This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @nutomic , SleeplessOne , or @phiresky about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today....
But wouldn’t it be great if the knitting community (for example) on beehaw.org, lemmy.ml, lemmy.world and feddit.de would be merged for me into one entity for a better browsing experience?
Why wouldn’t they merge on one instance? Seems easier, and can be done today compared to having to ask the developers to implement a complex feature.
I think short event or campaign with push for donations with a pop up that you actually can dismiss. An ad like banner. The biggest problem would be community organization as Lemmy isn’t only decentralized horizontally but also vertically. Different front ends, different apps different instances. Most of them wouldn’t want to implement an ad that wouldn’t benefit them directly. They also have costs with running their piece of lemmy. So some cut for them should be included.
I think a dedicated trustworthy person should be responsible for organizing this campaign as developer time is best spent elsewhere.
I think it’s worth bringing a solution in house. A recommended migration route. If you want people to feel confident to pick any instance, you have to give them the confidence to move easily and not fear picking a small instance that might die when their owner gets bored. A simple setting option to migrate from, then you select the account and either (through communities accessible, or through automated request, pull that data and subscribe to communities. Maybe blocks etc also.
I have run into too many instances of billionaire defenders on lemmy.world and kbin.social for this community NOT to exist. I get into strange arguments (where, from my perspective, I am just defending common sense or open standards) with frothing fascist, astroturfing fanbois about their chosen billionaire and I felt like I had nowhere to go, “look at this fucking corporate cuck”. ;)
In the past imgbb was used to post CSAM to some communities so some instances remove links to images hosted on it (or I guess ban the user in the instance you were on)
Edit: seems like that was lemmy.world, reach out to their community team and ask to be unbanned if you want your account unbanned, seems like they did that for someone else in the past
TL;DR: Reddit is making their tracker-filled mobile app the only way to access Reddit on mobile devices, they are falsely accusing third-party developers of blackmail, and they are on a path to severely lower the quality of content posted on Reddit and increase the amount of spam you see. To stand against these changes,...
The original /r/piracy was purposefully gimped because Reddit received DMCAs for any random thing and didn’t even bother to follow up. Since we’re in new waters, I want things to be a bit more relaxed, but there’s a limit on how relaxed we can be, without starting to get lawsuits, which I will not be able to fight off. I...
I feel like over the past few months, the main thing preventing me from getting super active in the fediverse has been all of the drama surrounding federation and instances shutting down....
Unsure if this is the best place to post this, there’s a few communities from this instance that have already been posted here but I figured the instance itself might be worth letting people know about....
I joined Lemmy a few weeks before the API change. I loved the conversations. I loved how the content was slower but more engaging, and less politically charged. There was nobody shitting on Elon Musk, or Twitter, or Reddit....
I mean, actually maybe not the newest community, it’s like 2 months old or so, around the time when the other website troubles happened and I didn’t really announce it anywhere because who wants to post something here will search and find it y’know, but it doesn’t really show up on other Lemmy instances and I thought...
With Reddit’s encroaching IPO and their poorly planned API changes, we need a place to keep up with privacy topics that isn’t tied to an anti-privacy, centralized sinking ship site....
One annoying thing I noticed on Lemmy is that is someone mentions a Community and links to it, that link usually just opens up the “home” instance of that community. While I actually wanted to see it on my instance so I can join it an participate. What is the proper way to do it? Or is there some browser plugin that makes...
In navigating Lemmyverse for potential communities to subscribe to, it would be helpful to be able to redirect links to my home instance in a new tab to facilitate sorting through multiple communities at a time. Ideally, the option would be implemented with the ability to enable or disable either of the two context menu items to...
There absence of a few subreddits here in lemmy world are making my experience somewhat incomplete. I was really into r/noiserock on reddit and would like to help re-create that community. It does not seem as straight forward though. Am I only allowed to create communities on my instance? I guess, in general, how are new...
When doing a search for community names, it would be cool to also see the instance name a community is located on. (The user count of the community is still useful.)...
Lemmy Developer AMA and Dev Update, 2024-01-26, 1500 CEDT
This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @nutomic , SleeplessOne , or @phiresky about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today....
