Lemmy

Are we nearing 1.0.0? What does such a release mean?

The next Lemmy version will add a donation dialog, which is shown once a year to every user, in order to increase the amount of donations for Lemmy development. You can see the current text in the screenshot above and in the translations repo. You can also checkout the frontend PR. Is there anything you would change about the text?

I really like public endorsements in forums, when the comment/post shows the names of ppl who like it, it lets me know if I can trust an opinion, especially if I've seen those names before, which is common here.

Instead of ppl commenting seconded or I agree, they could endorse a post to publically show their name next to a like/upvote. The inverse would also be nice as well, downvote/disagree and show your username, both would be helpful information, becoming more valuable overtime.

As an addition to upvoting/downvoting, not replacing it.

Will it just edit the link to point to a server's local copy of a post? Will it use ap:// links, or some other fancy type (for example !comm@instance/post or similar.)?

Nutomic:

This is implemented in the main branch now. If you want to develop a plugin for Lemmy, have a look at the RFC and the examples. If you have questions about plugin development, feel free to post in the Matrix dev chat, !lemmy@lemmy.ml or open an issue.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3562#issuecomment-2760779122

Examples in multiple languages: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-plugins#lemmy-plugins (only a few examples currently, more languages are possible including Python)

Anyone planning to start working on a plugin?

Is there a way to disable DMs? I keep being spammed by users from an instance called sh.itjust.works promoting some weird out-of-platform personal profiles.

They usually send this stuff and then immediately seem to get banned, but I still see their stuff since images are displayed by default. Seems like a big oversight to allow this.

Is there a way to block receiving DMs? Or at least have some sort of Accept/Decline dm feature like on Reddit?

In short: I made a post that people did not like and it got removed and I got banned from the community, the whole thing is not the point of this post.

After all this, I got one account which is trying to dox me in the comments, I reported and blocked him and moved on.

Moments ago I noticed couple of notifications, upon checking them I saw that one account is commenting on every recent post of me saying that I am spamming Russian propaganda, I blocked him.

My question here, is there is a better way to handle this other than blocking?

I am asking because I hate using block function on Lemmy, because it hide their comments from me, but does not hide my posts for them.

The only time I got a photo in DMs was when Nicole switched from text to photos.

In all seriousness, disabling Pictures in DMs will prevent Spam, Trolling and NSFL pictures that could be sent to bother people.

In my opinion, there is really no use case for pics in DMs for Lemmy.

I've noticed an issue with the search functionality on Lemmy. When using the search filters for "top" posts, it doesn't seem to matter whether you select "day," "week," "month," or "year" – the results always show the top posts of all time. This makes it difficult to find recent discussions or trending topics within a specific timeframe.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

This comes up surprisingly often, but this comment chain in the recent AMA prompted me to start a general discussion to maybe put this discussion to rest.

The only other place I'm aware that this has been discussed in detail is this pull request from 2023, which the creator ultimately closed.

What I'm ultimately in favour of, and what actually gets requested (one, two, three), is letting mods edit the metadata around a post. Things like the NSFW toggle, or post tags in 1.0.

But I'm throwing this out to the floor. What, if anything, do you think mods should be able to change about a user's content?

Title. I'd like to filter some posts from Lemmy. Can this be done, either natively, either by some extensions (for chromium, in my case), either using a different frontend...?

Thank you in advance.

Does anyone know about the culture of different Lemmy instances?

I saw in this post that the culture between instances can vary quite a bit: https://lemmy.ca/post/40916774

What are the differences between the major instances?

For work browsing safety, my strategy is to use two instances:

• lemm.ee – because it doesn’t allow pornographic content.
• lemmynsfw.com – for anything I wish to subscribe to that falls into the opposite category.

I saw that a user was banned by moderator on my instance and their comments removed. I don't have a moderator, it's just me, I'm the only user. I thought I accidently fumble fingrred the ban button and restored their comments and appologize. Come to find out that they were banned from their own instance.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. On one hand it's good if it's a really bad user posting spam or worse. On the other hand it is a conduit for censorship. If an admin doesn't like what you post on another instance, then they can censor you everywhere. On top of that, it makes it look like I am banning people, and I don't like that at all if they're just making normal comments. It should say something else and I should get some kind of alert that lets me know so that I can decide if the comments on my instance are appropriate.

I'd like to start a discussion about a potential feature for our platform.

