Lemmy

I know that many people don’t like complex or intransparent recommendation algorithms.

Liz is a Linux enthusiast. She uses Linux as her only operating system for the last two decades, and she is very knowledgeable about it. She is keen to help other Linux new-comers solve issues they run into frequently.

Lack of granular privacy / profile control

How would I build a Python bot that automatically reposts or highlights statistically outlier posts from my Lemmy subscriptions—like anything more than one standard deviation above the average? I’m looking for a general approach covering data retrieval from the Lemmy API, outlier detection, and reposting mechanics.

Hello! I'm an admin on ttrpg.network. Recently, our hosting provider let us know that they are going out of business. I'm trying to find a new provider to migrate to.

I don't know if it's just me, but it feeks like there's been more spam posts than usual on Lemmy this October. Especially in instances like lemmy.world, lemdro.id, and others.

Currently, "bold" and "italic" markup doesn't actually output bold and italic text (semantically); instead, it outputs strongly emphasized () and emphasized () text. This is completely wrong and semantic markup abuse, since we can't guarantee that bold text will only be used for strong importance or that italic text will only be used for emphasis. HTML output for this markup should be changed to general-purpose elements (i.e. *%text%* (_%text%_) should be , not %text%, and **%text%** (__%text%__) should be , not %text%).

With so many filters: active, hot, scaled, top, new, old, controversial, comments, replies which one do you prefer to browse lemmy with? and do you only read your subscribed sublemmies or globally? Maybe you even use rss

Sorry for the alarming title but, Admins for real, go set up Anubis.

I've been trying Lemmy for a little while and wasn't sure how to feel about it.

Jerboa's not too bad, as the URL field is the same field the link to your uploaded image ends up overwriting, but I swear I see people making this mistake every fucking day. End up posting just an image when they wanted image + link.

Hey everyone, I’m new here and just testing the waters. I’ve been on Reddit for years, but lately it feels like a mix of heavy-handed moderation and echo chambers where any dissenting opinion gets buried.

Piefed now generates human-readable post URLs instead of those random ID strings. This issue has been around on Lemmy for ages with no real progress from core devs. At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

Whenever I subscribe to a small but very active community, for example lefty_news@ibbit.at, my Scaled sort feed gets flooded almost entirely by posts from that one community. I thought Scaled sort was supposed to highlight outliers across all communities to prevent a single instance from dominating the feed. Is this a bug or just how it's supposed to work?

Curious, what are your go-to spice blends? Curry, garam masala, Cajun, or something else? Vote below!

I’ve just found out that some Lemmy web interfaces let you sign in with multiple accounts and switch between them easily. Is there any client that can show notifications from all accounts at the same time, so I don’t need to switch back and forth?

Right now, Lemmy only lets you pick one language to see and forces you to manually choose a language every time you post. Because of that, most posts end up marked as “undetermined,” so filtering by language hides most content.

I just started using the Summit app for a day and realised now I involuntarily downvoted quite a few comments conviced I was upvoting them, fooled by the color of the swipe action (I didn't look at the arrow showing up until now) and wanted to remediate even if it's pretty inconsequential. Another option if ths one isn't really possible, how to browse my read posts, at least I'd be able to find the discussions I had read through

Hi all, I'm new here. On Reddit there is the front page where I can find popular posts even in obscurely named subreddits like "leopardsatemyface" or "okbuddycinephile" that I could never find by actively searching for it.

I’d love a Firefox extension that crossposts to Lemmy whenever I upvote a Reddit post. The communities I follow on Reddit are still too niche on Lemmy. I want more of that content here but don’t want to spend the time re-posting manually.

When exploring communities to post in, using /communities, I believe it would be more effective if they were sorted by active users per month instead of total subscribers. This way, I can choose communities with higher visibility and engagement, leading to better interaction on my posts. Same when choosing the communities I'm posting to in the /create_post page.

I mean for example usage hour peaks? Or usage day peaks? Etc.

I mod a few communities and I can now see who has upvoted or downvoted any comment or post in the community.

As you may know NOSTR (Notes and Other STuff via Relays) is another protocol for the fediverse like ActivityPub. In order to allow AP folks to communicate with NOSTR folks there are [at least] two "bridges" (mostr.pub & momostr.pink) created to allow certain level of server, client interaction between the two.

Until now it has been very complicated to work on the official Lemmy frontend, as you had to set up an entire local Lemmy stack with Postgres database and Rust backend built from source. Now there is a much easier way, as lemmy-ui can directly connect to a remote production or test instance.

If I find a link to a conversation on another Lemmy instance, I can just throw the URL of that into the search on my own instance and I'll get directed to a link that works on my instance.

I'm looking for input on how well Lemmy responds to occasional downtime of up to a few days, specifically regarding how federation recovers after such an event.

For example, say I want to see the top posts from January 2025. Is there a way to do that?

It would be interesting to sort posts in different ways then the current Active, Hot, New, ... Criteria. I searched the backend-codebase and found this enum:

I'd like to tweak my feed by hiding all posts containing certain key words, e.g. 'democracy, leftists, murder, liberals, fbi, market' etc.

Inspired by the Low Tech Magazine, I thought about adding a dithering option to Lemmy. When posting a new link or image, you could set the image to "dithered", choose one from a couple different colors and the image will be created in this style. It looks cool, saves bandwith, storage and energy. What so you think?

can I send a PM to someone on mastodon, public or private?

In a recent discussion it was mentioned that the search function in Lemmy is awkward to use and could be improved. As a result I already made two small changes: - Change community selector to use !community@example.com format (#3218) - Search field in community sidebar (#3217)

I feel like non political posts are controversial more often now than they were before. Ive seen it on some communities I visit often.

This might be a client thing, but... I'm subscribed to several overlapping communities: !linux on one server, !linux on another, !linux on two others. Same with !lemmy, !commandline, and a couple other communities with the same topic and slightly different membership and/or focus.

Had an account on there. Couldn't access it. Just tried getting on the website and didn't work either.

Posts and communities are still visible from other instances, but going to lemmy.blahaj.zone just shows an error. Anyone know what’s going on? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still new to this)

I think the only thing worse than something not being private, is if the fact that it's not private is not common knowledge leading to tons of people thinking it's private.

I was reading this post https://lemmy.world/post/3049732 and it seems like there are lots of different desires and uses for people to want to hide certain types of content.

Hi Lemmy community,

Hi! It’s me as usual.