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What is Lemmy?...

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What is Lemmy?...

I host my own Lemmy instance and have a user account on it that I use everywhere (I don't host local communities, I just use it as a home for my Lemmy user account). I needed to re-home my Lemmy server, and though it's a docker installation, copying the /var/lib/docker/volumes/lemmy_* directories to the new installation didn't...

always wondered this, but kept forgetting to post it...

This is just to followup from my prior post on latencies increasing with increasing uptime (see here)....

I've been pondering why there seems to be an abundance of options for instances to customize user experiences, while users themselves have limited control over their own preferences. Features like instance blocking and enabling/disabling downvotes can make it challenging to find an instance that aligns perfectly with your...

Today I deleted my Reddit account....

Just a general observation I've made in my time on lemmy.ml, which I figure is attributable to lemmy the software, that may or may not be useful....

It recently struck me recently that a number of users mostly scroll the All feed. This came up in a conversation where people were discussing how their main usage of lemmy was to scroll All and then rely entirely on blocking to refine their feed....

Sometimes you post on Lemmy and it gets a level of traction that you were unprepared for. Right now, that just ends up filling your inbox. It would be nice if we could mute posts and then no responses would be sent to the inbox and everyone else can continue their discussions.

I'm really confused here. I was kind of freaking out for 10 minutes because all the posts on my Lemmy account on the lemm.ee instance from the last 7 months completely vanished out of thin air on my profile....

If you write a plugin, let me know how it goes!...

In this case, it's one specific channel: https://diode.zone/c/andybalaam_lectures/videos?s=1. That is, !andybalaam_lectures. It's run by @andybalaam / @andybalaam...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15109471...

Hi. So when I'm watching a tv show or movie, and it hits me in the feels, I will think something like "Oh, this movie is wholesome, or this tv show is wholesome" Even if it has swearing in it, as long as the message is a good one. I've been on Lemmy now a couple days, and I rate lemmy super-duper wholesome. Maybe it was the...

User count has plateaued at about 420K...

Hello,...

Everyone knows what they want to improve in their software. However, I am opening this post to raise awareness on this issue. It’s just a humble request....

!generative...

Is there any plan or timeline to support in-line >!spoiler!< text?...

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/9436237...

If a comment or post gets reported, I can think of a number of different groups who might see that report:...

Or do I need to save all the interesting posts I want to be able to find again?...