You may find confusing how there could be at the same communities (subreddits) with the same name in different instances. You can use the Lemmy Community Browser to find communities easily among different instances.
You’re posts are visible from other Fediverse sites, like Mastodon or Kbin and you can interact with their users.
An user or an instance can block users or instances. If you have an account on lemmy.world and the instance admins blocks another instance you won’t be able to see the posts or comments made from their users.
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My understanding is that we cannot. I’ve seen people talking about it maybe becoming a thing in the future, but right now the only option is to just go register your name on another instance. Alternatively, I guess you can host your own instance with just you (or a few friends I guess) and then you control what gets federated, but for me that seems like a little too much work right now. I may consider that in the future if I had more free time.
no but if one is an admin of a mastodon instance and someone uses that same name and avatar to create problems that is something that needs to be discussed
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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !moddedmc
I’m trying to build a sublemmy (BeWowed) based on r/Damnthat’s intresting and r/BeAmazed material that I have accumulated over the years but i need to host all the videos on imgur. Will lemmy be able to host videos? Do you have better alternatives than imgur? Thanks!
Similar problems occur for PeerTube though - somebody needs to pay server costs, and for video that can be quite heavy. There's also no commercial concept behind it, so I doubt any instance of PeerTube feels a great need to get flooded with content. Where it really shines (at the moment) is when it is hosted by organizations (such as Blender or the European Union) to share their own content.
However, what's cool about PeerTube is hinted at in the name: it uses torrent technology, and whenever you're watching a video you are also seeding it to your peers (others who watch it). So while storage is an issue, bandwidth requirements are smaller than for centralized video services. So who knows what the future will bring. :)
We should implement this as whenever I wish to browse (for example) [email protected] I have to go to there, and whenever I wish to browse [email protected] I have to go there. Would it be possible to implement it in kbin/lemmy's code to make it easier to browse all?
KBin/Lemmy should provide a combined local view for duplicated magazines/communities across the fediverse. Treating the concept like a hashtag.
The point of the fediverse is to distribute content so no one has a monopoly. People squatting on communities/magazines don't understand there is nothing stopping people creating one on a hundred other instances.
Each kbin/lemmy instance decides to follow magazines/communities from others through activity pub and stores it locally for the instance.
Having the UI retrieve all local posts with the same magazine/community name (e.g. m/[email protected] c/[email protected]). Wouldn't be hugely difficult, I believe Kbin uses postgres database as the local store and suspect it would be a tweak to the SQL query it runs.
Even if that wasn't an option, there is a means to get all of the magazines/communities from the kbin UI/lemmy REST API. As well as retrieve all posts for a specific magazine/community. So you could do it entirely in a web client, for KBin it would be more work.
The combined view wouldn't change how you comment on specific posts. The issue is where do you post and what view would take dominance (e.g. if a magazine had themed itself).
The solution here would be to default your local instance if it exists or the instance providing the most posts/comments. Perhaps with a drop down so users can choose.
I would also configure things so instances can select a site wide default if they can't moderate it effectively. For example pushing all posts to the star trek instance rather than local magazine with a mod who is MIA.
This would remove most of the concerns users have about the fediverse, since they wouldn't be confronted by different instances. To them the fediverse is <insert instance> it would also encourage distribution of content.
It’s much worse in Lemmy due its “federative” nature. For example, for “Dungeons&Dragons” - in reddit you have 9 subs in search, 2 of them are memes-related, 3 are “general” ones, 2 for DnD5e, 1 for DnD3.5 and 1 for UK people. They have clear distinction at least in their names, and sometimes have separate “theme”, like the one for 3.5 edition. In lemmy we already have 14, most of them have same name, literally letter to letter. And don’t forget that lemmy’s userbase is ~6000+ times less than reddit. People just continue to create new instances and same comminities, over and over.
İt’s very difficult. It will be a feature of uniting/separating communities. This will only visually show the groups as a whole. We will also be able to name this group. In this way, we will be able to see the content on similar topics in different instances as a whole.
The issue with that is that an user could be on a popular instance, like lemmy.world or a related one like lemdroid, and search for a community on it. They could find a ghost community that was created unofficially before the self-hosted one. In that case they could think this is it and there’s no real discussion to be had on Lemmy.
It is also slightly weird because there’s an incentive for developers to grab the [email protected] to ensure they can use the name and link it to the official instance. But that also leaves a ton of pretty much barren communities.
That’s why I think keeping in sync would be a good feature, keep all communities in sync with the official one so that users aren’t lost.
