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.
how do I join communities hosted on other instances from the android app?
Type the name of the community in the search bar
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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.
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
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.
Recently migrated and waiting for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
Here’s a link of every single one maybe…
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
hello FMHY, here is my first message to lemmy
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 guitarded@feddit.com
Hope that helps. I’ve found that once you understand lemmy, the explanations are more complicated than the actual setup itself.
Thanks a lot, this really helped.
Nice write up.
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 @freemediahechyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml) 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:
“@freemediahechyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml” “freemediahechyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml” “!freemediahechyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml”
There’s a typo in that community name. It should be “heck”, not “hech”. Search for !freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml
you are absolutely right and thats a stupid typo.
Ftw FMHY!!
❤️
I cannot see the vote counts, both in the official website, as well as the jerboa app. Is this normal? How to fix it/when will it be fixed?
Make sure you’re logged in and viewing it from the instance you made the account on, it doesn’t show vote counts for logged out users.
Hey could you show a screenshot please
I can’t seem to login from other android browsers, currently I’ve logged in when I first signed up. When I enter my credentials it (the login button) just spins indefinitely.
Still having trouble?
I just checked and it’s still not logging in. I tried incognito, other browsers.
are you using your username and password ?
Yes username and password, I haven’t added my email
did you add the proper instance?
Yeah at https://lemmy.fmhy.ml
Hmm strange
I’m having trouble uploading images to my posts thru webpage and various apps. I’m getting errors that I’m also having a hard time capturing the full description (something about a JSON). It was days before I could get the image for my first post in !zettairyouiki to stick. What’s up with this?
Sorry this is something happening on our instance for a while. Restarting the server fixed it for a while, so we do that 5 times a day, but obviously that’s not the ideal solution. We are trying to find a permanent fix for this, sorry for the inconvenience.
Is there an ETA for the server update? (I can no longer use the latest Jerboa version with this instance :( )
tis’ done
Thought I was the only one, I can’t log in anymore either :(
Hello 👋 I made a community called loveisland on this instance but I can’t access it from the other instance I’m registered on (namely lemmynsfw.com but also feddit.uk)
I made the community a few days ago and have searched for it multiple times from those servers but it never shows in the search results.
Anyone know what’s going on?
Federation isn’t always super speedy. To force something to appear, go to the search page, choose communities and type the full path to the community, like this:
!loveisland@lemmy.fmhy.mlSearching like that should force the instance to start loading content from the remote community. It might not appear immediately, but it should show after a second. If it doesn’t, try pressing the search button again or waiting a little bit and trying again.
Thank you! It seems to be appearing now
I don’t know about feddit.uk but it appears on lemmy.ml : https://lemmy.ml/c/loveisland@lemmy.fmhy.ml and lemmynsfw: https://lemmynsfw.com/c/loveisland@lemmy.fmhy.ml
I’ve noticed that a number of comments from other instances are being edited when they appear on FMHY. After some digging, these are all clearly words being censored to prevent spam. This is not context aware, so it is blocking/modifying legitimate comments. Is it possible to disable this feature?
Example:
Original comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/894327
Federated to FMHY: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/comment/706234
Oh we had censored some words like removed and removed since we got ad posts in the beginning of instance, it seems that had some negative effects. we’ll remove those filters now, thanks for catching that error.
Saw my message just says removed lol, pretty good example of unintended consequences.
Is there a problem with syncing between instances? I find that this instance is not pulling in all comments from communities on other instances. In some cases, it shows zero comments on a post when the originating instance shows dozens.
Here’s an example, from !godot@programming.dev :
- On the FMHY instance: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/118115?scrollToComments=true
- On the programming.dev instance: https://programming.dev/post/34070?scrollToComments=true
I tried posting from here to see what would happen, and my comment shows up on both instances, but it’s the only one viewable on the FMHY instance.
Another example from !programming@beehaw.org :
- 38 comments on FMHY: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/95497?scrollToComments=true
- 53 comments on Beehaw: https://beehaw.org/post/598937
For the first question: Posts before someone searched that community aren’t fetched completely, so probably godot was only searched recently.
For the second question: FMHY will only show upvoted and comments from people we’ve already federated, most probably beehaw has federated with more instances, so it shows more upvoted and comments.
