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A place to discuss or ask anything about lemmy.one's instance or moderation.

For discussion about Lemmy (the software) itself, visit !lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Welcome to Lemmy.one (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jonah@lemmy.one to c/meta@lemmy.one

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What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is link aggregator software that exists in the fediverse, meaning it connects with other "ActivityPub" software like Mastodon and other Lemmy instances. Basically, you can follow and interact with communities here on Lemmy.one, on any other Lemmy instance, or even from your Mastodon account!

What is Lemmy.one?

Lemmy.one is a general-purpose instance of Lemmy—a self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators—hosted by myself (Jonah). I am the administrator of the Mastodon server mstdn.party, and the founder of privacyguides.org.

This instance is generously supported by our contributors, if you use this instance to interact with the fediverse, please consider a monthly contribution to support my work.

What are the rules here?

No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
No content illegal in the United States, Germany, or Finland
Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
Do not spam or abuse network features.

As a general-purpose instance, we do not have heavy moderation in terms of what topics people are allowed to post about, however all users are expected to follow our rules at all times, and generally be nice and friendly on the federation.

Please report all content you see which might violate our rules for evaluation. If you are on a remote server, please forward any reports of our users to our server for our moderators to take action, we pledge that remote reports will remain confidential within our moderation team and will not be used for any form of retribution against the reporter.

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[–] intrnt@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for creating this instance @jonah@lemmy.one and approving my account. <3

[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Seconded! I would’ve made my own comment but didn’t want to crowd things up any more than they already are. Thanks @jonah! Very excited to be a part of this all.

[+] availablecandidate90@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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[–] srpwnd@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the instances sidebar there is following written about it:

Downvotes are disabled on this instance, because it is a very small community. If you see something against the rules, report it. If you see something you don’t like, go find something you do like and upvote that instead :)

Personally, I am okay with this being implemented and agree with the reasoning.

[–] JonEFive@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I didn't catch that before I joined. I wish I had, but I didn't even realize disabling a core feature would be on anyone's mind.

That's also a pretty weird stance considering that lemmy.one doesn't have many local communities by design. So the idea is to disable downvotes because lemmy.one is a small community when most of the interaction is with other servers that don't have features disabled?

It might be time to revisit that opinion with the current level of growth here. Or I might need to seek out another instance. Downvotes are a valuable part of self-moderating communities.

[–] InnominateUser@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Have you found another instance? And if so, why did you choose that particular one? I'm also considering another instance due to this ones stance on down voting.

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[–] smartwater0897@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's good that it's disabled, since people downvote when they disagree, and it creates the same echo chamber as on reddit.

People need to be OK with others opinions and be able to read and move on without needing to punish the person for his opinion.

[–] livejamie@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I wish downvoting was enabled on this server and it would be interesting to see if they open it up to the community to see how others feel about it.

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[–] legion@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's up with downvoting? I can do it on other instances.

[–] anthonytran@mastodon.au 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think in this instance (lol) they've opted to disable downvotes since it's a smaller community. Instead, the sidebar encourages you to upvote other posts to encourage discussion :)

[–] legion@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lame

[–] erik@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

Not lame. Just not what you want. The joy is, there are instances that allow downvoting, which you are free to join, if that's the way you want to interact.

[–] dill@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

Easily the most sexy instance imo

[–] Conman_Signor@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

I noticed that we can't create communities in lemmy.one, so is there another way for us to create communities or do we need to register with another instance?

[–] SocialEngineer55@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

My first comment! Really hoping Lemmy can be the replacement for Reddit :) trying this from the Memmy App!

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Here's to fresh starts.

[–] lovesickoyster@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

any chance of getting a specific cycling community, like r/cycling?

[–] jonah@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's !bicycling@lemmy.ml already, or are you looking for something else?

[–] lovesickoyster@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hah, I would swear there was nothing just a couple of minutes ago when I searched for "cycling". Thanks!

[–] jonah@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There probably wasn't, because nobody on lemmy.one had "discovered" it yet. It is slightly complicated, but you can find remote communities more reliably with a tool like https://browse.feddit.de/, and then paste the URL of the community you find in the search page. That will tell lemmy.one to fetch the community from that server, the communities you see on lemmy.one are ones where that process has already happened.

details: https://lemmy.one/post/1600

[–] FiendishFork@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if someone on here discovered a “new” community that no one else on here discovered yet, then after that other people here would be more easily able to find it afterwards?

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. The admin can also set up federation with other servers on a whole-server basis so that all communities are discovered automatically.

[–] hemmes@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Yea, just like Mastodon. Love that concept and flow.

[–] steakfries@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

so much to learn jeez its a bit daunting. but im gonna try to figure all this out

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[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Hi everyone. Glad to be welcomed into this instance. I think it's the best and coolest one given how much help I've gotten from privacyguides.org.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the server.

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Reddit refugee here, great site. Fairly local for me so it's fast, fast. Thanks for the hooking me up!

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

So glad to be part of this. Thanks for setting things up.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Hey so I've been on Lemmy for a few weeks now and I'm getting tired of seeing the pinned posts. How do I prune them from my feed? I've seen them. I don't need to keep seeing them several times a day.

The only way I can think of at the moment is to block @jonah and, while I'm reluctant to do that, so far nobody has given me another option.

[–] anthonytran@mastodon.au 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@jonah I'm still getting used to navigating the federated space so forgive me if this seems utterly silly.

What's the best way to interact with lemmy.one/lemmy in general? Ideally I'd like to use my mastodon instance for singularity sake but I'm unsure how to interact (such as liking and interacting on lemmy directly) rather than through mastrodon. Sorry, didn't know where to ask

[–] jonah@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can't interact via the Lemmy interface without an account on a Lemmy instance. Mastodon lets you follow Lemmy communities, upvote posts (via likes), and reply to Lemmy posts like you did here, but all that only happens through Mastodon if you use a Mastodon account.

This is why for people who use Lemmy regularly it probably makes more sense to register somewhere like kbin.social or lemmy.one, but interacting via Mastodon like this is nice if you just want to leave a quick comment every once in a while without needing yet another account.

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[–] sbowesuk@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks Johah! Was looking for a new home on the link aggregator front, and this is just the ticket. Looking forward to seeing the site and community grow 😀

[–] Conman_Signor@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Wonderful little community

[–] arious@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does https://lemmy.one/c/formuladank@lemmy.ml 404?

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[–] Steely@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for having us!

[–] Cralex@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Very, very slowly getting the hang of this. I got the Mlem iPhone app on testflight, but it's not as nice to use for discovering new communities as on the desktop. Thanks for hosting this beginner-friendly instance!

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[–] Tilted@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Cool. I like the rules, the local communities, and the vibe!

[–] SuddenlyNope@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Hi everyone and thank you for approving my sign up request, I hope you all have a great day or two!

[–] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

@jonah@lemmy.one thanks for updating the instance to 0.18 🙏

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