The backend is rust! The frontend is typescript with a react-type framework. So feel free to pitch in on the frontend if you are familiar with TS!

I don't mind the pinned posts! I like keeping up to date on the lemmee goings on

Lemmy has blown up within the past week. "Taking down reddit" was always a pipe dream, but now we have a real alternative with committed users. I'd call that a success.

Not a stupid question at all!

Right now, lemmy.ml is the biggest Lemmy instance and the "flagship" site. There are several other Lemmy instances across the internet. They are all connected with each other - or "federated" - meaning each instance can see all of the posts of any instance it's federated with. Since every instance is federated with each other, you will get the same content no matter where your account is. So even though you are on lemmy.world, you can see everything that is posted to lemmy.ml.

E.g. even though I'm from lemm.ee, i still saw your post!!

If you put a direct link to a gif or video as the "link" of your post, I think it embeds automatically. But Lemmy right now does not support uploading videos directly.

Holy hell

This infographic can explain better than I can:

Hang out here? Hopefully we can get this place going...

But also "The Tim Traveller" is a good binge for Tom Scott-esque videos

In terms of server load (CPU) Lemmy uses a separate service for uploading / storing images (pictrs). It runs on the same server but in the grand scheme of things it's never a bottleneck. Typically static image uploads are cached so it's not much effort for the server.

However uploading images direct to Lemmy does have a storage impact. I know my home instance (lemm.ee) has a 100kb size limit for uploads, others may do that too.

If you're concerned about that aspect, you can use a separate image hosting service too. As long as the link in your post points directly to an image, it'll embed fine.

This doesn't auto archive your image. It's only if you click on one of those archive links that it's archived.

I pretty much completely cut news out months ago and my mental health has improved immensely. I totally get the importance staying knowledgeable and up to date on world news, but it was just too much for me.

Or: ✅ are you a parent who gives their child permission to access this site?

This reminds me of those website ads that'd tell you to ask your parents first.

Kbin, Mastodon, Peertube, anything in the Fediverse adheres to ActivityPub standard, which is the protocol that all of these sites use to communicate.

There is a dark mode! I enabled it in the user settings, it's called "darkly" (unless lemmy.world doesn't have it?)

Pictrs removes Exif data, yes. Most likely it removed the rotation data as well.

This alone makes lemmy so much better than reddit

Does Lemmy auto update the comment threads?

From what I understand the Lemmy backend doesn't support user specific websocket updates. So your client can subscribe to updates about ALL new posts coming in, but it can't get updates on only your subscribed communities.

Glad you found it!!

[email protected] is an iOS lemmy app that's in development. I think you have to jump through a few hoops to sign up but I've heard good things.