Q: What is Lemmy?
A: Lemmy is a self-hosted FOSS Reddit alternative that is a part of the “Fediverse”. Lemmy gives us the freedom & full control over our community, unlike Reddit.
Q: What is the Fediverse?
A: Think of email - no matter which email provider you use, you are still able to seamlessly communicate with others who don’t share the same provider. The Fediverse (or “Fedi”) is basically the same concept, but for social media. The Fediverse is a collection of thousands of independent social media servers that communicate with each other seamlessly. This means that the millions of users on these servers can interact with each other as if they were on a single social network.
Q: What is the point of this Lemmy instance?
A: This Lemmy instance was created to provide a home for those migrating from Reddit, it’s a general lemmy instance that welcomes (almost) everything including piracy and NSFW.
Q: How do I join?
A:
- Register an account on https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/signup
- Login, and then join communities!
You may create an account on any of the instances we federate with, and interact with our instance and communities. The list of the servers we currently federate with: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances
Q: I’m new to this and I’m still very confused about all this where can I learn more?
A: You can find a collection of beginner’s guides here.
Q: How do I make a community on FMHY’s instance?
A: Just click create communiity and follow the basic setup.
Q: Why is my feed empty? How do I see other communities from other instances?
A: Communities will only show in ‘All’ of you instance if someone in that instance has searched and subscribed to it. Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.
Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and we’ll do our best to answer as soon as possible.
I’ve found that each explanation I read kind of helped me understand; it took the totality of all them before it finally clicked. So I’m going to copy and paste my explanation that I shared with someone else, in hopes that it helps to further understanding. Some people grasp concepts differently, so I offered a new explanation.
Let’s pretend there are three different websites: reddit.com, feddit.com, and seddit.com. Each one has its own subreddits:
These three websites can browse ALL of the other sites’ subreddits. On reddit.com you can browse and comment reddit.com/r/funny, feddit.com/r/funny, and seddit.com/r/funny, even though these three subreddits are entirely different from each other and not linked in any way. These subreddits are known as communities. Now it doesn’t matter whether you sign up on reddit, feddit, or seddit, since they can all browse ALL of the communities.
Now to expand on that just a tad: reddit, feddit, and seddit will still have their own rules, permissions, and such since they’re independent of each other. These distinguishing factors are (as far as I know) the only reason to choose one over another. Maybe server speed and some other factors.
The usernames reflect where you signed up. If I signed up on feddit, my username would be [email protected]
Hope that helps. I’ve found that once you understand lemmy, the explanations are more complicated than the actual setup itself.
Nice write up.
Cheers mate, this helped
Thanks a lot, this really helped.
For those trying to use jebora, you have to copy and paste fmhy instance in as it isn’t currently listed (unless it has been changed)
I can’t add an avatar and banner to my profile. How do I do it. I just registered today and don’t understand much.
You can do it from https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/settings but sadly there’s a bug within lemmy that currently is stopping us from uploading images :(
edit: its fixed!
images upload fine for me?
hmm hasn’t been working for fmhy & some other instances :(
edit: its fixed!
Hey letting you know its been fixed :)
Hi! I’m getting an error when trying to upload photos to my communities:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data, and in the console is a 400 Bad Request, with the error:Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out. I posted in the lemmy-net github repo issues forum, but wondering if anyone has any ideas here. I see that others have been able to post images recently during the time that I have been unable to, but I also have other users replying to me that they have the same issue, so it is really a puzzling problem. I and others have previously had no issues uploading photos.Yeah we’ve been scratching our head for days about this, still trying to fix it, sorry for the inconvenience :(
edit: its been fixed :D
We fixed it!
I’m in the same boat, would love a solution to this.
It’s been fixed :)
Blessed admin
F to pay respects. It broke again.
Trying to fix it :/
Ftw FMHY!!
❤️
I am trying to add a community that doesn’t exist when I search for it.
I heard something about I need to be the first one looking for it and joining it for it to get indexed and for other ppl to be able to find it.
How do I do that?
also this is a tedious process and in the long run a simpler process for this would be better…
You need to search instance on which community was created and copy-paste it’s full name (i.e @[email protected]) into search on your instance.
that doesn’t work for me. If I put it into the search it just doesn’t find it.
things I tried:
“@[email protected]” “[email protected]” “[email protected]”
There’s a typo in that community name. It should be “heck”, not “hech”. Search for [email protected]
you are absolutely right and thats a stupid typo.
Is there a way to display thumbnails of NSFW content by default? Whenever I browse my feed the thumbnails are blurred out and I need to manually click on it to show the content.
I’m sure that this was done on purpose in Lemmy and has no simple way to be solved at the moment, because in one instance I belong, one of the mods had to manually modify the source code (CSS) of his instance to allow the thumbnail to be uncensored.
I see, maybe upstream will come up with a solution sometime?
Lets hope so.
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Hi, I’m interested in running an instance myself. Would be interesting what your load and (growing of) storage usage is roughly to get a picture of it. Your instance is (still) snappy, I like it.
Currently unsure what our storage would be since we’re currently having an issue with image uploads :( but we reached about 5.2 gigabytes before it stopped working.
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community@instance [email protected]
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Oh yeah like that yes, I was just showing what the url should look like in your browser
What I don’t understand is if I search in kbin , lemmy.fmhy.nl instances appear in the search so why not the other way?
Confused.
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] manually going to it works but federation is a bit messy right now for kbin
Am trying to add [email protected] but doesn’t come up, I’m assuming kbin is not fully federated or because it’s a different platform is there a different search method?
Hmm can’t seem to find it either, perhaps it takes time 🤔
It’s now come up in the search, wierd.
how do I join communities hosted on other instances from the android app?
Type the name of the community in the search bar
why the .ml domain?
It’s a free tld we’ve been using :)
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We don’t keep logs for more than a few days but we also use cloudflare so that’s just something to keep in mind.
There seems to be a lot of users in here with bugs to be disclosed and ideas to be surveyed.
Is there a good place to put my user feedback?
For bugs related to lemmy itself, put them in https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] or their github (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy)
Thank you :)
Yes you may share it here :)
Hello everyone. This is my first post in Lemmy. Does anyone have a client they’re using and recommend? Asking for either PC or Android. Thank you.
Right now I’m using wefwef.app (web app)
I am using Connect for Lemmy. I’m new here but I like it better so far than using a web browser.
Here’s a link of every single one maybe…
Recently migrated and waiting for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
Bit late to the party but I’m using Jerboa… I’m amazed at how many clients there are already, though
Theirs is also Liftoff! https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff
Is it possible for an instance to die/get wiped out and then you lose your account totally?
If the instance admins decide to shutdown yes but the content should still be cached iirc or the service that the instance runs on shutdowns / shuts the instance down
But you would lose your account too?
Essentially yes, you wouldn’t be able to login. Hopefully lemmy devs make migration easy between instances like mastodon.
Makes me wonder if this was the best instance to make my account on lol
Our instance won’t be shutting down :)
Yes, but I believe there are plans to add a feature to Lemmy that allows ‘backing up’ an account among instances
