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Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small. information sources: - [List of social platforms with at least 100 million active users - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users) - [Fediverse Observer](https://fediverse.observer/stats)
Attempting to upload twice a 774 KB .jpg during Create Post to community DRS Your GME. Front end red popup: SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON Payload response: Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out
Tried 3 times uploading an image during Create Post. The error message in the bottom left corner: SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON Edit 1: Also tried uploading an image via the comment section's GUI, but it also fails with the same error message. Edit 2: Similar to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1489 - But not the same as user dcx's comment that it was due to file size greater than 1 meg. The file I'm uploading is 766 KB. - Tested with 264 KB and 20 KB files, both fail to upload. - Tested from multiple browsers, upload also fails.
# What is Lemmy? Lemmy is open source software used for running individually hosted social media networks in the style of Reddit. It is built on the ActivityPub protocol, and is part of the Fediverse. We wrote this introduction with Apes in mind, but you may also want to check out the introduction and tutorials at join-lemmy.org located at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html # How is Lemmy structured and moderated compared to Reddit? Lemmy has Instance administrations and Community moderators The analog is Reddit administrators and Subreddit moderators Instance admins can perform all mod actions on all communities, just like Reddit admins can perform all mod actions on all subreddits Meanwhile, Community/Subreddit mods only moderate their community or subreddit # What is the Fediverse? The Fediverse refers to a collection of social media software which all are open source, independently hosted, and can choose to interact with each other. These software are all built on the same protocol and can interact with each other and share users. When instances opt in to the broader system, they are ‘federated’. # Tips for signing up When you make an account on a federated Lemmy instance like this one, you can interact with all other instances and communities which are federated. The differences between instances are up to individual instance admins, who decide who can sign up and what content is allowed on their instance along with moderation rules. https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/signup When signing up, Lemmy can freeze up if the username you are trying to register already exists or if you are using a password longer than 63 characters long. As detailed in the instance policies, limiting data collection means that no email account recovery is supported. Please ensure that you save your login information somewhere securely such as a KeePass data file. After signing up, there is a verification process which is manual. Our DRS instance admins do their best to check and approve applicants quickly. # Have you reviewed our Instance Policies? See here: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/1209 TLDR: Treat **everything** you submit to this instance as public. Instance admins (we) will attempt to reduce data collection as much as practicable, and will maintain open access for anyone to view posts and comments on this instance. # Different clients you can use, and how to set them up Once you have your account created and approved, you can choose to browse Lemmy through an app or other client. You can find some apps here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/ ## Web https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org ## Android - Connect - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect&gl=us - Jerboa - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa&gl=us ## iPhone - Voyager app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762 - Alternatively, how to install Voyager (f.k.a WefWef) as a progressive web app on iOS: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/10616 - ...and how to add Lemmy to the iOS home screen: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/4489 # 👀 Following Superstonk via Lemmy The lemmit.online instance replicates a number of Reddit subs to Lemmy communities through an automated bot which crossposts content. You can follow those communities through your Lemmy account no matter which instance you signed up on. For Superstonk specifically, just follow !Superstonk@lemmit.online For other subs, find the community you are interested in following, and then paste the community’s tag (listed in the community’s sidebar) into the search function on our instance. For example:  # How to start a new community on this instance Click the Create Community option along the top. You’ll need to select the community name, the URL, and optionally can include sidebar content. On Lemmy, Communities are automatically moderated by the person who creates them. That user can appoint other moderators, pin stickies, and moderate content on that community. It’s very similar to how Subreddits are made and operated. On the lemmy.whynotdrs.org instance, we welcome all communities who wish to discuss the financial markets and surrounding topics including specific stocks, investing styles, rules and regulations, crypto and web3, and the culture around money itself. # List of non-local communities you may want to subscribe to You may want to start your Lemmy journey by browsing some of the largest instances and subscribing to some of their communities. These are some of the largest general instances which cover a wide array of topics. - https://lemmy.ml/ - https://lemmy.world/ - https://beehaw.org/ Each instance has its own user base. Your login credentials on your home instance won’t work anywhere else. If you are using the DRS instance as your home instance, how do you find and subscribe to new communities through your own instance? # How to find new Communities to follow If you're coming over from Reddit, these three resources can help you find migrations for communities you may have followed on Reddit: - https://sub.rehab/ - https://redditmigration.com/ - https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html For finding new communities, perhaps the easiest way to find instances and communities is to search for them on https://lemmyverse.net/ - at the top of the screen, you can filter for either instances or for communities. This will parse ALL federated instances and their associated communities, and is very robust - it will search titles, domains, and sidebars in order to help you find things you are interested in. Set your home instance first. At the top right of the screen, hit the house icon and search for your home instance. Here’s how you can select this DRS instance:  Once your home instance is set, you can easily navigate to communities on any instance by clicking the community name, which will be a generated link.  