Small things like ‘Auto expand media’ being set to true, can have a huge impact on user retention rate.

The vast majority of people never open or change default settings in the social media they use.

When they try out Lemmy etc., and the defaults aren’t great a lot of them will have a bad User Experience and leave.

I’m a IT professional, and joined Lemmy a few months ago, the UX sucked, most of that could have been fixed by having good defaults in place.

I powered through, but I won’t recommend Lemmy to many of my friends or family because I know they will give up due to too much friction in finding the right settings and how things work.

For the Fediverse to succeed focus needs to be put on giving people a very smooth UX from first opening a app or page, to finding enjoyment seeing and engaging with content.

Thoughts?

It seems like running a pictrs server is optional when running Lemmy. I'm trying to figure out if a given instance supports pictrs.

I see in the documentation for pictrs, there is a GET /healthz endpoint. However when I try to access https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/healthz for example it gives me a 404. Even tho I know that Lemmy.ml has a pictrs server.

What is the best way to determine if a Lemmy server has pictrs?

Hello everyone! 🎉

I’ve created an RSS Feed Bot that automates sharing news in Lemmy and Fediverse channels, helping to keep Fediverse users better informed. The bot is written in Python3 and can easily run via Docker Compose.

Hope you find it useful! 🚀

#Lemmy #Fediverse #RSS #Python #Docker #Automation #OpenSource

Is there a way to determine if a user sign-up application is pending solely based on the server instance URL and the username?

It looks like even when the application is pending the profile page is created and is live. So that doesn’t really help me determine that.

Is there a way to get a list of users subscribed to a given Lemmy community? Trying to do some Lemmy wide data analysis using that information.

Or alternatively, is there a way to get a list of communities a given user is subscribed to?

I'm using lemmy-js-client for app development. I want to render comments in the nested form (like normal people do).

The problem is, the lemmy backend spits out comment lists in a fashion that is unfriendly for nested rendering. Why? It outputs comments whose paths are like follows (for example):

0.1.2.3.4

0.1.2.1

0.1.2.3.4.5

0.1.3.1.5

0.1

Let's say the limit that I've set here is 10. Many a times, the parent comments of the comments in the page are out of the page.

For example, let's say I asked lemmy for comments for a given post. It gives me an output like above. There are many children comments here on page 1 (like 0.1.2.1, 0.1.2.3.4 and so on). Their parent (0.1.2) is NOT on this page. It is on the page that follows.

Hence, I would need to do client side bs to get the correct parent comments.

What is your approach for doing the above?

This is what I have settled for now unfortunately. I fetch all the comments under a post and then convert them in my nested form. This

I'm trying to follow the instructions at https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/

I get the error message: {"error":"Unable to fetch key JSON at https://<domain>/actor"}

The actor file is located at: /var/www/<subdomain>/actor

that contains:

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{
    "@context": [
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
        "https://w3id.org/security/v1"
    ],

    "id": "https://<domain>/actor",
    "type": "Person",
    "preferredUsername": "alice",
    "inbox": "https://<domain>/inbox",

    "publicKey": {
        "id": "https://<domain>/actor#main-key",
        "owner": "https://<domain>/actor",
        "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAnioC3W5cHbHLo+ln4QPm\n6EX1Ypvs5h+h47b5RwhF+2N84dSHXURUuA6a33+IlVqiO/3gGxIX+4MJuSDAxGZM\nWFDbuqDnHft2zWorKmIqyDzSSB/oMSqOVL8QV1KYWsCyhw9v2l5U6EIw2Z7u3Fc9\nW19dumK0ieL7CPME2dJGV5quBoa2AGg0D36XCp8hAWMXGUnlEcaqjyePJg9/quZn\no3W/+h5ujoUQG73SIUaJdsK16Q0E7
  

I’ve updated @[email protected] to remember the whole tree of comments when replying to you, so it can do follow-up responses. You still have to mention it on every message, though. Example in the comments.

There's now a swagger documentation for the Lemmy API.

See also https://mv-gh.github.io/lemmy_openapi_spec/

I just implemented a user overview of mixed posts and comments, but I'm unsure how to do so while respecting sort (hot, new, old, etc.). Currently I merge the user's comments and posts into a list, then sort them all by timestamp.

Because sorting is handled on the server, and merging posts/comments happens after, I can't see how I can't respect sort and still merge the two sets. Does anyone have any pointers?

I expect a similar issue would arise for the unified inbox view also (replies, mentions, and private messages), although in that case there's less need to sort by anything other than recency.

EDIT: here's the relevant ts code in the official lemmy ui. it sorts by date if sort is new, which i already do, then otherwise it just sorts by "score".

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/blob/79ed5903354067636f5eb9686ff0a005117bc541/src/shared/components/person/person-details.tsx#L245

I recall someone mentioning a way to do it through an ActivityPub “resolve object” endpoint (or something like that) but I couldn’t find anything on it again. #1101 will solve this, but how are you guys handling this in the meantime?

So I'm developing a mobile client using React Native, where I'm utilizing Lemmy's messaging functionality as well. This makes it extremely crucial to have notification support (including push notifications).

How are you guys dealing with this problem? This is what I think an elegant solution could look like. We would need to achieve two things:

1. Bring back websockets only for notifications by directly changing lemmy server side code.
2. Find where the email notification code is at, and simply implement expo notifications there.

Whaddya think?

currently my client displays child comments/replies to a given comment based on a get-comments request and the sort arg. if a child comment is returned by such a request, it will be included as part of the tree, but otherwise not. it means the child is subject to sorting itself.

but what is needed is that if a parent comment is displayed/returned by request/sort arg, all its children should be also. that seems to me to be how the webUI works also.

any tips on how to ensure that?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6770347

This is a very small update, but hopefully it's helpful! As I mentioned in the last update, I'm a little tied up with other commitments right now, so I haven't had a chance to implement the other features on the to-do list. This one was requested the other day, and it was simple to add since I could reuse a lot of existing code.

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Links:

• Firefox Add-on
• Chrome Extension
• Edge Add-on (waiting as of 2023-10-09)
• GitHub

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::: spoiler ❓ What is Instance Assistant?

If you're new to Instance Assistant, it is a browser extension with a c

My Lemmy Schedule app now includes the option to get notified of new posts in a specific community!

In case you haven't heard about the app before, here's what other things it can do:

• schedule a post and post it to multiple communities
  • you can upload an image as well and choose between uploading to your Lemmy instance or to Imgur
• create a recurring post that gets posted at a specific date and time (especially useful for daily/weekly/monthly/end-of-month threads)
• schedule pinning and unpinning of posts (instance and community)
  • the pinning and unpinning can be specified as part of creating a post
• the aforementioned notifications about unread posts from a specific community (useful for mods)
  • can be also set using a recurring schedule, so you can get the report daily/weekly/monthly etc.

To learn more, visit the [email protected] community.

P.S. It's open source and can be [se

I’d love to host my own Lemmy server but I’m just a script kiddie

Where are you all finding details on what features are included in each version of lemmy-js-client?

I hope this is allowed, if not, I'll delete the post, I just wanted to share some stats of my bot because I'm quite excited about them.

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  Comments   Upvotes   Downvotes   Negative comments count   Positive comments count   Neutral comments count  
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  2769       13734     426         0                         2769                      0                       
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Note that the bots default upvote is not considered for the stats. Positive comments are those where there's more upvotes than downvotes, neutral ones are those where downvotes and upvotes are the same and negative are when the comment has more downvotes than upvotes.