Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it...
Blahaj zone (the Calckey instance) has been running for around 6 months now. We've had a slow but constant growth of new members, with a big spike when Calckey drew a lot of attention. And as a result, even though we're not a huge instance, we are one of the larger Calckey derived instances around.
lemmy.blahaj.zone on the other hand has seen crazy growth! In the last week, our lemmy instance has gone from almost no members, to nearly as many users as our Calckey instance. The mind blowing part though, is that the lemmy instance isn't even close to being one of the largest lemmy instances. We don't even appear on the first page of Fediverse Observer! And the sheer number of lemmy instances online now is huge compared to where it was a couple of weeks ago.
And that's before we even talk about kbin and the threadiverse as a whole, of which Lemmy is only a part
I can honestly say that this whole thing has shifted my view of just what the future of the fediverse might be. I assumed it would always be microblogging centric, but now, I question that...
Not at all! Basically, the difference is mostly that each instance has their own rules and expectations of their users. As long as you end up on an instance that aligns with what you want from an instance, then you'll be fine :)
Bisexuals are not always attracted to men and women. A bisexual is simply someone that is attracted to two or more genders. That typically includes men and women, but doesn't have to.
Navigating split attraction and the correct labels is a challenge...
I'm a trans woman. I spent most of my life dating women, and even before I transitioned, I had come to accept that I'm not attracted to women, even though I've loved my partners. I started working through that, then I transitioned. I dated a woman not long after that and it didn't work out. I told myself it was because I loved her but wasn't attracted to her.
So, I stopped dating women. I called myself straight, because men and strongly masc aligned enbies are really the only people that I am attracted to (though not the only people I can fall in love with)
And that sucked. My queerness was invisible to folk. Most of my dating pool was actively not queer, and I never got what I was looking for in my relationships with men, despite my attraction to them.
And now I'm an amazing poly relationship with my girlfriend.
So I've mostly given up on labels and just settled on queer :)
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Yes, I’m certain I could final answers to all these questions via research, but I’m coming here as part of the Reddit diaspora. My guess is that there’s a benefit to others like me to have this discussion....
What’s the network flow like? I’m posting this to the lemmy.ml /asklemmy community, but I’m composing it on the sh.itjust.works interface. I’m assuming sh.itjust.works hands this over to lemmy.ml. How does my browsing work? Is all of my traffic routed through sh.itjust.works?
So, you post and it federates from your instance to lemmy.ml where the group you're posting to resides.
Then the group basically "boosts" your post, and anyone that follows the group (ie, anyone that is subscribed to it) sees the "boost", which the lemmy interface then displays as a post in the group. But if you follow the group from mastodon/calckey etc, instead of a threadiverse app, then it would just appear as a regular boost by the group you posted to.
Backfilling of data isn't really a thing as such. Basically, your instance is only aware of content that has federated to it, and it only starts federating to your instance when someone first subscribes to a particular group.
That being said, the devs have mentioned that when lemmy federates the group actor, the API also sends the last 20 posts to the group. I don't know how often groups are updated, and whether this applies every time it's refreshed or not though...
If you're on beehaw, then beehaw is the source of truth for your posts. Other instances (such as lemmy.ml) will see and store copies of your content (and can choose to reject it outright), but the original is always your own instance.
What a lemmy group does is something akin to "boosting" any content published to it.
So, lets say you make your post from beehaw to lemmy_support on lemmy.ml. lemmy_support will see your post and then "boost" it, so anyone that follows lemmy_support (ie, is subscribed to it) will see the "boost" (though it doesn't look like a boost through the specialised lemmy interface).
They are based on a fork of lemmy that added features that made it incompatible with lemmy. However, there is an active body of work taking place to bring it back to lemmy compatability and allow federation to take place again.
Quick question: I wrote a comment on a post hosted at lemmy.ml, and it shows up here, but when I check on lemmy.ml itself, my comment is not visible. Did I do something wrong, or is there a technical reason that my comment is not going through? I do see posts and comments from others from this instance at lemmy.ml…
As part of the fediverse, posts and content don't back date when federating. Which is to say that if you are the first person on an instance to follow a community on another instance, you will get all of the future content to that group, but not the previous history.
You can however manually force specific threads from other instances to load on this instance by putting the URL for the post in to the search box on this instance
I'm browsing this community from my own instance (Lemmy.studio) using Jerboa. I can see the posts, but they all have zero comments... But if I go to the community directly I can see the contents....
Make sure you have "undetermined" set in your list of spoken languages. And if you're the admin of the server, make sure it's listed as an available language for users to select.
