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

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to [email protected].

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was approved for both lemmy.ml and Beehaw. I kind of got into a groove on Beehaw and tried to delete Lemmy.ml, but it wouldn’t let me. Is that going to create any problems if I just stay signed off?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

@[email protected] It might be a good idea to default the Communities page to All instead of Local, to help push users into discovering other instances and promote them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

is there some kind of status page to have a look at and see how things are going? I cannot make any comments to a specific community at the moment and wondering why

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It also avoids centralization. sopuli.xyz has a list of alternate communities to the ones on lemmy.ml.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hehe just recovered my 3 year old account

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if I wanted to create an instance where upvotes are disabled? Could that be possible? @nutomic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure if you implement such a feature. Its all open source.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I know it probably won't be fun for you hosting, but this makes me happy! Hopefully Lemmy will grow a lot!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Users are likely going to see this as it's the "official" Lemmy instance when trying to join for the first time.

Any admins of instances that are accepting people, give your best elevator pitch!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Point us to where the coin slot is. E.g. Patreon. We insert coin 🪙, you upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Here they list them:

https://join-lemmy.org/donate

EDIT: shoutout to the madlad who donated $1,000!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like beehaw.org is down

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I use kbin too.

New to this feedverse or how you call it.

Why isn't there one login that can post on all platforms and I have to signup on each separately?

If there is, you're not making it obvious I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Come join us at thebestinstance.com fam!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Another thing:

We do need more site admins to help us handle the applications and moderation.

For obvious reasons, we prefer ppl who have been here for a long time, and post / comment consistently. If you'd like to help us out, so that nutomic and I can focus on coding, that would be splendid.

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