We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines@lemmy.ml.
Lemmy is similar to Reddit in many ways, but there is also a major difference: Its not only a single website, but consists of many different websites which are interconnected through federation. This is achieved with the ActivityPub protocol which is also used by Mastodon. It means that you can sign up on any Lemmy instance to interact with users and communities on other instances. The project website has a list of instances which all have their own rules and administrators. We recommend that you sign up on one of them, to avoid overt centralization on lemmy.ml.
Another difference compared to Reddit is that Lemmy is open source, and not funded by any company. For this reason it relies on volunteer work to make the project better, whether it’s programming, design, documentation, translating, reporting issues or others. See the contributing guide to get started. You can also donate to support development.
We also recommend that you read the documentation. It explains how Lemmy works and how to setup your own Lemmy instance. Running an instance gives you full control over the rules and moderation, and prevents us developers from having any influence. Especially large communities that want to use Lemmy should host their own instance, because existing Lemmy instances would easily be overwhelmed by a large number of new users.
Enjoy your time here! If you have any questions, feel free to ask below or in the Matrix chat.
Thanks for the welcome! Hopefully Lemmy will grow with the Reddit changes, I wanted to join a while back but the lack of users held me back; since the news I decided to join anyway, and hopefully others will do the same!
One question: I’m browsing via Lemmy app downloaded straight from GitHub, but some posts don’t show the comments, even though I see there are several and if I use the browser everything is there. Bug? User error? Thanks in advance!
It might have something to do with the language settings introduced with the latest update?? It’s unintuitive for me.
No idea, I’m here since a couple of days lol
If you go to the settings on the webpage ( https://lemmy.ml/settings ), is “Undetermined” enabled in the language menu?
The posts you’re seeing might also simply have comments in languages that you don’t know (and have rightfully disabled in the settings).
Thanks for the help! I checked and English is enabled. The comments I was referring to are in English so I don’t think it’s that. Thanks!
You could try to enable english and undetermined, maybe those posts you’re missing don’t have a language set?
I too find it very confusing.
This did the trick! I can now see the comments I couldn’t see before! Thanks a lot!
awesome
You should open an issue in that apps repository.
You’re right lol for some reason I thought you were the maintener for Jerboa lol my bad!
That’s me, ya open up an issue on the Jerboa repo so I can figure out what’s going on. You might be using an older version of jerboa that had some issues with post comments.
Actually it looks like I don’t need to open that ticket, as @sexy_peach suggestion fixed it. No idea why I was seeing the comments via browser before, but today I couldn’t, so it wasn’t an app issue. Setting languages to English + undefined fixed it
I’ll do that! I’m using the latest 0.0.29 so I don’t think that’s the issue. Thanks for the help