Hi I'm a bit lost. When I want to share a post that a see on Lemmy to people outside (ex: on discord) it's unclear to me how I should do that. I want to make sure that people will be able to see the post without loging in. Maybe a Share button would be nice?

When I go to the following post, I only see two comments: https://lemmy.ml/post/1084439 When I go to it in an incognito window, I see 4. Anyone know how I can fix this? Hard refreshing page doesn't work Edit: [Logged in view](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e6f46e47-b552-465f-9806-e737b7d272eb.png) -- [Logged out view](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1173268b-34de-4323-b28b-45f1622a3f86.png) This happens on, to be honest, most threads

you know, where you post your interests and hobbies and a preferred messenger and people message you and become friends. something like r/r4r on reddit?

I've a QNAP NAS and don't like having muliple docker containers for the same App. If Apps have multiple containers I wrap them in a LXD container. When I do that with Lemmy It fails all the time with password issues on the DB. Even when I know the passwords are right. I've had the same issues with Docker but it does start eventually.

Whenever a post shows "X" amount of comments and I go to it, I get greeted by no comments whatsoever, sometimes it only loads one or two of them at best, sometimes none at all. I think it's a bug, since no matter what app or browser I use, I get the same issue. Can somebody report this to the developers of lemmy? Much appreciated.

We've disabled downvotes at Beehaw and this issue was addressed/fixed for some time. However, as you can see, downvotes are getting through again.

The recent Lemmy post with the "Can ActivityPub save the internet?" link, says there are 4 comments. They can't be viewed from Lemmy however. Copy/paste the URL in Mastodon and the comments become visible (they are all non-Lemmy commenters).

I suppose it only makes sense to raise awareness on the benefits of the freely licensed software and services from the fediverse over the dangerous and unethical proprietary services in existence such as Reddit now going to IPO. That happened to Twitter->Mastodon, can happen to Reddit->Lemmy as well. I suppose as well that the users most likely to be open to the idea would be the free software, culture users to try it. Besides, an effort on content creation and content creators to make it an attractive place. What are your thoughts? What were the efforts so far? What are the challenges? Is it so hard to make people migrate?

As for title; example: I can't reach https://lemmy.ml/c/decentralized via global search, even when forcing the address typing https://feddit.it/c/decentralized@lemmy.ml I tried many times with different languages options.

So things have been going smoothly on my instance since setting it up. While setting things up from scratch was an adventure, everything has worked as expected, with no real hiccups, since I got it off the ground. Then I opened up the tab in Firefox today only to be greeted by a little orange notification in the bottom left of the screen telling me that I didn't have admin rights. Odd, I thought, but maybe I had just been logged out, or the service stopped running, or something. So I refreshed the page, but I remained logged in. I checked the service on the host, and it was still running. So I logged out, only to find that I can't log back in again. It doesn't recognize my username/email + password. If I try to go to my user account URL, it doesn't recognize it. Clicking on my account name in posts I've posted brings me to www.example.com/c/Kichae@www.example.com, i.e. it now recognizes my account as being remote. I checked out my user info in the database, and that all seems ok, though I admit that I hadn't gotten around to looking at that *before* the issue, so I don't have a clean memory to compare it to. But the entry in the `local_user `table points to the right ID in the `person `table. I also found some actual remote accounts in the user table, which I found kind of weird, as, while I have federation enabled, I can't imagine anyone on other instances would have found the site. Now, I have managed to regain access to my account, and to my admin status, by directly editing the database. Removing the `www` prefix from my `actor_id`, `inbox_url`, and `shared_inbox_url` fields got me that far, but it still seems to think my profile is located at `example.com/u/Kichae@example.com` and not just `example.com/u/Kichae`. I'm a bit perplexed, especially since nothing seems to have happened between yesterday and today. No settings have been changed. No new posts have been made. No new users have joined. The last thing I did before going to bed yesterday was post a comment. Any leads as to what's happened would be well appreciated so that I can guard against it happening again.

Hello, I want to report that previously deleted community is still visible in personal profile as moderated by user. In my case, is the "szmer.info/c/exreb" community.

I've seen users from mastodon and friendica comment on lemmy posts, but I've never seen posts from instances running non lemmy software show up in my feed. Is this a consequence of different software handling federation differently?

