Edit: A user found the issue and clarified its an issue with the website using placeholder pointing to localhost, probably when developing. This old post title has been changed from "An accounts profile causes a localhost Port Scan on Firefox" to "A website causes a localhost Port Scan on Firefox" to reflect the new found information. Solution here (a reply in this post): https://lemmy.ml/post/51842257/27445377

Post in question: https://lemmy.ml/post/51833596 which links to the actual "problematic" webpage: https://radicle.dev/guides/user

A ~~users account / profile~~ post causes a localhost Port Scan (attempt) on my Firefox, when I either open the page or even when posts of the account are listed in my Subscribed feed view. I just noticed this because I have an addon installed that blocks and notifies me about this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/port-authority/ The addon lists port 3000.

Is this something to be concerned about?

Edit: Removed the link from this Post URL, so it does not cause the Port Scan to others I was reporting here.

J'ai mi le mauvais mail du coup j'ai recréer le compte avec le bon mail mais l'autre compte semble toujours en attente de validation du mail donc mon pseudo est "bloqué" (pseudo : softyoda)

je l'ai précisé quand j'ai créer mon compte, mais il ne semble pas avoir été lu

Apparently upset someone enough saying democrat hakim Jeffries is just the same as Republicans for negotiating with kushner to get that user or user to direct others at me to unleash downvoting bots or alt accounts to downvote everything I comment now.

Example is 3 accounts with no activity lately or just created within the last week on multiple instances.

There a way to deal with this or just an annoyance that is part of the fediverse?

Accounts in question

https://lemy.lol/u/AnarchyBacon

https://futurology.today/u/project654189

https://lemmy.today/u/rune

any idea what's causing this error?

From a lemmy user perspective I find the Linked Instances and Blocked Instances lists to be annoying to view when there are large numbers of instances. Could these be sorted in alphabetical order?

Also for the Blocked Instances can a short comment field be added so that when a lemmy admin blocks an instance from their site they can enter a reason why it is being blocked which can be shown to users?

I am very new to Lemmy. Created my account today after a long long time of using Reddit. I notice that there is an option to pick a language for your account. I selected English and I can see more posts with that language set. However I do not know how to select multiple languages. Am I missing something obvious here? Is it possible?

Thank you :-)

Explanation: I got bored of the mechanical steps involved with posting. Two of the people in my Discord/XMPP bridged chatroom remained posting here with access to all of the accounts we have been using, shared via a password manager account made for group socials. I stopped monitoring most of the internet except for my Google Reader equivalent, as I have been making more videos, writing, and have no desire to be unemployed. So it seems there was a large argument, or a large series of arguments, continued ad nauseam mainly by one member, resulting in mass banning of all accounts involved in tomfoolery, which were supposed to be left idle. The explanation I have received is very long and confusing, so I am going to skip making sense of it and reiterate I take full responsibility for this. I could have noticed something was going on and made a few quick threats to shut it down. I don't want to minimize the wider political issues involved or any of the responses, or their tone. This just does not seem that important, though. This is incredibly self referential social media speak and I am having difficulty making sense of many, many parts of it.

My only intention with the news and history communities is, you guessed it: curate news and history. I cannot guarantee I will be an active moderator, it would be silly to claim that after something like this, but I will be a moderator, which these don't currently have. If you refuse my request, please delete these communities. I have everything archived anyways.

Sorry about the fuss,

VengeCorp® CEO

As of either yesterday or maybe the day before, I've had issues connecting to lemmy.ml from VPN servers (Proton VPN) that are hosted in Finland. I was able to reach the website from some other countries' servers.

I've been too tired to do some testing before, so I did some today. I tested a few countries that are somewhat close to me:

Work: Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany

Don't work: Finland, Norway, Russia

Didn't test other countries yet, but maybe this will be enough to investigate the issue.

Has anyone tried running Lemmy with one of the release candidates for pict-rs 0.60?

