New to Lemmy

I have a community, and because it's generally not really one where controversy comes up, as a mod and creator of the community I do like to check where downvotes on posts are coming from.

I came across this one user where, according to modlogs, they seem to have had a general habit of basically downvoting everything in sight on their feed and unfortunately an otherwise perfectly upvoted post got caught up in the crossfire.

While I don't think banning them from the community will remove that downvote, I also don't want someone like this to be able to interact with the community at all, since it manipulates good-faith post voting, and I'd like to prevent unfair downvotes like this one from appearing in the future.

Issue is with the person is that's all they've done. Vote on the post. No comments in the community or anything, so I can't find any dialogue option to just ban them outright. How would I give this guy the boot?

How can I link to a Lemmy post in a way that another Lemmy user that can view the linked page without the "You must log in or sign in to vote or comment" message (when they are already logged in)?

And vice versa: how can I click on a Lemmy link and not get that problem?

The exclamation point format is this:

[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

As an example, mentions should look like these:

[email protected]
[email protected]

This is especially relevant when promoting a new community in the aforementioned communities, as otherwise it's less convenient to visit and join your community. A standard link would take someone off-site to whichever site the community's on, instead of its copy on their home site.

Forgot to include this key point as I was writing and revising all this:
Include these mentions in your post bodies! Having it in the title of the post alone doesn't help, as it doesn't create any link to click or tap through.

p.s. when typing these mentions, the WebUI will try to provide suggestions to autocomplete, select the right one and it should do the trick. App interfaces will vary but should provide some method to do similar in their post/comment editors, either try typing the mention or looking for an exclamation point in the editor and following what the interface offers to help.

I am too new to privacy and only got FreeTube(PC) and NewPipe(phone) to run with alot of failures on better applications. Thats another problem Id need help with but primarily this post is about the feature included on this platform in the setting (screenshot).

Any idea how to get this to run that way?

I have now encountered this problem a couple times, that I wanted to look into what this and that c/community has to offer for thinkgs in my question, but there seems to be no way to search a c/community, or is there a way?

Back in the day, introducing video posts destroyed facebook, a friends chatter platform, slowly but surely. Same fate with instagram, a photography/memory platform, getting into reels and videos.

Now if I go to reddit once a month to check in what the vibe is since my "detox" I realized.

Its all designed to drain. Drain your energy, your free thought, your long term happiness. Like not even hyperbolic, this is really scary.

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And we all know thanks to the c/reddit community here on lemmy: Its full of this hidden but omniprersent corpo shilling, ads and corpo censoring.

Hey all, not new, just noticing that all the times I see for posts showcase in the GMT timezone, and I want to have times match the timezone I reside in.

So far I see no difference.

Say I'm on the page of a community and I'd like to search for something within that /c.

Looking at the /c's page (in a PC web browser), I see no way to search that /c.

Instead, I have to:

1. click on the search icon
2. find the box titled "Community"
3. click the down arrow at the end of that box
4. start typing the name of the /c
5. pick the right one out of several options
6. and only then finally do my search

Surely there's an easier way?

If not within the existing interface, then maybe... some browser extension or CSS hack?

If there would "hypothetically" be an instance owner(like what even is that, just a guy or group having servers somewhere?) that censores in bad faith, could it do that to the communities on there too? Could they just take out certain communities or delete content on it, affect the responsive moderators, etc?

Like how do I know I'm not on a community dependent on u/spez filtering out everything about insurance for his corpo bros?

I hope my questins make sense

For those on smaller instances/sites, you may have to use Lemmyverse to find communities first due to how things work here.

As to how to check whether you're on a larger instance/site...Lemmyverse helps again, just switched to instance view. If you're along the top of the grid (or list), you're in a larger instance.

For those on larger instances/sites, chances are you're already connected to a variety of existing communities. Given that, it's better to search first, making sure search isn't set to Local but instead All, before jumping into creating one. If you want to be more thorough, use the above Lemmyverse link to double check that there's not another active community already out there.