After that, just hit subscribe on the sidebar and you are good to go!  If necessary, you can create and share URLs which will navigate to any community on any instance from any instance following this formula. https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/c/games@lemmy.world [home instance url] [/c/] [community name] @ [hosting instance name] # Views (New vs Active, and Subscribed vs Local) and setting your default preferences Okay! You have found some communities to follow - these could be on your home instance, on one of the largest and universal instances, or niche communities found through the network search at lemmyverse. Just like with Reddit, you have some choices to make about how you want to interact with the communities you joined. Your main choices are the types of posts to display and the communities to display them from. Lemmy’s own core developers explain it well here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html # Blocking Users, Communities, or Instances which you want to avoid Each user has the ability to block or hide content from specific users or specific communities.  In the case of users, you can block them in order to avoid seeing comments or posts which they make. Click on a user’s name on a comment or post and you’ll see the option at the top of the screen.  For communities, you can avoid ever seeing their posts on your various feeds. While navigating a community, the option to block it will appear on the right sidebar. # Public Moderation Logs: How they work and how to search them Lemmy’s moderation logs for all instance administrator actions and community moderator actions are available for public review at all times - and do not require sign up to access. https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog Moderation logs are collected together for all federated instances, and so can be difficult to parse in real time without searching for a specific mod. Once you type the name of an individual mod, select them from the dropdown and you can review all mod or admin actions they have taken. Posts which were removed can also be viewed and scrutinized here. There is complete transparency into moderation actions. - https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog?page=1&modId=2 - admin account admin history - https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog?page=1&modId=4 - Chives account admin history - https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog?page=1&modId=487 - Bibic account admin history
!Superstonk@lemmit.online is currently "frozen" since last night. It's not under our control, and is affecting all mirrored subs. Hopefully the owner of lemmit.online is able to restore service soon. We'll try reaching out if we don't see any update posted in about a day or so. Update: As of 2023-07-26, the issue seems to be resolved.
The last few years have been [an interesting journey](https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/4179), and it is far from over. Just wanted to say kudos and thanks to the DRSGME.org / WhyDRS.org team for putting together this instance, for their continued efforts that benefit all GME investors, for providing a location where we can more freely discuss topics of conversation that are relevant to our interests that might be censored elsewhere. I see that nearly 500 approved users have signed up to this instance, and an even larger number of subscribers to the DRSyourGME community on this instance, meaning that users from other Lemmy instances are also subscribed to communities here. A more relevant metric for social media activity is monthly active users, which is currently showing as over 100 on this instance. Milestone achieved! It took just over 1 month. It will be fun to watch the continued growth of this community. Cheers to everyone that has joined this instance and participated! I believe that as things stand now, the fediverse is the bast path forward for investors of GME and other groups that want to ensure that they can properly express themselves on the internet without being subject to the control of centralized authorities that might have conflicting interests. I remember watching the DRSyourGME subreddit grow, how it started small, naturally, but attracted bits of attention here and there, and as certain events unfolded it grew faster, and reached roughly 13 thousand users before Reddit rugpulled us. So here we are. This time, the community will continue to grow just like last time, only this time, there won't be a banning because there is no social media authority that exists that can take such an action.
How to install wefwef on iOS: 1. Open safari and enter “wefwef.app” in url 2. Tap “Settings” in lower right corner 3. Select “Install app” then press up arrow icon in bottom center of Saffari. 4. Select “Add to Home Screen” 5. Edit name if you would like, then press “Add” in upper right corner 6. Tap “wefwef” icon then “lemmy.word” portrait icon at the bottom center 7. Select “Login” in upper right corner 8. Select “other” and type in url: “lemmy.whynotdrs.org” then select “Next” in upper right corner 9. Enter your username and password and select “Confirm” in upper right corner 10. You are now logged in, will see your profile, and can start navigating threads. 11. To Navigate threads, Select “Posts” in bottom left corner then “Local” to see WhynotDRS instance
So.. I noticed in the "all" feed that it's really not feeds from ALL of the lemmy communities out there.. Then I read on the self hosted feed that the size of the instance grows depending on what users are subscribed to. Does that mean that the things I see on all are only what others signed in to this instance are subscribing to? The instance here is caching feeds from other communities? And thereby what I subscribe to will be seen in the "all" feed for others signed in here?
