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I think it would be better if we have better integration across the fediverse, including integration between Mastodon, Pixelfed and Lemmy.

I know that Mastodon doesn't really have communities, well, Mastodon has hashtags, which come close but are not really the same. Maybe when viewing a mastodon instance from lemmy, it just creates a pseudo-community ("/c/all@mastodon.instance") for each instance that you can browse and subscribe to from lemmy? This way, there would be more content and you could more easily interact with other parts of the fediverse without needing to create multiple accounts on multiple services.

There is this really cool website: https://fediversemap.com/

that shows fediverse instances that are physically close to you.

i think this is a really cool idea because it allows connecting to people that you can meet in real life. it allows organizing of offline events, and that's something that i think we can all use very much.

I would like lemmy to integrate a list of instances that are physically close to you, sothat you can easily find and connect with them. maybe you can automatically browse through their communities and find communities that are relevant to you. communities i.e. about cities that enable organizing and scheduling events.

A while back on kbin.earth, I could only see relies in some threads if someone directly replied to my comments. The instance owner corrected it, but now it's happened in one thread on kbin and another on lemmygrad, each on it's own account. Would instance admins be able to get together and help sort this, please?

Thank you so much in advance.

I've recently added anubis to lemmy.ml, and it seems to be working well.

I have a PR to add anubis to lemmy-ansible (our main installation method), and I could use some help tweaking / optimizing its botPolicy.yaml config, for federated services.

Anyone with experience running anubis, this would be much appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for the easiest way to crosspost content from Reddit to Lemmy or Piefed. Ideally, I’d love a Firefox extension or userscript that can either:

• Directly crosspost, or
• Copy the post’s markdown (including title, text, and images) so I can easily paste it elsewhere.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

When a code block contains syntax for an image, lemmy seems to replace the image's url with a proxied one.

This instance's web UI's preview displays the original url correctly. The proxied url is also distributed trough federation, so users on other instances or for example Piefed should also see the lemmy.ml url in the example below.

This behavior is unexpected, as the contents of a code block should not be parsed as markdown, and thus no image should be displayed and no requests to the server should be made.

Example: I entered "https://media.piefed.zip/posts/bT/UD/bTUDGZRAcKZdXyO.png" as the url in the following code block in the web UI: ![alt text](https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.piefed.zip%2Fposts%2FbT%2FUD%2FbTUDGZRAcKZdXyO.png)

Lemmy UI version: 0.19.17
Lemmy backend version: 0.19.18-beta.0

Hello, Lemmy Community,

I am the author of the Localize The Docs organization. And I’m glad to announce that the 🎉 lemmy-docs-l10n 🎉 project is published now:

• 🚀 Preview: lemmy-docs-l10n
• 🌐 Crowdin: lemmy-docs-l10n
• 🐙 GitHub: lemmy-docs-l10n

The goal of this project is to translate The Lemmy Documentation into multiple languages. Translations are contributed via the Crowdin platform, automatically synchronized with the GitHub repository, and can be previewed on GitHub Pages.

We welcome anyone interested in documentation translation to join us. If the target language is not supported in the project yet, please submit an issue to request the new language. Once the requested language is added, you can start translating!

See the announcement post for more details.

I created a new community in lemmy.world but it doesn't show up in Voyager app. I can post to it and see it using the browser. When I search for the community on Voyager however there are no results. How do I update or refresh the server so that the community becomes visible in Voyager?

A mod nuked this fella for being a bot. If you look at their comment history they're all in the same hour range. But how many of them are there?

Yesterday I found Interstellar which has this feature. I assume mainly because it is not only a Lemmy app, but also a PieFed one, which has this feature in the reference frontend (AFAIK).

Are there other Lemmy apps or frontends that support thread merging?

please allow us to set OUR posting/commenting language, separately from the we-view-these-ones language-setting,

so that we can see all the "undefined" ones, as that's the majority,

but we can remove "undefined" from our own language-use ( because that's bogus ), & just have our language chosen automatically, when we're commenting, if we're limited to a single language.

