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 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 limit on the number of posts you can save to your account? From what I know, reddit and Instagram both have a hard limit on the number of posts that a user can save before the older ones start getting forgotten. Does lemmy have any such restrictions?
Nope as far as I know
That’s pretty neat, thanks
Happy to help
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 :)
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.
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
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
If lemmy gives people full freedom and control over their instances, does that mean there is nothing to stop people from creating instances full of racism, bigotry, etc?
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Lemmy does not have anonymous voting - https://lemmy.eus/post/182574
Each instance decides what to show on its homepage and its own moderation rules, so you are free to build (or find, if one already exists) an instance that attempts to prevent the kind of manipulation you are worried about.
