Lemmy Support

I am thinking more relating to how on Reddit you can "message the mods"; is there any function like this on Lemmy, or do I have to message mods individually?

Whenever I try and upload an image, it does not work. Somebody reminded me recently that if you resize the image and make the file size smaller, it will work. I'm wondering if anybody knows what the actual file size is as a maximum that I can upload? Rather than just wing it, I would like to create a script that will create the appropriate file size. I don't want to be greedy and use up heaps of resources, but I'd like to find what the happy balance is and make sure it works within the limits of the system. Thank you so much.

I recently blocked X instance, as I didn't like the users and content from there. But to my surprise, X instance was still able to send me a comment? Is this a bug? What can I do?

I know the issue has been answered before, but does anyone know if there exists some kind of work-around until the actual disable-image-upload is implemented in Lemmy?

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Hey y'all, I have a problem: sometimes I find a cool video on Youtube and I want to post it in a community I moderate. So I create a post, put the Youtube link in the URL field, and several options get added to the form: - Copy suggested title: <whatever title the video has on Youtube> - archive.org archive link - ghostarchive.org archive link - archive.today archive link I click on the first one to copy the title, no problem. And usually that's it: I post, the post's preview shows a snapshot from the video and clicking on it sends me to the Youtube video. Great! Now here's my problem: I would prefer not to link to Youtube directly So I tried replacing the direct link with any of the 3 proposed links, and it doesn't go all that well: - The archive.org link seemingly never works - The ghostarchive.org link works but no preview image is generated, which makes the post a bit boring - The archive.today link redirects to a archive.ph link which is account-walled Does anybody know how to create a post with a preview image that links to a Youtube video archived someplace else? And yes, I'm aware that I could also report the video on my PeerTube. The problem is, SDF only has limited resources and I'd rather not upload huge videos there. They don't need the burden.

a user is getting all sorts of block and unblock notifications from a bunch of servers and communities.

I've heard that the standard Lemmy UI is not under active development because the Lemmy UI developers are working on a rewrite. I looked at it for a while though, and I thought that, aside from some missing features and polish, it was fine. I'm trying Photon right now, and it is also fine, and a little more feature-complete, but it is visibly janky in some respects. Maybe it is my biases, but I also much prefer the model of clicking on things and getting a new page over a single-page app that you interact with via controls. What was so terrible about the vanilla Lemmy UI? Do people really have a strong level of dislike for it? It seems to me like it just needs some love to smooth down the rough edges and awkward spots, but the core doesn't seem in any way terrible such that it would need to be abandoned.

One thing I liked (and sometimes disliked) about Reddit was that my feed was a mix of posts in communities I'd joined and a few suggestions of posts from subs The Algorithm™ thought I might like. On Lemmy I'm realizing I'm starting to fall into a bit of an echo chamber situation because I basically only see stuff I'm already a member of, unless I explicitly go to All or scroll the list of communities. Are there less involved (lazy) ways of discovering new stuff and broadening my horizons a bit?

Hi all, How would I go about identifying why all these 400 (and some 499) errors are popping up in my server's logs? ``` [26/Sep/2024:17:12:42 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 137 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:43 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 133 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3-4-gc98049af6; +https://lemmy.world" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:44 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 137 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:44 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.18.4; +https://beehaw.org" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:44 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:44 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:52 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Mbin/1.7.1 (+https://fedia.io/agent)" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:53 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 139 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:53 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 140 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3-4-gc98049af6; +https://lemmy.world" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:54 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 135 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:59 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.18.4; +https://beehaw.org" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:59 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.18.4; +https://beehaw.org" [26/Sep/2024:17:13:00 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Mbin/1.7.1 (+https://fedia.io/agent)" [26/Sep/2024:17:13:03 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 137 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:13:04 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 132 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3-4-gc98049af6; +https://lemmy.world" [26/Sep/2024:17:13:04 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3-4-gc98049af6; +https://lemmy.world" ``` I don't see a way to get Lemmy server to spit out any helpful info. I've tried setting `RUST_LOG=verbose` in the env, but no luck, still no log output.

No matter which Top sorting method I select in my profile, the result will always be all of my my all-time top posts instead of a selection based on the selected time frame from the drop down menu. All Top (x) selections seem to only show the uncurtailed Top All Time results while sorting by Old, New or Controversial seems to work as intended. I am browsing the default lemmy website interface from a Firefox web browser.

External images could be linked and displayed using: * `` Then Lemmy images could be resized which I think also shrinks the file size; hence faster display time, save internet data, and save screen space; by adding `&thumbnail=`: * `` So, is it possible to do similar but for any external image? Or at least generate thumbnails of many external images? Thanks in advance.

[@lemmy\_support](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) hello. How long do I need to wait for the e-mail to verify it? waiting 8h now...

Given that instances can disable downvoting altogether, it led me to wondering...

