Good day dear Lemmy community!
When I try to use lemmy's private messages, I get the following warning:

Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not secure. Please create an account on Element.io for secure messaging.

It is very good to have this warning! However, can it be improved?
When I first encountered this wording, I was completely unsure whether the DMs would be totally public due to lemmy's limitations or its open stance, or whether the messages would have a similar security to e.g. email where your trust relies on TLS and the servers involved.

My proposal would be to change the wording to something like:

Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not End-to-End encrypted. Please create an account on Element.io for secure messaging.

Or if the team is open to it,

Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not End-to-End encrypted. Please use a platform with E2E encryption for private messaging.

Or if the team is even more open to it,

Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not End-to-End encrypted. Please use a platform with E2E encryption for private messaging. Lemmy recommends Element.io and XMPP.

Thoughts? I'm ready to create a PR.

why #mastodon & other #fediverse instances won't provide #OpenID to use across web and to be able to login in to multiple web apps (including but not limited to fediverse)

#askfedi #asklemmy

@fediverse
!selfhosted@lemmy.world
!lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
@lemmy_support
!fediverse@lemmy.ml
@selfhosted

I've been browsing communities just to see what's there and it seemed weird to only be able to sort them algorithmically.

Hello, I'd like to try moving my Lemmy instance to another server.

I've read this: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/backup_and_restore.html and it seems relatively straightforward. So I was wondering if anyone has done it and if there's any particular advice to keep in mind.

The images, which are the "heaviest" part, I have in S3 so I don't have to move them, and therefore the backup/restore should be less complex and shorter, I think.

When I feature post on !invincible@lemmy.world, it is only featured on my home instance sh.itjust.works. Post also automatically unfeatures itself after some time.

Are video files cached or federated in any way?

I want to make posts that include video, and those videos I wish to upload on my own webserver to not rely on external links or expiration dates.

But I fear for bandwith, and I want to know if the videos will be cached on the instance or if every user will be a full web request of the video (that I can of course mitigate via good compression, and/or having a dedicated CDN that won't empty my pockets).

Having #fediverse questions.
#askfedi #fedihelp

I follow @gonzalo #pixelfed
&
@lemmy_support #lemmy

but I don't see their posts on my #mastodon UI instance. Why & how to fix, debug?

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how can I publish a new lemmy thread from my mastodon, should I tag
@lemmy_support or
!lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
dessalines@lemmy.ml
@LemmyDev
will this trigger automatic re-toot from https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy/_support bot account ?

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When you follow 100 accounts & 100 tags, how do you filter meaningful incoming posts in feed ? is there query language to prioritize, or some alternative mastodon client that does that.

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How does lemmy reputation point distributed across multiple instances, eliminating sybil, fake news , etc ?

I noticed on a comment that I got 3 "points". Is it like upvotes?

Here's the link to the original instance : https://blog.kaki87.net/c/kaki_blog?dataType=Post&sort=New

Here's an example comment from another instance : https://0d.gs/comment/5903730

Here's the same comment on yet another instance : https://jlai.lu/post/21115531/15881483

But from the original instance, the comment doesn't show up.

What to do ?

Thanks

Hi, I have lemmy.world blocked for browsing purposes because you know, it's mostly trash.

However, I want to post a question in !summit@lemmy.world because I'm having an issue with the app where I can't seem to access the toggle to hide posts from bot accounts.

Is there a way to whitelist a niche community without unblocking the instance it's on?

I've clicked on everything and I can't find a setting for it. It's infuriating! I'm using the Connect app, btw.

Edit: I've changed to Summit and the settings are much more straightforward.

For example, I've come across this:

^[1]^

If I PM someone how can I see my PM and the response if there is one?

Next to every post in the feed, there's a preview image between the voting buttons and the post title.

Is there a way to hide that preview image?

steps to reproduce:

1. create a community
2. change its name
3. load own user profile

expected results:

• community's new name is displayed both in the "Moderates" and "Subscribed" boxes

actual results:

• new community name is displayed in the "Moderates" box
• community's old name is still displayed in the "Subscribed" box

additional notes:

• the renamed community's new name becomes visible after subscribing to some other community
• sorry for posting this here, but, i don't want to give microsoft my telephone/ID/firstborn/etc which is required to open an issue on github these days

How can one configure their Lemmy instance to reject illegal content? And I mean the bad stuff, not just the NSFW stuff. There are some online services that will check images for you, but I'm unsure how they can integrate into Lemmy.

As Lemmy gets more popular, I'm worried nefarious users will post illegal content that I am liable for.

Hello, I came here searching for a post I made in a community, I think the community was "Rollerblading, and my post was a review. However, when I go to my profile there is nothing under "posts". I also checked for other posts that were in the monster hunter world community, but I can't find anything, and it seems like the communities no longer exist. I don't care about other posts, I would just want the inline skates review. Is there a way to retrieve this post?
When I go to my profile, it still says "6 posts", but now under "posts" there is only this one.

I just created a community but left it without a wallpaper (or whatever it's called here). A little later I found out what the wallpaper should be and now I wanna add one but I can't see any buttons about editing the community. So: how can I add a wallpaper image to an already existing community?

I know that Lemmy.world has the old.lemmy.world but is there anyway to get that same UI for Lemmy.ml?

I am relocating from lemmy.one since it is shutting down. Does the "Import Settings" function work? I tried using it, but the page reported an error at the bottom left of the screen. I tried again yesterday and then again today, and the message at the bottom left of the screen just says something like "please wait awhile before importing or exporting settings."

Hi folks,

as my current instance will shut down soon, I need to transfer the ownership of my tiny community to my new account on a different server. I know I can make my new account a moderator. But will the new acc then have 100% of the administration options that my current account has? Or will it only be a second-class role? I'm used to 2000er forum/boards where admin accounts carried way more privileges than mods. Like a mod could also never delete the whole thing.

I've got my own instance running and I want to federate with some instances and communities but I'm getting a Subscribe Pending error. I read everything I could find on this error but the fix on github from like a year or two ago didn't work.

For context, I got the instance running on server A, then tried to federate with a few communities. Then I moved the instance to server B, which was more stable, and then tried to federate again.

The domain is the same just literally rsynced the files to another server and got the container up.

I'm ready to commit to Lemmy full time and leave reddit. Any ideas? What am I doing wrong?

I'm running 0.19.11 for context, with caddy as my reverse proxy.

Edit: Even further context. This issue is happening on communites on instances that I had not trie to federate previously.

Set the language in the language selector to the language your post is written in

I get the error shown in the video when I try to edit a post. I get the error both on my phone and desktop

Specifically, how do I safely and properly clean up the '/lemmy/magick/' folder? Mine contains 44,259 files taking 405GiB in total. That is the vast majority of my humble server's 466GiB capacity. I am the only user on my instance so I don't know their source.