It seems I can't edit communities created by others in our instance.

Good morning and happy Sunday to everyone. I would like to ask you for advice on how to force publication on a Lemmy community when from any federated social network (Mastodon or Friendica) I mention both a Lemmy community and multiple Activitypub groups (gup.pe groups or Friendica groups).

In fact, at the moment it seems to me that mentioning the Lemmy community before the others is not enough to force publication on Lemmy.

Let's say I'm curious about a topic and I want to find a community dedicated to it. I want to search all instances for a community by that name. Is there a feature that allows it?

I was wondering if there were systems in place for users to report mods who are just ignoring the code of conduct and just abusing their power of moderator as a whole?

I've seen that we could get in touch via Mastodon, but I don't have an account for that unfortunately and I was curious to know if there were other ways

I know this has been an issue in the past, but it seems to have reared its ugly head again. Sorting posts by Hot (for my subscriptions) I get almost the same results as sorting by New.

I'll use other sorts as a workaround, but I usually like the hot sort.

Anyone else noticing this?

Say a user from Instance B commented on a post on Instance A, and a user on Instance A saw it. If the user on Instance A were to report it, would that report be seen by the admin(s) of Instance B, or would it only be visible by the admin(s) of Instance A?

Context

• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987
• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/7c2445efe73de5b701ecb7d0b90167c1a4e29a6a

As the issue is closed, the feature should be around, and it seems like it is there based on the commit. But if yes, how do we use it?

Blocked users see content and interact with users that have blocked them which creates a potentially negative isolation. The approach of allowing blocked users to interact assumes all users have amenable intentions. It ultimately discourages eccentrics and creative individuals in favor of the lowest common denominator and mob avalanche behaviors. Blocking such user elements does nothing to ameliorate the problem. The persistence of said interactions is a slight negative bias advantage against positive well intentioned individuals. This negative bias places the burden of finding balance on the end user in potentially daily interactions. While the magnitude of the issue may be small, it still has a net negative impact on the lives of users and their interactions on Lemmy. Is this a solvable problem and one that is in the cards soon?

Likewise, when a user deletes a post, that post remains visible in their profile. Perhaps an interaction was abusive or some misunderstanding lead to a mob avalanche of negativity. The persistence of such a message in any form is an emotional tax on the person forced to view it.

While these issues may seem trivial to some people, there are users seeking social interaction at various states of mental health, life circumstances, and disabilities. These small elements of Lemmy may have a disproportionately negative impact on the lives of such individuals.

I bring up these issues as someone physically disabled and trapped in a situation of social isolation where these elements have become more of a concern with time and apparent shifting demographics on Lemmy.

A friend is joining Lemmy and I want to give them my subscriptions so they see a lot of content. How do I send these?

How do I see all posts in all communities on a server?

Solution

As was pointed out by @SatyrSack@feddit.org ^[1]^, this feature was added in this pull request. It appears that the custom thumbnail field is only relevant for posts that share a URL: The "Thumbnail URL" field is used to specify a custom thumbnail to be used in place of what would've been automatically generated by the provided URL ^[2]^.

Original Post

I thought it would be for adding a custom thumbnail that appears for the post in the feed, but then that seems to be a duplicate of adding an image. At any rate, I tried adding an image link to it, and no image showed up for the post. So I'm not entirely sure what it's actually for.

EDIT (2024-11-30T22:22): Perhaps it's for the pre-expanded thumbnail for a post if it has an image? Does that mean that it only works if you have an image specified? Can it be used to override the thumbnail that's generated from a shared article? Does it work for a text post?

I'm trying to install this theme on my instance, installed using docker. I've added

volumes: - ./volumes/lemmy-ui/extra_themes:/app/extra_themes

to the docker-compose.yml so I could see the extra_themes folder. I've tried every combination of making folders, standalone .css, .scss in extra_themes, but I can't seem to get the theme to show up. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Can my humble, single-user instance handle it? Are there any settings I need to be careful about? Should I just backup my server and wing it?

Hi,

I have an old lemmy, collapse.cat, and I'd like to upgrade it to a more new version (if possible, the current version).

In the ansible repo UPGRADING.md I can see only info from 0.18.3

Where can I have the upgrading notes from 0.16.6?

Hi,

I am setting up a lemmy instance for a small private group. They are not very technically literate and I don't want to have to explain the concept of joining the right communities as part of the onboarding process.

So I want to pre-load all the right default communities to each user when they create an account. Is there a way to accomplish this ?

thanks !

EDIT: Looks like this is resolved now. For future reference, I had checked !support@lemmy.world, but I didn't think to check the announcements community, !lemmyworld@lemmy.world. I'll try to remember to check that space next time before posting. Thanks for chiming in, everyone!

ORIGINAL ISSUE:

I've noticed the last two game day threads on !caps@lemmy.world have not federated from my home instance (.ml) to either of the remote instances I've checked so far (https://lemmy.world/c/caps and https://lemm.ee/c/caps@lemmy.world).

The .ml posts' URLs are https://lemmy.ml/post/22823350 (from two days ago) and https://lemmy.ml/post/22885345 (from less than an hour ago).

