:partying face:
We’ve been working at warp speed since our v0.7.0
release in June, adding over 870 commits since then. :sweat:
Here are some of the bigger changes:
Local
, instead of All
, since all would show all federated posts.Active
(previously called hot), and Hot
. Active shows posts with recent comments, hot shows highly ranked posts.Local
( meaning from local communities).We’d also like to thank both the NLnet foundation for their support in allowing us to work full-time on Lemmy ( as well as their support for other important open-source projects ), those who sponsor us, and those who help translate Lemmy. Every little bit does help. We remain committed to never allowing advertisements, monetizing, or venture-capital in Lemmy; software should be communal, and should benefit humanity, not a small group of company owners.
Federation is finally ready in Lemmy, pending possible bugs or other issues. So for now we suggest to enable federation only on test servers, or try it on our own test servers ( enterprise, ds9, voyager ).
If everything goes well, after a few weeks we will enable federation on dev.lemmy.ml, at first with a limited number of trusted instances. We will also likely change the domain to https://lemmy.ml . Keep in mind that changing domains after turning on federation will break things.
To enable on your instance, edit your lemmy.hjson federation section to enabled: true
, and restart.
The server https://ds9.lemmy.ml has open federation, so after either adding it to the allowed_instances
list in your config.hjson
, or if you have open federation, you don’t need to add it explicitly.
To federate / connect with a server, type in !community_name@server.tld
, in your server’s search box like so.
To connect with the main
community on ds9, the search is !main@ds9.lemmy.ml
.
You can then click the community, and you will see a local version of the community, which you can subscribe to. New posts and comments from !main@ds9.lemmy.ml
will now show up on your front page, or /c/All
Lemmy Announcements
Feel free to announce new communities here.
Other than that, this is reserved for admin use only.
Good job guys! Lemmy is quickly becoming the best forum out there! Pretty soon it’ll be as big as Mastodon or PeerTube and just part of the Federated FOSS canon.
I must say, I am really looking forward to this day. The more I get into Lemmy, the more I am impressed and feel that Lemmy should be far more popular than it is now.
It truly is the only good alternative to Reddit. Keep evangelizing!
True, I have never seen a better Reddit alternative so far. I won’t say there is none, but I am more than enough content with what Lemmy has to offer. Really glad I got here.
I’ve tried Raddle and Saidit and both suck for completely different and unrelated reasons. Raddle is full of wokies who will literally ban you for saying “stupid,” and Saidit is full of nazis talking about “the jewish question” constantly ad nauseam.
Sounds harsh, might be true though. Can’t say for myself as I have tried neither of these two platforms, but I know similar… Unfortunately, such communities sometimes occur at places like these, where no one is restricting them and, consequently, the whole platform might turn towards such behaviour.
I feel like Lemmy is moderated to a satisfactory degree. Also, with federation coming, people can simply choose pods they feel suit them better.
Long time reddit user, I’m very excited about this project. It’s already great now so you guys are doing an amazing job! thank you
Thank you for your hard work and for improving Lemmy! I’m a recent user but I can say with certainty that the experience here is more satisfying than on Reddit (and the community is much more pleasant too).
Thanks, I’m happy to hear that :)
Kudos on the release, Lemmy just keeps getting better and better. Fantastic work!
Lemmy rocks ! Rock on ! && Congrats and thanks !
Amazing work ! Thanks a lot ! I’m very happy to be able to read lemmy without javascript.
I was also wondering if they are plans to be able to post comments / upvotes / etc from Mastodon accounts ( like Peertube <-> Mastodon federation ? )
We are still a long ways off from that, but have an issue for user following here.
Keep in mind that the entire fediverse is currently based on the twitter model of following federated users, whilst Lemmy as a reddit alternative is focused on following federated communities. Eventually we will support user following, and user’s posts will show up on your front page, but community following needs to be fully functioning first.
As a note, community following could work well with Mastodon as well. If you could follow a community the same way you follow a user, and see the stories posted in that community that would work as a kind of a news feed.