Lemmy Support

I'm having an issue where a link I shared in my Lemmy instance does not resolve the preview image.

Link: https://www.gamepro.de/artikel/hello-kitty-island-adventure-switch-pc-release-meinung,3397967.html

I checked the page's metadata with this service: https://debug.iframely.com/?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamepro.de%2Fartikel%2Fhello-kitty-island-adventure-switch-pc-release-meinung%2C3397967.html

At least for me everything looks like expected, but still Lemmy does not show the preview image.

Any insights would be appreciated!

I selfhost and cannot guarantee no down time. I have no idea why they applied. Kind of funny.

If I want to share a post with someone from another instance, it looks like I have 2 options:

1. I can share how my instance links to the post, which is the little link symbol.

2. Or I can click the federated symbol and that apparently shares a link from the poster's instance.

In both cases, whoever I share the link with is unable to view that post from their account if they're on another instance. Is there a way to alleviate this?

Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...

But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?

Thanks !

Unsure what to do. Hsjon and yml are standard. Is pictrs only using its own database or is it having an issue with postgres? I have it set in the hjson to http://pictrs:8080/ which is standard

It may have been solved:

I did chown -R 991:991 pictrs to change ownership of the pictrs folder

When creating a post with a URL, Lemmy generates a thumbnail with the og:image and a text summary with the og:description. And sure enough, sleazebags use the description field to plug products.

Case in point: this Youtube video. The description should be something like Man creates a pair of glasses in titanium damascus - part 2 but instead it says This Valentine’s Day good things come in big packages at MeUndies. Score huge sitewide savings at https://[redacted] and use promo code forge.DISCORD...

It's really aggravating. I don't want to pollute Lemmy with crappy advertising.

Is there some way to override or suppress the text description?

I have the option to block users, but do I have a way of following or highlighting them in discussions?

I know that each user gets an RSS feed, but is there a way of using this within lemmy, similar to how I can click on "Subscribed" for communities?

The closest I have is this UBlockOrigin rule:

## e.g. highlight users: "tetris11" "kambusha" "Macniel"
## 
lemmy.ml##a[href*="tetris11"],a[href*="kambusha"],a[href*="Macniel"]:style(background-color: yellow !important; outline: 2px solid red !important;)

Which seems to work, but it's very cumbersome to write out rules like that

Hi all, I am quite new to Lemmy, and it’s possible that this question has already been answered, but I would like to hide the communities I subscribe to from my profile page.

A quick Google search tells me that apparently this is already been done, like years ago, but for the life of me, I can’t find the setting anywhere. Am I stupid? please help, thanks!

I'm a reddit old-timer but a relative Lemmy noob. I created a community called "electionmethods", and then realized that I wanted the name to be "election-methods". I tried deleting the community in an attempt to start over, but the old community remains. I then decided to wait, and hope that the deleted "electionmethods" went away so that I could start clean. I want it to be renamed "election-methods", since I've been running a mailing list since 1996 called the "election-methods mailing list", and I'm hoping to encourage the members of the list to use Lemmy. How do I rename "electionmethods" to "election-methods"? As a bonus, I would love it if "electionmethods" redirect to "election-methods".

Recently I came across a community that I wanted to let the moderators of Blåhaj Lemmy (my home instance) know about, since it seemed likely to be the type of community that this instance would want to defederate from. On Lemmy’s web UI, I saw no button to report the community, so I arbitrarily chose a post and reported it, explaining that I intended to report the community as a whole. Blåhaj Lemmy has now defederated from that community, but I also got a direct message from the owner of the community I reported. That was jarring, since I hadn’t intended for that person to see my report. (I’m fine, though—the message I got was clearly not to harass me or anything; it was just explaining that the post I reported didn’t break the rules of the community (of course) and thus wasn’t removed from the community.)

It seems to me that when a report is created, it can get sent to up to three parties:

• the moderators of the community the post is in,
• the moderators of the instance that community belongs to, and
• the moderators of the home instance of the user creating the report.

Is there a way to choose which of these parties to send a report to? In this case, when I report a community, I don’t want the moderators of the community to see that I’m reporting that community. I can also imagine cases where someone would want to report an entire instance, and of course that kind of report should just get sent to the home instance of the user doing the reporting and not to the instance being reported.

I’d guess that such functionality doesn’t currently exist, since I didn’t see it in the web UI. Is it a requested feature? Is it being worked on currently, or planned to be implemented? Right now, I suppose a workaround is to just direct message the instance admins the next time something like this occurs. I think this solution is far from ideal, though, since it is less obvious and could involve extra effort if there are multiple admins or moderators to send the report to.

Hi,

Is it possible to reset the 2FA authentication, or remove it without using the authenticator? I had to factory reset my phone today, and of course the most recent entry to the authenticator hadn't been backed up to icloud yet.

Thanks for your help!

Drag was banned from a community on lemmy.blahaj.zone, and then unbanned. The unban is clearly visible on the lemmy.blahaj.zone modlog and its local ID is 27459. However, the unban has not federated over to lemmy.nz. Drag has tried calling get_modlog, but that doesn't appear to trigger a federation request, so lemmy.nz can't see the modlog entry. Drag tried to use resolve_object, but couldn't figure out the query syntax from reading the API documentation or the Lemmy source code. And the source code seemed to suggest resolve_object only works on users and communities anyway.

Right now, drag can't post to the community because lemmy.nz won't let drag, even though blahaj.zone would be happy to accept the post. Drag wants lemmy.nz to see the modlog object and recognise the unban.

hello! im developing lemmy client (on html5). i tried to do login function but... when i try to fetch /v3/user backend with auth-token it give me error:

{
  "error": "no_id_given"
}

but why? what im doing wrong? if you want here is my source file on github ( function: getLoggined() )

if I page someone (@user@instance) from my instance to a different one, the user often does not get any notification. what's the standard way of paging another instance's users?

Hello

1. Is there any possibility to associate local users to groups ?

2. Is there any possibility to limit access per group ? For example, to be able to subscribe/post/comment only to local groups even the server is federated ?

3. Any possibility to automatically insert ads on local server on viewing anything ? Servers cost money and monetization is necessary since donation is just an occasional income.

4. Is it possible to limit federation only to a pre-defined list of internet domains and deny all the rest ?

Thanks.

I made an instance following the tutorial for docker. Now i really want to track the storage space my instance is using (mostly out of curiosity), but i can't find any way to (quickly) check the storage used by pictrs. Checking the directory size takes way too long.

Maybe it's obvious and I just missed it but idk.

as the title says, i checked the "Open links in a new tab" option, but posts still open in the same tab. anyone else having this problem?

using firefox on debian linux, if that matters...

Is it required to have an email server to have a proper instance running?

I don't mind setting up an email server if so as it would be another fun endeavor.

It used to work in the past but I noticed recently that mastodon doesn't receive new posts in communities I've followed from mastodon. I can find them by searching for them, however new comments won't federate out and comments left from mastodon don't appear in the post comments either. Does this work for anyone else in latest lemmy version or is it just me?

It seems to be a similar issue to this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/106?scrollToComments=true

I see the docs say I need to search for every comment..??? https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html

But that doesn't appear to be how it works on other posts.

I don’t want any users on my instances but I would like to have the freedom to choose how to run a community.

Does the first time federation take forever? I’ve already imported my subs. Thanks!