The fact it's affecting multiple remote instances suggests that maybe there's some issue specific to .ml.

Searching recent support posts, I came across this federation health checker site, which indeed shows a spike in federation time from .ml to .world and lemm.ee, but it doesn't explain the cause.

Does anyone know why this is happening? Also, will the content eventually catch up on those remote instances or is it lost to the sands of time?

Depending on the answers to these questions, I might need to start posting from one of my alt accounts on another instance.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Just booted up lemmy-ui instance for the first time

It asks for "Set Up Site Administrator"

But as you can see when I press signup, nothing really happens

If I try to login with that account it says "Toastify is awesome!"

When I check the logs I get

root@storage:~# docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                   COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS                    PORTS                NAMES
888bfbdd1e18   dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.19.7              "docker-entrypoint.s…"   21 minutes ago   Up 20 minutes (healthy)   1234/tcp             lemmy-lemmy-ui-1
f60bba3c14ae   dessalines/lemmy:0.19.7                 "lemmy_server"           21 minutes ago   Up 20 minutes             8536/tcp             lemmy-lemmy-1
2669e16088ca   pgautoupgrade/pgautoupgrade:17-alpine   "/usr/local/bin/dock…"   21 minutes ago   Up 20 minutes (healthy)   5432/tcp             lemmy-postgres-1
f8bf46b02c08   mwader/postfix-relay                    "/root/run"              21 minutes ago   Up 20 minutes             25/tcp               lemmy-postfix-1
de4ad69c761e   asonix/pictrs:0.5.16                    "/sbin/tini -- /usr/…"   21 minutes ago   Up 20 minutes             6669/tcp, 8080/tcp   lemmy-pictrs-1
root@storage:~# docker logs lemmy-lemmy-1
Lemmy v0.19.7
Federation enabled, host is lemmy.example.ca
Starting HTTP server at 0.0.0.0:8536
root@storage:~# docker logs lemmy-lemmy-ui-1
Lemmy-ui v0.19.7 started listening on http://0.0.0.0:1234/
31 translation imports verified.
93 date-fns imports verified.
4 highlight.js imports verified. (Only testing 4 samples.)

Not sure where to go from there ?!

General question about Lemmy:

If I as an instance owner search & subscribe to another instance's community, I get "federated" with that community. Does that mean my instance is, or my user is?

Second question:

If I want users at my instance to see posts from communities on other instances, is there a way for me to pull those posts in to my instance? Or, how do I get my users to see other communities' content?

At the time that I had joined this instance, I believe none of the posts from !30rock@dubvee.org were viewable on this instance. When I subscribed to the community, most posts then became available, but few-to-none of the comments/votes did. Everything since subscribing is entirely in sync. Check it out yourself; when sorting by Old, you see many posts from well before I had joined this instance, but they do not have comments and have just the OP's initial one upvote: https://feddit.org/c/30rock@dubvee.org?dataType=Post&sort=Old

I have noticed similar behaviour with other communities, so I don't think "actions" are just stuck in the "queue" or whatever. Is there anything I can do to get my instance fully in sync with a particular community? Or could this only be remedied by an administrator of one (or both) of the instances?

What's the process? Is the list federated, meaning, does my joining this list populate available instances across the fediverse? Or is it isolated to join - Lemmy?

Probably I'm missing something but I want to make sure this is not a bug and at least understand the Lemmy behavior.

Turns out that I posted a comment with images in a post from Lemmy.world and for some reason I opened the original post in the Lemmy.world instance and I didn't see my post there.

I thought that it might be a problem of the federation that takes time to retrieve new comments or posts, so I waited for a few hours and my comment is not there yet.

I repeated the same test but sending a comment without images (in case the images could be the problem) and it's happening the same.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance.

I noticed when you delete a post or comment on Lemmy it still shows up on my account with the option to "undelete" it which fully restores it and makes it public again.

Does this mean you can't fully delete them and basically only "hide" them from the community but they will still stay on the server forever? Or is there any option to fully delete them or will that happen after some time?

Where is the favicon - is there any documentation around changing it?

I'm not talking about the instance icon, I mean the favicon (svg or ico? png?) which appears in your bookmarks if you bookmark a site.

I'm running in docker

Please let me know what information you need to understand my situation? or if there's anything I can do to help?

I am trying to follow an account on Lemmy, but I get the error couldnt_find_person

I'm able to follow the account on Mastodon and some other Fediverse services.

The account is @bot@bot.viii.fi / https://bot.viii.fi/ - as far as I can tell, it complies with all ActivityPub specs.

Any idea why Lemmy instances can't follow it?

Hi,

I invited a friend on this instance ( lemmy.ml ) but it appear that now, creation of account require to give an email address !

Too bad my friend live in a dictatorial country and you can't create an email account without identify yourself (either by phone number or other measure).

And of course If you say something that is (or might be in the future) prohibited by the government -> jail ( or quietly ban of all public services, bank account freeze etc..)

So why ! lemmy.ml request now an email address ??

Thanks.