If a community is too specific then it won’t gain traction. I think definitely keep it as general as you can, like just a graphic design community (if there isn’t already one)

It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out, if instances with downvoting disabled become popular

Personally I think downvoting is important, it’s like micro-moderation, in a democratic fashion. Sure it doesn’t always work out well, but it can be good for keeping spam and malicious posts at the bottom.

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

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

hexbear is defederated, which is basically a firewall block

you can comment on content that was previously copied to our instance yes, but your comment won’t get mirrored over to hexbear, and they can’t see it or reply either

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

If you’d rather not block the whole community

Other options are changing your sorting method. Like if they’re currently dominating the Hot feed, they’re probably not also dominating the Top 12hr feed, just switch to that.

Yep. But it could be seen as an advantage your app has that others don’t, and different apps can try different approaches

I think even just a frontend (web UI or mobile app) could fix this pretty easily

when it loads a page with many posts from the same community, it only shows 1 or 2 and puts the rest in a queue to show on later pages

I just don’t think bash is good for maintaining the code, debugging, growing the code over time, adding automated tests, or exception handling

I’ve been working in Ruby on Rails lately (unfortunately) and yeah it’s extremely bad at this. There’s so much hidden implicit behavior everywhere.

It’s been declined https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4225

Imagine the same news article is posted in /c/cars and /c/fuckcars. It is not desired nor expected to have all comments combined.

Making it a checkbox is an interesting idea though, but could still be confusing reading the comments with the different contexts.

there’s an open issue filed for this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4619

I’m not sure this can be really fixed with Python 3, maybe we just have to hope for Python 4

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

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

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