I just started using the Summit app for a day and realised now I involuntarily downvoted quite a few comments conviced I was upvoting them, fooled by the color of the swipe action (I didn't look at the arrow showing up until now) and wanted to remediate even if it's pretty inconsequential.
Another option if ths one isn't really possible, how to browse my read posts, at least I'd be able to find the discussions I had read through

Hi all, I'm new here. On Reddit there is the front page where I can find popular posts even in obscurely named subreddits like "leopardsatemyface" or "okbuddycinephile" that I could never find by actively searching for it.

How do you discover content on Lemmy that is not in your local instance?

I even tried subscribing to "leopardsatemyface" from Lemmy.world, but my app doesn't even show it in the search results even when actively looking for it. 🤨

Please help 🙈

Also if you don't mind another stupid question, when I subscribe to a community it is first shown as "pending" and only a few minutes later as "joined" - why? What is it waiting for?

I enabled the “Show Upvote %” option and turned off all the other score-related settings, but now I don’t see anything next to posts where the total score usually appears. Some comments show the percentage, but not in the spot between the vote arrows where the score normally is. I’d expect the upvote percentage to appear for every post and comment in place of the total score, but instead it only shows up as a tooltip when hovering over the arrows. Is this the intended behavior or a bug? Also, is it really necessary to display so many decimal places in the tooltip?

Communities just jumping around all the time. Its getting difficult to keep up.

These are the responsible ones who've managed the move well. Others just add a lil disclaimer in the sidebar.

I’d love a Firefox extension that crossposts to Lemmy whenever I upvote a Reddit post. The communities I follow on Reddit are still too niche on Lemmy. I want more of that content here but don’t want to spend the time re-posting manually.

Anyone seen an extension like this?

When exploring communities to post in, using /communities, I believe it would be more effective if they were sorted by active users per month instead of total subscribers. This way, I can choose communities with higher visibility and engagement, leading to better interaction on my posts. Same when choosing the communities I'm posting to in the /create_post page.

I mean for example usage hour peaks? Or usage day peaks? Etc.

I know uptime, downtime, total posts, total accounts etc are available.

I wanted to see activity data. I wanna be active when Lemmy is alive and not be here when the world is asleep.

Also just generally curious and like seeing this kind of data.

I mod a few communities and I can now see who has upvoted or downvoted any comment or post in the community.

You'd think any mod would like that data being available to find any issue user. But I feel like invasive with this.

I know admins have long been able to see this data.

Also its not like its personally information, just your screen name associated with your own activity, as your posts and comments are. But the passive act of voting is now very public which is a bit icky to me.

How do you all feel about this?

I'm sorry I haven't been super active on Lemmy and missed much of the conversation around this. I'll go find any relevant discussions too.

As you may know NOSTR (Notes and Other STuff via Relays) is another protocol for the fediverse like ActivityPub. In order to allow AP folks to communicate with NOSTR folks there are [at least] two "bridges" (mostr.pub & momostr.pink) created to allow certain level of server, client interaction between the two.

For some reason no lemmy communities nor users are ever found by either. It works just fine for mbin magazines and users. Do any of you have an idea why?

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Until now it has been very complicated to work on the official Lemmy frontend, as you had to set up an entire local Lemmy stack with Postgres database and Rust backend built from source. Now there is a much easier way, as lemmy-ui can directly connect to a remote production or test instance.

To get started you need to have git and pnpm installed. Then run:

# for development branch (1.0):
git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui --recursive
# for stable branch (0.19):
git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui --recursive -b release/v0.19

# then:
cd lemmy-ui
pnpm install
LEMMY_UI_BACKEND_REMOTE=enterprise.lemmy.ml pnpm dev

Alternatively you can use ./scripts/test.sh. Finally open http://0.0.0.0:1234/ in your browser. You can replace the value for LEMMY_UI_BACKEND_REMOTE with any production instance. The local lemmy-ui connects to that instance for all API calls, so you will see the same content. All actions work as usual including login, voting, posting etc.

Note, due to breaking changes in the development version, you may need to switch branches. main is for the new 1.0 version and all new feature development is happening there. With this you can connect to the test instance voyager.lemmy.ml. release/v0.19 is the stable branch, with it you can connect to enterprise.lemmy.ml, or existing production instances. Only bug fixes should be made there.

