Q: What is Lemmy?
A: Lemmy is a self-hosted FOSS Reddit alternative that is a part of the “Fediverse”. Lemmy gives us the freedom & full control over our community, unlike Reddit.
Q: What is the Fediverse?
A: Think of email - no matter which email provider you use, you are still able to seamlessly communicate with others who don’t share the same provider. The Fediverse (or “Fedi”) is basically the same concept, but for social media. The Fediverse is a collection of thousands of independent social media servers that communicate with each other seamlessly. This means that the millions of users on these servers can interact with each other as if they were on a single social network.
Q: What is the point of this Lemmy instance?
A: This Lemmy instance was created to provide a home for those migrating from Reddit, it’s a general lemmy instance that welcomes (almost) everything including piracy and NSFW.
Q: How do I join?
A:
- Register an account on https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/signup
- Login, and then join communities!
You may create an account on any of the instances we federate with, and interact with our instance and communities. The list of the servers we currently federate with: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances
Q: I’m new to this and I’m still very confused about all this where can I learn more?
A: You can find a collection of beginner’s guides here.
Q: How do I make a community on FMHY’s instance?
A: Just click create communiity and follow the basic setup.
Q: Why is my feed empty? How do I see other communities from other instances?
A: Communities will only show in ‘All’ of you instance if someone in that instance has searched and subscribed to it. Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.
Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and we’ll do our best to answer as soon as possible.
Hi! I’m getting an error when trying to upload photos to my communities:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data, and in the console is a 400 Bad Request, with the error:Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out. I posted in the lemmy-net github repo issues forum, but wondering if anyone has any ideas here. I see that others have been able to post images recently during the time that I have been unable to, but I also have other users replying to me that they have the same issue, so it is really a puzzling problem. I and others have previously had no issues uploading photos.Yeah we’ve been scratching our head for days about this, still trying to fix it, sorry for the inconvenience :(
edit: its been fixed :D
I’m in the same boat, would love a solution to this.
It’s been fixed :)
Blessed admin
F to pay respects. It broke again.
Trying to fix it :/
We fixed it!
I am trying to add a community that doesn’t exist when I search for it.
I heard something about I need to be the first one looking for it and joining it for it to get indexed and for other ppl to be able to find it.
How do I do that?
also this is a tedious process and in the long run a simpler process for this would be better…
You need to search instance on which community was created and copy-paste it’s full name (i.e @freemediahechyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml) into search on your instance.
that doesn’t work for me. If I put it into the search it just doesn’t find it.
things I tried:
“@freemediahechyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml” “freemediahechyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml” “!freemediahechyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml”
There’s a typo in that community name. It should be “heck”, not “hech”. Search for !freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml
you are absolutely right and thats a stupid typo.
I’ve found that each explanation I read kind of helped me understand; it took the totality of all them before it finally clicked. So I’m going to copy and paste my explanation that I shared with someone else, in hopes that it helps to further understanding. Some people grasp concepts differently, so I offered a new explanation.
Let’s pretend there are three different websites: reddit.com, feddit.com, and seddit.com. Each one has its own subreddits:
These three websites can browse ALL of the other sites’ subreddits. On reddit.com you can browse and comment reddit.com/r/funny, feddit.com/r/funny, and seddit.com/r/funny, even though these three subreddits are entirely different from each other and not linked in any way. These subreddits are known as communities. Now it doesn’t matter whether you sign up on reddit, feddit, or seddit, since they can all browse ALL of the communities.
Now to expand on that just a tad: reddit, feddit, and seddit will still have their own rules, permissions, and such since they’re independent of each other. These distinguishing factors are (as far as I know) the only reason to choose one over another. Maybe server speed and some other factors.
The usernames reflect where you signed up. If I signed up on feddit, my username would be guitarded@feddit.com
Hope that helps. I’ve found that once you understand lemmy, the explanations are more complicated than the actual setup itself.
Nice write up.
Thanks a lot, this really helped.
Cheers mate, this helped
For those trying to use jebora, you have to copy and paste fmhy instance in as it isn’t currently listed (unless it has been changed)
Hi, I’m interested in running an instance myself. Would be interesting what your load and (growing of) storage usage is roughly to get a picture of it. Your instance is (still) snappy, I like it.
Currently unsure what our storage would be since we’re currently having an issue with image uploads :( but we reached about 5.2 gigabytes before it stopped working.
Is there a way to display thumbnails of NSFW content by default? Whenever I browse my feed the thumbnails are blurred out and I need to manually click on it to show the content.
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I see, maybe upstream will come up with a solution sometime?
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how do I join communities hosted on other instances from the android app?
Type the name of the community in the search bar
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We don’t keep logs for more than a few days but we also use cloudflare so that’s just something to keep in mind.
Ftw FMHY!!
❤️
Hello everyone. This is my first post in Lemmy. Does anyone have a client they’re using and recommend? Asking for either PC or Android. Thank you.
Right now I’m using wefwef.app (web app)
I am using Connect for Lemmy. I’m new here but I like it better so far than using a web browser.
Bit late to the party but I’m using Jerboa… I’m amazed at how many clients there are already, though
Recently migrated and waiting for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
Here’s a link of every single one maybe…
Theirs is also Liftoff! https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff
Is it possible for an instance to die/get wiped out and then you lose your account totally?
If the instance admins decide to shutdown yes but the content should still be cached iirc or the service that the instance runs on shutdowns / shuts the instance down
But you would lose your account too?
Essentially yes, you wouldn’t be able to login. Hopefully lemmy devs make migration easy between instances like mastodon.
Makes me wonder if this was the best instance to make my account on lol
Our instance won’t be shutting down :)
Yes, but I believe there are plans to add a feature to Lemmy that allows ‘backing up’ an account among instances
hello FMHY, here is my first message to lemmy
I can’t seem to login from other android browsers, currently I’ve logged in when I first signed up. When I enter my credentials it (the login button) just spins indefinitely.
Still having trouble?
I just checked and it’s still not logging in. I tried incognito, other browsers.
are you using your username and password ?
Yes username and password, I haven’t added my email
did you add the proper instance?
Yeah at https://lemmy.fmhy.ml
Hmm strange
You may create an account on any of the instances we federate with, and interact with our instance and communities. The list of the servers we currently federate with: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances
By default are we federated with all other instances? Is there a general list most communities use? Or is it all manually entered one way or the other?
We federate with some of the most popular ones and any ones that were added by users who searched for communities and found it on another instance.
edit: federation happens almost “automatically” basically, someone please correct me if I am wrong :)
Thanks for the response! So if I search something like !fallout@lemmy.world other people would get Fallout related content in their all section?
yep
I cannot see the vote counts, both in the official website, as well as the jerboa app. Is this normal? How to fix it/when will it be fixed?
Hey could you show a screenshot please
Make sure you’re logged in and viewing it from the instance you made the account on, it doesn’t show vote counts for logged out users.
