lemmy.net.au

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This instance is hosted in Sydney, Australia and Maintained by Australian administrators.

Sign-ups are Application at present
Email Verification is not required
Downvotes are enabled
Community creation is open
Federation is enabled
Our status page is coming soon

Feel free to create and/or Join communities for any topics that interest you!

Rules are very simple

don't be a cunt
no racism
no activities that might the laws of Australia
all bot accounts must be clearly marked as bot accounts
bots may not vote on any posts or any comments
bots must state their purpose on profile
no community may be run by bots
bots must not primarily responsible for the content in any community

Mobile apps

https://join-lemmy.org/apps

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Think of it as an opensource alternative to reddit!

founded 1 year ago

ADMINS

hyprn

AussieWanderer

Welcome to Lemmy.net.au! Not sure where to start? Start here! (self.meta)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hyprn to c/meta

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Welcome to lemmy.net.au: Understanding Lemmy and How to Use It

Hello and welcome to our Lemmy instance! If you're new here, you might be wondering what exactly Lemmy is and how it differs from other social platforms. This guide will help you understand Lemmy's unique structure and how to make the most of your experience here.

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a forum-style social media platform (sometimes called a 'link aggregator') similar to Reddit or Hacker News. Here, you can:

Share and discuss links, text posts, and images
Upvote and downvote content to determine what rises to the top
Join communities centered around specific topics or themes
Connect with users across the entire "fediverse"

What Makes Lemmy Different: The Federated Approach

The key difference between Lemmy and traditional social platforms is that Lemmy is federated. Here's what that means:

Instead of one central website controlled by a single company, Lemmy consists of multiple independent websites (called "instances") that are all connected to each other. Each instance is run by different organizations or individuals.

Think of it this way: If Reddit is like a single massive shopping centre with one owner setting all the rules, Lemmy is like George Street in Sydney, which has multiple shopping centres, each with their own management but where shoppers can freely move between them.

The Power of Federation

When you join lemmy.net.au, you're not just joining this instance - you're joining the entire Lemmy network. You can:

Interact with users from other instances
See and participate in communities hosted on other instances
Keep all your connections even if you decide to move to a different instance

This means if you don't like how one instance is being managed, you can move to another without losing access to your favorite communities or connections.

How Lemmy Works in Practice

Communities and Usernames

In Lemmy, both communities and usernames include the instance name:

Communities are shown as c/CommunityName@instance.org
Usernames appear as @username@instance.org

For example, a community on our instance might be c/Australia@lemmy.net.au, while a user might be @JaneDoe@lemmy.net.au.

Accessing Content Across Instances

With your lemmy.net.au account, you can:

Subscribe to communities from any federated instance
Comment on posts from any federated instance
Message users from any federated instance

When you find a community hosted elsewhere (like c/Programming@programming.dev), you can interact with it just as if it were hosted here.

Finding Communities

To discover communities:

Browse popular communities on lemmy.net.au
Use the search function to find specific topics
Try the Lemmyverse.net search engine for more comprehensive results

Reddit to Lemmy: Translation Guide

If you're coming from Reddit, here's a quick reference to help you understand the terminology:

Reddit Term	Lemmy Equivalent
Subreddit	Community
r/example	c/example@instance
u/username	@username@instance
Karma	Score
Moderator	Moderator (same!)
Award	Not available (no awards system)
Crosspost	No direct equivalent, but you can share links to posts
Sorting by "Hot"	Sorting by "Hot" (same!)
Sorting by "New"	Sorting by "New" (same!)
Reddit Premium	No equivalent (no premium tier)

Finding Communities

There are several ways to discover communities on Lemmy:

Browse popular communities on lemmy.net.au
Use the search function to find specific topics
Visit lemmyverse.net - This is an excellent search engine specifically designed for Lemmy that allows you to search across all federated instances

Lemmyverse.net is particularly useful because:

It indexes communities across the entire Lemmy network
You can search by keywords, topics, or community names
It shows activity levels and subscriber counts
It allows you to discover niche communities you might not find otherwise

When you find a community you like on lemmyverse.net, simply copy its full name (including the instance) and search for it on lemmy.net.au to subscribe and participate. You might need to wait a few seconds after you search for the community to show up as the lemmy.net.au instance needs to connect to that instance and pull the information back.

Managing Your Experience

Blocking Content

If you encounter content you don't want to see:

You can block individual users
You can block entire communities
You can even block entire instances

If you believe a community or instance violates our community standards, please use the reporting function to alert the admin team!

Same Name, Different Communities

Sometimes you'll find communities with the same name on different instances (like c/News@lemmy.net.au and c/News@another-instance.org). These are separate communities with different moderators and potentially different rules.

This flexibility allows for diverse moderation styles and community cultures to coexist.

