don't want to post this as an enhancement suggestion in the Lemmy git repo so willy-nilly though, figured I'd ask on Lemmy first if anyone else thinks this is desirable? Personally I think it could have a huge payoff while not being too technically challenging or taxing from an instance data management standpoint. It may allow people to engage with Lemmy in a much more healthy and enjoyable way, using it sometimes for comfort, sometimes for information, etc. depending on their mood and needs. Basically, blocking is a great and powerful feature to improve a user's experience, but I hardly ever block any communities because I often will want to see that sort of content sometimes without needing to go directly to the community.

If others think this sounds nice, I would be happy to post it on the Lemmy repo as well as try to contribute code for the feature. But I'd really like input first, especially on whether it should be inclusive or exclusive lists, or something expose UI to choose (seems to risk bloat imo), or any other suggestions.

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I've been working on a guide to getting started on Lemmy. What do you think I should add?

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Hi Lemmy community,

I’m running into some strange federation issues with my instance (buddyverse.one) and could use some advice. A few months ago, I shut down my instance due to storage constraints and deleted the database, as there was no clear way to remove old posts to free up space. Today, I recreated the instance from scratch, but I’m facing several problems:

  1. Subscription Pending Issue: When I try to subscribe to communities (both from my instance and from lemmy.ml to a community on my instance), it gets stuck on "Subscription pending." It’s not resolving even after waiting.

  2. Old Content Persisting: My profile on other instances (e.g., lemmy.world) still shows old posts and comments from before I shut down the instance. It seems no Lemmy instances removed my content when I deleted my database.

  3. Old Replies Resurfacing: I commented on a thread recently, and it pulled up old replies people made to my comments from months ago, before the shutdown.

It looks like the federation didn’t properly handle the deletion of my instance’s content, and now it’s causing issues with the new setup. Has anyone dealt with something similar? How can I:

  • Fix the "Subscription pending" issue for community subscriptions?
  • Ensure old posts/comments are removed from other federated instances?
  • Prevent old replies from resurfacing on new comments?

Any guidance or troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated. I’m running the latest Lemmy version and have checked the basic federation settings (enabled, no strict allowlist). Thanks in advance!

Instance: buddyverse.one
Lemmy Version: 0.19.11 Logs: Happy to share relevant logs if needed—just let me know what to look for.

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Hi! It’s me as usual.

I was wondering if there could be a way for lemmy when federating to at least fetch:

  • community names
  • community nicknames
  • usernames

I’m a fan of the fact that it doesn’t fetch everything because it would be a mess very quickly and it makes no sense to fetch a whole server because one user of your instance maybe wants to follow a single community from a super big instance… But names? So when people search for communities don’t need to “force” federation check using the exact syntax.

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There is a pull request which adds a new setting show_downvotes with these settings:

  • Show (current behaviour)
  • Hide (all downvotes hidden in ui)
  • ShowForOthers (only downvotes on other user's posts are visible)

Importantly the last option would become the new default, which means that users wont be aware that their post or comment was downvoted unless they manually change the setting. This may be good for mental health, but may also make it harder for users to realize that their content is unpopular. What do you think about it?

Here is the pull request

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I've discovered Lemmy quite recently and I'm still learning how it works. One of the things I don't get is how small communities can become known? On the main page I can only see communities that I've already subscribed to. I can also see popular posts on this instance. But how post in a community can become popular if no one has already joined it?

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Introducing Lemvotes (blog.gregtech.eu)
submitted 2 months ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/19629409

Pump-and-dump schemes, fraud, ransomware, multi-level marketing, spam, incentivizing selfishness, greed, and general unethical behaviour, buying elections, quasi Nazis creating their own coins, et cetera. In my opinion, over the years the evidence has piled up tall enough to show that crypto"currencies" are an overal detriment to society.

It therefore surprised me to discover that behind the ♡ donation button on top of most Lemmy instances except for Beehaw, there is an option to donate "crypto". This sets a bad example. Thoughts?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by sarahsquirrel@aussie.zone to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

Hi, can anyone point me to discussions or e.g. working groups focusing on user experience aspects of Lemmy?

I'm new to Lemmy but have been working in non-profit tech for many years.

Currently, my day job is in UX, broadly speaking. As a volunteer gig I'm looking to help a local group that's investigating the pros and cons of spinning up Fediverse instance(s). My focus is on the question of how we could help people in our town get signed up and using these services fluently.

Lemmy seems like a good candidate platform (to me) for meeting some of our group's needs. So I'm keen to get up to speed with the state of play (current priorties, known issues, plans and work in progress) in terms of making it as user-friendly as possible. I may have also capacity to contribute skills and time to these aspects of the larger Lemmy project. Where can I read about the current goals and plans? Who are the people bringing UX tools and human-centred design to Lemmy and how can I reach them?

Thanks!

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