Yeah it depends on the app, they don’t all do it. Boost shows cross posts, but doesn’t merge them.

What app are you using? The regular Lemmy-UI already does this. In fact I have a feature request asking to be able to disable it…

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2934

the default appears to be StoreLinkPreviews in v0.19.8

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/0.19.8/crates/utils/src/settings/structs.rs#L85-L88

but in the main branch it’s ProxyAllImages, so I guess that’ll be for a future release

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/utils/src/settings/structs.rs#L74-L77

this might help https://monero.town/post/2020876

I guess you could call GET /internal/hashes?{query} to see all the images

I think there’s a guide for that somewhere? Maybe I can try looking for it tomorrow if no one else finds it first. I think the admin control panel that shows uploaded images might also show the federated ones?

See the config.hjson for image_mode

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/config/defaults.hjson#L25-L57

hey what about Reddit->Lemmy? lol

what’s the source on this? They should probably do each one on a different day?

edit: https://networkcultures.org/geert/2025/01/30/join-global-switch-day-on-february-1st-2025/

https://slrpnk.net/post/17878668

Maybe there should also be one for Bluesky->Mastodon lol

Make sure you use the original link of the post and not your local version.

Use this icon on a post to copy the original link of it:

The original url will be the same domain name as the poster’s instance. For example your post is: https://lemmy.ca/post/38173834

And my comment is: https://programming.dev/comment/14642812

To view such a link on your own instance, paste it into your instance’s search, like this.

This feature request would make it easier: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

Also: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318

Give those Github feature requests thumbs up reactions so the devs know to prioritize them.

Seems like this also improves the situation and might be launching with v0.20 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5057

Does Lemmy allow hyphens in community names? I know it allows underscores

I think the ideal would be a kind of recommendation system based on tastes and interests. When you go to the Mastodon site to register, it asks you your main interests and based on those it recommends one or another instance.

https://join-lemmy.org/ does this

any idea how much disk space it costs to join this? like if you have an empty instance, does it add more than 1GB per month?

or will it stagnate and fade into obscurity like many other similar discussion boards?

well it wouldn’t really play out like that, if Lemmy gets overtaken by a replacement (like Mbin, Piefed, or Sublinks), it would be a transition not a death

a big thing we can look forwards to right now is if Pixelfed gets better support to interact with Lemmy/etc communities/groups then we can get a big boost in userbase, even if they aren’t using the Lemmy software we’ll still be seeing their posts and comments

I wish Mastodon would improve their compatibility with Lemmy too, but they don’t seem interested

So many specific interests still have very active forums dedicated to them, populated by the kind of people who want to ask queations aboht and discuss the things they have interest or expertise in

I hope these types of sites eventually switch off of software like phpBB and move to software like Lemmy/Mbin

Maybe someone should make a database migration tool so posts/comments/users can be retained

Also related, but no ETA

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318

Mystic Towers! https://youtu.be/nUkRQxqBWNk?si=0eChDb0BT_dNq9ST

I actually saw this post yesterday but couldn’t think of a good reply at the time lol

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Trending communities: !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl (make sure you enable “Show bot posts” to see here)

If you’re really looking for newly created communities…

sorted by new https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=published

Lemmy’s built in communities page sorted by new /communities?listingType=All&sort=New&page=1

I guess communities should have an easy way to hide themselves from Local/All feeds

Yeah I think of downvotes as like micro-moderation, or crowd sourced curation. It’s generally a good feature. They can be annoying sometimes but it’s better than the alternative of bad/spam posts/comments flooding your feed.

Make a Github pull request, examples:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/347

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/354

the instance needs at least 5 active users

you might need this feature before it can be done easily https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987