Lemmy.fmhy.ml FAQ
Q: What is Lemmy?
A: Lemmy is a self-hosted FOSS Reddit alternative that is a part of the "Fediverse". Lemmy gives us the freedom & full control over our community, unlike Reddit.
Q: What is the Fediverse?
A: Think of email - no matter which email provider you use, you are still able to seamlessly communicate with others who don't share the same provider. The Fediverse (or “Fedi”) is basically the same concept, but for social media. The Fediverse is a collection of thousands of independent social media servers that communicate with each other seamlessly. This means that the millions of users on these servers can interact with each other as if they were on a single social network.
Q: What is the point of this Lemmy instance?
A: This Lemmy instance was created to provide a home for those migrating from Reddit, it's a general lemmy instance that welcomes (almost) everything including piracy and NSFW.
Q: How do I join?
A:
- Register an account on https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/signup
- Login, and then join communities!
You may create an account on any of the instances we federate with, and interact with our instance and communities. The list of the servers we currently federate with: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances
Q: I'm new to this and I'm still very confused about all this where can I learn more?
A: You can find a collection of beginner's guides here.
Q: How do I make a community on FMHY's instance?
A: Just click create communiity and follow the basic setup.
Q: Why is my feed empty? How do I see other communities from other instances?
A: Communities will only show in ‘All’ of you instance if someone in that instance has searched and subscribed to it. Try to visit other instances and search their interesting communities on your own instance so there is a better federation among all instances.
Subscribing to as many communities as you can would help grow your instance much better.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and we’ll do our best to answer as soon as possible.
I've found that each explanation I read kind of helped me understand; it took the totality of all them before it finally clicked. So I'm going to copy and paste my explanation that I shared with someone else, in hopes that it helps to further understanding. Some people grasp concepts differently, so I offered a new explanation.
Let’s pretend there are three different websites: reddit.com, feddit.com, and seddit.com. Each one has its own subreddits:
reddit.com/r/funny
feddit.com/r/funny
seddit.com/r/funny
These three websites can browse ALL of the other sites’ subreddits. On reddit.com you can browse and comment reddit.com/r/funny, feddit.com/r/funny, and seddit.com/r/funny, even though these three subreddits are entirely different from each other and not linked in any way. These subreddits are known as communities. Now it doesn’t matter whether you sign up on reddit, feddit, or seddit, since they can all browse ALL of the communities.
Now to expand on that just a tad: reddit, feddit, and seddit will still have their own rules, permissions, and such since they’re independent of each other. These distinguishing factors are (as far as I know) the only reason to choose one over another. Maybe server speed and some other factors.
The usernames reflect where you signed up. If I signed up on feddit, my username would be [email protected]
Hope that helps. I’ve found that once you understand lemmy, the explanations are more complicated than the actual setup itself.
Nice write up.
Cheers mate, this helped
Thanks a lot, this really helped.
For those trying to use jebora, you have to copy and paste fmhy instance in as it isn't currently listed (unless it has been changed)
I can't add an avatar and banner to my profile. How do I do it. I just registered today and don't understand much.
You can do it from https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/settings but sadly there's a bug within lemmy that currently is stopping us from uploading images :(
edit: its fixed!
images upload fine for me?
hmm hasn't been working for fmhy & some other instances :(
edit: its fixed!
Hey letting you know its been fixed :)
Hi! I'm getting an error when trying to upload photos to my communities:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data, and in the console is a 400 Bad Request, with the error:Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out. I posted in the lemmy-net github repo issues forum, but wondering if anyone has any ideas here. I see that others have been able to post images recently during the time that I have been unable to, but I also have other users replying to me that they have the same issue, so it is really a puzzling problem. I and others have previously had no issues uploading photos.Yeah we've been scratching our head for days about this, still trying to fix it, sorry for the inconvenience :(
edit: its been fixed :D
We fixed it!
I'm in the same boat, would love a solution to this.
It's been fixed :)
Blessed admin
F to pay respects. It broke again.
Trying to fix it :/
Ftw FMHY!!
❤️
I am trying to add a community that doesn't exist when I search for it.
I heard something about I need to be the first one looking for it and joining it for it to get indexed and for other ppl to be able to find it.
How do I do that?
also this is a tedious process and in the long run a simpler process for this would be better...
You need to search instance on which community was created and copy-paste it's full name (i.e @[email protected]) into search on your instance.
that doesn't work for me. If I put it into the search it just doesn't find it.
things I tried:
"@[email protected]" "[email protected]" "![email protected]"
There's a typo in that community name. It should be "heck", not "hech". Search for ![email protected]
you are absolutely right and thats a stupid typo.
Is there a way to display thumbnails of NSFW content by default? Whenever I browse my feed the thumbnails are blurred out and I need to manually click on it to show the content.
