I seem to have one hang-up: When I try to login, if there's a trailing space on my username, the login button just loads infinitely instead of denying access. So I usually just think it's taking a second and do something else, only to forget and come back to it and realize that I messed up my username. It's not a big deal at all, but thought I'd mention it as an FYI anyway.
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Thanks for this - defo a bug on Lemmy's part as you can't have spaces in a username, so they should be trimmed off the end. I'll see about logging it on github
I'm not seeing all the comments on posts from other communities unless I log out. Am I doing it wrong?
Hey, are you still on lemmy.zip after you log out to view these communities? I know there is still an issue where the big instances are struggling to federate properly, and not all comments pull through. Its affecting everyone and hopefully the devs fix it soon.
Hello there! New user here
Hey, welcome along! :)
Thank you very much. Have a doubt, can I follow other communities from another instances?
Yes you can! Just search for the community you want to follow and subscribe to it. All the posts will then be pulled through to this instance.
Thanks!!!
Wassup 👋
Hey, welcome along!
I am reading about some of the federation issues, relating to comments not synchronizing between instances (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101) and I don't know if this is fixed yet or not, but I'm seeing this first hand on the following community: [email protected] I joined from lemmy.zip and that worked immediately, but absolutely zero comments have loaded, except for my own which I made. I have now joined since 12h and the comments have still not loaded. Though it seems posts are visible.
It is however even worse with [email protected] where not even the posts are loading. This is very unfortunate.
Note: for yuzuemulator, the posts might not have loaded from not being subscribed. It's unclear to me if posts and comments start to load when the communities are federated or whole instances (in which latter case all communities of the instance are synced?)
Edit: yuzuemulator posts have started appearing after a short moment, so that seems to be fixed, but posts are not visible yet.
Hey Demigodrick, I'd love to know more about lemmy and how it works, how moderation on instances works etc. You mentioned brief periods of the instance going down? What would this look like if it were to happen, are we talking a few minutes / hours? I'd just like to know if I need to make another account as a backup on another instance in case this one is down.
Edit: there are also a few communities I am unable to find through lemmy.zip, not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I can find them on other instances
Why cant I log in? I was only able to login by reseting my password and getting automatically logged in, I also never received a verification email. But I still cant login on any other devices.
Hey, do you get an error when signing in to other devices or does it just spin forever? Resetting your password should have validated your email address but it's possible something went wrong if you never received a sign up email.
Just to add, I've checked the database and your account is validated.
It just spins forever
There was an email issue that I've ironed out now, might be worth trying again in case it is related to that.
Unfortunately Lemmy doesnt give any user-facing reasons as to why account sign in fails, but I believe this is on the developers to-do list. You should be able to log in now though, there isnt any technical reason it would fail. I would suggest trying a temporary shorter password as i've seen issues on github relating to complex passwords failing to allow the user to log in sometimes, in case this was your situation too.
are we defederated from lemmy.ml? the reason I ask is my main account is on lemmy.ml but to help reduce the load on that instance I want to make lemmy.zip as my main account but a few of my subscribed communities are on lemmy.ml. When I search for them to add, they aren't found.
i think i may have found the problem. Lemmy.ml is using o.18.rc1 while we are still using 0.18.0 here
Nope, we're not defederated from anyone. If you can let me know the communities I can have a look.
everything on lemmy.ml is missing, but i think it might be a case of lemmy software bing different, lemmy.zip, instance I'm on is running verion 0.18.0 while lemmy.ml is running on 0.18.rc1. would this cause an issue?
I'm not aware of the release candidate versions causing any federation issues - theres no changes to overall protocols as far as i know, unlike the previous update.
the communities are all on lemmy.ml i'm just going to make the list here without all the instance links.
Linux EndeavourOS ARchlinux Cooking and a few others i cant think of off myt head atm
I picked archlinux at random at is seems OK to me - https://lemmy.zip/c/[email protected]
I tried https://lemmy.ml/c/cooking too but its empty.
Sometimes when you search, you need to give it a few seconds, even if it says "no results found" or something like that. Just wait sort of 10 seconds and something usually pops up.
I also find it easier to search by just pasting the community URL directly into the search bar, i.e https://lemmy.ml/c/cooking and then something will come up
i'm going to try that, still learning some ins/outs of lemmy ;)