My not-very-helpful 2 cents: this is how it worked on reddit and kind of what expected for lemmy. But there could be a setting to change the behavior.

Non-expert answer (those who know more, please correct): only public content is (needs to be) federated. That’s (one of the reasons) why you cannot log in with the same account on different servers. Only the server you are registered in stores your private account data (AFAIK).

Thanks, I copied lemm.ee link and didn’t realize the missing y.

Also, isn’t creation community restricted on Lemmy.ml?

That explains why OP couldn’t find how to create one. Thanks again!

I edited my comment.

On the default frontend there is a button on the home page:

https://lemmy.ml/create_community

EDIT: Some instances have restricted community creation. It works on lemm.ee (if you are logged in): https://lemm.ee/create_community

I haven’t used it, but with a simple search I found:

gusVLZ/lemmy_handshake

Mobile tool to synchronize multiple accounts across instances

What can be synced

• Communities subscribed across accounts
• Saved posts and comments
• Blocked users and communities

What can’t be synced

• Account posts
• Account comments
• Account votes

Would be cool if lemmy implemented like Reddit does.

You can open an issue on the repository and, if you have the skills, you can even implement it yourself :).

TTRSS

May I ask you if you know about any public (and free?) TTRSS instance?
Thanks!

See: Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice : lemmyworld

What’s the RSS link you got?

AFAIK, theere is no RSS link for saved posts. When I go to https://lemm.ee/u/Crul?view=Saved, the RSSHub Radar addon only shows this feed: https://lemm.ee/feeds/u/Crul.xml?sort=New

Note the sort=New and the absence of anything regarding saved posts.

If I re-create the logical URL for the RSS feed of saved posts, I get a feed with my submitted posts: https://lemm.ee/feeds/u/Crul.xml?view=Saved

If I were wrong (please correct me if that’s the case), then you would probably need to provide your RSS reader with the credentials for your account… unless the saved posts are public for anyone to see, which sounds a bit weird.

There are alternative front-ends that you could try.

The 3 frontends for browser / PC that I know (default, mlmym and alexandrite) have this problem. Do you know of any other one that works?

Thanks!

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Or maybe I need to subscribe to fewer news communities?

That’s my take: curation. It only mitigates some of the issues and you still need to put some effort almost everyday, but it’s the only way for me to make it beareable.

The first thing I did on Lemmy was to set the homepage to “Subscribed”, and only went to “All” a few times to populate a small inital list of communities. From that point, you can organically discover the rest.

I also recommend an RSS reader, it’s the best way to get control of “your homepage”.

But I’ve never tried the other option you mention: more private circles (paid substacks, discords, …), so I cannot compare.

Reference: xkcd: Exploits of a Mom

Her daughter is named Help I’m trapped in a driver’s license factory.

What I don’t see is how it works accross instances. If we were talking about a single instance, then everything is very easy.

But, I have some questions:
… which I don’t expect you to answer :)

• An admin from instance X purges a user from that instance, does the purge propagate to all other instances? Or maybe each instance’s admins need to purge that user.
• What happens if an admin from instance X purges a user from instance Y?

I have 0 experience with the admin side of Lemmy, so I don’t know what actions an Admin can take over a user from another instance. If I had to guess:

• In the post I linked before there is a comment talking about a “purge feature”, but I don’t know how that works.
• Community Mods may be able (?) to ban the user in that specific community
• Instance Admins may be able (?) to ban / block the replication of that user content in their instance

But again, not an expert, so I don’t really know what is the intended way to handle this.

EDIT: This is wrong, see OP’s comment with the right answer

Not an expert, those who know more please correct me.

I will explain what I understand with an example; let’s say I want to report your comment (the one I’m replying to).

Because I’m reading it from https://lemm.ee/post/3809349 , if I report it here, I would be reporting it to lemm.ee admins. Now I need to decide if I want to report it to:

• lemmy.ml admins: the instance of the community in which we are commenting

or

• tkohhh.social: the instance of your user

Then, because there is no way to “translate” a post / comment link from one instance to another, I need to go to [email protected] through the instance I want to report it. Let’s say tkohhh.social

So I go to: https://tkohhh.social/c/[email protected] and log in

Then I look for the post: https://tkohhh.social/post/10726

And if I report it there, the report should be sent to tkohhh.social’s admins.

Note that (if this is correct) it requires an account on the instance you want to report to… which is why I did an unofficial report when I found a spammer on another instance, using the Meta community of that instance:

• User spamming the same comment everywhere : main

No worries, it seems to not be working properly, not your fault! :)

I see you posted this article to 4 communities. According to the comments on this post if you use the cross post function (in the default web frontend), it will only show once in the feeds instead of 4 times (which can be a bit annoying).

If you use an app or a different frontend, I don’t know if it’ll work.
It’s also possible that you have crossposted them and lemmy is not grouping them properly, in that case, please ignore this comment.

Thanks

For those out of the loop, like me, from Wikipedia:

Captology is the study of computers as persuasive technologies.[1] This area of inquiry explores the overlapping space between persuasion in general (influence, motivation, behavior change, etc.) and computing technology.[2] This includes the design, research, and program analysis of interactive computing products (such as the Web, desktop software, specialized devices, etc.) created for the purpose of changing people’s attitudes or behaviors.[3]

B. J. Fogg in 1996 derived the term captology from an acronym: Computers As Persuasive Technologies. In 2003, he published the first book on captology, entitled Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do.[4]

Captology is not the same thing as Behavior Design, according to BJ Fogg who is the person who coined both terms and created the foundation for both areas.