I'm sure that this was done on purpose in Lemmy and has no simple way to be solved at the moment, because in one instance I belong, one of the mods had to manually modify the source code (CSS) of his instance to allow the thumbnail to be uncensored.
I see, maybe upstream will come up with a solution sometime?
Lets hope so.
Hi, I'm interested in running an instance myself. Would be interesting what your load and (growing of) storage usage is roughly to get a picture of it. Your instance is (still) snappy, I like it.
Currently unsure what our storage would be since we're currently having an issue with image uploads :( but we reached about 5.2 gigabytes before it stopped working.
community@instance [email protected]
yes like https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected]
Oh yeah like that yes, I was just showing what the url should look like in your browser
What I don't understand is if I search in kbin , lemmy.fmhy.nl instances appear in the search so why not the other way?
Confused.
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] manually going to it works but federation is a bit messy right now for kbin
Am trying to add ![email protected] but doesn't come up, I'm assuming kbin is not fully federated or because it's a different platform is there a different search method?
Hmm can't seem to find it either, perhaps it takes time 🤔
It's now come up in the search, wierd.
how do I join communities hosted on other instances from the android app?
Type the name of the community in the search bar
why the .ml domain?
It's a free tld we've been using :)
We don’t keep logs for more than a few days but we also use cloudflare so that’s just something to keep in mind.
There seems to be a lot of users in here with bugs to be disclosed and ideas to be surveyed.
Is there a good place to put my user feedback?
For bugs related to lemmy itself, put them in https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] or their github (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy)
Thank you :)
Yes you may share it here :)
Hello everyone. This is my first post in Lemmy. Does anyone have a client they're using and recommend? Asking for either PC or Android. Thank you.
Right now I’m using wefwef.app (web app)
I am using Connect for Lemmy. I'm new here but I like it better so far than using a web browser.
Here’s a link of every single one maybe…
https://lemmy.world/post/465785
Recently migrated and waiting for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
Bit late to the party but I'm using Jerboa... I'm amazed at how many clients there are already, though
Theirs is also Liftoff! https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff
Is it possible for an instance to die/get wiped out and then you lose your account totally?
If the instance admins decide to shutdown yes but the content should still be cached iirc or the service that the instance runs on shutdowns / shuts the instance down
But you would lose your account too?
Essentially yes, you wouldn't be able to login. Hopefully lemmy devs make migration easy between instances like mastodon.
Makes me wonder if this was the best instance to make my account on lol
Our instance won't be shutting down :)
Yes, but I believe there are plans to add a feature to Lemmy that allows 'backing up' an account among instances
By default are we federated with all other instances? Is there a general list most communities use? Or is it all manually entered one way or the other?
We federate with some of the most popular ones and any ones that were added by users who searched for communities and found it on another instance.
edit: federation happens almost "automatically" basically, someone please correct me if I am wrong :)
Thanks for the response! So if I search something like ![email protected] other people would get Fallout related content in their all section?
yep
Hi I'm trying to federate to ![email protected] however when I search I keep on getting no search results found
I have search set to all, creators set to all, communities set to all, and sort type set to new.
Not sure if I'm doing something wrong on my end.
https://bookwormstory.social/c/metadiscussions (source node)
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected]
thanks, did you do anything differnt by any chance to get federation to work?
If you're the first person on your instance to search for that community, it will initiate a sync. So you will have to wait a little bit for that to finish. Currently, it's supposed to "refresh" automatically without you needing to redo the search.
Thanks for the clarification
Nope just searched ![email protected]
Hi sorry to bother again I tried federation with
![email protected]
And can't seem to get it working on my end.
I keep on getting instance not found errors.
Edit Image:
https://i.imgur.com/uSPPAJG.png
Edit 2: I tried https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected]
404: couldnt_find_communityEdit 3: It works (it took about 3-5 hrs) for federation to show up
Sorry I was offline, glad to see it worked out in the end :)
Strange I tried that on my end and it didn't show
Side note picture uploads on my end seem to be running into Json syntax error again
ah weird on my end as well
Ah.
One more bug (sry if I sound naggy).
I notice comment links from my inbox rss seem to be not working correctly.
Example link
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/38250/comment/91900
I get:
404: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'send')
also you don't sound naggy at all ♥️
Hmmm thats not a real comment from this post thats why you get a 404, it doesn't exist.
Hey letting you know image uploads should work now :)
Working on my end tysm 🙂
Great :)
Ah seems we're not the only instance experiencing this issue :/
edit: its fixed
How do I hide posts so I don't have to keep seeing annoying pinned messages?
Uncheck show read posts
Infinite loading icon when trying to create community. Server just getting bogged down?
Try clearing your browser cache. I couldn’t create an account here for the last 2 days until I did. It kept spinning otherwise.