'twould be a good improvement for getting the language-for-each-comment/post right MUCH more, if it existed & people knew about it.

Thanks again for your software-work!

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as title says:

going to the main feed of the instance,

& just scrolling through, one ought be able to block communities/distractions that one isn't interested-in without having to leave that feed-page.

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as the title says: I've now got .. perhaps a couple thousand blocked communities, while trying to keep the distractions out from my view, & seeing if I've got some community accidentally blocked ( touchscreen UI's can sometimes bork one's intent, right? ), & I want to find it & unblock it..

but having them ONLY sorted by time, not alphabetically, means now I have to try to read ALL of them, to discover if that mistake got in.

Sorting 'em alphabetically would allow us to just scroll-down to the right part of the alphabet, & see, directly!

Thank youse for making good software, for the world, btw..

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I'm not sure if it's a growth issue, or if I'm just getting tired of it personally, but the spamming of identical URLs over multiple instances is getting out of hand. Even worse when I block one post for whatever reason, only to have to repeat the task upteen number of times because one or more users (usually one) "helpfully" post the link in every tangentially related community.

Instead of that, it'd be better to have the front page (all/local/subscribed) automatically group any post of an identical URL into a single "post". In essence, each new post of that URL would create a separate discussion thread to the given community, and each thread could be listed under the "main" post similar to how crossposts currently are instead of cluttering up the front page.

If you want to develop a plugin and have any questions, feel free to comment here or in the dev chat.

I'm no programmer but I do know basic networking and computers. I have about 5TB worth of storage (more is to come) to spare, a 1Gbps connection and a public (although dynamic) IP address. Is there any need for hardware contributions, as in, for instance, hosting, doing backups, anything?

Recently one of the posts I made got a porn spam comment and I also saw a lot of porn spam in my instance's communites. Also just now I got an abusive DM telling me to kill myself and accusing me of being an astroturfer.

Has anyone else experienced anything like that lately or is it just me?

Lets not forget that there is a lot of traffic. Why Redlib and lemmy join forces?

Are there any projects associated with Lemmy to create (1) a signal/messenger- (2) teams/zoom -like functionality?

Picture of the current 0.19.15 version

The devs and designers are not playing around, this is looking amazing.

If you'd like to see: voyager.lemmy.ml

so, this is a bit of an abstract mathematical post.

I think that a fediverse service consists mostly of three parts: identity provider, data hoster, and feed provider.

The data hoster is the machine that hosts the posts and comments and upvote/downvote stats. The feed provider is the service which gives you a nice, scrollable overview over new content for you. This is today the same system that provides the data, but it could be separated, such as having a custom "search engine" that gives you content, that you use independently of where the data is stored.

The identity provider basically only makes a proof that "you are you" : you give it your login credentials and it gives you a kind of token that authenticates (proves your identity) to other services. like, i'm on discuss.tchncs.de, but i can post to lemmy.world. this is because the discuss.tchncs.de server says to lemmy.world that i indeed have this account on this server. so they prove my identity in a way.

What i argue now is that such an identity providing server is not technically necessary. You could use something like an ~/.ssh/id_rsa file that you generate on your own computer and use that public key to identify yourself on the fediverse. I don't think that this approach has any inherent advantages over how things are being done today, but it could be done that way and that in itself is fascinating.

:D

join-lemmy.org runs a crawl of all active Lemmy instances every four hours in order to keep the instance list up to date. These statistics are now publicly available in the following git repo:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-statistics

As described in the readme there are a few different output files available. From full crawl data with the entire output of /api/v3/site and /api/v3/federated_instances, to minimal data which only includes the number of users, posts etc. You can also access historical stats through the git history. In the future we may also to provide additional data, such as a full list of communities.

So here are some ideas what you could do with this data:

• Graphs which can be shown directly on join-lemmy.org (#532).
• Website with detailed filters for instance settings.
• Map of Lemmy instances, showing who they federate or defederate with (like the discontinued lemmymap)

Interestingly our stats differ significantly from other websites. It would be interesting to analyze and find out what's causing the differences: