Are we observing lemmy.ml having slow-downs or congestion problems?
Absolutely, even now I just opened lemmy.ml in a web browser, and the page half-loaded without any styling. Their instance is not functioning reliably in general.
Comments are pushed out by the community's server, they're not pulled in by yours. So if you're missing comments from communities hosted on lemmy.ml for example, it may be that lemmy.ml is overloaded and not sending out comments to the fediverse properly.
The other common issue with missing comments and posts is misconfigured language settings in your profile. You need to make sure at least Undefined and English are both selected, lots of people only have English selected which will make a lot of posts hidden.
DM'd you here.
PMs via Lemmy are a thing, but if you're an existing Subreddit mod I want to verify that on Reddit :)
lemmy.ml has a lot of federation issues unfortunately (uptime issues in general, actually). There’s not much that can be done until their server is fixed, and yes I agree it’s very annoying, but they’re working on it 👍
This is usually an issue with your language settings, I wish the configuration options here were more clear. Lemmy is still essentially alpha software, associated quirks and all.
This is an issue with lemmy.ml, not lemmy.one. Lemmy servers are responsible for sending information out to other servers, lemmy.one is not responsible for pulling information in.
If lemmy.ml is not federating your community posts or your community there is broken entirely (which it sort of looks like...) then they have to fix that, or you have to rebuild a new community on an instance which isn't broken.
Is it because of fees or a one time tip jar feature?
Both. Thanks for your support! I should check out Liberapay again though.
There probably wasn't, because nobody on lemmy.one had "discovered" it yet. It is slightly complicated, but you can find remote communities more reliably with a tool like https://browse.feddit.de/, and then paste the URL of the community you find in the search page. That will tell lemmy.one to fetch the community from that server, the communities you see on lemmy.one are ones where that process has already happened.
details: https://lemmy.one/post/1600
I prefer the browser to apps personally, this is actually one of the main reasons I like Lemmy over Reddit and it's unusable mobile view. You'll find plenty of mobile app users here too and it sounds like it works fine, I'll just caution that some (all?) of them sound like they're feature-incomplete, so if you ever think something is missing from Lemmy, double-check on the website first, because it might just not be added to the app yet.
I think there's a bug somewhere :)
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is link aggregator software that exists in the fediverse, meaning it connects with other "ActivityPub" software like Mastodon and other Lemmy instances. Basically, you can follow and interact with communities here on Lemmy.one, on any other Lemmy instance, or even from your Mastodon account!
What is Lemmy.one?
Lemmy.one is a general-purpose instance of Lemmy—a self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators—hosted by myself (Jonah). I am the administrator of the Mastodon server mstdn.party, and the founder of privacyguides.org.
This instance is generously supported by our contributors, if you use this instance to interact with the fediverse, please consider a monthly contribution to support my work.
What are the rules here?
- No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
- No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
- No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
- No content illegal in the United States, Germany, or Finland
- Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
- Do not spam or abuse network features.
As a general-purpose instance, we do not have heavy moderation in terms of what topics people are allowed to post about, however all users are expected to follow our rules at all times, and generally be nice and friendly on the federation.
Please report all content you see which might violate our rules for evaluation. If you are on a remote server, please forward any reports of our users to our server for our moderators to take action, we pledge that remote reports will remain confidential within our moderation team and will not be used for any form of retribution against the reporter.
Yes, you will have to be sure to join an instance aligned with your values on moderation.