Okay. Well, if it’s fixed, that’s all that matters, I guess. I don’t understand this desire to downgrade other people’s answers into speculation, but it’s not like this is the first time it’s happened.

Language selection with Lemmy is pretty unintuitive, so others may be interested to know that OP is technically incorrect here. Despite what the UI says, it’s actually impossible to deselect ‘undetermined’. Whatever frontend you’re using might let you, but the backend will just ignore it. I don’t use this account much, but I used it here to make a very deliberate decision to send my earlier response using ‘undetermined’ as the language, so that OP would definitely see it, and the fact that they clearly did demonstrates for itself that what they’re suggesting is nonsense.

Using a web browser, go to your account settings. In ‘languages’ ensure that ‘English’ is selected. The posts will then be visible to you when you are logged in.

You’ve made this post in the ‘afaraf’ language, so you may as well deselect that while you’re there if you don’t understand it. This of course means that most people here won’t see this post, ironically enough.

Also, if folks could stop parroting out the same bullshit ‘federation delays’ answer to every question, that’d be great. It’s not that. It’s actually very rarely that (even if you were the very first person to discover that community, which you weren’t, it’d only take a refresh to resolve it).

The problem is not feddit.org. You can still create communities there. The problem is that the ‘name’ field is too long - it’s needs to be 20 characters max. I answered this from another account, but now I’m thinking you can’t see it because you haven’t selected ‘English’ as a language you understand. If that’s the case, then it means problems with Lemmy are stopping people solving other problems with Lemmy, and the whole thing is doomed.

Vero

@skariko@www.lealternative.net

You might need to have the ‘show nfsw’ setting turned on. Anyway, they look like this:

So the theory that they were downvoted for spamming someone’s feed likely has validity.

More abuse of this post for testing PieFed user mentions (sorry if you seeing this). Other direction this time.

@andrew_s@piefed.social

Back again, as reply to post: @andrew@pythag.net, @sfc@pythag.net

EDIT: autocomplete was originally messed up, but this shows Mentions as raw and filled in by Lemmy’s UI (both are clickable on PieFed, and this edit shouldn’t notify anyone again)

okay

Remote comment that doesn’t get a Mention until the edit (although it’ll have to be to andrew, 'cos I replied with the wrong account).

Edit: @andrew@pythag.net

Cool. Paging you (although you should only get one notification): @andrew@pythag.net
Also: paging @sfc@pythag.net

Neat. Just have to do it the other way now.

@sfc@pythag.net

I’m guessing that this post is supposed to be a link to a video like this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0SmgoSMg4

I screenshotted this from their ‘trending’ page, which suggests that their content is garbage and their tech is fucked.

He fixed things to get the missing communities back, but it looks like subsequent runs of the crawler lost them again, so now it’s rejecting updates because the difference is too great (it always used to do this, so I don’t know how it was publishing with so many missing before).

Anyway, it looks like I’m going to have to do the most NSFW imaginable - look at someone else’s TypeScript project. I’ll get back in touch with him if it doesn’t correct itself, but it’ll be nice if I can figure out what the problem is first.

Upstream crawler is missing about 20k communities - https://data.lemmyverse.net/ normally shows about 30k.

I’ve messaged the maintainer.

Hmmm. Speaking of Fediverse interoperability, platforms other than yours (Pandacap) typically arrange things so that https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net was the domain, and something like https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/users/lizard-socks was the user, but Pandacap wants to use https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net for both. Combined with the fact that it doesn’t seem to support /.well-known/nodeinfo means that no other platform knows what software it’s running.

When your actor sends something out, it uses the id https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/, but when something tries to look that up, it returns a “Person” with a subtly different id of https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net (no trailing slash). So there’s the potential to create the following:

1. https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/ sends something out.
2. Instance hasn’t heard of that, so looks it up, and creates a new user in its database, with the returned ID (https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net)
3. https://pandacap.azurewebsites.net/ sends else something out. Instance looks in it’s DB, finds nothing, so looks it up and tries to create it again. The best case is that it meets a DB uniqueness constraint, because the ID it gets back from that lookup does actually exist (so it can use that, but it was a long way around to find it). The worst case - when there’s no DB uniqueness constraint -is that a ‘new’ user is created every time.
4. Repeat step 3 for every new thing you send.

If every new platform treats the Fediverse as a wheel that needs to be re-invented, then the whole project is doomed.

It’s the crawler at lemmyverse that’s down - https://data.lemmyverse.net/ shows that it hasn’t updated in 11 days

Already posted 4 days ago btw: https://lemmy.world/post/16488547

Tragically, this also means that, even after 31 years, I’ve still never ‘get good’ enough.

Speaking of wildly inaccurate:

Not sure Lemmy gets to throw stones (it’d probably miss).