The place for announcements and other official communication about this Lemmy instance.
How to use Lemmy
A (hopefully not as complicated as the others) introduction to Lemmy
Notice: Spam campaigns targeting Lemmy providers are already happening, so we are currently requiring manual approval. Please cut me some slack, I need to sleep occasionally.
You have just signed up to Lemmy. Congratulations, welcome to the club. At this point, you should click the name of the provider you're on (at the top-left-most part of the registration page) and bookmark it to your browser. This is where you will be browsing Lemmy from now on. Now you will need to wait for the admin (me) to approve your account, this will likely take less than 24 hours, and usu
NRDLemmI will require captcha until further notice.
It is currently possible, through Lemmy’s API, to create accounts automatically and without limit if verification by email address or captcha is not activated. I’d advise you to activate one or both of them NOW! After registering x number of accounts (currently I could do thousands), all you have to...
Apparently Lemmy's user creation API is wide open, making it trivial to make accounts en-masse. This should not be a huge issue as this instance requires an application to be filled out to create an account.
To reduce likelihood of such accounts being made and overwhelming my ability to review applications captcha will be enabled until this issue is fixed. The difficulty is currently set to "Medium", which may be adjusted.
I am guessing this will be fixed in the upcoming 0.18 update which has several significant changes, some of which may require some downtime to apply. Details of what that update entails are currently not clear, including the timeline for its release.
NRDLemmI is open for business
So... it's pretty easy to create a Lemmy instance. Hopefully the community grows (or it at least scratches some of that Reddit itch I am recovering from) and is worth maintaining in the longer term.