We added an extra UI for our users. Photon by Xylight is an interface with a sleek, modern look and has all the bells and whistles you would need. Moderator tools included! You can access the UI from photon.lemmy.world....
On a large subreddit with more than 100K users, it’s an unspoken rule that if a thread has more than 200 comments, don’t bother making a new comment because it will get buried by the default comment ranking and no one will interact with it. Nobody uses the “new” ranking because you’re only going to see the meaningless...
We just added Alexandrite to the server, it’s an alternative desktop UI for Lemmy created by Sheodox who worked tirelessly to make the necessary changes to we could host it ourselves here. So go to a.lemmy.world and have a look!...
While I was asleep, apparently the site was hacked. Luckily, (big) part of the lemmy.world team is in US, and some early birds in EU also helped mitigate this....
It probably goes against the philosophy or whatever of FOSS or Lemmy itself, but why not be a little evil so that you can actually sustain yourself? Donations can bring us far, but small non-intrusive ads can be a bliss in the skies for the people actually hosting the instance. Especially if there are millions of users uploading...
Wow, since my post yesterday, lemmy.world has added 2000+ new users to cross the 30000 user mark! Just think, it was only at 20k three days ago. Crazy growth....
ou might have seen that we’ve been defederated from beehaw.org. I think there’s some necessary context to understand what this means to the users on this instance....
Was it natural and expected for Reddit, a titanic website of the Internet to get hit with a fatal blow- with user-induced blackouts and third-party abandonments?...
There was another attack going on (as you might have noticed). We’re working on a fix. In the meantime, we’ve blocked the listing of comments, so we at least aren’t down, but it did break comments....
A few days ago I saw some cool JoinLemmy stickers created by @cheeseblintzes . I asked her if she could also create lemmy.world stickers, and she did!...