Connect Lemmy
How to connect Lemmy to SolMarrow step by step, what you can publish, the limits, and tips for better Lemmy posts.
What you can post: Any Lemmy instance and community.
How to connect
- Open Accounts in the SolMarrow sidebar.
- Choose Lemmy.
- Enter your instance address, your username and your password, and the community you post in most. If your account uses two-factor sign-in, paste a login token (JWT) instead of the password. Everything is stored encrypted, and changing your password on the instance ends SolMarrow's access.
- Back in SolMarrow, the account shows as connected. You can now pick it under Post to in the composer.
What you can publish
- Text posts: A title of up to 200 characters and a Markdown body of up to 10,000 characters, posted to the community you choose.
- Link posts: Add a web address to share a link with its title. Lemmy fetches the preview itself.
Limits
- Text: up to 10,000 characters.
- Media: no uploaded media.
- The first line becomes the title unless you set one. Text and an optional link; no uploads.
Tips
- Read the community rules first: Many communities limit self-promotion or require flairs. A quick look at the sidebar saves a removed post.
- Write a title that stands alone: Lemmy feeds show the title first. Say what the post is about in plain words, without clickbait.
- Join the conversation: Posts do best when you answer comments. Schedule at a time you can reply.
- Use the right instance for the community: A community on another instance is addressed as name@instance. SolMarrow accepts both forms.
Questions
Which Lemmy instances work?
Any public Lemmy instance that serves the standard Lemmy API, including lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Private addresses and non-HTTPS servers are refused.
Do you store my password?
It is stored encrypted, like every token in SolMarrow, so an expired login can be renewed without bothering you. If you pasted a JWT instead, no password is stored and you reconnect when it expires.
Does it work with two-factor sign-in?
Yes, with a login token (JWT) copied from a signed-in session instead of the password.
Can I post images or videos?
Not uploads. Lemmy keeps images on the instance's own image host, which SolMarrow does not use. Add a link to the image or page instead.
See everything SolMarrow does for Lemmy on the Lemmy page.