Nothing4You

there seems to be a codeberg mirror but it’s not updated continously: https://codeberg.org/LemmyNet

instances get added automatically once they reach a threshold of monthly active users. iirc it’s >6 mau, you could check the code to confirm.

you can find your user info in the /api/v3/site response. the /api/v3/user endpoint requires a name or person id.

i recommend checking out https://join-lemmy.org/api/classes/LemmyHttp.html

that is likely related to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5107, which limits the resolution of thumbnails.

the client you are using is probably only displaying the thumbnails to you, not the original images.

edit: this seems to include lemmy-ui as well

edit 2: raised a bug report for lemmy-ui

that is likely related to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5107, which limits the resolution of thumbnails.

the client you are using is probably only displaying the thumbnails to you, not the original images.

edit: this seems to include lemmy-ui as well

edit 2: raised a bug report for lemmy-ui

I’m not familiar with n8n but it’s fairly straightforward on the API side.

You’ll need a session token, also known as JWT, which you can get from logging in.

You typically don’t want to do a login for every post, so you’ll want to store that as a persistent value.
For authentication, you can pass the header authorization: Bearer {jwt}, with {jwt} being the session token.

https://join-lemmy.org/api/classes/LemmyHttp.html contains the API documentation.

You’ll need to figure out the id of the community that you want to post to.

If you need to look it up, you can use getCommunity to fetch its details. Afterwards you can use createPost to submit it.

The form links for the methods explain the request body json values that should be provided.

photos will never be pngs unless someone intentionally converts them to that format, as pngs are much worse than jpgs for storing this type of image. pngs are much better for computer generated images, such as screenshots, drawings, etc. you can also losslessly compress pngs with tools like pngcrush without converting them to jpg.

verification emails are usually sent immediately. if there are delays you should check your junk folder, and if it’s not there it probably won’t arrive anymore. depending on the instance you signed up on there may be alternative methods to reach out to the instance admins about this. note that private messages from mastodon to lemmy do not work unfortunately.

also adding my vote for the second one

account names cannot be changed.

you can only change your display name, which is available in the settings.

whether display names or usernames are shown depends on the interface/client and user settings where available.

the only way to change the username is to create a new account.

cleaning up dead communities isn’t a great experience as it is today.

admins could purge communities, but this can cause unexpected breakages with other activitypub software that is more strict about cryptographic verification, as purging a community erases all information about it from the local instance, including the cryptographic private key. purging a community also only removes it on the local instance, so other instances would still have a cached (although possibly marked as deleted) copy of it. this would be the only method that frees up the name to allow creating a new community under the same name later on. locally this would also remove all posts and comments associated in that community, but other instances may think that they have users subscribed to the community and may still have posts and comments in there. this also means if a new community is created with the same name again, the local instance will still not know about older posts, but users on other instances might see them still, and the local moderator might be unable to interact with them at all, e.g. to potentially remove old problematic content.

the next option is removing a community as (instance-)moderator action. this will only mark the community as removed without further impact. regular users won’t be able to access the community on the local or any other instance anymore, but its contents are preserved in case it gets restored at a later point in time. the name is not released and there isn’t even an error message shown when trying to create a new community with the same name.

another option could be to “take over” the community and delete it, which is the act of the top community mod deleting the community (not a moderation action). in this case only the same top community moderator can restore it. this behaves mostly the same as removing it.

none of these options are good to use. imo purging should be avoided in any case, and the other options both require admin intervention to release a community later on and have no user feedback in lemmy-ui at this time, at least on 0.19.5.

for communities entirely without posts it is probably ok to just remove them and restore and transfer them if someone requests them. for communities with content the next best thing might be locking the community, potentially locking all posts if it’s just a small number, to prevent unmoderated new content in that community, and put up a pinned post asking people to reach out if they want to take over the community. otherwise, if the community was removed or deleted, all the posts and comments within them would also be taken down with the community.