I'm trying to set up Lemmy on my VPS. The server is running Ubuntu 22.04, and is currently hosting several websites, including a Calckey instance. As such, I already have nginx set up as a reverse proxy, and PostgreSQL installed and in use . After attempting to fiddle haphazardly with docker-compose.yml with little success, I stumbled across a post from someone in a similar position to me, who was advised to try installing Lemmy from scratch. So far, I've installed Rust successfully, updated Postgres to version 15.2, and overcome a few hiccups by updating build-essentials, and installing protobuf-installer, but I've now hit a roadblock during compilation. The command I'm using to compile is, taken from the instructions, `cargo install lemmy_server --target-dir /usr/bin/ --locked --features embed-pictrs`. It successfully compiles a long list of components, but it trips over `lemmy_server v0.17.0`, spitting out the following error: ``` Compiling lemmy_db_schema v0.17.0 error: proc macro panicked --> /root/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/lemmy_db_schema-0.17.0/src/utils.rs:152:44 | 152 | pub const MIGRATIONS: EmbeddedMigrations = embed_migrations!(); | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | = help: message: Failed to receive migrations dir from None error: could not compile `lemmy_db_schema` due to previous error error: failed to compile `lemmy_server v0.17.0`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/usr/bin/` ``` I know the instructions for this are a bit dated (as is the version it's trying to install), and that you're not really supporting this install method, but I was hoping someone might be feeling generous and could point me in the general direction that I need to head from here. Or, better yet, if there's now a way to get the docker setup to work with my existing services. Thanks in advance for any amount of help any of y'all can provide.

[Here](https://lemmy.ml/post/913218) is an example. I'm not so sure linkifying hostnames in titles is even a good idea (and I think it was only implemented recently) but if it's there it should make them into `https` URLs instead of `http`. also: the tooltip on the hostname link within the title shows the full URL which the rest of the title links to, instead of the hostname-only URL that the hostname part is linking to.

I mean, when you want to find a server to join, sopuli used to be there, but now it's gone.

Why when I mention users with @, it don't generate mention in metadata, and said usertags aren't clickable. Like in Mastodon. For example: @winnie @winnie@lemmy.m For example here: https://lemmy.ml/comment/405208 Is it intended, or not yet implemented?

I'm using lemmy.ml in Tor Browser. Sometimes a little while (seconds) after loading the front page it will start loading old posts, often from a single seemingly random community, and then keep doing that indefinitely. My fan turns on and the page becomes unresponsive as new (old) posts are continually inserted at the top of the timeline.

I believe that I remember this being an added option with the Lemmy 0.17.2 release. However, I'm unable to find this option.

If someone reports a user from another instance, does the report get federated to the instance from which the user is based? Bonus question, what about when the comment was made from a Lemmy platform like Mastodon?

I'm getting notifications for comments on a post I made saying there are 2 comments but only one was made. I also usually get 2 emails when someone comments or replies to me instead of just 1.  

[I commented on a lemmy.ml thread from beehaw.org](https://lemmy.ml/comment/397120) . Even though my comment is the only one the count of the comments on lemmy is 8:  I believe this is a bug caused by edits to the comment (on beehaw.org) being counted as new comments on lemmy.ml.

Are there any instructions on how to do this? I have a new VM with docker for lemmy and another VM with nginx running, hosting zaggy.nl. I've had a go at lemmy but the lemmy container keep restarting, saying 'Error: LemmyError { message: None, inner: Address not available (os error 99), context: "SpanTrace" } ' Which variables do I need to change besides db and admin password? What do I fill in for LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST?

Without digging around in the DB, is there a way for an admin to easily see registered users on an instance? I turned off admin approval for new accounts, and a few people have registered, but aside from the initial email, I have no easy way to see who they are or what their activity has been.

I can't find the setting to change the Lemmy theme to dark mode, is it no longer available?

for some reason the block community button only appears if im logged in and the hamburger menu on posts in the homepage doesnt open anything

When I'm logged out I can see everything as it's supposed to be. However, when I'm logged in as one of the admins of our instance, then there are entire communities that are empty and some post comments are not visible.