As someone who moderates religious-based communities here on Lemmy, I've encountered a recurring issue: frequent brigading by anti-religious users.

This got me thinking about community management options.

Currently, Lemmy allows communities to be public or mod-only.

However, I personally believe that Lemmy could potentially benefit from additional options similar to those available on Reddit:

1. Restricted Communities: Where anyone can view, but only approved members can post/comment.
2. Private Communities: Where only approved members can view and participate.

Questions for discussion:

• Do you think these additional privacy options would be beneficial for Lemmy?
• How might this impact the overall user experience and community dynamics?
• Could this help address issues like brigading in sensitive topic areas?
• Are there potential downsides or concerns about implementing such features?
• How would this align with Lemmy's philosophy and goals as a platform?

I'm interested in hearing your thoughts, experiences, and perspectives on this matter.

So, I built a web client with some experimental and questionable design choices. I spent the whole weekend on it, so it's pretty much a finished product*. The project isn't very serious, but maybe I'll keep working on it.

Try it here

git repo

~*only the feed works, and it works poorly.~

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40761824

Sorry everyone I know how much you love the attention she gives you, but I've implemented some quick and dirty filtering for private messaging.

We now have the ability to automatically mark PM's as deleted or read, depending on content inside of them. If we accidentally filter something you legitimately wanted (ie, not Nicole) please let me know.

If any other instances would like to implement this, here's the code. Note that you'll need to set your hostname at the top here for some reason I haven't exactly identified.

SET lemmy.protocol_and_hostname = 'https://lemmy.ca/';

CREATE TABLE private_message_filters (
    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    phrase TEXT NOT NULL,
    behavior VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL CHECK (behavior IN ('delete', 'mark_read'))
);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION filter_private_messages()
RETURNS trigger AS $$
DECLARE
    banned_phrase_record private_message_filters%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
    FOR banned_phrase_record IN 
        SELECT * FROM private_message_filters
    LOOP
        IF LOWER(TRIM(NEW.content)) ILIKE '%' || LOWER(TRIM(banned_phrase_record.phrase)) || '%' THEN
            IF banned_phrase_record.behavior = 'delete' THEN
                NEW.deleted := true;
                RETURN NEW;
            ELSIF banned_phrase_record.behavior = 'mark_read' THEN
                NEW.read := true;
                RETURN NEW;
            END IF;
        END IF;
    END LOOP;
    RETURN NEW;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

CREATE TRIGGER trg_filter_private_messages
AFTER INSERT ON private_message
FOR EACH ROW
EXECUTE FUNCTION filter_private_messages();

To add filter words:

insert into private_message_filters (behavior, phrase) values ('delete', 'spamtestdelete');
insert into private_message_filters (behavior, phrase) values ('mark_read', 'spamtestread');

If you want to quickly disable / enable filtering while testing:

ALTER TABLE private_message DISABLE TRIGGER trg_filter_private_messages;
ALTER TABLE private_message ENABLE TRIGGER trg_filter_private_messages;

I'll leave it up to you to figure out what phrases to filter on. MAKE SURE YOU TEST. If there's an error, private messaging could break completely. You should not get an error message from the UI while sending a message with a banned word.

Edit: I like flamingos-cant's solution here better: https://lemmy.ca/post/40761824/15209462

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1192921

Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts

Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90

Is there a github issue or discussion about implementing pods for lemmy?

I’d like to know if someone has been successfully hosting Lemmy with yunohost because I’m pondering to start doing it but it’s not available on arm so I cannot test it without start paying a vps.

So ye, are there any hiccups or weird behaviors?

I don't have a Github account after deleting it some time after it was ought by Microsoft. Given the rise of anti-US sentiment and calls to stop using their products, more people leaving Github might be a real occurrence. How can I and others who have left, are leaving, and will leave Github, be able to contribute?

As part of the ongoing missionary work.ober on The Bad Place, I posted this and thought it would be also worth posting it over here as a snapshot.of the current state of play.

One of the main complaints about signing up to a Lemmy instance/server is the decision paralysis caused by having to pick one. I've found that picking a local/regional instance or one related to a topic/subject can really help narrow the choices right down. This is a list of the local/regional servers currently available.

There was a similar list posted last year, but a lot has changed since.

