Newb here. In my main feed, I see some posts over and over again. I see a post, click "Next" and there it is again. And again on the next page, and a couple of others I've already seen too. And again on the next page. (Sometimes they are cross-posts to a different /c, but mostly not.)

It's annoying having to wade through post after post I've already seen.

What I've tried so far:

• Set main feed to "New" rather than "Active" etc.
• "Hide this post" when I see it for the third or fourth time

Are there other ways?

My instance (frozeninferno.xyz) seems not to be federating properly with mander.xyz.

Looking at https://lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz/c/herpetology@mander.xyz it appears that the newest posts are from 4 months ago, however, looking at https://mander.xyz/c/herpetology there have been some more recent than that.

What can I do to fix this? And how can I check if federation is working properly with other instances?

Thanks.

Anyone else get the “please wait a few minutes before trying to import or export settings again” error?

It worked importing the same file to another account, but not this particular one. It gave me the error yesterday, so I gave up and went to sleep. Today it’s saying the same thing. I was thinking maybe the file size is too big? But it’s only 21 kb. =
If nothing else, I’ll keep trying again at a later time. It’s not urgent.

UPDATE: Solved! I guess just try until you succeed. Might take a few days

Is there some kind of rate limiting trick to mod report federation and LW? I have HackingNe.ws, but it seems like only reports generated from LW do not federate, not sure how to make the two instances like each other - comments/posts seem to federate properly.

Reports from other instances work fine btw, just LW reports. For example I created L3stest@sh.itjust.works - I am able to report fine between instances (account on SJW can report from there to HN or HN to SJW just fine). But I also mod LW/c/Technology, and reports to LW/c/Technology from HN works fine but on my instance it does not show reports to that community from other instances. I do not see receiving the reports in my logs that I can tell, nor do I see them visually on my instance.

Someone I talked to who had a similar issue mentioned LW rate limiting causing the same issue for them, is that what's going on?

Open to creating a bug report with Lemmy, but since it seems instance specific I figured I'd ask here first.

Feel free to DM me if needed, thanks

I am using Lemmy as the official community for my ArcaneChat project (https://lemmy.ml/c/ArcaneChat) I do announcements there when there is a new release sharing "what's new?" etc., this gets federated to mastodon/fediverse but when people reply to the post from mastodon the comments doesn't show up in the community (see https://lemmy.ml/post/27324077), is this normal? I am doing something wrong?

thanks in advance!

Some times my posts bring a lot of comments which generate a lot of comments making me unable to read the rest of the comments notifications.

When I was using Reddit, when this happens, I would turn off notifications for the viral post. Is there is a function like this on Lemmy?

I’ve posted things in the past with no issues to several lemmy groups from my sharkey account.

But for the last two days, none of them seem to go through anymore to any of the groups.

Could there be a reason for this?

Was looking at my profile and thought it would be fun to see how many upvotes I've received compared to downvotes. Can this be done?

Sorry I did google... it seems I can't upload them, so other than a link how can I share them?

Another reddit.world community got mad at me for saying "death to US" and now I'm banned. That's fine! But why can't I block them now? I am forced to see their posts every time I go to /all and can't comment or vote, so am effectively forced to view content without any ability to interact.

I don't want to see their posts and should be able to block them from my /all feed

Here look! When I'm not banned there's a clear option to block the community:

But after being banned I now can't block the community, I'm forced to keep seeing it in my feed!

SOLVED: From the user settings page there is a tab for Blocks next to the tab for Settings, and you can manually search for the community you wish to block in a search bar. That worked, even if the UI on the community page was messed up by the block message.

What is going on with Hexbear federation? I can still only see Hexbear posts from before the domain kerfluffle. Is lemmy.ml no longer federated with Hexbear?

This is a suggestion not sure if right place

We have “hide read posts”

Can we have “show only read posts”

Sometimes I want to find a post again, I can sometimes use key words if I can remember them, but generally difficult to find a post I’ve already looked at

I have noticed in some of my own comments that, I can see a heart next to it. It seems to be new (at least for me) and I was wondering how do we use it and for what is it for?

I was not sure which community to post this, so apologies in advance if this is the wrong community.

If you are unable to view the screenshot, here's a link to the image: screenshot of it

Right now if I write a comment on a community and receive a response I'm getting notified about it via push notification and even email if I set such option in my profile. However for certain subs I might be interested in getting notifications every time someone adds a new thread on it.