Most content that comes to lemmy doesn't have language tags, and "undetermined" is the only way to see that content
I'd like to set up and federate an instance of Lemmy with the purpose of inviting friends and family. I imagine that they'd appreciate having spaces limited to family members where posting information or photos wouldn't erode their anonymity elsewhere in the fediverse....
I believe the closest you can do at the moment is make a community moderators only, and then make the people you want moderators of that community. That isn't really what you want though, because everyone can still read it.
The main issue is that lemmy is basically just 2 devs trying to work around their own lives, jobs and running this instance. Now that more attention is coming to lemmy, it will be interesting to see if they start to get more devs offering their changes to the project
Was wondering what this instance is going to do if/when a lot of Reddit users migrate to Lemmy instances. From what I've read, there's a high chance that a lot of instances will go down due to the amount of activity and new users....
Welcome to both of you! I agree, that this is a crucial time to be accepting registrations, and that's what we plan to keep doing. The only thing we haven't quite decided yet is whether we will have registrations open on lemmy and kbin at the same time, or if we shut down new lemmy registrations once we have kbin up and running
To be honest, the whole reddit disaster caught us by surprise. We had a lemmy instance that was basically spun up for me to experiment with, and that I really enjoyed. We had open registrations, but were lucky to get 3 in a week, and most of those users weren't active.
So until a week ago, it was basically just me. And then BOOM!
Almost overnight, this place became a community. And unlike blahaj.zone itself, which was always designed to be that, I didn't really have that in mind for lemmy.blahaj.zone, because lemmy was so quiet.
We might turn off registration at some point in favour of our upcoming kbin instance, or we might not. It will depend on how lemmy scales in terms of hardware and moderation needs.
Either way, community is incredibly important to me, so whatever else happens, lemmy.blahaj.zone is here to stay, because planned or not, it has turned in to a thriving community.
I replied to thread from Linus Torvalds and agreed with what he said but added my opinion which was not hate or rejection (literally) https://lemmy.ml/comment/477089 (ask for a revert)...
There are instances that will respect your right to "disagree" with vulnerable minorities more than they value protecting those minorities. If you go and join one of those, you can find people that think like you, and the rest of us can defederate from you
Comparison of Lemmy Instances (github.com)
I created a repo on GitHub that has a table comparing all the known lemmy instances...
How has ur lemmy experience been so far?
Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it...
what is everyone's sexuality here?
I'm just a bi guy. I found out pretty recently
How to Join Lemmy and Find and Subscribe to Communities
(These instructions are for using Lemmy in a browser. If you are using an app, some steps may differ.)...
Some Lemmy Technical Questions
Yes, I’m certain I could final answers to all these questions via research, but I’m coming here as part of the Reddit diaspora. My guess is that there’s a benefit to others like me to have this discussion....
Where are posts stored?
Hi, I’m new to the fediverse and trying to wrap my head around lemmy specifically....
Lemmy growth is crazy!
cross-posted from: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9frdhito22...
Why isn't Hexbear federated?
Hexbear has a bit over 20 thousand users, similar to Lemmy. Both Lemmy and Hexbear would benefit from federation. So, what's missing?
A really nasty post that should be moderated
Well not really but I'm trying things out.
Comment I made not visible on lemmy.ml
Quick question: I wrote a comment on a post hosted at lemmy.ml, and it shows up here, but when I check on lemmy.ml itself, my comment is not visible. Did I do something wrong, or is there a technical reason that my comment is not going through? I do see posts and comments from others from this instance at lemmy.ml…
How to see comments from other instances?
I'm browsing this community from my own instance (Lemmy.studio) using Jerboa. I can see the posts, but they all have zero comments... But if I go to the community directly I can see the contents....
Can Communities be Made Private?
I'd like to set up and federate an instance of Lemmy with the purpose of inviting friends and family. I imagine that they'd appreciate having spaces limited to family members where posting information or photos wouldn't erode their anonymity elsewhere in the fediverse....
Registrations during migration
Was wondering what this instance is going to do if/when a lot of Reddit users migrate to Lemmy instances. From what I've read, there's a high chance that a lot of instances will go down due to the amount of activity and new users....
Lemmy.ml is dishonest - they even removed trace of an upvoted sane comment 29 for 1.
I replied to thread from Linus Torvalds and agreed with what he said but added my opinion which was not hate or rejection (literally) https://lemmy.ml/comment/477089 (ask for a revert)...
What are some of your favorite complex/complicated game?
Title. I like games that require a lot of work to get into. Here are some of my favorites:...