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For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

User count has plateaued at about 420K

Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K

Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts.

Maybe because they're tired of ads on reddit?

Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit?

I can see it now:

"Ads suck. We're ad-free forever. Join Lemmy."

and

"He'll never get us. Join Lemmy." or "Don't let him get you. Join Lemmy"

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Crouton@jlai.lu to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

Hello,

I think it would be possible to improve the user experience of the language selection box.

Now:

screenshot of the language selector in its current state

Suggestion:

mockup of a new type of language selection

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Everyone knows what they want to improve in their software. However, I am opening this post to raise awareness on this issue. It’s just a humble request.

As you know, large video subreddits contribute greatly to Reddit reaching a large user base. For example, when you open the homepage, you can see many subreddits such as r/interestingasfuck, r/funny, r/yesyesyesyesno, r/unexpected etc.

Lemmy is Reddit's alternative for text posts, but unfortunately not for videos at the moment. To fill this gap, I have opened the !yesyesyesno@lemy.lol community and shared a few posts. But these videos are inconsistent between applications and UI’s.

For example;

  • Voyager can open videos inline without any problems.
  • Mlem showing it as URL and opens the browser instead of playing.
  • Lemmy default UI is worst. It doesn’t even show the link. You have to click it’s title to see the video but it’s visually not a link. (looks like this one only occurs on mobile)
  • Alexandrite shows as a link.

Yes, video hosting is expensive. However, before solutions such as torrents and IPFS, we must ensure that direct videos work smoothly. This is my $0.02 opinion.

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!generative@lemmy.ml

Technically it's not new, but practically speaking it's had 2 posts ever, with the last being 8 months ago.

You may also know it as "creative coding" or the like, but it's not limited to coding.

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Has anyone else encountered ad bots in their signup applications?

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Is there any plan or timeline to support in-line >!spoiler!< text?

I know a few apps have implemented this already, but it would be nice to have it on the entire platform.

The current spoiler is markdown isclunky, difficult to remember, and not as flexible as in-line spoiler text.

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https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/9436237

@MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
(replaced with my own user profile, as I'm not trying to fill other users' inboxes for no real reason)(also, this somehow worked right when making this post, but not the original comment)
[@MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de](/u/MachineFab812)
https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/9293054 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9620373 https://jlai.lu/comment/6487794

While we're at it, am I missing at instance-agnostic method for linking posts as well?

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If a comment or post gets reported, I can think of a number of different groups who might see that report:

  • The moderators of the community in which it was posted.
  • The admins of the instance hosting the community (call it instance X).
  • The admins of the reporter's instance (call it Y).
  • The admins of the poster's instance (call it Z).

Do all of these see the report? Only some subset? Some other group I'm not thinking of?

And if it is all/multiple of these, how does the actioning work? If the report's admin removes a post, does that mean nobody from instance Y can see it, but everyone else still can, or does it remove it more widely? Same for Z's admins and Z users. If X admins remove it, I presume that means nobody at all will see it, is this correct? And would a mod approving it means that admins of various instances will then not see the report, or does it stay in their queue separately?

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Or do I need to save all the interesting posts I want to be able to find again? Because Reddit has this feature iirc.

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I assume that it somehow scrapes the page for some sort of header text, but this doesn't seem to always work.

For example, titles are suggested for spacenews.com articles, but not for europeanspaceflight.com articles. What differences result in suggested titles for one but not the other?

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I want to make a thread of Lemmy communities that people should know about.

Jerboah (which makes Lemmy usable for me) or my instance have real troubles finding a lot of communities on distant servers, and opening them from Firefox also doesnt work.

We dont need more tech stuff, we need to make Lemmy more useful!

Environment

Activism

Hobbies

Politiks, worldwide

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We're adding the ability to customize this in the upcoming release, but I'm wondering what people think would be a good default.

The 4 pieces of showable/hideable info are: Upvotes, Downvotes, Score, and Upvote %.

In Jerboa, I had a temporary default (until the next lemmy release), of Score + Upvote %, but people seem to dislike this a lot.

I'll check back on this in a few days to see the result.

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Post made on lemmy.ml can't be seen on lemmy.world

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Ive always wondered. - Should I be adding relevant hashtags to Lemmy posts related to the subject of the post to make the content more findable on other Activitypub services?

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A new post with 1 deleted comment shows as "comment symbol 0 (-1 New)"

... which looks goofy.

But not in this /c, maybe there's some kind of /c setting that shows quantities of new comments?

Maybe I made and deleted the comment too soon after I created this post?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ff0000@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

UPDATE: running pnpm run translations:generate (and also the other translations tasks, just to be sure) fixed the issue.


When trying to setup a local Lemmy instance (for development), the lemmy-ui repository throws an error when trying to start the dev server.