Since the latest upgrade, posts federated from (and to!) other lemmy instances are having their titles on lemmy.ml truncated to 100 characters. At first i thought this must be due to a different configured character limit on different instances, but then I noticed that (1) posts here on lemmy.ml are still allowed to have longer titles (200 chars is the client side limit I see currently, at least) and (2) this is oddly happening here on lemmy.ml also to posts made *by lemmy.ml users* to remote instances. Compare these two posts from a lemmy.ml user, which should have the same title: * https://lemmy.ml/post/753535 "What’s a good tablet and touch screen oriented Linux distro or desktop environment? Can any of them compete with something like Android?" * https://lemmy.ml/post/753536 "What’s a good tablet and touch screen oriented Linux distro or desktop environment? Can any of them" The second of those was posted to a remote community on lemmygrad, but by a lemmy.ml user. Note that [the lemmygrad version of that same post](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/510601) does *not* have its title truncated. [Here](https://lemmy.ml/post/753722) is lemmy.ml's truncated version of a post to a beehaw community from a beehaw user (and again, that title is not truncated in beehaw's copy of the post). tldr: afaict this problem is only occurring on lemmy.ml's versions of posts in remote communities, and happens regardless of if the post was made via lemmy.ml or not. edit: i guess probably [this recent commit](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/668e21cb65402c5269864b1c376d39cd4bce2bb9) from [@nutomic@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic) will fix it? but I'm still curious why this currently appears to be happening only on lemmy.ml's versions of posts in remote communities (and in both directions). edit2: ok, i see it is actually happening elsewhere too, eg [the lemmygrad copy](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/510600) of the `/c/linux` tablet post above. So, I guess it is currently happening to any remote community anywhere, regardless of where the user posting from. 🤔 thanks [@nutomic@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic) for (presumably) fixing it already and sorry for the noise.

I posted a little while ago that I was having trouble installing pict-rs. (Using Linode VPS with Yunohost install of Lemmy). I kept trying to figure things out and now it has all shit the bed. Is there anyone here that would take a small $40 payment to just get it up and running fully for me? (Hoping the database can still be saved, but if it can't not the worst.) #frustrated If $40 isn't enough let me know what's fair.

 

I'm only moderately literate with Linux so I could use some help. I'm running my Lemmy instance on a shared Linode VPS, with Lemmy being installed via YunoHost. It appears that neither pict-rs or a mail server are part of that install from what I can tell based up on how Lemmy is running for me. I've tried following the instructions on this page: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/ I ran into some problems with docker-command not being found but I believe I've successfully installed docker but when I run this command: sudo apt install docker-compose I get this error: Pulling pictrs (asonix/pictrs:v0.4.0-beta.7)... ERROR: manifest for asonix/pictrs:v0.4.0-beta.7 not found: manifest unknown: manifest unknown Any help appreciated. If you can Zoom with me, that would be even better. Thanks,

If you haven't set a language in your profile and you try to post, the default option is "undetermined" and anything you try to reply/post will give you the unhelpful error of language_not_allowed. To an end user this doesn't provide any guidance on what happened or how to fix it. Similarly if you haven't set a new default since updating, going to the main page of an instance will show whatever your previously saved option was among the options subscribed, local, all but it will always show all (since that is what it defaults to on your profile).

I'm assuming that this link is only available to instance admins? What, precisely, happens when this link is clicked?

It's not just [Beehaw](https://beehaw.org) but several other instances are missing from the [Join a server page](https://join-lemmy.org/instances). Was this caused by the bot/crawler not being updated to handle the new Lemmy version?

Question prompted by the fact that I can see a post from exploding-heads dot com, an instance I thought both Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml have blocked:  So I check the allowed/blocked instances list to see whether it's still there, and the entire blocked list seems to be gone on both instances:  

Please excuse my question it might be stupid, but i found a lemmy fork who supports RTL on github and i may install it for test, i want to check if i should follow the standard lemmy installation steps or i must do something lese?

Hello, I tried to update my instance but I forgot to read the release notes and used ansible to update. Of course it failed. After the update I decided to check what is new and I realized my mistake. I tried to run the postgress update script but it fails with the message ``` Error response from daemon: Container {container hash} is restarting, wait until the container is running ``` The logs say that the db hasn't been updated. I don't know what else to upload here to help troubleshooting. Thanks in advance!

 I wanna be back for develop another UI for Lemmy, which will look like modern Reddit, but better. Earlier i install lemmy with this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fzCUEpFnDg but now, devs made changes around nginx, so... i cant install Lemmy now. Docker sends me errors)) If you are interested in developing a new UI, please contact me, I need the help of people who understand the installation issue.

We run our own instance, and just upgraded. After the upgrade, a bunch of the communities I have subscribed to on other lemmy instances aren't showing historic content that our instance was aware of before the upgrade. Also, approximately half of my subscribed communities were showing the subscription as pending, despite them not being pending prior to the upgrade Did we do something wrong, or is this a known issue?

Since the upgrade to 0.17.0, I've been able to join communities from my Pleroma account, so big shout out to the dev team for that! But I've noticed a weird behavior where communities will boost random months old posts. [This post](https://lemmy.ml/post/263985) was made 9 months ago and has since been deleted but was federated to my server [here](https://stereophonic.space/notice/ASJ3exVYh2kZ4uAAl6)

Every time I'm clicking on a notification to see replies to my comments i'm getting the below message: 404: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'comment')