Africa

Only has one instance covering the whole continent: https://baraza.africa/

Asia

• 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: https://buddyverse.one/
• 🇯🇵 Japan: https://lm.korako.me/
• 🇲🇾 Malaysia: https://monyet.cc/
• 🇰🇷 South Korea: https://lemmy.funami.tech/
• 🇹🇷 Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/

Europe

• Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
• 🇧🇪 Belgium: https://0d.gs/
• 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
• Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
• 🇩🇰 Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
• 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇭 France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
• 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮 Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
• 🇫🇮 Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ and https://suppo.fi/
• 🇮🇸 Iceland: https://feddit.is/
• 🇮🇹 Italy: https://feddit.it/
• 🇱🇹 Lithuania: https://group.lt/
• 🇳🇱 Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
• 🇵🇱 Poland: https://fedit.pl/ and https://szmer.info/
• 🇵🇹 Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
• 🇸🇮 Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
• 🇸🇪 Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
• 🇹🇷 Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
• 🇬🇧 UK: https://feddit.uk/

North America

• 🇨🇦 Canada: https://lemmy.ca/ and https://sh.itjust.works/
• 🇲🇽 Mexico: https://mujico.org/
• 🇺🇸 USA: https://lemmyusa.com/ and https://discuss.online/, also for the Midwest: https://midwest.social/ and for Madison, Wisconsin: https://lemmy.fan/

Oceania

• 🇦🇺 Australia: https://aussie.zone/
• 🇳🇿 New Zealand: https://lemmy.nz/

South America

• 🇧🇷 Brazil: http://lemmy.eco.br/
• 🇨🇱 Chile: https://feddit.cl/

Addendum to the Reddit post

Defunct:

• 🇭🇺 ~~Hungary~~: https://fost.hu/
• 🇮🇩 ~~Indonesia:~~ https://lemmy.id/
• 🇯🇵 ~~Japan~~: https://feddit.jp/
• 🇷🇴 ~~Romania~~: https://feddit.ro/
• 🇪🇸 ~~Spain~~: http://eslemmy.es/ and https://lemuria.es/
• 🇨🇭 ~~Switzerland~~: https://feddit.ch/
• 🇺🇦 ~~Ukraine~~: https://feddit.kyiv.ua/

Although note that https://lemuria.es/ still seems to be running a Lemmy instance, albeit a broken one, so there is a chance it could be saved.

Thanks to @Blaze@feddit.org , @Sunshine@lemmy.ca and everyone in this post who contributed links.

On Reddit there are very specific and helpful communities, personally I often look up on communities about Adobe softwares. What if I wanted to create specific communities on Lemmy? Ideally I’d creare an Indesign community, but do you think it would be better to keep it more general, something like Graphic design or Adobe, since Lemmy is much smaller then Reddit?

(I haven't submitted an official rfc yet, want to see what people think)

This is inspired by Ruqqus, a now defunct Reddit alternative.

The idea is simple:

1. There is a "global" or "default" community with no topic or extra rules, ~~moderated only by admins~~
2. Community moderators, when they feel a post is inappropriate for their community can "kick" a post to the global community

The reasoning is as follows: a good amount, probably the majority of posts that are removed by mods, are not removed because they are inappropriate for the site as a whole, but because they are inappropriate for that specific community (off-topic, banned site, low effort, etc.). But currently the only option they have to deal with this is a full blown removal, which is quite frustrating for the poster.

This proposal would allow mods to keep curated communities without needing to do unnecessary removals.

As a bonus, this would create a default community where people can post when they're not sure where to post something. Posts can be later be crossposted into more specific communities.

This is mostly me just typing into the void, but I noticed that my 1,000th post was coming up and decided to do something to commemorate it.

I first joined Lemmy in Janurary 2021, before the June 2023 craze. Lemmy was a much different place back then, practically a ghost town. Eventually, I only used Lemmy for a few months, then reluctantly went back to lurking Reddit.

Fast forward to June 2023, with Reddit announcing their new API changes. People were furious, and you all decided that the best course of action was to move to an open-source, federated Reddit alternative. You all chose wisely.

It took a while, but very soon, Lemmy became (mostly) what Reddit lost, and it's all thanks to you guys! A lot has happened in the past 14 months, with me starting my weekly "disc market share" reports on !homevideo@feddit.uk and me somehow becoming one of the co-moderators of !movies@lemm.ee. So many posts, cross-posts, so many comments, and upvotes.

And now, I've reached my 1,000th Lemmy post. I never imagined that Lemmy would grow to become the second-most popular ActivityPub service! Thanks to the Lemmy devs and all the contributors and users that make this possible!

Has anyone else encountered ad bots in their signup applications?