Hopefully this will encourage some of you to contribute to lemmy-ui. If you have any experience with web development it will be easy get started.

If I find a link to a conversation on another Lemmy instance, I can just throw the URL of that into the search on my own instance and I'll get directed to a link that works on my instance.

It seems, however, that if the conversation is hosted in a piefed instance instead of lemmy instance, such a conversion using the search tool is not possible.

Could that feature please be added? There are anyways sometimes links to conversations on Piefed instances, and it's not really visible for a random Lemmy user that it's on a different type of platform.

I'm looking for input on how well Lemmy responds to occasional downtime of up to a few days, specifically regarding how federation recovers after such an event.

Basically looking to know how amenable it is to selfhosting via reverse proxy from dodgy setups which are the best some of us proles can manage. I try to run some services where I can but my situation inevitably results in an event or three per year, on average, with some days down.

For example, say I want to see the top posts from January 2025. Is there a way to do that?

It would be interesting to sort posts in different ways then the current Active, Hot, New, ... Criteria. I searched the backend-codebase and found this enum:

crates/db_shema_file/src/enums.rs

...
/// The post sort types. See here for descriptions: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
pub enum PostSortType {
  #[default]
  Active,
  Hot,
  New,
  Old,
  Top,
  MostComments,
  NewComments,
  Controversial,
  Scaled,
}

and the database uses this for example in crates/db_views/post/src/impls.rs

NewComments => pq.then_order_by(key::newest_comment_time_at),

I have multiple questions regarding this:

• lets say I add another variant to this enum, and add some functionality to it in the backend, would the frontend dropdown-menu in the UI update and show it? (guess this is not the case, since frontend and backend live in different folders.
• here is a sample sorting url for the Scaled sort type "https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=Scaled". This will trigger the backend to query the database and receive a sorted list of items to display as hypertext to my understanding.
• since Diesel implements the Database Query I would not need to write any postgresql?
• would other instances support my new sorting method or only my own modified codebase instance? I guess its the latter.

A first simple idea: Add a "random" sort type, that sorts post in random order. Some uuid or hashed timestamp of a post could work for this.

I'd like to tweak my feed by hiding all posts containing certain key words, e.g. 'democracy, leftists, murder, liberals, fbi, market' etc.

Basic use case: Don't like what you see? Select keyword -> click RMB -> "Fitler for a week". Now you won't see any posts with this keyword on any Lemmy instance.

Is it possible somehow? Maybe a client with this functionality exists? Does it sound useful to anyone but me?

The line that shows the links to other crossposts should add a (#comments), if there is any, after each link.

Some links get crossposted to multiple communities but I don't know if any of these posts have any comments and it's tedious to check them out one by one, and in my experience most of them don't have any comments which discourages me from checking them out.

Also crosspost links could be in order of comments.

Another idea: instead of (#comments) it could be a different color or some other indicator.

missing lemmy servers

Inspired by the Low Tech Magazine, I thought about adding a dithering option to Lemmy. When posting a new link or image, you could set the image to "dithered", choose one from a couple different colors and the image will be created in this style. It looks cool, saves bandwith, storage and energy.
What so you think?

can I send a PM to someone on mastodon, public or private?

In a recent discussion it was mentioned that the search function in Lemmy is awkward to use and could be improved. As a result I already made two small changes:

• Change community selector to use [!community@example.com](/c/community@example.com) format (#3218)
• Search field in community sidebar (#3217)

Are there any other UI or UX changes you can think of to improve searching in Lemmy? Im mainly looking for frontend changes, such as reorganizing the input positions, changing default values etc.

I really like an idea for making a mascot have a full body I even added one that look close to the lemming (4th image)

ignore the 3rd one I made this as a joke

edit: since pawb has deleted image I renew them

I feel like non political posts are controversial more often now than they were before. Ive seen it on some communities I visit often.

Maybe I'm seeing smth that isn't there.

Maybe its to do with more reddit migrations who aren't as accusatomed to Lemmy?

Has anyone else noticed it?