Lemmy Support
- Discovering new communities
One thing I liked (and sometimes disliked) about Reddit was that my feed was a mix of posts in communities I'd joined and a few suggestions of posts from subs The Algorithm™ thought I might like.
On Lemmy I'm realizing I'm starting to fall into a bit of an echo chamber situation because I basically only see stuff I'm already a member of, unless I explicitly go to All or scroll the list of communities.
Are there less involved (lazy) ways of discovering new stuff and broadening my horizons a bit?
- 400 and 499 errors in NGINX logs
Hi all,
How would I go about identifying why all these 400 (and some 499) errors are popping up in my server's logs?
[26/Sep/2024:17:12:42 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 137 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:43 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 133 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3-4-gc98049af6; +https://lemmy.world" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:44 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 137 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:44 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.18.4; +https://beehaw.org" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:44 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:44 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:52 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Mbin/1.7.1 (+https://fedia.io/agent)" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:53 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 139 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:53 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 140 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3-4-gc98049af6; +https://lemmy.world" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:54 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 135 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:59 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.18.4; +https://beehaw.org" [26/Sep/2024:17:12:59 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.18.4; +https://beehaw.org" [26/Sep/2024:17:13:00 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Mbin/1.7.1 (+https://fedia.io/agent)" [26/Sep/2024:17:13:03 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 137 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.6-beta1; +https://lemmy.ml" [26/Sep/2024:17:13:04 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 132 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3-4-gc98049af6; +https://lemmy.world" [26/Sep/2024:17:13:04 -0400] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3-4-gc98049af6; +https://lemmy.world"
I don't see a way to get Lemmy server to spit out any helpful info. I've tried setting
RUST_LOG=verbose
in the env, but no luck, still no log output. - Sorting my posts by Top [any time frame] always defaults to displaying top all time posts
No matter which Top sorting method I select in my profile, the result will always be all of my my all-time top posts instead of a selection based on the selected time frame from the drop down menu. All Top (x) selections seem to only show the uncurtailed Top All Time results while sorting by Old, New or Controversial seems to work as intended.
I am browsing the default lemmy website interface from a Firefox web browser.
- Force resize externally linked images? Generate thumbnails of externally linked images?
External images could be linked and displayed using:
![](external url)
Then Lemmy images could be resized which I think also shrinks the file size; hence faster display time, save internet data, and save screen space; by adding
&thumbnail=
:![](https://lemmy. .../pictrs/image/... .webp?format=webp&thumbnail=320)
So, is it possible to do similar but for any external image? Or at least generate thumbnails of many external images? Thanks in advance.
- hello. How long do I need to wait for the e-mail to verify it? waiting 8h now...
@lemmy\_support hello. How long do I need to wait for the e-mail to verify it? waiting 8h now...
- Is there a setting for instances to disable voting from Local or All feeds?
Given that instances can disable downvoting altogether, it led me to wondering...
- Do we have analytics around how much Lemmy traffic is on mobile vs desktop?
Inb4 "analytics" is a bad word in the fediverse, understandably so, but I ask because for one of the communities that I moderate, I noticed the banner image and icon image were nearly 20 MB each, so I replaced them with smaller versions (<1 MB each). On desktop w/ a fast wired connection, it's no biggie, but it's good practice anyway to minimize page weight, if for no other reason than to make the site more usable for people on slow or cellular connections.
I tried searching for traffic data about Lemmy, and the best I could find is this page on similarweb.com, which shows traffic broken out by country and referrals, among other things, but a breakout of mobile vs desktop appears to be locked behind a paywall.
Do we have any analytics on mobile vs desktop traffic for Lemmy?
- I'm seeing "just a moment" in the first box below article title
Hi, I'm relatively new to Lemmy, but I have been posting a lot in the last few weeks.
One thing I see when I post certain website articles is the above message. The post still works, but it is missing a lot of information that other posts have.
Does someone have a link to documentation of what Lemmy is looking for when it builds a post? I would like to be able to contact the web admins of the problem website, and ask them to modify their code so that it is more "Lemmy-friendly".
Thanks for any help you can send my way.
- How does the All feed work?
I'm new to Lemmy and trying to understand how the All feed works. Doing some reading it looks like it is populated by communities that people on the instance I'm apart of have join. Is that correct?
- being added to join-lemmy.org
Hello, I wanted to ask what you have to do to be added to the join-lemmy.org page? Is there an email to call? The documentation only reads that you have to meet certain criteria, but is it then added automatically at some point?
- a Fediverse group - a.gup.pe/palestine - is shown on lemmy.ml, but does not send/receive with it.
