How do I participate on Lemmy instances outside my own?

If it's already discovered (see the next section on that) you can go directly by URL in this format. https://yourlemmy.server/c/coolcommunity@coolserver.com or by searching for coolcommunity in the search bar. You will stay logged in with your home server this way but can vote, comment, post using your current identity on that other server meaning you don't need a separate account. Neat right?

Discovering: Hey I can't see [x] newly started community on my server! I can't find [y] popular community from my small server! What gives? (IMPORTANT)

Some communities might not appear from All, until any logged in user of that server searches for it in the lemmy-ui (web) searchbar.

For example, to "discover" coolcommunity @coolserver.com from instance yourlemmy.server, you would type "!coolcommunity@coolserver.com" within yourlemmy.server's search bar and wait 10 seconds. Ensure that community has at least one post that can sync, and even then it may take a while to actually appear in some cases. If you set the filter to "communities", enter the community in that format and press search and nothing happens, that means it is discovered. If it says No results, try again after 10 seconds, check that you have spelled and formatted correctly.

That causes your server to "discover" it and will start syncing posts and be searchable and also available on apps like Jerboa. Only after it is discovered can you use a URL link to it in this format: https://yourlemmy.server/c/coolcommunity@coolserver.com I coined the term discovering here but in essence it's initiating federation and post-fetching from that community.

I signed up but nothing happened/Some notification came up but I missed it. What do I do next?

This server has a manual approval process. Usually requests are approved within 30 minutes but it can take up to 12 hours to get approved. Try logging in after an hour, if it works you are successfully registered. You won't get any notification at all of your approval unless you inquire about your application through outside channels like the monero matrix rooms.

How do I find more communities?

The communities page or searching for communities.

Help! Why can't I see any/many posts and comments on an active thread?

Check your Language settings. Select English, Undetermined and your native language(s) using Ctrl+Click in the webui.

Where are the "Hot" and Important posts on Lemmy?

Whichever server you decide with, you can use the All page from the home of your server, sort by Hot, New, Active. Just keep in mind again, if your server has few "discovered" communities you won't see much outside your own server. Subscribe to major, active communities that you might be interested in then you can look in your "Subscribed" page as your feed for buzzing posts.

Statspage on number of Lemmy users etc.?

Sure! FediDB, this page is also useful to find new servers to join.

Anything else I need to know?

Please be careful with what you share on the internet. This should be common sense as even content on Reddit can be archived before deletion.

This post is based on this Lemmy FAQ.

I hope everyone here is having a great time on Lemmy!

I'm excited to see Lemmy have more adoption and interest. However, I'm running into some issues where my account on this instance is unable to see and join communities on some other servers.

What main Lemmy servers is this server federated with? What main ones are we not federated with?

Since the only option here is undetermined, users can't select any other languages in their own settings.

This works fine for posts on this instance, but it means we can't view posts on any other instance that have been tagged with any language other than undetermined, including English.

Upvotes, downvotes, comments are available to the general public.

For IP logs is it only the admin of the instance account is created on that could view it? Or is it also the mods on the instance? Can every other admin or mod from another instance view the information?

What about for saves and messages?

By default admins of each instance can access everything from accounts that were created there, but unsure of the access available to everyone else. Would be fun to learn what federation with other instances and participating in them reveals to the admins/mods of those other instances.

As some of you may have noticed, monero.town was only available for people signed into a Lemmy mobile app for the past few days.

It looks like the Lemmy software had a bug that was exploited to DoS instances which of course happened on evening #1 of Monerokon. In an attempt to fix this DoS issue, I upgraded to Lemmy version 18 which required additional, badly documented changes to the config. Since I didn't have a laptop with me, there wasn't all that much I could do besides the initial analysis. That is why it took until today for me to fix the issue. I hope this wasn't too big of an inconvenience to anyone 😅

Lemmy is still very new software and these are some of the growing pains. Please be reassured that I won't randomly abandon monero.town and will do my very best to never have to do another migration like house->town again.

When i attempt to load monero.town from firefox i get "server error". I tried in a private tab to see if my login cookie may have something to do with it, but nope. The server clearly works on the back end as i can load and respond to posts just fine

When will the upgrade be done here? I know jerboa 0.0.35 requires this version to not throw errors

Hey @admin, just thought you should know, when I updated my Jerboa app to 0.0.35 I got this message.

What causes this and is there anything I can do about it?

I think the sidebar is missing some relevant information, particularly the links and wallets section. I propose it be replaced with something like this.

Information

• Website
• Monero GitHub
• Monero StackExchange
• Bounties
• Matrix Rooms

Wallets

A list of popular wallets can be found here.

Mining

The easiest way to get started with mining is by following the Gupax guide. More advanced users can read How to mine on p2pool.

Exchanging

A list of popular exchanges and swaps can be found here.

I only ask because I've noticed more than 3 posts are either hidden or gone. I'm assuming I haven't already got banned in some way, but I'm also kinda confused how this lemmy federation crap works. Can I sub to non-monero lemmy communities with this profile or do I have to host my own instance to do that? sorry for being smolbrain

I searched for a possible /r/monero alternative to see where monero people from reddit might have gone and then had come across this thread

https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/13vxry6/addressing_a_misunderstanding_my_misguided/

This comment has been removed in protest of the Reddit API changes of June 2023. Consider visiting https://monero.town for a privacy preserving alternative to Reddit.

The default theme now fills more of the screen on desktop and makes it easier to follow comment chains.

If you are logged in, you can now select from three new Monero-colored themes:

• Lemmy_Orange
• Lemmy_Orange_dark
• Monero-Town_dark

In case you didn't know, Lemmy let's you use all kinds of custom themes via browser-exertions if you don't like the current selection. You can check out some pre-made ones here :)

Storage is one of the biggest concerns in regards to instance resource usage, the new config should significantly improve storage efficiency via the following:

• Uploads are now limited to a maximum of 1 MB
• All uploads will now automatically be converted to the webp format and original file is discarded

I could build it, but I don't currently have a VPS or other server to run it. A bot that posted whenever Revuo Monero, The Monero Standard, etc would go a long way towards making this place the only place you need to go for Monero news and information.

If you still have a reddit account I would suggest option 4. However I can't vote since I already purged mine. https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/149nnrd/vote_on_the_future_of_the_monero_subreddit/

If you’re considering leaving Reddit, consider also salting the earth on your way out!

Check out PowerDeleteSuite, a plugin that can edit/delete posts in a user’s history. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

Just follow the install instructions on the page and let it rip. You can act on or exempt specific subs, act on age, exempt by status, etc. It will also export deleted and modified comments to a CSV for your own use.

I nuked my accounts, editing most comments to “This comment has been removed in protest of the Reddit API changes of June 2023. Consider visiting https://monero.town for a privacy preserving alternative to Reddit.”

This new theme makes posts more readable and leaves less empty room. It is also orange colored!

To enable, go to the top right, to settings and select Lemmy_orange!

Improved darkmode theme is the next goal.

This post was edited, the orange theme didnt work well with mobile and thus isn't the default anymore :)

Yo, sup! I have some quick questions about Federation and Lemmy.

1. How are the comments that I make on other instances stored? Are they stored on the monero.town instance, and only accessible to other instances when they connect to monero.town?

2. If so, does that mean that the rules for this instance apply across all the lemmy instances I interact with (because all my comments end up getting hosted on this instance)?

For some reason i am totally unabl to subscribe to any lemmy.ml communities. I just get a "subscribe pending" message.

Thanks to your anonymous Monero donations we are now running on a server powerfull enough to properly support the Monero community and have a domain that isn't blocked on half the internet <3