some sport winning advice bullshit

I tapped on the link and joined the Telegram group. I am now winning indeed.

That rule 4 probably refers to the instance wide rule 4, which seems to be “No Ads / Spamming.”

For regular users.

Relevant issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6121

Should be kept in mind until v1.0.0

One thing you need to know is that communities of other Lemmy servers (instances) are not “visible” to your instance automatically (there is a Github issue in the Lemmy repo that attempts to solve this in the v1.1.0 release), so you, as a user, have to introduce it to your instance.

This is only required if the instance has never seen the community before.

You can read how you can accomplish this in the Lemmy docs or the Fedecan guide:

• Lemmy docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html
• Fedecan guide: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-open-in-my-instance

The Fedecan guide might also help you understand the Fediverse and how Lemmy works better. Check the whole guide: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/overview

The second thing you should know is that the whole thing about every instance being federated with every other instances is a big exxageration.

Many instances defederate with each other.

Defederation means your instance won’t “communicate” with the defederated instance. This means your interactions will not be visible to the other instance with one exception, and that is when you are posting to a remote community on a instance that is not defederated with your instance AND is not defederated with the instance that your instance defederated with.

Communities in Lemmy are built on ActivityPub Group actor types and the specification states that the instance of the group actor announces activities, not your instance: https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/1b12/

In this case, that basically means the instance of the community acts like a middle man that delivers messages.

In this case, the defederated instance will be able to interact with your posts in that community while your instance never will know about it.

No Fediverse platform I know of uses algorithms like the ones in today’s mainstream social media, so you’ll have to get used to seeing the same thing every hour or so. Try subscribing to even more communities, changing sorting algorithms or browsing the “All” feed.

I occassionally find and remove communities through the “All” feed or random “recommend me communities” posts in communities such as:

• !asklemmy@lemmy.world
• !ask@piefed.social
• !asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Try creating a post in one of them.

If you want to help build a new community, try finding new ones. Creators of new comms usually post them in comms such as:

• !newcommunities@lemmy.world
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

I do wish that there was a “Random + New/Scaled/Hot” sort.

Block the user and then export your settings in Lemmy settings. When you import these settings, you will have the blocks from your previous account.

edit: didn’t read the whole text, Lemmy itself does not provide a way to block users with a specific username. Summit android app does have a filter for usernames though.

Run a small periodic program in the background that will search for users with that name pattern using the Lemmy Search API and block them.

What’s your lemmy config?

Is that the whole log? Have you enabled the trace level?

Yep. They did go away. I just uploaded them back again. Mine is a single user instance and I don’t upload much, so it wasn’t a big problem.

I hope the Lemmy devs implement this in v1.0.0 because this is pretty annoying.

Yeah I am using the “proxy all images” image mode. Though I still don’t get why the images aren’t being deleted at some point.

I just changed to another distro (so I had to set everything up again) and I simply did not backup the pictrs volume because how much time it would’ve taken to transfer it from one machine to another. And well, it seems like what you said is not true. I can load any old post and I will still see its images.

It shows in some comments and posts, but not all.

Yep, forgot to say that it only appears if there is at least a downvote.

Does this affect how my account is viewed on other frontends or like how my account works? I mean I won’t enable it but I gotta ask now.

Yes, it does. It affects how it is viewed in frontends that support the option “Show Bot accounts”. It regulates whether someone will see posts and comments from a bot account or not.

I don’t think I really understand.

I disabled all Show scores, Show upvotes, Show downvotes, Show upvote %, and I don’t think anything really happens. I mean I can still see them all (or some of them), and like now I have all of them enabled but I can’t see who downvoted you, what’s your upvote percentage and your score (although just as I said, this doesn’t happen to all) - I can only see how many upvotes you have.

• Show read posts

Read posts will not appear in your feed. Posts are read as marked if you upvote/downvote, open or comment in them.

• Show upvotes

Shows upvotes in the frontend

• Show downvotes

Shows downvotes in the frontend

Can be overriden by instance setting Enable downvotes (when set to disabled).

Can you clarify what you mean by “I can’t see who downvoted you”? Do you mean as in knowing the accounts that downvoted my comment or the count? Unless you’re a moderator in a community or an administrator, you can’t see the accounts that downvoted somebody. Community mods can only see them within content that is in the communities they moderate. Admins can see any.

• Show upvote %

Works like Show scores, but shows a upvote to downvote percentage instead. You will see a smiley face. Only shows up if there are any downvotes.

• Show Scores

Show the result of upvotes minus downvotes, you will see a heart icon with the result in comments.

• Bot account

This marks your account as a bot.

For example this is a bot account: @ohm@lemmy.asudox.dev

I think you can understand the others.

This is off topic. This is a support community for Lemmy specifically. It is more appropriate to post this in something like !fediverse@lemmy.world

Are you sure it is being featured (as in the API call succeeds)? I don’t see any reason for it to just automatically unfeature itself.

Videos are not stored in every server. Nobody would have been able to pay for the bills if that was the case.

The videos and images stay on the origin, and are fetched from the origin.

Afaik admins that enable the image proxy cache only the images, not videos.

To double check, you are accessing the Lemmy admin page through the official Lemmy UI, correct?

Also do you mind sharing (if there are any) error logs of the Lemmy backend?

Btw you might want to close the registrations. They are open right now.