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Lemmy hot sort

Why is the lemmy hot sort seemingly so bad? After the first couple of posts it turns into new posts with no votes, sometimes the same new post multiple times back to back to different communities, and sometimes posts with negative points. I came across a series of posts today with 1 upvote (poster) and 6 downvotes. I don’t get...

When sharing a post, or comment from lemmy, which link should you share?

Say you have a Community on Instance A, a User-B from Instance B posts to that community, a User-C on Instance C comments on that post, and User D on Instance D is viewing that post, and its comments from Instance D. How should user D go about sharing a comment from that post? Should User D share the comment from Instance D,...

[Solved] Federation Issues

I run a Lemmy instance at lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com. It has been working for some time. 6 days ago it stopped getting updates from communities it was federated with. If I view all posts by active there is nothing newer than 6 days old. I checked disk space on the server, there is plenty. I don’t appear to be running out...

How to make a post with a GIF actually post the gif when viewing through lemmy-ui

Whenever I make a post with a link to a gif as the URL, the post on clients like Sync, Liftoff, and Photon all actually show the .gif file in the post so it will play correctly. Whenever I view the post on lemmy-ui (the basic UI) though, sometimes it has some .webm file that was created on the original instance, and to actually...

External image as community icon/banner?

I’m trying to setup a community without pict-rs (and as such, without being able to host its pictures myself). I’ve been tinkering a bit with the API (through python clients, essentially), and I’ve found how to change my users’s avatar to an URL, but not a community. On Lemmy.py, for instance, I have an update() method a...

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