I've seen [an issue](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1026) on Github about how
> It's hard to see posts from smaller communities when you are also subscribed to larger communities.
What are your ideas on how this could be accomplished?
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/81185
> Share your favorite songs and music every friday, original content is appreciated, share your thoughts on if this should be a thing. I find music to be a neutral platform for the most part, it’s just sometimes politics get involved, the one rule for this event is no politics
cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/541247
> The community browser offers the possibility to search centrally for Lemmy communities.
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> ::: spoiler spoiler
> There are still a few features planned...
> :::
[source-code](https://codeberg.org/wintermute/lemmy-community-browser)
I was looking for how to install Lemmy and found these videos, hope these can help if you need to install you instance.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFkWfdN3cg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lQFZvCCe7U
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fzCUEpFnDg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl4Y4cDDJyk
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/712978
> Does Lemmy currently use hashtags in any way? I'm assuming it doesn't since they don't show up in the UI anywhere. But while thinking about [non-lemmy software posting to lemmy communities](https://lemmy.ml/post/705776), I was wondering how lemmy would use hashtags.
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> My suggestion would be for lemmy to handle hashtags in a similar way to current microblogging software, by putting them in the `tag` field and allow lemmy users to add #hashtags to their posts. [Lobsters](https://lobste.rs) displays tags beside post titles (though these tags are admin controlled I think). It seems like there is a maximum of 2 tags, which I think would be a reasonable limit for lemmy to display too. The UI could display the tags as badges, with some affordance to view any additional tags, and clicking a tag would show other posts with that tag.
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> As for why, I think tags on lemmy would serve two main purposes:
> 1. They would enable better discoverability on non-lemmy software where hashtags are the main topical grouping mechanism right now.
> 1. While lemmy uses communities for topical grouping, some posts might fit into multiple categories, even unrelated categories. Crossposting sort of solves this, but crossposting can be considered spammy if it's done too much. And, on lemmy, crossposting creates another post which fractures the conversation. This may be desirable sometimes, but a poster may also prefer to keep all the conversation in one spot.
This is a lemmy feature request. I'm happy to file an issue on github is people thinks this is worthwhile. I just want to gauge interest.
When creating a new post, could the `URL` field be expanded to also accept a lemmy community handle, i.e, _!lemmy@lemmy.ml_? That way a user could create a post to announce a community that would link to the community, within the instance the user is on.
See [this post](https://lemmy.ml/post/690782) for an example. My lemmy account is on lemmy.ml. So when I follow the link in this post, I'm taken to lemmy.ca and can't directly follow the community. It'd be nicer if each instance detected that the link was a lemmy group and linked to the instance local community, in this case: https://lemmy.ml/c/videos@lemmy.ca. I'm assuming this would just be a frontend thing and the ActivityPub json would still use the canonical url.
I recently discovered that I can hide votes for all posts and comments (there is a setting). And this makes life a bit easier, I think. My judgement comes more from content itself, not from votes.
We are looking for someone who would be willing to provide a build server for Lemmy's continuous integration. This is used to ensure that new changes and pull requests pass all the checks, and that the code is written well. At the moment we are using a small VPS for this purpose (2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM). This works but is quite slow, and can slow down the development process with unnecessary waiting times.
For this reason we are looking for a community member with a spare server or computer, who would be willing to provide it as a build server. There are no specific hardware requirements, but the faster the better. The build server has to run 24/7 and run the [Drone Docker Runner](https://docs.drone.io/runner/docker/overview/). The setup is very easy, especially if your machine is already running docker. If you have such a server and are willing to provide it, please comment below with the specs.
Additionally we are also looking for an ARM builder, so that we can provide official releases for this platform as well. Note that some Raspberry Pi models seem unable to build Lemmy (our 4GB memory builder failed), so please try if the compilation works on your device. If you can provide an ARM builder, also comment below with the specs.
Hi ! This is a suggestion/thought on the option to show ALL communities posts on Lemmy's homepage.
The homepage UI is nice because it provides a single place to view posts from either Local to All instance, it makes the fediverse feel whole.
One downside is that, since some instances are much larger than others, the All section is often dominated by posts from a single instance.
I don't mind seeing lemmygrad.ml posts, but that seems a bit much. It's good to see a diversity of information/opinions (as opposed to Twitter's bubble).
A new sort option would be nice to give better visibility to posts on smaller instances. Maybe tweaking the weight to better account for community size . Let's say the default logic is a function of upvote counts, you'd scale the upvote based on instance size (eg weight=upvotes/sqrt(instance active users)).
Edit Lemmy's documentation call this the "score" https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/about/guide.html#sorting
Let's say you're on reddit and someone posts an imgur gallery, from an app like Boost you can view and browse that album without leaving boost.
But if I post a link to a mastodon toot that has 4 images, and I click the post in jerboa it will instead open a new window into the actual mastodon page.
I've argued for the value of "post once distribute everywhere" but if that paradigm isn't right for the fediverse at the very least the ux for linking mastodon image posts could be improved. Instead of posting once distributing everywhere it would be at least possible to post once and then link everywhere. (this doesn't fix issues like trying to get stuff like pixelfed working but it's worth a thought)
Get the welcome wagon ready for all the new users
maybe*
it wont be long before we're the 3rd biggest fediverse project (ignoring matrix since it's not listed) 🎉
> mandacaru.caatinga.digital
Is there a plan to prevent the issue that a moderator has individually blocked a user, but then is unable to see the posts of that user and moderate them should that become necessary?
Maybe there could be a toggle to temporarily disable user blocks for communities one has to moderate?