Netflix enshittification will continue until morale improves (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
HailCorporate: Call Out Corporate Astroturfing on Lemmy (infosec.pub)
https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/81e899ff-f02b-4fb4-abed-67e9763ab05f.jpeg...
What's the deal with posting images from imgbb?
Got my account banned because I posted a photo that I uploaded to imgbb.com with the reason being “blacklisted URL”.
Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin v1.2.0 is now available on Chrome & Firefox!
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1418762...
The Internet and Fediverse in a High Latency Future?
This presumes humanity is a space fairing or interplanetary civilization....
Why is r/PrivacyGuides Private? [Subreddit Blackout Announcement] (discuss.privacyguides.net)
TL;DR: Reddit is making their tracker-filled mobile app the only way to access Reddit on mobile devices, they are falsely accusing third-party developers of blackmail, and they are on a path to severely lower the quality of content posted on Reddit and increase the amount of spam you see. To stand against these changes,...
OK mateys, let's talk about direct links. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The original /r/piracy was purposefully gimped because Reddit received DMCAs for any random thing and didn’t even bother to follow up. Since we’re in new waters, I want things to be a bit more relaxed, but there’s a limit on how relaxed we can be, without starting to get lawsuits, which I will not be able to fight off. I...
I'm considering hosting an instance for personal and friend use. Have some questions.
I’m just trying to gauge if the performance gain will be worth the additional effort and have some questions;...
What's the general consensus on making private fediverse instances?
I feel like over the past few months, the main thing preventing me from getting super active in the fediverse has been all of the drama surrounding federation and instances shutting down....
Welcome all new users and Reddit refugees! [PARTNERED POST]
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/853004...
literature.cafe - A New Lemmy Instance for Readers, book lovers, writers and their communities and fandoms
Unsure if this is the best place to post this, there’s a few communities from this instance that have already been posted here but I figured the instance itself might be worth letting people know about....
Is anyone else disappointed that Lemmy is becoming the new Reddit?
I joined Lemmy a few weeks before the API change. I loved the conversations. I loved how the content was slower but more engaging, and less politically charged. There was nobody shitting on Elon Musk, or Twitter, or Reddit....
VitaHacks+ - place about cool stuff you can make the PlayStation Vita handheld console do
I mean, actually maybe not the newest community, it’s like 2 months old or so, around the time when the other website troubles happened and I didn’t really announce it anywhere because who wants to post something here will search and find it y’know, but it doesn’t really show up on other Lemmy instances and I thought...
Moving from reddit rn, a good place to get started?
I’m currently on the pawb.social instance, and already found some neat communities, still looking for recommendations however
We're giving Lemmy a try: Welcome to !privacyguides@lemmy.one (www.reddit.com)
With Reddit’s encroaching IPO and their poorly planned API changes, we need a place to keep up with privacy topics that isn’t tied to an anti-privacy, centralized sinking ship site....
What's the proper way to create a link to a community? Abkhazian
One annoying thing I noticed on Lemmy is that is someone mentions a Community and links to it, that link usually just opens up the “home” instance of that community. While I actually wanted to see it on my instance so I can join it an participate. What is the proper way to do it? Or is there some browser plugin that makes...
[Request] Add 'Redirect to home instance in new tab' option to browser context menu
In navigating Lemmyverse for potential communities to subscribe to, it would be helpful to be able to redirect links to my home instance in a new tab to facilitate sorting through multiple communities at a time. Ideally, the option would be implemented with the ability to enable or disable either of the two context menu items to...
How are new communities created on Lemmy?
There absence of a few subreddits here in lemmy world are making my experience somewhat incomplete. I was really into r/noiserock on reddit and would like to help re-create that community. It does not seem as straight forward though. Am I only allowed to create communities on my instance? I guess, in general, how are new...
What's the best way to find instances and communities?
So, yes, I am a reddit refugee. I have played around a bit in lemmy with liftoff & lemmy.world and so far it’s great....
[Feature Request] Additional search information.
When doing a search for community names, it would be cool to also see the instance name a community is located on. (The user count of the community is still useful.)...