Lemmy / Site Discussions

I'm new to this service, but it looks like a romising replacement for Reddit. Hope it'll prosper!

What is bookwormstory.social

bookwormstory.social is a server that hosts Lemmy software that mimics behavior of reddit. It enables community to host Our own place for discussion about Ascendance of a Bookworm. But it is more than that, it also has protocol called ActivityPub that connect different servers and their communities. It provides ability to send messages, replays and posts between servers.

Technical Jargon

Instances - Servers hosted by individuals or groups

Communities - Subreddits or places where similar content gets posted

Fediverse - all the projects using ActivityPub protocol

What if I wanted to see other Communities or Instances?

If you wanted for example see other communities I would suggest going to lemmyverse.net/communities and searching for you community. For example we will search for Hermitcraft a minecraft SMP server.

Then we will copy a link and put it into a search bar. To access it press magnifying glass in the top right corner. After we will press the search won't be instantaneous so we need to wait 3-10 seconds. Worth noting that results will be populated by comments mentioning that community.

After that we should see an icon with the name of community and subscriber count from our instance. When we click that it will direct us to the community page. On the right side or hidden under the "sidebar" button there will be "Subscribe" button that will enable Us to see new posts.

Now we can comment, upvote and post in community that isn't hosted on bookwormstory.social. After subscribing our instance will receive updates from subscribed communities and will display posts under subscribed tab on the front page.

Hey there's a bug!

Due to software being in practically alpha state there is a lot of bugs so please report them to @Neshura@bookwormstory.social or to @ludrol@bookwormstory.social

What if I have more questions?

You can ask them in the comments or in FAQ post

Deemo image

Does Lemmy implement a spoiler mode for images? Or perhaps it can be implemented with a custom CSS?

I'm writing is as an author who lost all her work after a hard disk failure. Please make sure to make a daily backup of the site on a USB!

Better safe than sorry.

General discussion for improvements that can be made here

Are there tags?

Sadly there aren't (yet), for now please put the tag in brackets with the text in caps like so: [ART]

I can't see comments in the posts when viewing the community on another lemmy instance

Federation currently does not fetch past comments only future ones if subscribed, the devs recently have decided to change that but there is no estimate on when

Can I post AI generated Art?

Yes but only if you clearly tag it as such. 1st occurence is a warning and an explanation, second occurence is a ban.

Currently known problematic:

• lemmy.ml
• beehaw.org

I'll look into possible causes for the problem, as of right now the most likely culprit is the excessive server load on these two instances preventing the federation actions from completing.