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Had to reinstall Lemmy - did I break federation? (links.dartboard.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m wondering if this post will even go through**. Long story short, I had to rebuild my Lemmy instance without importing the old data. I manually recreated my account ([email protected]) and was able to subscribe to communities (although everything says “subscription pending”*). But it doesn’t seem like my posts federate properly.

*additionally, a third party Lemmy app I use does not recognize my subscriptions when they are in this pending state, further driving me to conclude it’s broken.

I made a new account on my instance to see if things were broken, and under a new name things seem to be working. Is my original username doomed to purgatory?

**test - posted this originally from the KNova account but doesnt look like it hit the lemmy.ml server. See here - https://links.dartboard.social/post/7176 - trying to repost from my other account now.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I can see this from my own private instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I can see this from lemmy.world. it was showing 1 upvote when I saw it and I upvoted it to 2 as of this post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Thanks. Odd though that my original post (via the [email protected] account) did not federate out. I'm not too worried about it as long as this second account works, but I would really like to know why it broke

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Has it been more than a couple of days? I think the webfinger certificates are kept for 24 hours or something like that, so any changes in the certificate associated with your old user (used for signing updates) will take some time to expire and then update.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ooh, did not know this

[–] CookieJarObserver 1 points 11 months ago

Can see from sjw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So, it'll still take a little while before it settles down, but I've seen other people in the admin chat do the same thing and it eventually recovered.

As for the subscriptions, part of the problem is the remote instance thinks you're already subscribed. I think if you unsubscribe and resubscribe it may go through, but you may also just need to use a new account name.