I cannot see the vote counts, both in the official website, as well as the jerboa app. Is this normal? How to fix it/when will it be fixed?
Hey could you show a screenshot please
Make sure you're logged in and viewing it from the instance you made the account on, it doesn't show vote counts for logged out users.
I can't seem to login from other android browsers, currently I've logged in when I first signed up. When I enter my credentials it (the login button) just spins indefinitely.
Still having trouble?
I just checked and it's still not logging in. I tried incognito, other browsers.
are you using your username and password ?
Yes username and password, I haven't added my email
did you add the proper instance?
Yeah at https://lemmy.fmhy.ml
Hmm strange
hello FMHY, here is my first message to lemmy
I'm having trouble uploading images to my posts thru webpage and various apps. I'm getting errors that I'm also having a hard time capturing the full description (something about a JSON). It was days before I could get the image for my first post in !zettairyouiki to stick. What's up with this?
Sorry this is something happening on our instance for a while. Restarting the server fixed it for a while, so we do that 5 times a day, but obviously that's not the ideal solution. We are trying to find a permanent fix for this, sorry for the inconvenience.
I've noticed that a number of comments from other instances are being edited when they appear on FMHY. After some digging, these are all clearly words being censored to prevent spam. This is not context aware, so it is blocking/modifying legitimate comments. Is it possible to disable this feature?
Example:
Original comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/894327
Federated to FMHY: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/comment/706234
Oh we had censored some words like removed and removed since we got ad posts in the beginning of instance, it seems that had some negative effects. we'll remove those filters now, thanks for catching that error.
Saw my message just says removed lol, pretty good example of unintended consequences.
Is there an ETA for the server update? (I can no longer use the latest Jerboa version with this instance :( )
Thought I was the only one, I can't log in anymore either :(
tis' done
How can I quote users?
quote text can be made using > symbol, just copy the message of the user and add the symbol like this:
Sorry, I meant to mention users, like /u/Kaizen (forgive this peasantry LMAO).
I believe it's like this: @[email protected]
Yep
you use the @ symbol followed by their username, like @[email protected]
I think that did it, not gonna lie, that seems overcomplicated, but it is understandable since the different communities are standalone.
Yes
Is there a problem with syncing between instances? I find that this instance is not pulling in all comments from communities on other instances. In some cases, it shows zero comments on a post when the originating instance shows dozens.
Here's an example, from ![email protected] :
I tried posting from here to see what would happen, and my comment shows up on both instances, but it's the only one viewable on the FMHY instance.
Another example from ![email protected] :
For the first question: Posts before someone searched that community aren't fetched completely, so probably godot was only searched recently.
For the second question: FMHY will only show upvoted and comments from people we've already federated, most probably beehaw has federated with more instances, so it shows more upvoted and comments.
Hello 👋 I made a community called loveisland on this instance but I can’t access it from the other instance I’m registered on (namely lemmynsfw.com but also feddit.uk)
I made the community a few days ago and have searched for it multiple times from those servers but it never shows in the search results.
Anyone know what’s going on?
Federation isn't always super speedy. To force something to appear, go to the search page, choose communities and type the full path to the community, like this:
[email protected]Searching like that should force the instance to start loading content from the remote community. It might not appear immediately, but it should show after a second. If it doesn't, try pressing the search button again or waiting a little bit and trying again.
Thank you! It seems to be appearing now
I don't know about feddit.uk but it appears on lemmy.ml : https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] and lemmynsfw: https://lemmynsfw.com/c/[email protected]
If lemmy gives people full freedom and control over their instances, does that mean there is nothing to stop people from creating instances full of racism, bigotry, etc?
Freedom is freedom.
So the real person behind a lemmy account can be easily determined? If someone makes a CP instance the police can easily find their identity?
No. It depends on their home instance.
A few may go out of their way to make it easy - there is nothing stopping a Lemmy instance from requiring government ID to sign up, after all. A few may go out of their way to make it hard - there is nothing forcing a Lemmy instance to collect any data about a user. Most big instances will probably be at the same level of difficulty as tracing someone from their email address - their servers are probably logging IPs and locations, which will be a starting point for tracing identities, but not guaranteed to be "easy" by any means.
Lemmy does not have anonymous voting - https://lemmy.eus/post/182574
Each instance decides what to show on its homepage and its own moderation rules, so you are free to build (or find, if one already exists) an instance that attempts to prevent the kind of manipulation you are worried about.
Which communities are they? and do you have this ticked
Is there a limit on the number of posts you can save to your account? From what I know, reddit and Instagram both have a hard limit on the number of posts that a user can save before the older ones start getting forgotten. Does lemmy have any such restrictions?
Nope as far as I know
That's pretty neat, thanks
Happy to help