The new TLS feature for using a custom CA store will help me redirect the image proxy for Imgur through my rimgo instance.

While trying to update my display name, I've realized that any display name longer than 20 characters gets rejected (specifically: https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user/save_user_settings returns 400 with {"error":"invalid_display_name"}). Some digging through the code seems to explain why: Lemmy 0.19.20 (the version running on lemmy.ml) uses the same config option for limiting display name length as it does for usernames, which defaults to 20 (and .ml hasn't changed it from the default value)¹.

I would be satisfied with that explanation, except there are clearly other users on my instance whose display names exceed 20 characters (example: https://lemmy.ml/u/Trying2KnowMyself). So, my question is: how the heck are people able to set these longer display names?

¹ In the 1.0 betas the config option seems to have been replaced with hardcoded limits which are separate for user- and display names, but I don't think that'd be relevant since that's not the code which .ml is actually running

EDIT: I figured it out! Importing user settings from a json backup bypasses display name validation. Most likely the user I referenced as an example had imported their profile from their Hexbear alt, so it ended up just copying their display name over as well.

I had noticed that some cross-posted posts showed a different style of link for those cross-posts: some show it as a link under the title and header of the post but above the body, and some show the link (usually) in the body of the post. In addition, the cross-post links above the body are relative links (open in my home instance), but the ones inside the body are hard links (open in the source community's home instance). Lastly, the links inside the body show only on one of the cross-posts, but the ones outside the body show on both cross-posts.

At first I thought that the second style, the one in the body that's hard-linked and only on one of the posts, was due to the poster manually adding that link. However, over time I realized that that was not the case because it looked too consistent across different users.

I searched for a mention of this in this community and found this post about it: https://lemmy.zip/post/8016049 - unfortunately, there's either something I'm still missing or that the explanation is missing.

Here's an example post I happened to find that is linking to an external article's URL, but has both styles of cross-post link. It's a post linking to an article URL too: https://sh.itjust.works/post/64304718

Does anyone know how or why the two different styles of cross-post link get created?

Edit: I'm going to consider this solved. Here's what I think is the likely solution based on all the comments and examples so far.

It appears that the dynamic, outer cross-post links (outside the body, under the title and post controls) get generated by the Lemmy server and that it seems to require that the OP have a URL that it links to in the title. Lemmy seems to use that URL to identify cross-posts. The hard-coded cross-post link inside the body seems to be generated by some client(s) or front-end(s). I asked someone who had a post containing one what they used and they said Alexandrite, so that may be one of the possible sources of this.

Thanks everyone.

I’m trying to make a new account on lemmy.ml because lemmy.zip is now blocked in the uk and i want a new username. Whenever i try to make a new account i get ‘user_already_exists’ even when i use an email address that i haven’t tried before. I also tried the hello@lemmy.zip email but no reply. Who can i contact to get my account?

I accidentally deleted the registration email for lemmy when signing up, is there some way I can get the accounts deleted so I can re register it? I just signed up for lemmy, so it's actually two accounts that i need it for.

It would be nice if we could permanently save an override for the Sort Type for every Community we want to. In example for Memes I would go with "Top Day" and for News oriented Communities without too many posts, I would have "New".

Also having a different setting for Global and a default for Communities would be nice too. Let's say the Global could stay at "Active" or "Scaled" in example, and when we open a Community, the default could be "New" (unless we override it with the previous suggestion).

How can I disable this profanity filter? It's getting a bit ridiculous.

When I first joined here, I thought it just censored slurs so I was fine with it.

Now I've come to realize it censors way too much shit and it's getting really annoying seeing "removed" all the time.

I don't know what happened, but since yesterday, the Boost for Lemmy App stopped working so I visited the instance website (dbzer0) in my browser and I was getting these... texts with choices (which lead to even more pointless texts)

I don't think I am banned because if I use VPN, I can reload the webpage on my WiFi and see the real dbzer0 lemmy again, and I can login and create posts, but the moment I turn off my VPN, it all goes back to the same white page with those texts.

