Hi folks!
Over the past few months, we have started seeing a significant amount of new user sign-ups. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of our new members, and to share some useful resources and info about lemm.ee.
First, some stats
Here is a bar chart of daily new users (this is only counting users which have been approved by our admins):

As you can see from the chart, for most of 2024, we were accepting roughly around 10-20 new users every day. Then, from the start of this year, the daily numbers have been constantly growing. Yesterday, we approved a massive 609 new users on lemm.ee.
The increase in sign-ups is significant enough that I have been taking several steps to improve our monitoring & anti-bot measures, but so far, it seems the vast majority of the new users are completely legitimate real humans! (Thank you all for not being bots π
)
About lemm.ee
This Lemmy instance is turning 2 years old very soon. It was initially created around the time of the Reddit API changes, when existing Lemmy servers were getting overloaded with new users - lemm.ee was intended to help spread the load. We're now the second largest Lemmy server when it comes to monthly active users.
Our core philosophy for this instance has always been to treat it as a generic gateway to the Lemmy network. I want to provide our users a stable and reliable home for their Lemmy account, so that they can have easy access to all of their communities, regardless of what instance the community is actually hosted on.
We run on some decently beefy hardware, and our setup is fairly customized in several ways in order to ensure a smooth experience for our users (most of the time, this has worked out quite well!). Our servers are currently hosted in Finland.
Our infrastructure has been funded by the community almost from the start through GitHub sponsorships and Ko-Fi donations. I am sure I speak on behalf all of our users when I say that I am extremely grateful to all supporters - you are really responsible for the continued existence of this instance!
Lemmy itself is open source software, and while it has improved massively during the time I have been using it, it definitely still has some rough edges. Please be patient when using Lemmy, and remember that it is being built collaboratively by humans (not corporations), without any intent of ever turning it into a business.
Useful resources
Don't forget to participate!
Communities on Lemmy only work if people actively use them. Even upvoting/downvoting based on quality of content is a great start, but I would really like to encourage you all to comment and even write posts, because that's really the best way to build communities.
If you have any questions or thoughts about lemm.ee or Lemmy in general, feel free to post a comment below this post, and myself or one of our veteran users will definitely respond.
I hope you enjoy your time on lemm.ee, and I wish you all a great week!
Ok i tried subscribing, but no videos yet. I'll keep an eye out to see if lemmy can see once you post new videos
Yeah, I'm full of cold/allergies so I'll need to wait a day or so before I add anything new.
No pressure, man. I'm not even sure if federation works properly in Lemmy from PeerTube nowadays. This is an old post where I discovered it - https://lemm.ee/post/1262626
Videos from that channel (or maybe tilvid itself) no longer federates to lemmy
Right, I've uploaded a couple of films, we'll see what happens.
Nothing.
I've consulted on this and it is currently broken but has been fixed and that will be in the next version of Lemmy.
lemm.ee is already at 0.19.9 but community is still empty
Next version is 0.19.10.
but the patch was applied to. 9
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-02-10_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.9
This is beyond my remit, so I'm tagging @flamingos@feddit.uk.
Had a look at the logs and trying to resolve a video fails with
OnlyModsCanPostInCommunity
. This is because PeerTube setslemmy:postingRestrictedToMods
to be true on theGroup
, but doesn't set anattributeTo
for theGroup
object so Lemmy sees the community as having no moderators. It seems that the only reason this used to work was because theposting_restricted_to_mods
setting was ignored when resolving an object from ActivityPub.cc @s08nlql9@lemm.ee
Sorry if i don't understand this on the technical level but if we want peertube videos to show in lemmy, we should ask the Lemmy devs to re-enable it?
Looks like I was wrong, PeerTube does set an
attributeTo
, it's just different to how Lemmy does it. Lemmy expects anOrderedCollection
, while PeerTube sends an Array ofIDs
. Don't know how I missed theattributeTo
in the PeerTube output I was looking at (I was pretty tired when I wrote the tbf). This is probably something to fix in Lemmy.cc @emperor@feddit.uk
Good find. At least you kniw where the issue is.
As Pixelfed is going to fully implement groups, it seems like an interesting time.
Made a fix: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5509
By the looks of it, Dansup is doing
attributedTo
similar to how PeerTube does it, but doesn't wrap it in an array which is annoying. Hopefully he changes that.cc @s08nlql9@lemm.ee
Brilliant - thanks for sorting that.
Perhaps we can tag him in here, get all the issues cleared up. @dansup@mastodon.social @dansup@lemmy.world @dansup@lemmy.ml
ah thanks man
Thanks for checking. Seems like a "them" problem.