Originally account deletion would always delete your posts, comments and everything. This was changed in 0.19 to make the content deletion optional (otherwise a lot of posts and comments would disappear unnecessarily). Unfortunately we forgot to add the new option to the user interface for 0.19, but it was added probably around 0.19.4.

Its hard to say why the federation didnt work properly, maybe there was a network error, or a bug in older Lemmy versions that got fixed in the meantime. Or there is still a bug which only happens in some cases.

When deleting the account did you mark the checkbox “Delete all posts, comments and uploaded images”? Lemmy.world is running an old version so its possible that this is missing. Without that it is expected that only the profile gets deleted, while content is still available.

As for federated account deletion this is implemented and covered by test cases and should work in theory. However it is always possible that there is a bug. It would be helpful if you could open an issue with exact steps to reproduce. Use enterprise.lemmy.ml and ds9.lemmy.ml to test the latest version.

That would take a significant amount of work to implement, and we dont have the resources for it. But all the code is open source, so youre welcome to give it a try yourself.

We haven’t banned anyone for trying to contribute. If you’re talking about bans from lemmy.ml, that doesn’t prevent anyone from contributing on Github. Besides, the whole purpose of Lemmy is that there can be different instances with different moderation policies.

There is usually an about page with the source link, or the joinlemmy apps page should have a link.

I definitely plan to read the Silmarillion, because the history of middle earth sounds so interesting.

Its best if you improve the existing site, that way you dont have to worry about hosting, or directing users to your new site.

I dont think its a good idea to give money to Google or Bing for advertising. It would make Lemmy appear like a commercial project and give false expectations. And we barely have enough money for development so in my opinion money its better to donate. However if you have money and want to spend it on advertising, nothing is stopping you from doing that.

Are you referring to join-lemmy.org? It has a randomized order for the instances, so usually smaller ones are near the top.

Instance topics are defined here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/instances-definitions.ts#L103

I do, although the sections in Mordor are a bit tedious to get through. But its worth it for all the details that were left out of the movies.

Like I said you’re welcome to make pull requests. Lemmy is not a corporation employing multiple designers, but an open source project run by volunteers. So if you want to see something done, it’s best to do it yourself.

Who gets to decide which instances match that description? Everyone will come up with a slightly different list.

Pull request welcome!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-translations/blob/2ad0b3323f7a5c8b65fa62e3c06e7bf36ae8f233/translations/en.json

You’re welcome to improve the text. That said the site is in large part aimed at instance admins and technical people. For normal users it’s better to link them directly to a specific instance.

Happy to see that the Peertube embed is working now (Lemmy 0.19.9)

You guys had very bad luck with the database, but other instances didn’t have such problems.

Exactly it seems most people here still didn’t realize that this is an open source project run by volunteers, not a corporation with countless employees and a profit motive. If people want something to get done then it’s best they start doing it themselves.

Lemmy.world is excluded because it represents more than 30% of all active Lemmy users, thats too much. And yes the list is somewhat randomized so that you get different instances at the top each time. You could store the order in a cookie to keep it consistent for each user. And you are welcome to improve all this.

A/B testing is not really possible in a decentralized system like this, it would require all instance admins to collaborate for collecting results, and would make deployment much more complicated. Not to forget that there simply arent enough development resources to implement it. That said if you see anything that can be improved, you’re welcome to make a pull request. Its standard Typescript wit TailwindCSS and Inferno, nothing complicated.