As far as I can see Lemmy supports hidden communities. But my community on lemme.ee only supports visibility public or local.

I would like to set it to hidden, to avoid its posts appearing in the feeds of users who aren't subscribed.

The reason is to avoid bothering users with my community posts which they probably don't want to see. A post already got a downvote from a user not in my community, probably because they didn't want to see such things in their feed.

Is it possible to make a community hidden from unsubscribed users' feeds on lemme.ee?

Every time I try to upload an image, I receive an error stating that my account is too recent to upload images.

I understand the mechanism, but I couldn't find anywhere what the threshold is.

Additionally, I noticed this restriction also applies to community logo/banner, which is a bit more restrictive.

Just figured I’d share this here for informational purposes.

(image is credit to my co-mod's active series "Concept Art for James Cameron’s The Abyss, by Mœbius")

Okay, let's see if I can explain this another way:

To be clear-- any post with a lead image previously sourced to Imgur content seemed to change around half a year ago, no longer showing up as an expandable thumbnail as usual, but instead just showing a generic 'offsite' link icon, which needed to be clicked an extra time in order to see the actual content. Example:

https://lemm.ee/post/40626407

...In which the popup image content still works in the body of the post, but not via the *lead* thumbnail, which... is fairly important for users browsing their streams, no?

Anyway, it just hit me that this issue now appears to be dealt with, at least on Lemm.ee! :D

CAVEAT 1: older, Imgur lead-sourced posts still appear to be broken in this way across the "LV," not unlike how image content was broken a ~year ago via the auto-added 'image proxy tags' by the Lemmy software. Point is-- it seems sublemmy-runners (community mods) will still need to fix such older posts by hand.

CAVEAT 2: having had some years of experience using Imgur as a pic-hosting service, I simply *cannot* recommend it if your intention is to create moderately long-lived posts. I could say more about why I'm completely baffled as to why some posts seem to last 10yrs+, while some are deleted within less than 6mos, despite featuring identical content, but what would be the point? (I would guess something along 'server-mgmt lines,' but who knows?)

CAVEAT 3: Image-hosting is obviously a whole big issue upon itself, and there are obviously MANY ways to do it, with perhaps the chief issue relating to image-permanence, so to speak. That said, if your instance is indeed Lemm.ee itself, you do have a nice, healthy 500k limit upon uploads here. And think about it-- if 'LE' or the LE's hosting site ever goes down one day, then isn't it the same, in the end?. I.e., there won't be one aspect of the site uselessly upholding the other, if that makes sense.

But I would think that's also a nice, motivating reason to get on board the train of supporting our specific instance. I mean, (as I understand it) our admin spends like US$200/mo supporting us via a colossal ~10 servers, and what do you know-- bad actors here forced him to semi-retire via too much relentlessly vile content.

I really feel like shit when I read about that stuff.

TBH, my personal lack of more useful action towards supporting our instance is rather embarrassing, frankly, and I hope to do better, but... ugh, I'm frankly pretty nervous these days, living on a rather fine economic line here, dealing with upcoming USA policy-making which could... incline me to... oof. Well, it won't be good. Anyway, thank you Sunauras, EllaS, et al for carrying on in so many ways. <3

Hey folks!

For the past few hours, lemm.ee has been bombarded with abnormal (almost definitely automated) traffic from a range of different IP addresses. This managed to overwhelm our servers, and we were offline for the past hour or so.

I was in the middle of celebrating my birthday, so response was a bit slow, but I believe we are recovering now, with mitigations in place to try and prevent further issues. Some of you may be inconvenienced by some bot checks when you browse lemm.ee, I am sorry about that, but it's necessary for now.

Sorry for the issues and I hope you have a nice weekend ahead!

Hi everybody, I'm new to lemmy and I was wondering if it is possible to change UI design of lemm.ee on desktop ? On my smartphone I'm using Eternity, which is perfect, and I saw a nice layout on desktop called photon but I don't know if lemm.ee support it.

Thanks a lot

I want to create AI communities from reddit and ask the community members to switch to lemmy.

The communites from reddit that I want to create on reddit are r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, r/Grok etc.

Which instance would be suitable for it? Is lemm.ee big enough to handle an influx of users? Or should I use lemmy.world since they're going to be global users interested in AI?

I've recently noticed that posts by users from feddit.org (but not on communities on that instance) have pics that don't load, and when I try to open the image separately, I get a connection timed out error.

These two posts are where I noticed it first. Is it just me?

Solved, thanks @Blaze!

In the "search" tab (4th one) there is an "Explore" button :)

Hi everyone,

I am completely new to lemm.ee and the whole universe around it (reddit refugee 😉) and I'm struggling to find new communities. When I'm logged in, the Posts tab in the bottom left (using the Voyager app) only shows "Home", "All" and "Local", but nothing else. When I'm not logged in, I see a huge list of communities, like [email protected] etc. Could someone explain to me what's happening and how I could include these communities in my feed? Thanks!

New user here. Trying to set up a community but keep getting the message that the account is too new to upload images.

