A: Lemmy is a self-hosted FOSS Reddit alternative that is a part of the "Fediverse". Lemmy gives us the freedom & full control over our community, unlike Reddit.
Q: What is the Fediverse?
A: Think of email - no matter which email provider you use, you are still able to seamlessly communicate with others who don't share the same provider.
The Fediverse (or “Fedi”) is basically the same concept, but for social media. The Fediverse is a collection of thousands of independent social media servers that communicate with each other seamlessly. This means that the millions of users on these servers can interact with each other as if they were on a single social network.
Q: What is the point of this Lemmy instance?
A: This Lemmy instance was created to provide a home for those migrating from Reddit, it's a general lemmy instance that welcomes (almost) everything including piracy and NSFW.
You may create an account on any of the instances we federate with, and interact with our instance and communities.
The list of the servers we currently federate with: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances
Q: I'm new to this and I'm still very confused about all this where can I learn more?
A: You can find a collection of beginner's guides here.
Q: Why is my feed empty? How do I see other communities from other instances?
A: Communities will only show in ‘All’ of you instance if someone in that instance has searched and subscribed to it. Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.
Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and we’ll do our best to answer as soon as possible.
I've found that each explanation I read kind of helped me understand; it took the totality of all them before it finally clicked. So I'm going to copy and paste my explanation that I shared with someone else, in hopes that it helps to further understanding. Some people grasp concepts differently, so I offered a new explanation.
Let’s pretend there are three different websites: reddit.com, feddit.com, and seddit.com. Each one has its own subreddits:
These three websites can browse ALL of the other sites’ subreddits. On reddit.com you can browse and comment reddit.com/r/funny, feddit.com/r/funny, and seddit.com/r/funny, even though these three subreddits are entirely different from each other and not linked in any way. These subreddits are known as communities. Now it doesn’t matter whether you sign up on reddit, feddit, or seddit, since they can all browse ALL of the communities.
Now to expand on that just a tad: reddit, feddit, and seddit will still have their own rules, permissions, and such since they’re independent of each other. These distinguishing factors are (as far as I know) the only reason to choose one over another. Maybe server speed and some other factors.
The usernames reflect where you signed up. If I signed up on feddit, my username would be [email protected]
Hope that helps. I’ve found that once you understand lemmy, the explanations are more complicated than the actual setup itself.
Hi! I'm getting an error when trying to upload photos to my communities: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data, and in the console is a 400 Bad Request, with the error: Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out. I posted in the lemmy-net github repo issues forum, but wondering if anyone has any ideas here. I see that others have been able to post images recently during the time that I have been unable to, but I also have other users replying to me that they have the same issue, so it is really a puzzling problem. I and others have previously had no issues uploading photos.
Is there a way to display thumbnails of NSFW content by default? Whenever I browse my feed the thumbnails are blurred out and I need to manually click on it to show the content.
I'm sure that this was done on purpose in Lemmy and has no simple way to be solved at the moment, because in one instance I belong, one of the mods had to manually modify the source code (CSS) of his instance to allow the thumbnail to be uncensored.
Hi,
I'm interested in running an instance myself. Would be interesting what your load and (growing of) storage usage is roughly to get a picture of it. Your instance is (still) snappy, I like it.
Currently unsure what our storage would be since we're currently having an issue with image uploads :( but we reached about 5.2 gigabytes before it stopped working.
You may create an account on any of the instances we federate with, and interact with our instance and communities.
The list of the servers we currently federate with: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances
By default are we federated with all other instances? Is there a general list most communities use? Or is it all manually entered one way or the other?
If the instance admins decide to shutdown yes but the content should still be cached iirc
or
the service that the instance runs on shutdowns / shuts the instance down
I can't seem to login from other android browsers, currently I've logged in when I first signed up. When I enter my credentials it (the login button) just spins indefinitely.
I'm having trouble uploading images to my posts thru webpage and various apps. I'm getting errors that I'm also having a hard time capturing the full description (something about a JSON). It was days before I could get the image for my first post in !zettairyouiki to stick. What's up with this?
Sorry this is something happening on our instance for a while. Restarting the server fixed it for a while, so we do that 5 times a day, but obviously that's not the ideal solution. We are trying to find a permanent fix for this, sorry for the inconvenience.
Hello 👋 I made a community called loveisland on this instance but I can’t access it from the other instance I’m registered on (namely lemmynsfw.com but also feddit.uk)
I made the community a few days ago and have searched for it multiple times from those servers but it never shows in the search results.
Federation isn't always super speedy. To force something to appear, go to the search page, choose communities and type the full path to the community, like this:
Searching like that should force the instance to start loading content from the remote community. It might not appear immediately, but it should show after a second. If it doesn't, try pressing the search button again or waiting a little bit and trying again.
I've noticed that a number of comments from other instances are being edited when they appear on FMHY. After some digging, these are all clearly words being censored to prevent spam. This is not context aware, so it is blocking/modifying legitimate comments. Is it possible to disable this feature?
Oh we had censored some words like removed and removed since we got ad posts in the beginning of instance, it seems that had some negative effects. we'll remove those filters now, thanks for catching that error.
Saw my message just says removed lol, pretty good example of unintended consequences.
Is there a problem with syncing between instances? I find that this instance is not pulling in all comments from communities on other instances. In some cases, it shows zero comments on a post when the originating instance shows dozens.
For the first question: Posts before someone searched that community aren't fetched completely, so probably godot was only searched recently.
For the second question: FMHY will only show upvoted and comments from people we've already federated, most probably beehaw has federated with more instances, so it shows more upvoted and comments.
If lemmy gives people full freedom and control over their instances, does that mean there is nothing to stop people from creating instances full of racism, bigotry, etc?
Is there a limit on the number of posts you can save to your account? From what I know, reddit and Instagram both have a hard limit on the number of posts that a user can save before the older ones start getting forgotten. Does lemmy have any such restrictions?