I have just started using Lemmy and I love it.
I have had good results sending Lemmy posts to Masto, and vice-versa. One exception has been the above group shown in the title. In Masto, send/receive posts works fine, but the Lemmy version seems cut off from the rest of the Fediverse.
Could someone look into that? Thanks.
- Automatic deletion of old proxied images
Am I doing the lemmy image compression and removal of old proxied images correctly? Here's my docker service for lemmy:
pictrs: image: docker.io/asonix/pictrs:0.5 # this needs to match the pictrs url in lemmy.hjson hostname: pictrs # we can set options to pictrs like this, here we set max. image size and forced format for conversion # entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs -p /mnt -m 4 --image-format webp entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs run --max-file-count 5 --media-max-file-size 500 --media-image-format webp --media-image-quality-webp 50 --media-animation-quality-webp 50 --media-retention-proxy 1d --media-retention-variants 1d filesystem sled -p /mnt user: 991:991 volumes: - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt:Z restart: always logging: *default-logging
- How to switch a lemmy/fediverse post (link) to one's home instance eg using a bookmarklet?
I believe this used to work with e.g. something like https://lemmy.ml/post/2401677@feddit.org (assuming federation works and is current and all that).
This URL format no longer seems to work, is there a new/different endpoint to achieve the same?
I've found that I can use https://feddit.org/post/2401677 as a search term on https://lemmy.ml/search but putting together the appropriate URL (https://lemmy.ml/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffeddit.org%2Fpost%2F2401677&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll) with a bookmarklet does not quite work - it comes up showing "no results", but I can click on "Search" again without changing anything and the same page / very same URL loads again with the post I'm looking for as the only search result. This link in this post also shows this exact behavior for me.
Is there any convenient way at all to achieve this - something I can click once, like a bookmarklet?
For reference, here's my half-working one:
javascript:(function() {const myInst="https://lemmy.ml/";let currUrl=window.location.toString();let newUrl=myInst+"search?q="+encodeURIComponent(currUrl)+"&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll";window.location=newUrl;})()
- How long is the grace period for mods after deleting a community?
Hello everyone,
Very quick question: when a community is deleted, there is a grace period to allow mods to restore it (which seems to be at max 24 hours from our observations). My question is
- how long is the grace period for mods?
- do admins have grace periods too, or can they restore it without any time limit?
From skimming through the database definition (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/d479bb96c64047a84914d64cbe1d8a366e1ec182/crates/db_schema/src/source/community.rs) it seems that just edits the "hidden" boolean
But still curious to see if someone knows how long the grace period is, and where it comes from (probably front-end)
- I accidentally deleted my community [Solved]
I was trying to edit my community, and I accidentally pressed the delete button. Is there any way to undo this?
- how do I create a post in Mastodon that can go to a Lemmy community
I would like to post news articles to the lemmy.ml Palestine community from Mastodon. I have read that I only need a flair [News] in the title and the mention of @palestine@lemmy.ml in the body of the post. However, that hasn't seemed to work.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! :-)
- Is it possible to be notified of replies to replies of my replies?
Firstly, sorry if this is not the adequate place for my question; if it's the case, let me know.
The title may seem confusing, so let me detail it: I'm more of a commenter person, and some of my comments are replied, and Lemmy notifies me of those direct replies. However, there are moments when those replies receive third-party replies, so my comment turns into some kind of "sub-thread", something that's interesting for me to read and follow. For those third-party replies, I don't receive notifications, so I have to access each direct reply that was notified so to find possible "sub-threads".
There seems to me to be no option to "receive notifications for this post/comment/reply", only the automatic opt-in of notifications for direct replies.
So really isn't there such an option? Or is this an instance-specific feature and the instance I belong to (thelemmy.club) don't have it?
- Lemmy image proxying
Hi, I just found the pict-rs option to have proxied images deleted after some days. What happens once they get deleted? Will the people using my instance still be able to see them?
- Change account name
Yo, I was trying to change my account name on Lemmy but I couldn't find the option in the account settings, is this feature available on lemmy?
- Lemmy keeps logging me out
I have an account on lemmy.ml and two days ago it started logging me out of the website whenever I close the browser tab or browser. This behaviour does not occur on other websites where I choose to stay logged in. So my browser functionality is working as intended.
Has anything changed on Lemmy, cause it used to work for years? Anything I can do?
- [Solved] How to use `extra_theme` folder?
New Lemmy admin here. I found the [Theming Guide] in the Lemmy docs, but it jumps directly to the 'After a theme is added' section without explaining how to add or create themes. I've searched for examples but couldn't find any configuration that includes these details.
