Right, it doesn’t really matter if you unban them if their home instance is the one that banned them in the first place 👍
Jonah is the admin of Lemmy.one, a tracker-free, federated link aggregator, as well as privacyguides.org, mstdn.party, and discuss.techlore.tech.
Right, it doesn’t really matter if you unban them if their home instance is the one that banned them in the first place 👍
It seems like if a user gets banned on their own instance, they show up on this list for everyone (I also see them on my ban list here), so unbanning them on your end probably does nothing.
Seems like just a bug, I think this list should only show local users who are banned, and instead it shows every ban it knows about across the fediverse.
Yeah, this feels like some sort of configuration issue on your end, because putting https://lemmy.one/comment/20361
in the box at https://lemmy.dupper.net/search should definitely work, and I can see it doesn’t.
I don’t think it’s related to lemmy.ml exclusively if you can’t get lemmy.one comments either… Without knowing what your configuration is it’s hard to say.
Are the comments from before or after you subscribed? I don’t think past comments get backfilled the first time you subscribe, just past posts, but future comments should show up. If you paste the URL for a comment in the /search page on your instance it should show up too, if there’s something you want to reply to specifically.
How/which URL should we link to then?
My (somewhat) hot take is that large migrating subreddits should probably host their own communities, which is what we did when we told people on r/PrivacyGuides to move to Lemmy. Or at the very least, actually coordinate with instance admins beforehand about all of this, clearly lemmy.ml isn’t the ideal choice for this situation.
This doesn’t work in my experience (although I wish it did). The only reliable way I’ve seen to trigger a fetch is to enter the community URL (e.g. https://midwest.social/c/projectzomboid
) or the ID (e.g. !projectzomboid@midwest.social
) in your Lemmy instance’s /search page.
They’d have to go to https://lemmy.one/search and type in https://midwest.social/c/projectzomboid
My guess is that Reddit is alluding to the stupid suggestion of “just make your app more efficient with requests bro” (paraphrasing) that I saw an admin make. Reddit’s already said they’re not open to negotiations.
Working link: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedReader/comments/13ylk42/update_3_reddit_effectively_kills_off_third_party/ Also,
The Apollo dev (/u/iamthatis) estimated that the new pricing would cost him $20m per year. I raised this with Reddit – they said that his calculations were “totally wrong”, but they were unable to discuss why. Given that the Apollo dev literally just multiplied the cost by the number of requests, I have trouble seeing how this could be wrong.
lol
“The content” on all Lemmy instances is the same. There is no account migration, but you can just sign up on lemmy.ml. If you already had an account there and you want it back… I don’t know if it’s possible for an admin there to restore it, you might have to get in touch with them.
It’s worth noting that !tf2@lemmy.ml already exists. You might be better off seeing if they’ll give it to you at !community_requests@lemmy.ml.
Do some instances not allow community creation / have higher requirements for it?
Right, some instances like lemmy.one (which OP is on) and beehaw.org restrict local community creation to admins only: https://lemmy.one/post/41 https://beehaw.org/post/413919
I’m trying to understand this community and posts there like “how to disprove the lies about the DPRK?” To me, the most telling thing about these pro-North Korea communities is that there are no North Koreans within them 🙃
I don’t know what controversy we’re involved in, but we’re happy to be here!
The only problem is that if your instance doesn’t know about that community yet, it’ll just 404, you still have to search for it first because visiting the link doesn’t make your instance fetch the community yet.
This should still be the default behavior when it autofills a community link though, I hope they make this change 👍