According to fedidb.org, lemm.ee is hosted in the US. But according to the admins, it is hosted in Finland (https://lemm.ee/post/57870549). Why the discrepancy?

Recently I was simultaneously banned from a huge pile of "communities" with a mod commentary "for upvoting homophobic materials"(or "transphonic", I don't remember exactly). This kind of bans is the very reason why I quit Reddit. Is it normal here, or is it just some feral mod from Reddit?

P.S. Before you sidestep/offtop/ad-hominem here: no, I have nothing against LGBT folk and absolutely not interested in the theme.

Hello, we thought this sudden surge in sign-up requests might have surprised you, so we're writing this message.

We've migrated to Lemmy after being forced out of a Korean community similar in theme to r/Piracy. Since there were around 2,800 users who were meaningfully active, the sudden increase in sign-ups might have looked like a raid.

This instance happened to be the first one we found, which is why sign-ups were made here. As we couldn’t find clear rules on DMCA and such for lemm.ee, most of our activity will be happening on another instance.

If we’ve violated any lemm.ee rules, or if this instance isn’t appropriate for our community, or if there’s any other reason we may not be welcome here, please let us know in advance.

Thank you.

cross-posted from: https://hackertalks.com/post/8713785

The instances being used are

• lemmy.doesnotexist.club
• chinese.lol

Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting https://hackertalks.com/post/8692093

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today

But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

Current downvoting Accounts :::spoiler bot-list

LightIsland@chinese.lol MagnificentRow@chinese.lol FondKnowledge@chinese.lol SillyTowel95@chinese.lol HelplessDear@chinese.lol SomberBrain@chinese.lol InexperiencedCloset@chinese.lol NecessaryPerson11@chinese.lol ClosedEmployment@chinese.lol CoarseHair420@chinese.lol BurlyChampionship49@chinese.lol ZigzagNatural@chinese.lol QuestionableDirt@chinese.lol ProudDeparture@lemmy.doesnotexist.club J

I feel like if this was in place, it would neatly solve the issue of people not posting because they can't find a fitting community.

A user or a mod spots an incorrectly submitted post, the user that posted it can then move it to a suggested "general" community, or a specific community, possibly suggested by those who spotted the error. A mod could also do it. Maybe just have a default alternative to remove that sends it straight to a preset general community.

I don't know how many communities on Lemmy regularly remove incorrectly submitted posts that are otherwise unproblematic, but if there's a decent amount it could be essentially redirected to be a bit of a unique and interesting, very varied content stream.

I personally think it's unfortunate whenever an otherwise decent user ends up being rejected for not knowing exactly how to fit their submission into the platform. Certainly a lot of that happening on reddit.

I'm thinking if this is practical and feasible, it could give Lem

Can somebody please tell me how lemmy implements auth? If I sign-up to an instance, who manages the login credentials for my account to validate login attempts? If it's with the instance manager, am I at the mercy of the instance to keep my login credentials safe? What about when logging in with 3rd party apps like voyager or alexandrite, are my login credentials passed to those 3rd party apps in clear text to validate with the instance that hosts my account.

Ideally, I would want the auth to be handled by one centralized authority that I can trust to keep my credentials safe, instead of trusting instance managers or 3rd party apps not only to store my credentials but to validate auth as well. Is that something that can be implemented for each ActivityPub software? As in auth for all instances of lemmy is handled by lemmy, mastodon by mastodon, misskey by misskey, etc.

E: I'm talking about user authentication, in case that wasn't clear.

E2: This discussion would be more suited on

The content on here went straight into the garbage the moment they were allowed back. I'm sure I'm not alone in demanding they be defederated again immediately. They serve no positive purpose.

Like modlogs, except you can actually see what is going on behind the scenes and whether the reasons given for each form of disciplinary action corresponds.

As far as I can see Lemmy supports hidden communities. But my community on lemme.ee only supports visibility public or local.

I would like to set it to hidden, to avoid its posts appearing in the feeds of users who aren't subscribed.

The reason is to avoid bothering users with my community posts which they probably don't want to see. A post already got a downvote from a user not in my community, probably because they didn't want to see such things in their feed.

Is it possible to make a community hidden from unsubscribed users' feeds on lemme.ee?

Every time I try to upload an image, I receive an error stating that my account is too recent to upload images.

I understand the mechanism, but I couldn't find anywhere what the threshold is.

Additionally, I noticed this restriction also applies to community logo/banner, which is a bit more restrictive.

Just figured I’d share this here for informational purposes.

(image is credit to my co-mod's active series "Concept Art for James Cameron’s The Abyss, by Mœbius")

Okay, let's see if I can explain this another way:

To be clear-- any post with a lead image previously sourced to Imgur content seemed to change around half a year ago, no longer showing up as an expandable thumbnail as usual, but instead just showing a generic 'offsite' link icon, which needed to be clicked an extra time in order to see the actual content. Example:

https://lemm.ee/post/40626407

...In which the popup image content still works in the body of the post, but not via the lead* thumbnail, which... is fairly important for users browsing their streams, no?

Anyway, it just hit me that this issue now appears to be dealt with, at least on Lemm.ee! :D

CAVEAT 1: older, Imgur lead-sourced posts still appear to be broken in this way across the "LV," not unlike how image content was broken a ~year ago via the auto-added 'image proxy tags' by the Lemmy software. P

Hey folks!

For the past few hours, lemm.ee has been bombarded with abnormal (almost definitely automated) traffic from a range of different IP addresses. This managed to overwhelm our servers, and we were offline for the past hour or so.

I was in the middle of celebrating my birthday, so response was a bit slow, but I believe we are recovering now, with mitigations in place to try and prevent further issues. Some of you may be inconvenienced by some bot checks when you browse lemm.ee, I am sorry about that, but it's necessary for now.

Sorry for the issues and I hope you have a nice weekend ahead!

Hi everybody, I'm new to lemmy and I was wondering if it is possible to change UI design of lemm.ee on desktop ? On my smartphone I'm using Eternity, which is perfect, and I saw a nice layout on desktop called photon but I don't know if lemm.ee support it.

Thanks a lot

I want to create AI communities from reddit and ask the community members to switch to lemmy.

The communites from reddit that I want to create on reddit are r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, r/Grok etc.

Which instance would be suitable for it? Is lemm.ee big enough to handle an influx of users? Or should I use lemmy.world since they're going to be global users interested in AI?

I've recently noticed that posts by users from feddit.org (but not on communities on that instance) have pics that don't load, and when I try to open the image separately, I get a connection timed out error.

These two posts are where I noticed it first. Is it just me?