Is there any way as of now to achieve that?

Silly question, but I haven't seen these since signing up.

I checked my settings, but maybe I missed something.

Why are some comments highlighted (or "greylighted"), e.g. the three in the middle, and some are not?

https://pixelfed.ca/p/klu9/806559107614177586

Is it something to do with my instance (lemmy.ca)? Their instance? Invidividual users?

(I'm viewing in a web browser. Default settings, lemmy.ca)

Not sure if this is even possible but I am new here and I figured out that sorting "everything" by recent comments generally seems to be the best way to get new stuff that's getting talked about still, but it also appears to include brand new posts that come from bots that have zero comments and while I'm not against those posts I prefer to see stuff that has other users actively engaging in the comments as opposed to empty comment sections on bot posts.

Hi there, new user here. 2 of my favorite hobby subreddits don’t have communities on here yet. I am itching to make a full switch but would really miss those. How do I go about creating them so people have a place to move to?

EDIT: Solved, check Brkdncr@lemmy.world's comment below.

So, I am currently in the process of setting up a PeerTube and Lemmy instance, both on a dedicated Server running Debian 12. PeerTube seems to work properly by now, but the SMTP settings for Lemmy have been a bit of a headscratcher, and I wasn't able to find a solution.

To set up Lemmy, I followed the "from scratch" guide, and, besides the mail issue, it seems like everything else is working so far.

Note that I am currently in the process of learning-by-doing with this whole project. So, I would not rule out, that I may have overlooked something really obvious and stupid, sorry for taking your time, then.

My settings in /opt/lemmy/lemmy-server/lemmy.hjson:

  email: {
    # Hostname and port of the smtp server
    smtp_server: "localhost:587"
    # Login name for smtp server
    smtp_login: "lemmymail"
    # Password to login to the smtp server
    smtp_password: "REDACTED"
    # Address to send emails from, eg "noreply@your-instance.com"
    smtp_from_address: "noreply@abnormalbeings.space"
    # Whether or not smtp connections should use tls. Can be none, tls, or starttls
    tls_type: "starttls"
  }

The error message I get, when trying both resetting a password, or applying as a new user:

WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: EmailSendFailed: Connection error: Connection error: invalid peer certificate: NotValidForName

"lemmymail" exists as a local user on the server.

# dovecot --version 2.3.19.1 (9b53102964)

If needed, I can provide additional info from dovecot and/or postfix configurations in the backend. Similar settings as above have worked for PeerTube. As a reference - these are working in production.yaml there:

# SMTP server to send emails
smtp:
  # smtp or sendmail
  transport: smtp
  # Path to sendmail command. Required if you use sendmail transport
  sendmail: null
  hostname: mail.abnormalbeings.space
  port: 587 # If you use StartTLS: 587
  username: 'peertube@abnormalbeings.space'
  password: 'REDACTED'
  tls: false # If you use StartTLS: false
  disable_starttls: false
  ca_file: null # Used for self signed certificates
  from_address: 'peertube@abnormalbeings.space'

Things I have tried:

• Changing the user from and to a user with @abnormalbeings.space in the string
• Changing the user to one I know works, as I use them for automatic PeerTube mail messages
• Changing the hostname to a FQDN url instead of localhost (without https://)
• Trying different ports (did not expect that to work)
• changing tls_type to "none"
• changing the Password to one containing no special characters (and back)
• changing smtp_from_address to an actually existing user
• restarting nginx, dovecot, postfix, lemmy-server and lemmy-ui for good measure after every change

I get “couldn’t find feed at specified location” when trying to add rss from Lemmy.ml

Lemmy tends to have duplicate communities between different instances for many subjects, and this can make it hard to find information here. For instance, if i want to know if anyone has made a constructed language for birds, i have to go to the communities list and search for "conlang" and "constructed language", open every relevant community i find, and search each of those.

Is there a way for me to make a group of all these related communities such that i can see posts from all of them in a single place, and search within all of them at once?

I have found myself cross-posting the same thing in ten different communities because there's no single most popular one. I think something like these groups would also stop this from happening as much. If somebody is going to see my post in one of those communities, it's reasonable for me to assume they'll also have similar communities grouped together and i won't feel the need to repeat myself.

Right now, it shows a generic error image.

Are there specific resolution requirements, or?

EDIT: It solved itself. I guess Lemmy lags a little when propagating new community icons/banners.

Is it possible? I only found the NSFW one