A server will only pull in everything from a community once at least 1 person on that server subscribes. Then it will start pulling in every new post and comment as soon as they’re up.

/r/Tech, /r/Technology, /r/TechNews and others all exist. Which one is the “main” one?

Yeah, posts & comments can’t work in this way because each instance will have different ID numbers for their federated copy. I’m not even sure how to begin approaching this issue.

This is gonna be another gif situation, isn’t it? :))

You do you, bruv

It’s not allowed in a lot of instances because the moderation is absolutely exhausting and sometimes NSFL material.

The only limiting factor here is admins + moderators of an instance willing to put themselves through that.

It’s not a priority for the devs, for very understandable reasons. They just finished a HUGE performance pull into the github for lemmy-ui (the web platform). Anybody willing to make a new app or improve the existing one is absolutely welcome to do so.

I don’t think you can on Beehaw.org. All communities on your instance need to be created by an admin.

Probably a good thing overall, considering the thousands of dead subs that are going to be all over the place come Monday.

Actually, the full URL is pretty easy to use if you know what you’re doing (which of course, everybody is trying to figure out right now).

Just switch the search from “Community” to “All”. Image from another thread

Have you tried the community browser yet?

I have no idea. I’m currently trying to learn typescript to turn a link like this into this dynamically based on the base URL you’re seeing the page from. I’m lost and don’t know where to start.

EDIT: WHAT?!?!? THAT WORKS ALREADY?

test

EDIT 2: MUST PUT PSA IN LEMMY NOW

Yeah, definitely a papercut I expect we’ll see a lot of users hit. Early days yet, and more dev manpower needed. I’m learning TypeScript and Rust as fast as I can to help out xD

Definitely early days teething issues. There’s gonna be thousands of dead communities in a week’s time and it’ll take time before things settle down and people come to a consensus on the major ones.

Did you change the search options from “Communities” to “All”?

Maybe you could poke the admins over on https://pathfinder.social/ to make a community for that. They’re still in the process of setting up shop

I hear you man. I went from active contributor to mostly lurking on Reddit, and it wasn’t even a conscious choice. Gradually, everything became very mechanistic. I knew what the top few comments would be before going to the comments. The churn became cyclic in nature.

After just a few days here, it was actually a little disconcerting how antagonistic and hostile people there are in the comments section. That’s just how people communicate, on a hair-trigger from flamewar.

I recognize your username, I saw what you wrote about SQL scaling. Can you imagine recognizing a username in a major subreddit in the reddit of today?

The dichotomy between the big communities which people subscribe to from all over Lemmy and the small meta/announcement/server issue communities for each individual instance is gonna be interesting to see develop as the userbase increases. Kinda like the difference between seeing people from your street everyday, then many more less familiar people in the city center.

It’s an open issue on their github. The main devs are way too busy to deal with it. I’m trying to grok as much Rust & Psql knowledge as I can to be able to contribute, but it’ll take a while. Anybody with Rust & Psql knowledge can contribute, the devs are open to any contribution to improve the platform

That’s because they’re different things in the fediverse.

Lemmy upvotes are mapped to ActivityPub upvotes

Kbin upvotes are mapped to ActivityPub boosts (basically a retweet in twitter language)

This also means that Kbin users have to be much more careful with what they “upvote” as that causes the post/comment to be shown to everyone that follows them in the wider fediverse. They are looking to change this if I recall correctly, and there’s a lot of communication between the devs of Lemmy and Kbin on how to approach both this issue, and unifying their API system so apps can work for both.

I might try install an instance on my website and try to make a merge function

Awesome! I’m trying to get my feet wet with contributing as well. I don’t know Rust or Psql very well (although I am an experienced MySQL/MariaDB admin) so it’s gonna take a while for me to catch up enough to be useful. I’m trying though :P