I found [hanubeki-lemmy-themes], which actually contains some good themes. However, when I copied the
5
folder to myextra_theme
folder, nothing happened. Can someone guide me on how to add these themes to my instance?Update: You should put all your css file in the
extra_themes
folder, each.css
is a theme. For [hanubeki-lemmy-themes] I put all thedist
andsrc
files inextra_themes
and it works. I already done this before, but my browser was [caching lemmy-ui static files for 24 hours], so when I delete the cache it just works.[Theming Guide]: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/theming.html [hanubeki-lemmy-themes]: https://github.com/hanubeki/hanubeki-lemmy-themes [cashing lemmy-ui static files for 24 hours]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/blob/2b726b51b5a0a2751bc0e955c39b3179284a1695/src/server/middleware.ts#L48-L51
> Thank you Sami, it was a cash problem, I updated the post with more details
- Just created a community, what can I do?
Sorry for the vague question but I'm hoping there's a lot I"m missing. I know I can edit the side bar, icon, and banner. Make the community public or private and there's a "mod posting only" option. But is that it?
Some things I'm wondering about,
- can I turn downvotes off or is that an instance only thing? (fan community, off topic would just be removed)
- Is there any other way to manipulate the community page like backgrounds etc?
- Flair's or post tags? Any community settings I looked over?
- Allowing or disallowing bots (again is this an instance thing?)
I'm fine with what it is, just wanted to make sure there wasn't more I was missing with my options in the community.
Bonus question, besides crossposting and the "new communities" community sections, is there anything else I should do with a fresh community?
- Lemmy RSS: retrieving more than 20 items
Hi Lemmy friends,
Is there any way to have Lemmy's community RSS feeds provide more than 20
<item>
tags at a time? Can I add a querystring variable to get the next page or two of data?Background on what I'm trying to do: I run the Movie, TV and Game trailers community. I'd like to create a simple website / landing page that displays an ongoing roll of the latest/top/hot trailers posted to the community.
I can use the community's RSS feed for this, but the feed only includes a maximum of 20 entries (for an average end-to-end runtime of about one hour). I'd really like to get the next few pages of entries as well.
Thanks!
- When will join-lemmy.org/apps be updated?
This still seems like the #1 entry port for folks who are new to Lemmy, but it is pretty out of date. It still recommends Combustible, which never had a stable release (Oct 1, 2023 Alpha 0.1.1), lemmyBB, with no known instances (Apr 24, 2023), Lunar, which never left Testflight (Dec 12, 2023), and the same for Memmy (Nov 6, 2023).
At the same time it is missing lots of recent apps, such as Connect, Interstellar, Arctic, or Tesseract.
Would it be possible to use a tool similar to LemmyApps or the API to keep the list updated automatically?
- Is there a way to contact a mod about a post deletion?`
If someone's post is deleted, and the modlogs don't specify who performed the action (instead it is a generic name like "admin"), how can the user discuss that deletion if they have a rationale for why it should not have been deleted?
- FAQ on the join-lemmy.org
I love Lemmy and I try to spread the info about it but almost always I face one issue - people being confused. For me (and probably you) it's hard to understand what's confusing about the way Lemmy works, I mean email works on the same principle and everyone's ok with it. It basically boils down to like 3 questions:
- Why do I need to choose a server?
- What is the server / instance? / Is server a subreddit?
- Is Lemmy the same thing like Reddit?
So my idea: Could we put it as a FAQ on the join-lemmy.org? Feel free to submit best answers to these questions (I try to submit mine later when I have some time). Or come up with other frequent questions you heard
- How do you report spam?
I've been receiving direct messages with pretty much the same contents from different accounts for a few months now. The contents include a question which I answered but the messages keep coming. I tried to report this using Jerboa's built-in functionality but I always got an error "Report deleted". Can I do something about it or I'll just keep receiving the messages until I create a new account?
- A few questions
This time my question is, how long does it take for the Lemmy server I just set up to finish federation? What does the "allowed instances" list do in the admin settings? Does it allow the Lemmy server to only connect to those instances or is it a list of the starting instances from which it federates to others?
- Youtube links pull in odd information, and no thumbnails.
Until a few days ago I was posting youtube links, and the thumbnail and link description would be filled in automatically.
Now, there's no thumbnail image and instead of the youtube preview text for my linked video, its some generic youtube stuff in french:
> - YouTube www.youtube.com Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Something broke?
