EDIT: Issue is fixed now, thank you.

I'm not sure anything from this instance is federating anywhere since this change.

Looking at activitypub, attempting to subscribe to something gets no reply (the screenshot below shows me trying with 3 different communities, followed by what's expected to happen with a random community on another 0.19 instance)

Looking at an active community (like nuclear@feddit.nl), there's been 6 posts in the past 2 days that aren't showing up anywhere else (at <whatever_instance>/c/nuclear@feddit.nl)

Re: trending communities, if a link gives you this error:

The server returned this error: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/post/list?community_name=exchristian%40lemmy.one&amp;page=1&amp;limit=20&amp;sort=New&amp;type_=All. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error

that's just a timeout that's usually resolved by a refresh. It'll happen more often with links from that list than elsewhere, because it's more likely to provide links that no-one else on feddit.nl has visited before.

I just had a click around on the latest post, and that was the only error I got. If it's not that though, please leave a comment. I'm on the same instance as you, so can investigate what the problem might be, and it's my bot, so can try to fix it if need be.

I created an account here and a couple of communities, but it was sort of by accident that I'm here. At the time, join-lemmy referred to the Awesome Instances GitHub page, and that recommended feddit.nl, and said don't overthink it, so I didn't. If I had thought about it more, I would've joined up to feddit.uk I suppose (although that's the instance that people are now concerned about now, ironically enough).

But given the .nl domain, maybe feddit.nl should just be a place for people to talk to one another in languages (other than English) that are popular in The Netherlands. For the focus to generally be specific to one location, and for Communities that other instances in the Fediverse don't provide. (sort of like what I imagine feddit.it does for the people of Italy).

I'm fairly active on Lemmy (from accounts on endlesstalk.org and lemmy.world), but the content I really want to create is animated in some form - as a gif or a webp file. My efforts in this are being stymied by Lemmy, as it seems utterly determined to wreck them, either by half-arsing an unwanted transcode, or re-compressing something that's already compressed. So, similar to others in this thread, but for completely different reasons, I'm waiting for the software itself to mature before I can fully unleash my genius on the world.

As for frontends, I've started using photon at lemmy.world. It's really nice, especially for the aforementioned animated stuff. I've even started using phtn.app for browsing on my phone too. (There's also Tesseract, a fork of photon that I've only seen at db0 and dubvee.org, but would like to play with.)

I'm guessing this is from the latest episode - if so, this Community is becoming my primary source for knowing when a new episode drops.

Mysteriously, this isn't currently playing via the standard web page on lemmy.world. But it does when viewed from other instances/frontends/apps, so I don't understand.

Casually hands over receipt:

Have found it impossible to upload this file directly to Lemmy. It's already a compressed WEBP file, but whatever settings I use, Lemmy insists on copying it and compressing it further, until there's only about 5 pixels left. So the only options left are for the post to be a link to the external url, or for it to look like a comment post, but with an inline image squashed inside. Neither are ideal.

EDIT: My experience with Lemmy:

EDIT 2: Now have something a bit more acceptable, loaded directly to Lemmy.
Lemmy always seems to compress WEBP at 75% - I uploaded an image, it compressed it, I downloaded Lemmy's version and re-up'd that, and it compressed it again. Presumably I could do this forever.

So, I created the original WEBP using the 'lossless' setting (it was about 2.5MB), uploaded that and let Lemmy convert it, and now it doesn't look too bad. The only thing is I had to use the version I tested at enterprise.lemmy.ml, 'cos feddit.nl got confused by the transparent frames. So the trick seems to be: upload the least efficient version imaginable

Ooops. I tested it before I posted, and the reason it worked is because it turns out that authentication isn't needed for that query.

I've edited the comment now, and there only being one part means that there's no need for an ampersand, so there's no probs with special characters.

Hi. I've found the best place to test the api is here

Example script for making a post

my_instance="https://lemm.ee"

auth="YOUR-JWT"
community_id=COMMUNITY-ID
name="TITLE OF POST"
body="BODY OF POST"

API="api/v3"

create() {
        end_point="post"
        json_data="{\"auth\":\"$auth\",\"community_id\":$community_id,\"name\":\"$name\",\"body\":\"$body\"}"

        url="$my_instance/$API/$end_point"

        curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "$json_data" "$url"
}

create

You'll need to get your instance's community.id for the community you want to post to. To use this community as an example, it would be:

my_instance="https://lemm.ee"

API="api/v3"

resolve() {
        end_point="resolve_object"
        www_data="q=https://lemmy.zip/c/linuxscripts"

        url="$my_instance/$API/$end_point?$www_data"

        curl "$url"
}

resolve

(lemmy will probably sanitise the ampersand in that query, so you'll have to replace the HTML with a literal ampersand)

I replied to Blaze in another thread, essentially saying that !trendingcommunities@endlesstalk.org is currently a backup / potential replacement for this community (depending how things go with feddit.nl)

I wasn't trying to give you a hard time about it - I was just providing a alternative version of this meme (that was posted here a while back) with a jokey bit of text.