That said, this only works for official communities, and maybe(huge maybe) regional communities that have a self hosted instance
This site lists the communities on -shall not be named- that have either migrated or are also located on different sites. It also lists whether it is the official community or a spin off. A very helpful tool for those who have rid of -shall not be named- and have forgotten communities they once followed.
And I’m sure it would also be more convenient to have it all under one roof, just like everything about Germany is under feddit.de, and people from elsewhere can still visit if they like.
I’m trying to advertise my country’s instance, feddit.nu (Sweden). feddit.de got a headstart with Germans by having been created before the Reddit migration and providing the first federated community discovery tool.
Instances that were created after the migration started on the other hand? It’s frustrating with Redditor behavior, because they expect the Lemmy community to share the same name as the Reddit community (/r/Sweden) and only subscribe to communities that use the same name.
If you don’t want your lemmy.world feed to be flooded with languages you can’t understand, please make sure to annoy their users about it as much as possible, in English, that they should move to the country-specific instances instead of centralizing on lemmy.world. It’s healthier for the Fediverse in general with everyone on many instances, in the long run.
You know what I mean. Instances may be based on anything, but some are based on geography, and so it makes sense for communities also based on those aspects to be based on such instances.
Yesterday I came across a post “what’s your favourite book based in Melbourne?”, which was on a community on an Australian server. I’d assume communities about Australian rugby (or what’s it called) would also be there.
Geography-based instances also partially solve the problem of duplicate names, so you can have c/Manchester on different country instances.
I have a english language GalaxyWatch community located on feddit.de
Well the problem also is that instances don’t let you make a community if you come from elsewhere, and one can’t set their community to not appear under /All.
I wonder what comes first, if these features or instance-blocking.
Absolutely. It should be trivially easy for the owner to get a new name and point it at the server if it still exists and is working. However, I understand that we know very few facts about the situation.
Don’t let that discourage you from having accounts on other instances. One shouldn’t get too tied to a specific one IMHO.
EDIT: Should be. Not sure what happens with usernames.
There is no such thing as a local matrix channel. Just one which is set to not allow off-instance accounts access.
The reason the domain has to be appended to everything in federated systems, is that its the only way to make sure you don’t get name collision when federating. So that when servers talk to each other about stuff, everything has a unique identifier.
You can have dibs on your domain. You cannot have dibs on just random data labels. But if you do random label+domain, you can be sure no-one else on any other server can use that exact same id.
Also I do know.
I’ve attempted the changing of a matrix server’s domain, without a database purge. It was a waste of time, the instance was only a day old anyway, so I just started over in the end.
There are some servers that I want to not see in my feed. Instead of blocking each individual community, how do I block all communities on specific servers?
long before the reddit migration there was a lotide instance called goldandblack which was made up of the subreddit of the same name. It was largely a mirror of the posts on the subreddit. It looked neat at first but the effect was actually terrible since you’d get a flood of empty stories on your feed.
The sign-up process can be improved. But the reason people think choosing an instance complicated is because they’re so used to having choices taken from them by social media companies, so when they’re given the choice back, learned helplessness causes them to freeze.
You do bullet points with a dash or an asterisk, like - This is a bullet point or * This is a bullet point.
Click on your profile picture in the top right of the screen and click on “Settings”. There is a section named something like “Default Homepage Sort”. You can change it to view the All feed instead of Local.
We don’t think having dumb people in the Fediverse is enshittification. Many of the current users would be considered dumb depending on who you ask. Corporate control of the Fediverse and companies milking users for money while making the user experience worse is enshittification.
If your instance is not big, then communities from other instances may not be indexed yet, as it is triggered by local users’ research and subscriptions, and it seems to not work well if the target instance is overloaded. (as far as I understand for now) I’ve been trying to search for tiny communities that exist on lemmy.world, and after 24h, the research still doesn’t find them. It’s quite frustrating, and I think it hinders the development of new instances, which is problematic.
Edit: you have to search the exact URL of the community, I was only using the name, with the URL it works after a few tries.
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I’m trying to build a sublemmy (BeWowed) based on r/Damnthat’s intresting and r/BeAmazed material that I have accumulated over the years but i need to host all the videos on imgur. Will lemmy be able to host videos? Do you have better alternatives than imgur? Thanks!
What do you think is the best solution to having the same named communities on different instances?
We should implement this as whenever I wish to browse (for example) [email protected] I have to go to there, and whenever I wish to browse [email protected] I have to go there. Would it be possible to implement it in kbin/lemmy's code to make it easier to browse all?
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This site lists the communities on -shall not be named- that have either migrated or are also located on different sites. It also lists whether it is the official community or a spin off. A very helpful tool for those who have rid of -shall not be named- and have forgotten communities they once followed.
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