Lemmy.fmhy.ml FAQ
Lemmy.fmhy.ml FAQ
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 “Fedi”) 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:
- Register an account on https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/signup
- 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 ‘All’ 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 we’ll do our best to answer as soon as possible.
I've noticed that a number of comments from other instances are being edited when they appear on FMHY. After some digging, these are all clearly words being censored to prevent spam. This is not context aware, so it is blocking/modifying legitimate comments. Is it possible to disable this feature?
Example:
Original comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/894327
Federated to FMHY: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/comment/706234
2Oh we had censored some words like removed and removed since we got ad posts in the beginning of instance, it seems that had some negative effects. we'll remove those filters now, thanks for catching that error.
Saw my message just says removed lol, pretty good example of unintended consequences.
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Is there a limit on the number of posts you can save to your account? From what I know, reddit and Instagram both have a hard limit on the number of posts that a user can save before the older ones start getting forgotten. Does lemmy have any such restrictions?
1Permanently Deleted
1If lemmy gives people full freedom and control over their instances, does that mean there is nothing to stop people from creating instances full of racism, bigotry, etc?
0This has been my concern also. The far-right loves an unmoderated space where they can go fully mask off.
But they also infect everywhere they can, pushing whatever they can get away with, from the more obvious taking over reactionary movements like GamerGate and COVID anti-vaxxers to subtle things like cherrypicking and signal boosting a thing that shows women and minorities being shitty.
Reddit did a poor job of containing that, because the ad impressions of a neonazi are still ad impressions.
I also don't love anonymous voting. I understand the privacy is good, but you can have that privacy by your account being anonymous.
But showing who voted on a post is the only real way to expose vote manipulation by extremists and astro-turfers. Without it, you can have hundreds of accounts with no genuine activity, all voting on a post that pushes an agenda, invisible to everyone.
1Lemmy does not have anonymous voting - https://lemmy.eus/post/182574
Each instance decides what to show on its homepage and its own moderation rules, so you are free to build (or find, if one already exists) an instance that attempts to prevent the kind of manipulation you are worried about.
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Hello 👋 I made a community called loveisland on this instance but I can’t access it from the other instance I’m registered on (namely lemmynsfw.com but also feddit.uk)
I made the community a few days ago and have searched for it multiple times from those servers but it never shows in the search results.
Anyone know what’s going on?
0Federation isn't always super speedy. To force something to appear, go to the search page, choose communities and type the full path to the community, like this:
!loveisland@lemmy.fmhy.mlSearching like that should force the instance to start loading content from the remote community. It might not appear immediately, but it should show after a second. If it doesn't, try pressing the search button again or waiting a little bit and trying again.
4Thank you! It seems to be appearing now
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I don't know about feddit.uk but it appears on lemmy.ml : https://lemmy.ml/c/loveisland@lemmy.fmhy.ml and lemmynsfw: https://lemmynsfw.com/c/loveisland@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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Is it possible for an instance to die/get wiped out and then you lose your account totally?
0Hello 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.
0Here’s a link of every single one maybe…
2Bit late to the party but I'm using Jerboa... I'm amazed at how many clients there are already, though
2Right now I’m using wefwef.app (web app)
1I am using Connect for Lemmy. I'm new here but I like it better so far than using a web browser.
1Recently migrated and waiting for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
1Theirs is also Liftoff! https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff
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