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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 โ€œFediโ€) 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:

  1. Register an account on https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/signup
  2. 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 โ€˜Allโ€™ 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 weโ€™ll do our best to answer as soon as possible.

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[โ€“] Guitarded@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

Letโ€™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 sitesโ€™ 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 doesnโ€™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 theyโ€™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 guitarded@feddit.com

Hope that helps. Iโ€™ve found that once you understand lemmy, the explanations are more complicated than the actual setup itself.

[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Nice write up.

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[โ€“] demonicbullet@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

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)

[โ€“] poopboobs@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[โ€“] KUNAI@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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!

[โ€“] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

images upload fine for me?

[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hmm hasn't been working for fmhy & some other instances :(

edit: its fixed!

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[โ€“] thedeserter@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

โค๏ธ

[โ€“] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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...

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[โ€“] HoukaiAmplifier99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[โ€“] fuck_u_spez@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] camradex@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how do I join communities hosted on other instances from the android app?

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[โ€“] vani@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It's a free tld we've been using :)

[โ€“] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[โ€“] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yes you may share it here :)

[โ€“] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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?

[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 :)

[โ€“] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the response! So if I search something like !fallout@lemmy.world other people would get Fallout related content in their all section?

[โ€“] mudmoochingmiltank@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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[โ€“] Omi@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

hello FMHY, here is my first message to lemmy

[โ€“] Deemo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Hi I'm trying to federate to !metadiscussions@bookwormstory.social 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)

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[โ€“] TornadoValley@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is it possible for an instance to die/get wiped out and then you lose your account totally?

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[โ€“] abc123@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I hide posts so I don't have to keep seeing annoying pinned messages?

[โ€“] Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Uncheck show read posts

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