This is a known bug in lemmy-ui. Looks like the fix was not backported to stable yet.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3459

Edit: Fixed in #3968, will be included in the next 0.19 release.

You are right.

This is not correct, Lemmy sends private messages only to the single recipient server. Other instances cannot access it at all.

Good job! I wonder why some of these are missing from fediverse.observer. There is an add instance page, and entering for example aussie.zone says it already exists, but the search doesnt find it. Lemmy.cafe, fosscad.io are included in the statistics (file instances/full.json.gz in the git repo), but not currently shown on the website.

Thanks to your comment I realized that we are only showing instances with registration application on the official site, as there was concern that others would be overrun by spam bots. I had a look at it now, and instances with captcha are actually fine. Here you can see all that are newly listed on joinlemmy.

The instance list is sorted by monthly active users with slight randomization. As these instances you mention are among the larger ones, it is expected that they show near the top. Is there a better sort method that you would suggest?

Good idea, I just implemented this.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3846

You’re in luck, I just modified the instance crawler on join-lemmy.org to collect statistics for all Lemmy instances. You can find them in this repo in JSON format. Now we need someone to build a tool that can visualize it. The stats could even be shown directly on join-lemmy.org.

In what ways does the Lemmy UI suck? I would appreciate feedback in order to improve it. For what its worth I only use the default UI on desktop and mobile, and like it a lot.

For different UI you can linnk people to blorp, vger.app or phtn.app. There are also a lot of mobile apps.

That is true. I made a post just now to gather suggestions for improving the website, please have a look and comment if you have any ideas: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.ml/post/41719890

There is nothing preventing apps from providing a registration flow. For example Voyager has it. I suppose the problem is again which instance to choose for signup. You can discuss this in https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy or https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyapps.

As for multiple Lemmy apps being available: Most of the current Lemmy users came here in 2023 when Reddit locked down the API and killed third-party apps. Thats why a lot of apps are now available, and everyone can decide for himself which one he prefers.

Good point, I made a PR to use biased random sort again that we had in the past, so larger instances are always shown near the top.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/508

The logic it uses is to hide any instances with more than 30% of all active users to prevent centralization, just like you say. There are also some other filters like requiring at least 5 active users.

There is a “Join” button which goes directly to the registration page of the respective instance. Would it be clearer to rename this? Other than that I’m also happy to make improvements if you have concrete suggestions.

Edit: Made a PR to rename Join to Sign Up: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/509

The onboarding is way too complicated for the average user. A huge part of this is that there are 100 ways to do it. Before you even can start to do anything you have to investigate and then decide on what and how to do it. And even then there is no guidance at all, you are given options and then you can either go and do some research again or try them one by one. You lose at least 90% of the users here already. It doesn’t help that fediverse users try to downplay this issue.

The solution to this is that people should not recommend Lemmy, but a specific instance such as programming.dev (depending on the audience). The Lemmy software and join-lemmy.org are mainly targeted at potential instance admins, or those who are already familiar with the Fediverse.

After that you are told that your registration needs to be approved manually and that there is no notification about that so you have to manually check from time to time whether your are able to login or not.

This is wrong or outdated, Lemmy definitely sends an email once your registration is approved or denied (if you provided an email during registration). Worth contacting the programming.dev admins to change this line.

Then how do you expect the problem to get fixed? Do you think I’m a mind reader?

Did you open a bug report?

Lemmy supports federation with Peertube since a long time.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2244

Seems like fetching the post listing from Peertube is broken, but you can fetch individual videos by url. Also if you follow a Peertube channel new videos will automatically be federated and show in your feed. If you encounter such problems please open an issue, we cant fix bugs that we are unaware of.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6195

To everyone in this thread, if you notice a problem in Lemmy please open an issue. We are only two developers and dont have time to browse the Fediverse all day to come across such things. Only if we know about a problem can we actually fix it and make a new release.

For reference here are the issue and proposed fix:

• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6016
• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/6017