I followed the guide: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/02-local-development.html

When running pnpm dev to start the dev server, it presents me with two errors:


ERROR in ./src/shared/services/I18NextService.ts 14:0-40
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '../translations/en' in '/home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/src/shared/services'
resolve '../translations/en' in '/home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/src/shared/services'
  using description file: /home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/package.json (relative path: ./src/shared/services)
    using description file: /home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/package.json (relative path: ./src/shared/translations/en)
      no extension
        /home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/src/shared/translations/en doesn't exist
      .js
        /home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/src/shared/translations/en.js doesn't exist
      .jsx
        /home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/src/shared/translations/en.jsx doesn't exist
      .ts
        /home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/src/shared/translations/en.ts doesn't exist
      .tsx
        /home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/src/shared/translations/en.tsx doesn't exist
      as directory
        /home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/src/shared/translations/en doesn't exist
 @ ./src/shared/dynamic-imports.ts 6:0-69 48:17-41
 @ ./src/server/index.tsx 16:0-65 47:2-22

ERROR in ./src/shared/services/I18NextService.ts 159:43-129
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '../translations' in '/home/ff0000/workspace/lemmy/lemmy-ui/src/shared/services'
 @ ./src/shared/dynamic-imports.ts 6:0-69 48:17-41
 @ ./src/server/index.tsx 16:0-65 47:2-22

webpack 5.91.0 compiled with 2 errors in 14393 ms

I do see that these files nor the folder exist where I18NextService is trying to locate them. But i also see in the root a lemmy-translations folder.

I am able to get it sort of working by updating the paths in I18NextService, but i guess that is not the preferred approach.

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Hasn't worked for me in 3 days or so. Not on my browser or in app. Is the instance having issues or did it close down or smth?

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There have been a number of comment spam attacks in various posts in a couple of /c's that I follow by a user/individual who uses account names like Thulean*

For example: ThuleanSneed@lemmy.tf in !coffee@lemmy.world

and ThuleanPerspective2@eviltoast.org in !anime@ani.social

edit: Also ThuleanSneed@startrek.website in !startrek@startrek.website

The posts have been removed or deleted by the respective /c's mods, and the offending accounts banned, but you can see the traces of them in those /c's modlogs.

The comments consist of an all-caps string of words with profanities, and Simpsons memes.

An attack on a post may consist of several repeated or similar looking comments.

This looks like a bored teenager prank, but it may also be an organization testing Lemmy's systemic and collective defenses and ability to respond against spam and bot posts.

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A few days ago, there was a spammer going around instances spamming randomly generated text along with a series of images of the spine-chilling bone-tingling Simpson's character by the name of Sneed, some of them including George Floyd photoshopped between his ass cheeks. This spam reached many comment sections, typically those of recently created posts.

The spammer managed to create thousands of comments within a few minutes, which definitely shouldn't be possible, especially on such a new account. I have noticed from the lemmy source code that it indeed does have rate limits, but only on IPs, not on accounts. It's possible that the spammer used proxies, perhaps scraped from a public list to bypass the simple rate limits already in place.

The spammer seemed to have only a few accounts, therefore, adding a rate limit on accounts could help slow down such bots and minimize the damage they might cause. Another options I could think of are a more advanced form of spam detection and, albeit a bit scummy, reddit-style shadowbans, maybe a combination of a few such methods.

Implementing such measures will help lemmy become a more usable platform and less of an easy target for trolls and 'channers with nothing better to do.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nom@lemm.ee to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

Content is hidden due to not choosing the languages in the settings.

Making the language settings opted in by default should solve this initial struggle, opting out should be done manually. Putting check boxes next to the languages on there for selection should make things easier too.

This has been an issue long before the guy in the linked post reported it. ~~I've had to face this same issue on other instances as well so it's obviously a Lemmy issue and not instance specific.~~

Please understand that these sorts of small but very visible troubles are what keep people away from this platform. You sign up and go to any community only to see no posts or only those not tagged with a language (You could even miss those if you don't choose "Undetermined"). Any new user would be confused "Are there no user at all?" "Is this community banned?" "Is this instance defederated?" Each of these doubts would just push any new users out.

Edit: This PSA was over 9 months ago now.

Edit 2: It seems to be instance specific, lemmy.world and lemm.ee both have this issue as far as I've seen.

Edit 3: Thank you everyone for your help.

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The block feature should be renamed to “mute”, which is what it seems to actually be. Currently I can apply this to a user and they can still see all my posts. So it’s a good mute feature but a terrible block feature.

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After I've saved a post to a /c hosted by another instance than the one that I'm logged into, I can open that post for editing, but I'm unable to save my edits to that post.

For example: I made a post to !ukraine@sopuli.xyz, while logged in elsewhere. Something or other in the webpage link is forcing a download, so I tried to edit the URL in the post, but I can't save it.

This also happened to a post I made to !coffee@lemmy.world where I was trying to edit the text in the post's Body after saving the post.

I can save edits to my posts to /c's on my native instance just fine.

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Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.

… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.

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E.g.:
https://sh.itjust.works/u/testaccount789
https://lemmy.ml/u/testaccount789@sh.itjust.works

I know in past I've successfully updated my display name, and it shows on other instances, so perhaps this problem is new to 0.19.x, but I am not at all sure about that.

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