How long until I can load an icon and banner for the group, and include images within posts?

Hi folks!

Over the past few months, we have started seeing a significant amount of new user sign-ups. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of our new members, and to share some useful resources and info about lemm.ee.

First, some stats

Here is a bar chart of daily new users (this is only counting users which have been approved by our admins):

As you can see from the chart, for most of 2024, we were accepting roughly around 10-20 new users every day. Then, from the start of this year, the daily numbers have been constantly growing. Yesterday, we approved a massive 609 new users on lemm.ee.

The increase in sign-ups is significant enough that I have been taking several steps to improve our monitoring & anti-bot measures, but so far, it seems the vast majority of the new users are completely legitimate real humans! (Thank you all for not being bots 😅)

About lemm.ee

This Lemmy instance is turning 2 years old very soon. It was initially created around the time of the Reddit API changes, when existing Lemmy servers were getting overloaded with new users - lemm.ee was intended to help spread the load. We're now the second largest Lemmy server when it comes to monthly active users.

Our core philosophy for this instance has always been to treat it as a generic gateway to the Lemmy network. I want to provide our users a stable and reliable home for their Lemmy account, so that they can have easy access to all of their communities, regardless of what instance the community is actually hosted on.

We run on some decently beefy hardware, and our setup is fairly customized in several ways in order to ensure a smooth experience for our users (most of the time, this has worked out quite well!). Our servers are currently hosted in Finland.

Our infrastructure has been funded by the community almost from the start through GitHub sponsorships and Ko-Fi donations. I am sure I speak on behalf all of our users when I say that I am extremely grateful to all supporters - you are really responsible for the continued existence of this instance!

Lemmy itself is open source software, and while it has improved massively during the time I have been using it, it definitely still has some rough edges. Please be patient when using Lemmy, and remember that it is being built collaboratively by humans (not corporations), without any intent of ever turning it into a business.

Useful resources

• If you're confused about anything, feel free to check out our F.A.Q.
• We have an instance policy for administration, moderation, and federation - feel free to check it out if you want to understand how admins and mods are expected to act on lemm.ee
• For staying up to date with instance news, feel free to subscribe to [email protected]
• If you ever can't reach lemm.ee, please check our status page at https://status.lemm.ee/ - I communicate updates on that page when dealing with any unplanned problems.
• You can always find these resources (and some more useful info) in the sidebar of our front page (https://lemm.ee/)!

Don't forget to participate!

Communities on Lemmy only work if people actively use them. Even upvoting/downvoting based on quality of content is a great start, but I would really like to encourage you all to comment and even write posts, because that's really the best way to build communities.

If you have any questions or thoughts about lemm.ee or Lemmy in general, feel free to post a comment below this post, and myself or one of our veteran users will definitely respond.

I hope you enjoy your time on lemm.ee, and I wish you all a great week!

Context

• https://lemm.ee/post/57374776
• https://lemm.ee/post/57104315
• https://lemm.ee/post/54833901

Hey folks

Just a quick heads up, we will be performing some database maintenance today. Expected downtime is ~15 minutes.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Update: maintenance complete!

The current mod has been missing for 2 years

Here is a link to a person volunteering to mod: https://lemm.ee/comment/18612411

Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/

Specific comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/mffevfs/

This issue has resurfaced again.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22062206

Lemm.ee Conservative Community has had an Elon Nazi salute post up for two days now.

IDK about other people but it makes me feel sick to the stomach being federated with such content. I don't really have any problems with Lemm.ee as a whole but I feel like having an uncritical Nazi salute on the network goes against everything Blahaj stands for.

Obviously reporting transphobic comments to a transphobic mod isn't going to result in any action, so I'm wondering if the admins are going to do anything about it?

(if someone needs an image description, please ask)

Reddit just banned a ton of LGBTQ+ and NSFW subs, I imagine a bunch of people will be heading this way!

As an American, I hope my Lemm.ee data is not stored in the US and so could not be subpeonaed, taken down, etc... by this corrupt government.

Can one of the Admins please confirm or deny this?

As I was made a moderator of [email protected] without being asked first, and can't seem to find a button to demote myself, could a lemm.ee admin remove my moderator role for that community?

Edit: Issue resolved via solution suggested in comment below.

Edit 2: For now at least, there seems to be a problem with self de-moderation across instances, as my moderator status returned after I tried removing it. I thus subsequently contacted the person who promoted me to have the moderator status removed.

On reddit I gert a preview of the text for each post. It enables me to read some of the content to see if it is worth reading the whole and comments.

Is there a way to get this on lemm.ee?

Edit: I found the little + icon to see the post content without opening the whole post. But I am still interested if I can get a 5 line Preview by default or so. On mobile I use Voyager, which provides this. But it would be cool to have that on desktop as well.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Lemmy/comments/1i8rloi/can_confirm_email/

Can someone have a look or help that person?

I am seeing a lot of local communities in the search tab which are recently created and have 0 post but 36 subscribers. Same happened with my [email protected] community. Are these bots?