- Instance Owners: Do Not Use Lemmy-Thumbnail-Cleaner
cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/1465956
> If you are using https://github.com/wereii/lemmy-thumbnail-cleaner please stop and disable it as soon as possible. > > We have found a security issue that allows any user to make LTC delete any locally hosted image. > > I will be posting more details soon and editing this to include the information.
E: https://github.com/wereii/lemmy-thumbnail-cleaner/issues/10
- Asking for help, I deployed lemmy using docker and deployed lemmy on the onion network, but I found that the picture of lemmy will expose my IP address. What should I do?
Asking for help, I deployed lemmy using docker and deployed lemmy on the onion network, but I found that the picture of lemmy will expose my IP address. What should I do? Tor runs on Linux and lemmy is in docker. I can deploy lemmy on onion normally, but the pictrs pictures cannot go through the onion network.
- Is there a way to block a community without going to it's page?
Hi, I am new to Lemmy and I just need help with something kinda QoL-ish. Is it possible to look at a post on the homepage IE http://lemmy.ca, and block the community it is coming from?
I don't want to have to manually click on the community and go to its page every time I want to block one. Is there like an extension or a specific UI mode that lets you do this? Thanks!
- [solved] Checking admin status of user via the API
Sorry if this is the wrong community, not sure where else to post the question, and I'd rather avoid creating an issue over on Github.
Is there a way to check if a federated user is an administrator via the API?
.get_person_details()
will have the admin field set to false for all other than local admins and.get_community()
only reveals the list of moderators.I know I could scrape the admin list from the main page html, but scraping html is prone to errors if an instance uses an alternative frontend or the frontend is updated. Getting the data via the API should be a more stable solution.
Based on #3703 it seems like a decent chance that this information isn't currently exposed to federated instances though?
- Support set url from posts of other fediverse softwares (ej mastodon, mitra, akkoma...)
Support set url from posts of other fediverse softwares (ej mastodon, mitra, akkoma...)
Hello!
In the last few days I have been testing to create news posts in Lemmy communities from Mastodon and Mitra.
I have seen that the posts are created correctly, setting the title with the first line of the post, but the url is not set correctly, it puts all the content in the body, but the attached url is not set. Would there be any way to extract the url from the body to be able to set it, as is done with the title?
I attach examples:
Post created from Lemmy with url in lemmy: https://scribe.disroot.org/api/v3/post?id=532812 Post created from Mastodon without url in lemmy: https://scribe.disroot.org/api/v3/post?id=532812
- 0.19.4 Prerequisites
The release notes for 0.19.4 mention that this version requires an upgrade to both pictrs and postgres, but there isn't any information about what versions of those are supported. Is there someplace else I should be looking for this information? Or should I just YOLO with the latest version of each?
- Does lemmy have a 'Multi-lemmy' feature?
The R site has such a feature, which can allow one to group posts from many communities into one feed. With many communities on different instances with similar topics, it'd be useful to group them to avoid separate visits to each community.
Does lemmy have such an option? If not, are there any lemmy clients that can provides a similar option? Or are there known workarounds, maybe with the rss feeds or so?
- 0.19.5: edits to community sidebar mangle shields.io-linked badges
Over at !music@midwest.social we've got a sidebar with a "total subscribers" shields.io badge, like many other communities all over the Lemmyverse do. I made a simple, non-badge-related edit to the sidebar and due to what seems an aggressive image proxy, the shields.io badge address gets mangled after the edit is saved.
This is "Community Info" from !music@midwest.social on Jerboa. At the bottom of the screen is the midwest.social/api/v3/image_proxy image.
This is "Community Info" from !detroit@midwest.social on Jerboa, as an example of a working badge. At the bottom the screen is the working shields.io badge.
The pre-save preview shows everything as should be. It's only when the edit is saved does the badge address get mangled.
I contacted our fearless leader, @seahorse@midwest.social, and he changed an image proxy setting. Now !music@midwest.social works as it should. Any further details or information in regards should be asked of him. Thanks. *** Workers of The World...Relax! !detroit@midwest.social ☆ !michigan@midwest.social ☆ !music@midwest.social
- [SOLVED] Postgres using a lot of CPU since update
EDIT: It seems to have been fixed thanks to @graycube@lemmy.world. Running
analyze verbose;
in postgres.After updating to 0.19.5 from 0.19.3 my postgres is often using up 500%+ of CPU according to docker stats and often going to 100% CPU on most cores according to htop. Also noticed in the uptime monitor: !
htop shows one of the 5 postgres processes constantly on UPDATE. I think this might be part of the problem.
I'm not comfortable with postgres and am honestly completely in the dark how or where to mitigate or even pinpoint this issue.
Any help would be appreciated.