https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2959 got closed. From what I gather it seemed like too large of a task to tackle right now. They are recommending to use pinned posts with links to other posts if that gets too large as a workaround.
Edit: I tried writing out an explanation of how defederation works, but Lemmy has a few more gotchas with communities being owned on different instances. See https://lemmy.world/comment/276067 for some info about how the Beehaw defederation of LW worked.
Meta can and already probably does have crawler bots capturing the data anyway. Anything public on the internet you should assume is consumable by these types of companies.
Additionally, instances of ActivityPub platforms can further require releases of ownership if they have a TOS stating so in their registration (like any other website). IANAL but I would reach out to one to discuss your options on restricting the usage of your works if that is a concern. In general, I think the safest option is to host your own works and share only the links and what you don’t mind being scraped on sites like these. Some AP platforms like Mastodon Glitch Edition allow local-only (non-federated) posts, but as far as I know Lemmy don’t support that yet.
That’s a good idea that I’d really like that to be a norm in news communities.
How do you prevent that? I think that might simply be inherent of unrestricted news communities, not necessarily the platform itself. You can have a more restricted news community that disallows click bait or polarizing titles or only allow posts by approved users (or go further and lock to instance like beehaw).
If you don’t want to wait for that feature in Lemmy, you can interact with Lemmy users and communities on other AP speaking platforms. Kbin seems to do this in an all in one approach, but you can easily follow Lemmy users in Masto too. I’ve been splitting between Lemmy for communities and Masto for people so far.
The graphic design on this is fire.
I think Lemmy being decentralized and not having user karma by design already gets a pretty good base. With the concerns of censorship, admin drama, and protecting marginalized groups, the rest has to come from your instance admins and moderators of communities you follow. With the nature of the platform, you can create toxic places but those are easily defederated and/or blocked.
There is a lemmy seed script you can use as an admin that gets you a “default sub” experience https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs
What software did you use to manage the backups? This seems like a really neat idea!
From what I can tell it just loads your own saved posts when clicking that tab.
I’m sure with the recent increase in alternate apps being built on the Lemmy API recently there will be more issue tickets to polish the rough areas even with it being in flight. I’m sure we’ll see a lot of third-party guides that will be written soon too and contributors will likely try merging the best parts of those into the official docs. Lemmy was a small project nearly fully developed by the core devs and community of only ~1k mostly technical people prior to May.
GitBounties + donating to the core devs via liberapay / opencollective would be great, but if you have a specific solvable problem in the docs, submitting a pull request with the suggested change yourself would likely be appreciated even more.
I think this is true for both platforms - instances don’t federate communities (start polling for updates) until one user searches for that community. It takes a second search (at least in v17 lemmy, might be fixed in v18) to get the community to start showing. In Lemmy I think when an instance starts federating a community it also pulls the latest 20 posts, but given your example I’m guessing that must not be true for lemmy pulling in kbin magazines (not sure which side isn’t doing it, I’d assume the kbin side since lemmy instances seem to be coming in with those 20 posts).
Its more that the comments show at the same level as posts and they all come in as they are created, so it can be messy viewing the conversation. I think there is some work going on to try to fix that, but I don’t think masto will ever be the right tool to view lemmy threads.
I think most that would are building their own themes and enhancements directly in lemmy-ui or forking it
Neat thanks for sharing! I’ve been looking for something like that!
Search for the community’s url in your instances’ search.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/506 . The devs are open to pull requests if you have the ability to make the change yourself and want it faster.
There is a Lemmy API hosted on each instance (its how the UI works) but it’s pretty technical. There is an open ticket to add an easier backup / importing feature on the lemmy github.
On the microblogging side of the fedi, “fedihire” and “jobalert” hashtags seem to be frequently used for job postings, and “getfedihired” and “jobsearch” for those posting that they are looking.