Lemmy Support

EDIT: After discussing this on Matrix, I believe the answer is in the mod logs. The author of the post in question was issued a temporary ban in another community on lemmy.ml, which I suspect is affecting the display of this user’s content across all of lemmy.ml even though the post in question is in a different community from the one that issued the ban (which is kinda screwy tbh).

Description of the problem

The last several months, I've been trying to build up the community over at [email protected]. It's going mostly well, but one thing that has me scratching my head lately is that when I'm browsing from lemmy.ml (i.e. https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]), which is 99% of the time, I can't see the most recent post. Oddly enough, the author is also from lemmy.ml, and I have previously interacted w/ the same user in the comments of older posts, so I know it's not a user-specific issue. I've double checked my profile settings and haven't blocked the community, instance, or user. This issue seems specific to lemmy.ml because I can see it when I browse to the community from other instances.

Any ideas why this could be happening and what I can do to resolve it? Thanks.

Steps to reproduce the issue

• Visit https://lemmy.world/c/caps and sort by Active or New. You'll see a post called "Thanks for the chats guys" with one comment.
• Visit https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected] - again, the post is visible.
• Now head over to https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] and look at the feed.

Actual result

The post is not there.

Expected result

The post should show up in the feed.

When either logged in at lemmy.ml or merely just visiting, I can't see the community [email protected], which does exist and is visible from (at least) midwest.social, lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.

At the bottom of my posts (please see below Examples) there are three links to communities I'm involved in. From lemmy.ml clicking the first two links work correctly. [email protected] doesn't.

When following a direct link to https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] it lands on an error page:

Error!

The server returned this error: couldnt_find_community. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error

Refreshing the page multiple times, which usually resolves the problem on the first refresh, does nothing in this case.

Any insights? Thank you.

• [email protected] <-- this works
• [email protected] <-- this works
• [email protected] <-- ~~this doesn't~~ inexplicably now working!

EDIT 2024-05-01, 19:33:20, CEST: after literally weeks and hundreds of tries (possibly thousands) https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] works. No longer do I see the error page. I theorize that previously I was the only one looking for that community on the lemmy.ml instance but maybe someone else saw this post, possibly @[email protected], and tried to browse [email protected], thus "propagating the federation"…?

Oh, the many mysteries of Lemmy, the Tupolev TU-144 of social media®.

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I haven’t been able to figure out how to directly communicate with the administrators of lemmy.ml, since I’ve recently migrated here from Reddit (because I ignorantly thought unfair censorship from power hungry moderators would be a little less rife here).

Is there any official support for keyboard navigation, or failing that a recommended plugin/script? I'm just after some basic functionality to key through my feed, open posts, reply to them, jump through comments, etc.

Hey all,

My personal home-hosted server ran out of disk space and so went offline while I was away and I didn't notice it for a week or two.

This meant that federation requests (or subscriptions requests) went offline and now most of the servers I'm federated with are lagging. I'm only getting updates from a couple.

Is there a way to trigger federated servers back to life so I get the subscription updates? Federation does seem to be working, given some servers seem to federate fine and this post was via federation and has worked.

My lemmy account is on the programming.dev instance but I use newsboat for RSS reading of some lemmy.ml communities, along with browsing the local homepage of lemmy.ml and some other instances in a regular browser. Is there a way to do either of these things from the programming.dev instance so that I can easily comment on posts without having to manually locate the same post by browsing to /c/[email protected] on my own instance?

Here's the post in question: https://midwest.social/post/10123989

Which linked to my blog here: https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2024/03/2024-03-20-moores-law-is-dead/index.html

On my instance (midwest.social), this works fine. However, some other users were reporting a broken link, and I also see a broken link when using my mobile app (Summit). When it breaks, I see these calls in the server logs:

• GET /api/v3/post?id=2024
• GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All

Which appear to be Lemmy API calls with some of the actual link data built in.

Would I receive notifications for new comments on posts I saved?

I saw a community from feddit.de on lemmyverse.net which I wanted to explore but I got a server error opening the community. I thought it might be abandoned or deleted but feddit.de seems completely unreachable atm.

I also checked with multiple devices in case I would have been banned for some reason.

Does anyone know why that is the case? Have a good one.

Feel free to lmk if I need to ask this somewhere else.

When I search for communities about animation on the web interface, I see one called [email protected]

There has been no activity in the /c for 6 months.

It's not my native instance, but I can read posts and comments in the /c, and I can even create a post in the /c.

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Is the content in [email protected] a ghost of cached content on my native instance?

Hello, I noticed some of my early posts (less than a year ago) disappeared. I did not receive notification about the removal. Hence I suppose it could be due to one of those:

• the instance hosting the community got defederated
• the community I posted in was removed
• there is some automatic cleanup job of old posts on Lemmy.ml

This is not mentioned in Lemmy.ml's presentation section. Does this instance implement pruning? (if so; what is the retention duration?) Is it possible to check the retention policy of a Lemmy instance?

Hello. Wondering if discussion around forced sterilization that has nothing to do with genetics will get me banned.

For example: if a pedophile rapes and impregnates a child they could be a candidate for forced sterilization.

Has nothing to do with eugenics. Completely void of using genetics to identify a person.

Thanks!

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Thank you

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Hi! Thank you for Lemmy! So, when I load the page with Chrome, I'm always shown as logged out. I have to refresh the page, and then suddenly I'm logged in. I found that this bug exists only on Chrome, on all OSes (Linux, Windows, and Mac), and it exists both on lemmy.ml, and on lemmy.world.

But that's not the weird part.

The weird part is that when I reload the page, half of the times, the username becomes something like "killingcore" or something like that (it doesn't stay On for very long, so I can't read it well) before it changes to "Eugenia". I don't understand what that username is. Is it some kind of security problem? Or some cache, part of the normal code? It's really weird.

I noticed that that weird username happens only on lemmy.ml, not on .world.

Edit: I reloaded the page a bunch of times to retest, and what I'm reading is something killthrillrope or something like that. And it changes back to Eugenia almost instantaneously. It happens now once every 4-5 reloads of the page.

Edit 2: A few hours later, and it now loads this user for half a second before it loads mine: https://lemmy.ml/u/cypherpunks Not only that, but it loads his dark theme for that half second (my default is light theme).

I got a message that my post was "anti derechos humanos" (anti human rights). That is crazy, do not understand. Is this a common mistake or what? I do not even remember a post with the human rights subject.

Hello, here we are again =) Environment:

1. I've brought up mastodon and lemmy with docker on host B (let's call it BackEnd)
2. I created 2 nginx virtalhosts: one called mastodon.cyberveins.eu and the other orion.cyberveins.eu.
3. Both of them are behind cloudflare argo tunnel.
4. Both of them can federate with other servers (as you see I can write here on orion and you are receiving my messages)
5. You can find my username with mastodon looking for [email protected]

BUT If you try a cross-find,

1. you can find me on mastodon.cyberveins.eu FROM my orion.cyberveins.eu
2. you CANNOT find me on orion.cyberveins.eu FROM mastodon.cyberveins.eu
3. if you look for @[email protected] from ANOTHER mastodon you will end up finding... @[email protected] BUT instead of my orion's profiles, it shows up RANDOM!!!! (literally see screenshots!)

... I'm requesting help to understand what is going on -.-