I saw another user crosspost some due diligence they had written last year and posted on Reddit to one of the related communities on this instance. Here is that post: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/8800 It covers a subject which still is worth learning about today, and sets a great example. The user is able to make sure their content can stay available on a reliable host, and for the reader, there is a quick message at the top explaining that it was originally hosted elsewhere and when it had been posts there. I love this idea - as I experienced with the DD I had written on the removed subreddit DRSyourGME, Reddit can wipe a slate clean if it chooses to. Crossposting to this Lemmy instance is a great way to help have more redundancy so you know your work will stay available, and it also helps grow this fledgling platform.
Hey all! Quick update to the community about the upgrades we performed today: 1. We upgraded the lemmy application from version 0.17.x to 0.18.1-rc4. This should resolve some issues preventing people from logging in. Thanks to @pigUw@gmestock.com for assisting with this, including testing and summarizing benefits of the new version. 2. Set up a Cloudflare proxy & CDN layer. This will reduce load on our instance for static assets like images and javascript, speed up delivery of those assets for users that are spread around the world, and may help us respond more fluidly to any DDOS threats that may arise in the future. For an alternate place to follow updates being made to the instance, you can check out the #lemmy channel on the DRSyourGME Discord - https://discord.com/channels/1102309240145707049/1121464479021006960
Not sure where to put this... but I noticed now that others are creating communities in this instance that I wasn't subscribed to any of the ones that were created after I had joined. Might not have even been subscribed to all of them that had existed when I did - it may have been just the community that i registered under.. So I guess this is just a reminder to all to periodically check the communities list so you're not missing out on the new new. 
We have some upgrade work planned for this Saturday. It may involve prolonged downtime due to DNS changes.
Should we have sub-communities (or whatever we call them here on Lemmy) to separate things? Like a meme sub, a DD sub, a TA sub, a data sub, a TrustMeBro^TM^ sub.. anyone else think this would be a good idea?
Is it ok to create communities here for other stocks, ETFs, options and investments?
## Un-privacy Policy TLDR: Treat ***everything*** you submit to this instance as public. Instance admins (we) will attempt to reduce data collection as much as practicable, and will maintain open access for anyone to view posts and comments on this instance. The main goal we seek to address with our Lemmy instance is community resilience in the face of censorship or bad actors. In support of this goal, we intend to make back-ups of the instance’s database available on a regular basis to a select few semi-trusted community members. (This is in addition to the already semi-trusted nature of the instance admin group itself, and in addition to the normal operation of the Lemmy application as a federated service which broadly shares a lot of information with other instances and the public.) As a result, users of the instance should consider that all information they submit to the instance may immediately or later become public. This includes things such as IP address, upvotes, and browsing patterns. Accordingly, we will seek to limit data collection as much as practicable. ## Lack of Email Collection and Password Recovery While the Lemmy software does not allow us to entirely disable the email field in the user sign up form, we will not require emails, will not be enabling any sending of emails from the instance, and will discourage users from providing their email during the sign up process. We may proactively purge any email data we do receive from time to time. This does come with some downsides: primarily, you must be careful about holding onto your password, as you will not be able to reclaim your account if you lose it. In the case of a lost password, you may wish to create a new user account. ## Password Re-use Recommendations In general, you should not re-use passwords across multiple applications. In the case of this Lemmy instance, this applies doubly as multiple community members may have access to backups. Of course, the Lemmy app does apply industry standard bcrypt encryption to all stored passwords, so as long as your password is sufficiently long and complex, it is cryptographically difficult to extract it from the data. Regardless, as a matter of precaution, you should use a long and unique password. ## Additional Implicitly-collected Data While we will disable any additional data collection whenever we are aware of it and are able to conveniently do so, you should assume that some data will still be collected by us and by third parties, such as IP addresses and/or browsing patterns. Some such data may be recorded to the instance’s database, and thus may be proactively shared as a part of backups, or even as a part of the regular operation of the Lemmy application. To understand what types of data the database contains, you may reference Lemmy’s source code. Alternatively, some such data may be collected and retained in server logs, or by technology providers that help us host the service, such as Google Cloud