My Mobile Data also works loads the website, but my WiFi doesn't without a VPN for some reason.

Please help!

I've been trying to join the Matrix space but I get this error:

Is this something on my end? My account is on the nope.chat homeserver and I'm using Fluffy chat as a client but I tried to join via Element too. Thank you for your help!

I see communities with almost no posts and the only moderator deleted their account. Shouldn't these be deleted?

Using lemmy.zip here.

I went through the web browser to change my display name. I made sure to click “save” as well. But it is still showing “Aedaz_” here on the app as well as the web browser.

Am I missing something?

I have 2 suggestions:

1. show subscribed Communities first / top in list
2. show current selected Community's description, especially for the rules (but also to help identify which Community it was)

When we want to cross-post, its usually where we subscribed and interested into. So it makes sense to me to list them on top. Otherwise after clicking the cross-post, I have to open my profile to see the actual address of the Community again, to identify its address. As I am subscribed to more than a single Community with same topic, I also need to see the rules and its icon too, to make sure its the correct Community I want to cross-post.

I use Misskey forks (currently Catodon, after having migrated from Calckey) to interact with the Fediverse, especially the part encompassing the threadiverse (mostly Lemmy), because I like having a microblogging feed while being also able to interact with (and posting my own) Lemmy threads (and Catodon, specifically, implemented this interesting "Forums" feature for better interoperability with Lemmy, a feature of which I'm using right now to post this question thread).

Because I don't have a Lemmy account anymore, and because federation isn't always immediate between the threadiverse and what I'd call the "microbloggingverse" (encompassing Mastodon, Friendica and several other platforms, including Misskey and its forks), I developed the habit of using some non-Cloudflare Lemmy instances (including, but not limited to, lemmy.ml) as a guest to browse global Lemmy threads sorted by "New Comments", copying its federated URL and fetching it directly from my Misskey side whenever I want to interact with a post or comment.

I also use said Lemmy instances to check my own modlog because I'm not entirely sure if I'd see anything (e.g. some DM or notification) from my side if a post/comment were to be removed or if some community/instance kicked/banned me. As far as it seems, my modlog is clean, and so is the modlog for my earlier, older Calckey account, I don't seem to have broken any rules so far...

... but I don't know. I recently interacted with some threads that doesn't show up in my profile when seen from any of the Lemmy instances I use for browsing Lemmy.

If said post don't show up, something tells me that I wouldn't be able to see modlogs for not-properly-federated posts if a mod action were to happen.

Does this proceed? Could it be happening that I'm not seeing modlog entries for my own Misskey accounts because these entries didn't properly federate with the instances I'm relying on to browse Lemmy? Or is this just because I've so far been successfully respectful towards my peers and never broke any community/instance rules (despite my own replies sometimes making my imposter syndrome scream inside me)?

@lemmy_support Why do only SOME updates reach Lemmy from Mastodon?

I posted to Lemmy from Mastodon: https://lemmy.ml/post/49566110

A Lemmy user's comment on that post reached me on Mastodon. I replied from Mastodon & my reply showed up on Lemmy, as hoped.
https://lemmy.ml/post/49566110/26507040

Later, I tried to reply from Mastodon to other Lemmy comments on the same post. Why didn't these replies reach Lemmy? https://mastodon.social/@modem/_down/116907072443986550

• I made a Piefed* account, but I can't see the comments and posts from my Lemmy account. Or vice versa. What's up with that? Is there a "wall" between these communities?
• Is there a way to transfer posts etc from one account to another?

ConheciNoForro doesn't appear in searches, but the URL shows an existent community.

This is the first time I am noticing this symbol on this post: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/63754269/26869571

On lemmy.world (original instance) it looks like this:

I know the [M] symbol means the user is a moderator of the community, but what does the red shield to the left of it mean? I don't seem to have that on the communities I am a moderator of, and wasn't able to find anything in the documentation.