Inb4 "analytics" is a bad word in the fediverse, understandably so, but I ask because for one of the communities that I moderate, I noticed the banner image and icon image were nearly 20 MB each, so I replaced them with smaller versions (<1 MB each). On desktop w/ a fast wired connection, it's no biggie, but it's good practice anyway to minimize page weight, if for no other reason than to make the site more usable for people on slow or cellular connections. I tried searching for traffic data about Lemmy, and the best I could find is [this page on similarweb.com](https://www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.ml/), which shows traffic broken out by country and referrals, among other things, but a breakout of mobile vs desktop appears to be locked behind a paywall. Do we have any analytics on mobile vs desktop traffic for Lemmy?

Hi, I'm relatively new to Lemmy, but I have been posting a lot in the last few weeks. One thing I see when I post certain website articles is the above message. The post still works, but it is missing a lot of information that other posts have. Does someone have a link to documentation of what Lemmy is looking for when it builds a post? I would like to be able to contact the web admins of the problem website, and ask them to modify their code so that it is more "Lemmy-friendly". Thanks for any help you can send my way.

I'm new to Lemmy and trying to understand how the All feed works. Doing some reading it looks like it is populated by communities that people on the instance I'm apart of have join. Is that correct?

Hello, I wanted to ask what you have to do to be added to the join-lemmy.org page? Is there an email to call? The documentation only reads that you have to meet certain criteria, but is it then added automatically at some point?

I have just started using Lemmy and I love it. I have had good results sending Lemmy posts to Masto, and vice-versa. One exception has been the above group shown in the title. In Masto, send/receive posts works fine, but the Lemmy version seems cut off from the rest of the Fediverse. Could someone look into that? Thanks.

Am I doing the lemmy image compression and removal of old proxied images correctly? Here's my docker service for lemmy: ``` pictrs: image: docker.io/asonix/pictrs:0.5 # this needs to match the pictrs url in lemmy.hjson hostname: pictrs # we can set options to pictrs like this, here we set max. image size and forced format for conversion # entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs -p /mnt -m 4 --image-format webp entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs run --max-file-count 5 --media-max-file-size 500 --media-image-format webp --media-image-quality-webp 50 --media-animation-quality-webp 50 --media-retention-proxy 1d --media-retention-variants 1d filesystem sled -p /mnt user: 991:991 volumes: - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt:Z restart: always logging: *default-logging ```

I believe this used to work with e.g. something like https://lemmy.ml/post/2401677@feddit.org (assuming federation works and is current and all that). This URL format no longer seems to work, is there a new/different endpoint to achieve the same? I've found that I can use https://feddit.org/post/2401677 as a search term on https://lemmy.ml/search but putting together the appropriate URL (https://lemmy.ml/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffeddit.org%2Fpost%2F2401677&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll) with a bookmarklet does not quite work - it comes up showing "no results", but I can click on "Search" again without changing anything and the same page / very same URL loads again with the post I'm looking for as the only search result. This link in this post also shows this exact behavior for me. Is there any convenient way at all to achieve this - something I can click *once*, like a bookmarklet? For reference, here's my half-working one: ``` javascript:(function() {const myInst="https://lemmy.ml/";let currUrl=window.location.toString();let newUrl=myInst+"search?q="+encodeURIComponent(currUrl)+"&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll";window.location=newUrl;})() ```

Hello everyone, Very quick question: when a community is deleted, there is a grace period to allow mods to restore it (which seems to be at max 24 hours from our observations). My question is - how long is the grace period for mods? - do admins have grace periods too, or can they restore it without any time limit? From skimming through the database definition (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/d479bb96c64047a84914d64cbe1d8a366e1ec182/crates/db_schema/src/source/community.rs) it seems that just edits the "hidden" boolean But still curious to see if someone knows how long the grace period is, and where it comes from (probably front-end)

I was trying to edit my community, and I accidentally pressed the delete button. Is there any way to undo this?

I would like to post news articles to the lemmy.ml Palestine community from Mastodon. I have read that I only need a flair [News] in the title and the mention of @palestine@lemmy.ml in the body of the post. However, that hasn't seemed to work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! :-)

Firstly, sorry if this is not the adequate place for my question; if it's the case, let me know. The title may seem confusing, so let me detail it: I'm more of a commenter person, and some of my comments are replied, and Lemmy notifies me of those direct replies. However, there are moments when those replies receive third-party replies, so my comment turns into some kind of "sub-thread", something that's interesting for me to read and follow. For those third-party replies, I don't receive notifications, so I have to access each direct reply that was notified so to find possible "sub-threads". There seems to me to be no option to "receive notifications for this post/comment/reply", only the automatic opt-in of notifications for direct replies. So really isn't there such an option? Or is this an instance-specific feature and the instance I belong to (thelemmy.club) don't have it?

Hi, I just found the pict-rs option to have proxied images deleted after some days. What happens once they get deleted? Will the people using my instance still be able to see them?

