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Lemmy

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Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

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This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join.

However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org or lemmy.one. The documentation explains in more detail how this works. Use the instance list to find one where you can register. Then use the Community Browser to find interesting communities. Paste the community url into the search field to follow it.

You can help other Reddit refugees by inviting them to the same Lemmy instance where you joined. This way we can spread the load across many different servers. And users with similar interests will end up together on the same instances. Others on the same instance can also automatically see posts from all the communities that you follow.

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements. That way the server will only go down sooner.

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[–] Eggcat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No. I don't think I will.

[–] Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's good to be popular. Congratulations on the growth!

[–] erbs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I signed up on lemmy org uk originally (day or 2 ago) and now it seems to be gone. If I could have kept my account some how that would have been better, but here I am instead.

[–] kunday@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

New user,how do I donate / tip to help you peeps cover server costs? It wasn't directly obvious how to do it; apologize if it's a big button right on a page that I missed.

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[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If anybody else is lost and wants a basic general-purpose home for their account, https://lemm.ee is on good hardware and open for signups.

[–] CanniBallistic_Puppy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to call Lemmy "Feddit".

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[–] slashzero@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

First post for me!

Sorry, I applied and got approved here. Still waiting to hear back from beehaw…

I’m really digging this UI compared to Reddit, but I am 99.9% a mobile user via the native Reddit app (don’t @ me!)

I am very tempted to setup my own instance. Wondering what resource usage looks like for an instance.

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[–] eternaldeiwos@lm.qtt.no 1 points 1 year ago

@nutomic@lemmy.ml what kind of hosting do you guys use for lemmy.ml? At the time of writing it looks like you have around 33k users and around 2k active. What does that look like for resources consumed?

[–] LibertyBeta@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If this is the Mastodon moment, ho boy. Don't envy the sysadmins.

[–] arielbnz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im a lemmy.ml user since 2021. I need to create a community 'goth-music-oriented' or need help to get /c/goth more visible (it doesn't appear in the lemmy community browsing.

The former community creator, Maya, i think she abandoned the community. Her last post was 2 years ago. Thank you in advance for any help.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[–] feetongrass@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like beehaw.org is down

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[–] Copio@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Over at https://join-lemmy.org/ , when someone clicked on "Join a Server", they are presented with a list of instances, it's not that obvious that these are cross-accessible (yes, the homepage mentioned it, but not here), and people are bound to look for one with the most users.

Perhaps, add a simple TLI5 explanation/diagram explaining how Lemmy works on https://join-lemmy.org/instances .

(The documents are also too wordy for most people to care.)

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Pull requests welcome, the code is here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I tried like 4 or 5 instances before coming to lemmy.ml, but none of them were taking applications anymore. Finding even those was a hassle, since all I got was a list of domains without any details as to what the instance is about or if they allowed newcomers.

Now that I've setup everything, Lemmy does seem like nice alternative to Reddit, but as someone from the outside, all of this is daunting.

[–] Neptune014@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

For non technical users, the idea of instances can be a very confusing concept (the email analogy is a good one but its still confusing for people). I know you guys have a lot on your plate in terms of development wise, however I hope that prioritizing keeping lemmy.ml up is high up there. I say this because its the instance that most users from Reddit will flock to. And the last thing they need is to create an account then have the site go down for 6 hours. I havent experienced it going down. Although hopefully you have a backup site for when it does (what I mean is just a page that says your down/your working on fixing it... Try these instances instead.)

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

At what point do you plan to close this instance to new users?

[–] spaghetti_carbanana@krabb.org 1 points 1 year ago

I hope it's not inappropriate to comment this here, but if anyone's looking for another space to join, I'm in the process of building Krab Borg. It would be lovely to have people to help fill it out and diversify the communities, as well as suggest what the local ones should look like as I have no idea.

I'm trying to balance not reinventing the wheel/duplicating existing communities 100 times but also still supporting the idea of decentralisation and creating some duplicates (though this isn't hard and fast, I'm open to feedback).

I've seeded it with some communities from other servers (including a bunch from lemmy.ml) to get things moving a bit as well.

[–] cecirdr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm a noob. I created an account on beehaw and on lemmy.ml. That's because I see communities on one instance that I'm interested in and a different community on another instance. So if there's a technology community on both, how do I get to see all the technology posts without having to have two accounts?

This is really confusing for noobs like me. I'd just like to see one community to technology, one for Science, one for nintendo etc. I don't care it it's spread out amongst different servers to divvy up the load, but from the user side, it needs to be seamlessly integrated.

I'm still learning how all this works though. But I don't know how many folks that are more casual than me will be willing to figure it out. I hope they do though! It'll be worth it to leave reddit in the rearview mirror!

Edit: lawdy, I just figured it out. Local vs all on the communities list. It was right in front of my face. good grief!

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[–] jarwinder@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is it possible to move an existing profile to a new server, like on Mastodon? or I need to create a new one and "start over"?

[–] Barbarian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right now, there is no import/export. It's a known useful feature, but the devs have no time to work on it (I've been following all the optimization work they've been doing on github, I don't know if they sleep). You'll have to start over atm, sorry.

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, as one of the new people, is there a way to transfer to another instance or would I have to create a new account there?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to create a new account. But that's easy ;)

[–] jarfil@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's kind of wrong though, isn't it? What about stuff like GDPR data exports? Users should be able to export their data, then import it into another instance, effectively migrating instances.

[–] Packopus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You can on Mastodon, you just export your data, delete your account, create new account on another instance and upload your data and it's like what you said!

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are free to learn to program and write a user import routine for lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

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