Q: What is Lemmy?
A: Lemmy is a self-hosted FOSS Reddit alternative that is a part of the “Fediverse”. Lemmy gives us the freedom & full control over our community, unlike Reddit.
Q: What is the Fediverse?
A: Think of email - no matter which email provider you use, you are still able to seamlessly communicate with others who don’t share the same provider. The Fediverse (or “Fedi”) is basically the same concept, but for social media. The Fediverse is a collection of thousands of independent social media servers that communicate with each other seamlessly. This means that the millions of users on these servers can interact with each other as if they were on a single social network.
Q: What is the point of this Lemmy instance?
A: This Lemmy instance was created to provide a home for those migrating from Reddit, it’s a general lemmy instance that welcomes (almost) everything including piracy and NSFW.
Q: How do I join?
A:
- Register an account on https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/signup
- Login, and then join communities!
You may create an account on any of the instances we federate with, and interact with our instance and communities. The list of the servers we currently federate with: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances
Q: I’m new to this and I’m still very confused about all this where can I learn more?
A: You can find a collection of beginner’s guides here.
Q: How do I make a community on FMHY’s instance?
A: Just click create communiity and follow the basic setup.
Q: Why is my feed empty? How do I see other communities from other instances?
A: Communities will only show in ‘All’ of you instance if someone in that instance has searched and subscribed to it. Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.
Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and we’ll do our best to answer as soon as possible.
I’m having trouble uploading images to my posts thru webpage and various apps. I’m getting errors that I’m also having a hard time capturing the full description (something about a JSON). It was days before I could get the image for my first post in !zettairyouiki to stick. What’s up with this?
Sorry this is something happening on our instance for a while. Restarting the server fixed it for a while, so we do that 5 times a day, but obviously that’s not the ideal solution. We are trying to find a permanent fix for this, sorry for the inconvenience.
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We don’t keep logs for more than a few days but we also use cloudflare so that’s just something to keep in mind.
I’ve noticed that a number of comments from other instances are being edited when they appear on FMHY. After some digging, these are all clearly words being censored to prevent spam. This is not context aware, so it is blocking/modifying legitimate comments. Is it possible to disable this feature?
Example:
Original comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/894327
Federated to FMHY: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/comment/706234
Oh we had censored some words like removed and removed since we got ad posts in the beginning of instance, it seems that had some negative effects. we’ll remove those filters now, thanks for catching that error.
Saw my message just says removed lol, pretty good example of unintended consequences.
Hello 👋 I made a community called loveisland on this instance but I can’t access it from the other instance I’m registered on (namely lemmynsfw.com but also feddit.uk)
I made the community a few days ago and have searched for it multiple times from those servers but it never shows in the search results.
Anyone know what’s going on?
Federation isn’t always super speedy. To force something to appear, go to the search page, choose communities and type the full path to the community, like this:
!loveisland@lemmy.fmhy.mlSearching like that should force the instance to start loading content from the remote community. It might not appear immediately, but it should show after a second. If it doesn’t, try pressing the search button again or waiting a little bit and trying again.
Thank you! It seems to be appearing now
I don’t know about feddit.uk but it appears on lemmy.ml : https://lemmy.ml/c/loveisland@lemmy.fmhy.ml and lemmynsfw: https://lemmynsfw.com/c/loveisland@lemmy.fmhy.ml
Hello everyone. This is my first post in Lemmy. Does anyone have a client they’re using and recommend? Asking for either PC or Android. Thank you.
I am using Connect for Lemmy. I’m new here but I like it better so far than using a web browser.
Bit late to the party but I’m using Jerboa… I’m amazed at how many clients there are already, though
Right now I’m using wefwef.app (web app)
Here’s a link of every single one maybe…
Recently migrated and waiting for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
Theirs is also Liftoff! https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff
Is there a limit on the number of posts you can save to your account? From what I know, reddit and Instagram both have a hard limit on the number of posts that a user can save before the older ones start getting forgotten. Does lemmy have any such restrictions?
Nope as far as I know
That’s pretty neat, thanks
Happy to help
I’ve found that each explanation I read kind of helped me understand; it took the totality of all them before it finally clicked. So I’m going to copy and paste my explanation that I shared with someone else, in hopes that it helps to further understanding. Some people grasp concepts differently, so I offered a new explanation.
Let’s pretend there are three different websites: reddit.com, feddit.com, and seddit.com. Each one has its own subreddits:
These three websites can browse ALL of the other sites’ subreddits. On reddit.com you can browse and comment reddit.com/r/funny, feddit.com/r/funny, and seddit.com/r/funny, even though these three subreddits are entirely different from each other and not linked in any way. These subreddits are known as communities. Now it doesn’t matter whether you sign up on reddit, feddit, or seddit, since they can all browse ALL of the communities.
Now to expand on that just a tad: reddit, feddit, and seddit will still have their own rules, permissions, and such since they’re independent of each other. These distinguishing factors are (as far as I know) the only reason to choose one over another. Maybe server speed and some other factors.
The usernames reflect where you signed up. If I signed up on feddit, my username would be guitarded@feddit.com
Hope that helps. I’ve found that once you understand lemmy, the explanations are more complicated than the actual setup itself.
Is it possible for an instance to die/get wiped out and then you lose your account totally?
If the instance admins decide to shutdown yes but the content should still be cached iirc or the service that the instance runs on shutdowns / shuts the instance down
But you would lose your account too?
Essentially yes, you wouldn’t be able to login. Hopefully lemmy devs make migration easy between instances like mastodon.
Makes me wonder if this was the best instance to make my account on lol
Our instance won’t be shutting down :)
If lemmy gives people full freedom and control over their instances, does that mean there is nothing to stop people from creating instances full of racism, bigotry, etc?
- Nothing stopping them from creating instances
- Nothing forcing other instances to federate with them
- Nothing stopping law enforcement from reading them
Freedom is freedom.
So the real person behind a lemmy account can be easily determined? If someone makes a CP instance the police can easily find their identity?
No. It depends on their home instance.
A few may go out of their way to make it easy - there is nothing stopping a Lemmy instance from requiring government ID to sign up, after all. A few may go out of their way to make it hard - there is nothing forcing a Lemmy instance to collect any data about a user. Most big instances will probably be at the same level of difficulty as tracing someone from their email address - their servers are probably logging IPs and locations, which will be a starting point for tracing identities, but not guaranteed to be “easy” by any means.
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Lemmy does not have anonymous voting - https://lemmy.eus/post/182574
Each instance decides what to show on its homepage and its own moderation rules, so you are free to build (or find, if one already exists) an instance that attempts to prevent the kind of manipulation you are worried about.