All that said, if you do find another community and it's active, yet seems not to match the approach you'd like to take, then go for making a new community. However consider giving it a distinct name and/or sidebar info to make it clear how your community is intended to be different from any similar communities.

For those switching over from Reddit that are interested in this feature, there isn't a direct substitute for this with Lemmy right away. Instead you have to create a community and set it so only moderators (which will be you) can post, and everyone else can only comment.

The plus side to this approach, despite the initial hurdle, is that you can name the community however you like, give it a distinct icon and banner and so on.

Greetings. I saw this on a post on Reddit and decided to give it a try. Northern Ontarian who is into photography, writing, traveling, spending time at camp, biking, skate skiing, guitar, carpentry, and gardening.
One question: Are there any unspoken rules about posting/responding on Lemmy?

Examples of people getting the issue:

• https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33478039?
• https://lemm.ee/post/59903124

Are we allowed to create a new community or space to talk about certain topics ?

What does it mean? Someone doesn't like the comment?

Hi my name is Stu. I am obviously new to Lemmy.world.

Just here to check out Technology community and others that peak my interest.

i r mad lad. I am a musician of mediocre talent, and a technology enthusiast. I self host most of the services I use on a daily basis. I am a staunch privacy advocate. For someone in my geriatric, boomer group, I don't fear technology, I embrace it knowing that technology can be a double edged sword, depending on how it's used...so we must use it wisely.

I've known about Lemmy, Mastadon, Matrix etc, for some time now, but decided that I would try it out after really becoming disenchanted with Reddit. So, here I am.

Where is a good place on Lemmy where one can rub elbows with other musicians? I've already found the SelfHost section and am now looking for producers both professional, and hobbyist like myself.

Regards

Do I understand correctly that Lemmy.ca is part of a larger Lemmy platform? I'm new to the Fediverse so I'm doing my best to understand.

Hi! I’m AmericanMinotaur. I joined Lemmy so I could take part in the CANUSHelp community, but I’d love to see if there are other communities I can be a part of. Excited to meet you all! :)

Hi all. I've had an account here for awhile, and I thought it was about time I wrote an introduction.

I'm a Canadian, born in the west, grew up in the east. Politically I lean left, some days more so than others. I'm a strong believer in social justice. I believe in Canada having a strong social safety net, including universal basic income. I'm happy to pay my taxes.

You can find me on Mastodon @RandomCanuck@[email protected]. Also on Friendica. I'm a redditor too, but I mostly just graze and rarely post.

I run a small consulting business with my wife, and we've been doing that since 2000. I cut my teeth designing automated test equipment, and then control systems for automated assembly systems.

I've been a computer user since 1980, including Apple II+, IIe, III, Wang 2200, TRS-80, Commodore PET, a hand built 6502 micro, along with various Wintel PCs, a Mac SE30, Performa, Mac II, various iMacs MacBook Pros, and a MacBook Air, and Raspberry Pi.

I'm a long time staffer to a pack of toy poodles, starting in 1994. I love motorcycles, fast cars, hiking, camping and canoeing. Sci-Fi fan, most recently of the Murderbot series and Cory Doctorow’s books. I also read a lot of mysteries, history, and philosophy. Agnostic religiously, scienctific philosophically. Systems thinker. Writer.

Technical standards developer for CSA, IEC, IEEE, and ISO.

#Canadian #Introduction #nerd #engineering #writing #reading #science #dogs #computing

Thoughts on features to boost intent for posting more?

Like a karma system of that other forum website.

I currently miss a point system to motivate me that shows people via my profile how much I could help by posting/commenting. There's no system to create such feedback currently on Lemmy.

Are there statements by the creators of this platform about that?

See big red box on image attached (collapse as in the feature on reddit)

There is also a container feature already. I marked it at the bottom of attached image with a smaller red box