Yo, I was trying to change my account name on Lemmy but I couldn't find the option in the account settings, is this feature available on lemmy?

I have an account on lemmy.ml and two days ago it started logging me out of the website whenever I close the browser tab or browser. This behaviour does not occur on other websites where I choose to stay logged in. So my browser functionality is working as intended. Has anything changed on Lemmy, cause it used to work for years? Anything I can do?

New Lemmy admin here. I found the [Theming Guide] in the Lemmy docs, but it jumps directly to the 'After a theme is added' section without explaining how to add or create themes. I've searched for examples but couldn't find any configuration that includes these details. I found [hanubeki-lemmy-themes], which actually contains some good themes. However, when I copied the `5` folder to my `extra_theme` folder, nothing happened. Can someone guide me on how to add these themes to my instance? Update: You should put all your css file in the `extra_themes` folder, each `.css` is a theme. For [hanubeki-lemmy-themes] I put all the `dist` and `src` files in `extra_themes` and it works. I already done this before, but my browser was [caching lemmy-ui static files for 24 hours], so when I delete the cache it just works. [Theming Guide]: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/theming.html [hanubeki-lemmy-themes]: https://github.com/hanubeki/hanubeki-lemmy-themes [cashing lemmy-ui static files for 24 hours]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/blob/2b726b51b5a0a2751bc0e955c39b3179284a1695/src/server/middleware.ts#L48-L51 > Thank you Sami, it was a cash problem, I updated the post with more details

Sorry for the vague question but I'm hoping there's a lot I"m missing. I know I can edit the side bar, icon, and banner. Make the community public or private and there's a "mod posting only" option. But is that it? Some things I'm wondering about, - can I turn downvotes off or is that an instance only thing? (fan community, off topic would just be removed) - Is there any other way to manipulate the community page like backgrounds etc? - Flair's or post tags? Any community settings I looked over? - Allowing or disallowing bots (again is this an instance thing?) I'm fine with what it is, just wanted to make sure there wasn't more I was missing with my options in the community. Bonus question, besides crossposting and the "new communities" community sections, is there anything else I should do with a fresh community?

Hi Lemmy friends, Is there any way to have Lemmy's community RSS feeds provide more than 20 `<item>` tags at a time? Can I add a querystring variable to get the next page or two of data? Background on what I'm trying to do: I run [the Movie, TV and Game trailers community](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/trailers). I'd like to create a simple website / landing page that displays an ongoing roll of the latest/top/hot trailers posted to the community. I can use the community's RSS feed for this, but the feed only includes a maximum of 20 entries (for an average end-to-end runtime of about one hour). I'd really like to get the next few pages of entries as well. Thanks!

I can't even put up a pfp

This still seems like the #1 entry port for folks who are new to Lemmy, but it is pretty out of date. It still recommends [Combustible](https://github.com/TheBrokenRail/Combustible/releases), which never had a stable release (Oct 1, 2023 Alpha 0.1.1), [lemmyBB](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB/releases), with no known instances (Apr 24, 2023), [Lunar](https://github.com/mani-sh-reddy/Lunar), which never left Testflight (Dec 12, 2023), and the same for [Memmy](https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy/releases) (Nov 6, 2023). At the same time it is missing lots of recent apps, such as Connect, Interstellar, Arctic, or Tesseract. Would it be possible to use a tool similar to [LemmyApps](https://www.lemmyapps.com/) or the API to keep the list updated automatically?

If someone's post is deleted, and the modlogs don't specify who performed the action (instead it is a generic name like "admin"), how can the user discuss that deletion if they have a rationale for why it should not have been deleted?

I love Lemmy and I try to spread the info about it but almost always I face one issue - people being confused. For me (and probably you) it's hard to understand what's confusing about the way Lemmy works, I mean email works on the same principle and everyone's ok with it. It basically boils down to like 3 questions: - Why do I need to choose a server? - What is the server / instance? / Is server a subreddit? - Is Lemmy the same thing like Reddit? So my idea: Could we put it as a FAQ on the join-lemmy.org? Feel free to submit best answers to these questions (I try to submit mine later when I have some time). Or come up with other frequent questions you heard

I've been receiving direct messages with pretty much the same contents from different accounts for a few months now. The contents include a question which I answered but the messages keep coming. I tried to report this using Jerboa's built-in functionality but I always got an error "Report deleted". Can I do something about it or I'll just keep receiving the messages until I create a new account?

This time my question is, how long does it take for the Lemmy server I just set up to finish federation? What does the "allowed instances" list do in the admin settings? Does it allow the Lemmy server to only connect to those instances or is it a list of the starting instances from which it federates to others?

Until a few days ago I was posting youtube links, and the thumbnail and link description would be filled in automatically. Now, there's no thumbnail image and instead of the youtube preview text for my linked video, its some generic youtube stuff in french: > - YouTube www.youtube.com Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier. Something broke?