Platform, Cloudflare, etc. While we do not intend to proactively share server log information to back-up recipients, due to the semi-trusted nature of the instance admin group and of technology providers, this data may still become accessible in ways which are difficult to predict. Users concerned with their IP address being revealed should use a VPN. (Also, people should use a VPN, period.) Additionally, due to the federated nature of Lemmy, when you use our Lemmy instance, your browser may communicate with other Lemmy instances operated by third-parties. We encourage users to research and understand precisely how this communication may enable data collection by reading Lemmy documentation and the privacy policies of any third-party Lemmy instances with which they interact. However, at a minimum, we believe users should assume that third party instances can associate patterns of Lemmy browsing activity with their Lemmy account. We encourage users to exercise caution in voluntarily associating additional personal information with their Lemmy account. Finally, hypothetically, web applications can facilitate the collection of user data by third-party tracking, analytics, and marketing technology services. We believe our Lemmy instance does not facilitate any such data collection. Nevertheless, as a matter of precaution, we recommend that users use tracking blocking solutions, such as uBlock Origin, first-party isolation, or others. ## Content Policy The primary focus and scope of our instance is subjects relating to GameStop, household investors participating in US stock markets, direct registration, holding the financial industry/Wall Street accountable, and/or related economic and financial topics. Although we do not intend to censor discussion, and will not enforce around any stance or viewpoint within this scope, we may prevent or remove communities with an out-of-scope topic from hosting themselves on our Lemmy instance. As a reminder, due to the federated nature of Lemmy, users (including those on our instance) may and do follow communities hosted on other instances. In the event of another instance hosting content that we determine may be illegal or harmful for us to display, we may disable its federation to our instance. Due to the federated nature of Lemmy, users who are unhappy with our instance’s federation policies may also register via other instances, including their own, and thereby interact with content from our instance as well as any third-party instances with fewer disruptions related to our federation policies. ## Moderation Policy On Lemmy, there are instance administrators and community moderators. Communities are analogous to subreddits on Reddit. Anyone can create a community on this instance. When a community is created, the creator is automatically made the head mod and can appoint other users as mods as needed. These communities can develop their own rules and moderation structure. Meanwhile, instance moderators can moderate any community on the instance, just like Reddit Administrators could moderate any subreddit. The main differences as compared to Reddit are that: 1. Moderator logs are public and transparent on Lemmy. 2. Due to the federated nature of Lemmy, communities that feel unfairly limited by instance admins have the recourse of hosting their community on another Lemmy instance or even their own Lemmy instance. 3. Due to the federated nature of Lemmy, users that feel unfairly limited by our instance’s federation policies can subscribe and contribute from another Lemmy instance or even their own Lemmy instance. 4. Due to our planned efforts to share backups, the community will be more easily able to create a replacement instance in response to any overreach from the admins of this instance. 5. Our instance admins believe that moderation is best delegated to the communities, and will not engage in moderation of content based on the viewpoints or ideas therein. Areas where instance admins may engage in moderation will be limited to: - Removal of content which we believe may be illegal in the US to host, store, or distribute - Removal of content which violates copyright for which we receive legal takedown notice - Removal of content pursuant to any legal/government/court order - Removal of users who have required repeated content removal per the above - Removal of users who attempt to overload some aspect of the instance through the quantity of some action (e.g. flooding the instance with communities, excess and repeated data uploads, etc.) - Moderating a community for which they are also a community mod We are new to operating Lemmy ourselves, so we may need to amend this list as we discover Lemmy’s features and limitations. Although we prioritize open discussion, these concessions are necessary to maintain a consistent server solution and avoid personal liability. ## Contributing At this time, the admin instance team is not accepting monetary contributions. If we need to take contributions in the future, it will only be in response to operational costs which we will make transparently available to the community. We are interested in tech contributions, though we still need to set up the processes for contributors. For example, we are considering accepting contributions via source-controlled devops scripting. Thanks for reading. Maintaining an available and open platform for free discussion is crucial. Edits: - 2023-07-24: Fixed formatting issue
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