Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.
Unfortunately I'm scaling them together. It has to do with the markdown renderer I'm using, being older and not made to suit jetpack compose very well, but also being the only one that supports images. I have a PR for a different renderer, but it doesn't support images the last time I checked.
Its a kludge, but in the time being you can also add a docker-compose restart in your server cron every day or few hours. Lemmy restarts are pretty seemless, as the websockets automatically reconnect.
The next release will have websockets removed which should fix some of the stability and memory issues.
Self-promotion rules are really weird for open-source projects too. Its like we're telling people about a pizza recipe that we created and are sharing freely... we're not selling anything or trying to profit off people.
Something I made quite extensive use of back on Reddit was the ability to wrap related subreddits into a single multireddit, which I could then browse as I wanted....
We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines....
In many ways, this is just going back to a time before these giant US centralized services took over all our communications platforms. The internet used to be small, independent forums and communities, with more accountability, a lot less trolling, and less bots.
One of the benefits of both the back end and front end(s) of lemmy being open source, is that we can build in these wanted features directly, rather than relying on hacks that sit on top of the site.
my thoughts on lemmy so far
Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.
Jerboa v0.0.31-alpha (github.com)
How does lemmy.ml handle the Reddit hug of death?
I'm the sysadmin for beehaw.org and our user-base has almost tripled in 24 hours. Our site has been crashing so much over this time period....
Apparently !technology@beehaw.org is its own server now (lemmy.one)
I think there's a bug somewhere :)...
The Apollo dev banned and removed all my comments suggesting Lemmy as an alternative to reddit. (lemmy.ml)
I usually don't get too salty about these things, but that seemed uncalled for, especially since I'm on their side.
Lemmy users be like (beehaw.org)
Any plans for a multireddit like feature?
Something I made quite extensive use of back on Reddit was the ability to wrap related subreddits into a single multireddit, which I could then browse as I wanted....
A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working (www.theverge.com)
Reddit: Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is. (mastodon.social)
Welcome Reddit refugees!
We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines....