We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines@lemmy.ml.
Lemmy is similar to Reddit in many ways, but there is also a major difference: Its not only a single website, but consists of many different websites which are interconnected through federation. This is achieved with the ActivityPub protocol which is also used by Mastodon. It means that you can sign up on any Lemmy instance to interact with users and communities on other instances. The project website has a list of instances which all have their own rules and administrators. We recommend that you sign up on one of them, to avoid overt centralization on lemmy.ml.
Another difference compared to Reddit is that Lemmy is open source, and not funded by any company. For this reason it relies on volunteer work to make the project better, whether it's programming, design, documentation, translating, reporting issues or others. See the contributing guide to get started. You can also donate to support development.
We also recommend that you read the documentation. It explains how Lemmy works and how to setup your own Lemmy instance. Running an instance gives you full control over the rules and moderation, and prevents us developers from having any influence. Especially large communities that want to use Lemmy should host their own instance, because existing Lemmy instances would easily be overwhelmed by a large number of new users.
Enjoy your time here! If you have any questions, feel free to ask below or in the Matrix chat.
Idk if that is a stupid idea, but can one host a community that does not allow posting of images and links?
Base idea behind that would be: Text conversations are easier to search and assess quality and topic of.
Here on Lemmy I see many accounts that post links most of the times, no text conversations or in depth conversations. That is why many Lemmy "subs / instances " seems like an oppionated link aggregator atm.
Thats not currently possible, you can open an issue. Or implement a bot which removes non-text posts automatically.
When I press "3 more replies" nothing happens on Mobile android Firefox.
Am I supposed to like click it differently?
cc @dessalines@lemmy.ml
It could be that its a person you've blocked, or something like that. Could you link the comment / show me how to reproduce it?
https://lemmy.ml/comment/419977
0/3 replied are loading
Hrm, those are all loading for me. Do you have the undetermined language selected in your settings? Not sure what else it might be.
undefined> Do you have the undetermined language selected in your settings?
that seemed to have fixed it, thanks