For clarity though: you're not forbidden from reposting memes from other sites. Original content is preferred, but none of us can deny the popularity of the classic stuff. There might be some guidelines coming about them, and when/if we get flairs, we'll ask for them to be tagged, but that's about it.

Hey there OP with the OC, thanks for playing along with today's theme. If you ever have any other suggestions for a Wednesday Theme, please feel free to get in touch (typically with me, RHO, or WhoRoger). So far, we've had Droids, Aliens, Pirates, Expanded Universe, D+ TV, and Rhymes. Things will cycle around of course, but if there's anything else you want to dedicate a day too, we'll do what we can (by which I just mean: create a sticky; have a crack at it myself; and hope someone else does too, but it's something, at least)

Example 3: Best, um, Discourse

Example 2: Best 'Ships

Example 1: Best Dialogue

(Commenting on an old post to see if it'll bring it - and hopefully everything after it - through to a new instance)

Confirmed: they're all just saying 'Good Night' to each other like the end of a "The Waltons" episode. It's very wholesome.

Minor edit to move 'Sex Meme Pit' up a few places - it's swapped back again from a NSFW to SFW community, and the list was only showing its growth as a SFW one. I'm guessing that the Mod is going for 'SFW community with the more egregious posts NSFW'd out' approach.

NSFW'ing stuff isn't a particularly y good way to hide spoilers, btw (it's not the same as it is on Reddit)

It will (probably) blur the image for anyone who's set their account to view NSFW, but the majority of members here just won't see the post at all.

To the extent that spoiler tags are supported, it might be better to include images as an inline link, surrounded by spoiler tags.

Test: ::: spoiler spoiler :::

I've always wondered why this scene from "New York, I Love You" is used for Star Wars stuff.

Please try to be a bit less sweary. If the comments get out of hand on these sorts of posts, then we have to start asking posters to tag stuff as NSFW, and then a lot less people will see them.

(edit re: downvotes, well this is the last time I'll ever try to reason with anyone, I guess)

I mean, if you're trying to post an obscure meme, the very least you could do is not feature a mountain that Anakin Skywalker himself didn't obliquely refer to in Skyewalkers: A Clone Wars Story.

If my tears can't cure me, I doubt they'd do much for you.

Well that's certain an expansion .. of the type of vocabulary usually seen in Star Wars.

No post yesterday, and some communities are possibly missing from today. Lemmyverse.net wasn't able to update - the dev has said it was due to issues with lemmy.world's API responses.

This being the Top Post of All Time suggests that everyone likes the idea of being appreciative of new content more than actually being appreciative of new content.

"Grenoble" is mostly in French, btw. So if you click, you'll probably only see the 2 or 3 posts that aren't tagged 'François' (depending on how you've set your profile up). This is how things should be, I guess.

Data is over for 18 hours (rather than 24) because LemmyVerse hasn't updated in 17 hours (it normally updates every 6-12 hours), and the day (for me) will be over in a bit.

nosleep at lemmyworld? That's only got 5 posts from a month ago, so someone will have to get their finger out.

I wrote a function that sent a post to the top community in New Entries, but then changed my mind about using it. That was for everyday though, so I thought it might get intrusive. I'll re-think it when a month comes up - it's difficult to know how users feel about bots.

Does the community need to be older than 7 days?

It does, yes.

I discovered eXoLite from your Community, btw. It's amazing, so thank you.

It's up now. It was feddit.nl's turn to fall over today. Sorry if you asked me this ages ago (I'm only just seeing it for the same reason)

Cassian Andor's on here!

Okay bot, you can put me down now

We had less to work with in those days, but we made do dammit!

"I do, I do be threatening you"

I have TCU fatigue, and it's barely even started.

What app you're using is glitching. Evil_toastsupport doesn't have 3k subscribers (it has 24)

I spent some time being "funny" at shittymoviedetails yesterday, which illustrated 2 things to me today:

1. Creating Content is a good trick for driving up subscribers (18% in one day, so the 4.22% average demonstrates how in the doldrums it was)

2. Visiting it from a instance from which nobody had subscribed showed me all the posts, but not of the lovely upvotes and comments. So things may appear deader-than-are if you're the first person from your instance clicking on one of these links.

I mean, in a way, isn't every film a sequel to Hook?

It depends how you're accessing Lemmy.
On the website, you can click on the 3 vertical dots near the post or comment, and chose 'Block User' from there.
On the Voyager app, you can click the user's name, and then select it from the 3 horizontal dots.
It might be that whatever app you're using doesn't support it. Before Voyager did, I used to go into my Settings and then search for the user (e.g. [at] bot [at] lemmit [dot] online) in the 'Blocks' sections.

It'll be them Covid delays that ruined it