Getting Started

Complete your profile - Add a bio and profile picture
Find communities - Search for topics that interest you
Subscribe - Join communities to see their content in your feed
Participate - Comment, post, and vote to become part of the conversation

Need Help?

If you have questions or need assistance, feel free to comment on this post or message the admins.

Welcome to the fediverse - we're glad you're here!

Looking for moderators! (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago by hyprn to c/support

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Post a comment with your creds, looking for some moderators for the site

Keir Starmer slams Fifa over ‘unacceptable’ World Cup ticket prices as he urges action to stop fans being ‘ripped off’ (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 27 minutes ago by Wudi@feddit.uk to c/world@lemmy.world

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Marketing (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 hour ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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$37 for a burrito?

That's only 6 easy payments of $9.99! I can afford two a year at that price! What a time to be alive!

236

Road rage (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 hour ago by dave@feddit.uk to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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Tom Cruise (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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If men gave birth, abortion clinics would be on every corner (piefed.social)

submitted 1 hour ago by tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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If all things were the same, but it was men who fell pregnant and gave birth, abortion clinics would be so standard they’d be on every corner, like McDonald’s. In fact, it’d be a sign of status to go to one.

Male 1: “I’m just off to the abortion clinic real quick.”

Male 2: “Oh nice, King. You’ve been busy.”

Male 1 leaves.

Male 3: “He’s so cool.”

I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House (open.substack.com)

submitted 1 hour ago by justignoreme@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/61033678

Deep dive into the tech being deployed by an unofficial US government office. References cited at the bottom of the article.

Tin-foil hats cinched tight. This is not good.

rucio: a self-hosted P2P file sharing daemon (Rust) with a web panel, magnet links, and an eMule/Kad bridge (lemmy.world)

submitted 51 minutes ago by ogarcia@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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If you ever ran eMule or MLDonkey back in the day, this will feel familiar — but it's built from scratch in Rust on modern infrastructure.

rucio is a decentralized peer-to-peer file sharing app. No trackers, no central servers, no relay nodes for the actual data. Peers find each other and the files through a Kademlia DHT (plus mDNS on the local network), keyword search rides on Gossipsub, and bytes move directly between peers.

I started it partly out of nostalgia and partly because I wanted a P2P stack I actually understood end to end — discovery, transfer, NAT handling, the lot — instead of a black box. It grew into something I now use daily, so I'm putting it out there.

What it does today:

Fully decentralized — Kademlia DHT over the internet, mDNS on the LAN, no infrastructure to run (though you can run a bootstrap node if you want one).
Web control panel — manage shares, searches and downloads from the browser. It's served by the daemon itself (Leptos/WASM), no extra process.
Command-line client — a scriptable rucio CLI for everything, locally or against a remote daemon.
Magnet links — share any file with a single rucio:<hash> link, generated entirely offline if you like.
Resumable downloads — interrupted transfers pick up where they left off after a restart.
Directory sharing — point it at a folder and every file inside gets indexed, hashed and announced automatically.
NAT-friendly — HighID/LowID-style handling so peers behind NAT can still download; publicly reachable nodes serve chunks to everyone.
Single binary — the same rucio binary is the daemon (ruciod) and the CLI depending on how you invoke it.

The eMule/Kad bridge (the fun part): rucio can optionally talk to the eMule Kad2 network. That means you can search Kad and download ed2k:// links right alongside native rucio transfers. It's opt-in (a build feature), but it's there because a chunk of those old files are still out there and still moving.

Some screenshots:

Downloads

Try it (container):

docker run -d --name rucio \
  -e RUCIOD_API_LISTEN=0.0.0.0:3003 \
  -e RUCIOD_UPNP=false \
  -v rucio-data:/var/lib/rucio \
  -p 4321:4321/tcp \
  -p 3003:3003/tcp \
  -p 4662:4662/tcp \
  -p 4672:4672/udp \
  ghcr.io/ogarcia/rucio:latest

Then open http://localhost:3003/. There are slimmer image flavors too — latest-headless (daemon only), latest-cli (standalone client), and latest-bootstrap (a DHT bootstrap node). Pre-built binaries for Linux and macOS (x86_64 + aarch64) are on the releases page as well.

Note: If you download the precompiled binary from releases, when you extract it, create a symbolic link from ruciod to rucio, and run ruciod for the daemon and rucio for the CLI.

Honest caveats (it's early):

I work with AI, so I’m not going to lie to you—there’s some vibe coding involved. I review and go over what I’ve done, but I want to be honest. If you don’t like it, just skip this app.
This is v0.1.0, pre-1.0 — expect breaking changes (DB schema, API, config) between releases. I'll happily break things to get them right.
There is no built-in authentication. If you expose the daemon beyond your own machine, put it behind a reverse proxy with auth (the docs have an nginx + basic-auth example). Keep the API port private otherwise.
It's the work of one person so far. Rough edges exist.

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