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I’m wondering if this is a bug or not:
When I open up the VLemmy home page, I see in the side panel a list of “trending communities”, such as arknights. However when I open the community, there are zero posts, zero users per month, and only 2 subscribers. Are posts just not showing up, or is the “trending” measurement not what I think it means?
Same here. And on top of that, I don’t get a subscribe or block button.
Why are people making multiple communities with the same topic on different servers and all of them having only few users? Wouldn’t it be better that only one community is made per topic and everyone would go there? For example there are 3 star trek communities and 2 star trek the next generation communities, or there are 5 ufo/ufos communities
Is there a way to add links to communities so that the domain part gets its data based on from where the end-user is viewing the website? For example if I view this finnish community that shows related communities on its sidebar, the links takes to their homeserver and I can’t subscribe from there https://vlemmy.net/c/suomi@sopuli.xyz
Instead the links on the sidebar should take to https://vlemmy.net/c/<community name>@<host> right?
Yes, you can have links that work like that. They follow this structure: /c/worldnews@lemmy.world. A generalized link like that will work on any instance that has loaded that community before.
Edit: I fixed my link.
Your demonstration is not showing up on jerboa for lemmy app nor with mobile bromite browser. Everything that’s inside ()'s doesn’t show. I can see it after I click reply hmmm
edit: works now thanks:) also I swear the sidebar links at that suomi community I mentioned didn’t use that way of linking before but now the links take me to vlemmy 👀
Is there a way hide a specific community from showing up in my “all” feed? For example, there are communities in different languages that I don’t need. I’m hesitant to just “Block community” in case this somehow affects other users, the same way “subscribe” causes remote communities to start showing up in everyones’ feeds here.
Blocking only blocks communities for you, not for anyone else. Subscribing only pulls posts for everyone because your subscription forces the servers to federate, but that happens whenever users from the instances interact.
In community’s sidebar the subscriber count varies depending from where you look at the community. For example https://vlemmy.net/c/suomi@sopuli.xyz this shows 2 subscribers, which I guess means that they have 2 subscribers at the community from vlemmy, and then https://sopuli.xyz/c/suomi says 558 subscribers. Is this 558 the amount of subscribers from sopuli.xyz only, or does that include all subscribers total from vlemmy, sopuli.xyz and all the other lemmy instances? If not, where can one see the total subscribers of a community?
Is there a reason I don’t see all comments when browsing from another instance? It shows 1 or 2 comments when there are usually dozens.
If there is a specific Lemmy software version mismatch, it only shows cached comments from before that change.
I cannot visit my community from another instance - for example my friend is trying to visit the community that I moderate, and they are in lemmy.world, my community doesn’t show up on the global search function.
Are you talking about !bangladesh? I can’t see it either.
If it’s brand new, it may take some time for other instances to discover it.
Yes, I was indeed talking about that. Thanks for responding. So do I simply just have to make it active?
I’m not sure how to make it active. Has your friend tried to subscribe recently?
They haven’t even founded it in lemmy.world and their vlemmy account is waiting for approval.
I’m out of ideas. I’m still learning how all this works.
Same here homie.
Is there a way to see this servers block list? Like what other instances or communities this server blocks?
I found the answer to my own question in another thread in case anyone else is curious: https://vlemmy.net/instances
I didn’t even know this was a thing. I thought we could see all instances via the fediverse no matter the server.
I think it’s actually an important feature though. I imagine those that host and run the instances don’t want to automatically be downloading and distributing illegal content. I’m pretty sure if you subscribe to a different instances community that content is then downloaded and served by vlemmy. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong.
Yep, type server’s home URL + /instances and it should show every instance that they follow or block.
for example, it would be https://vlemmy.net/instances for this one.
Thank you!
👍
It seems as if my timeline never refreshes.
Funny, my timeline refreshes too much
Why is sometimes subscription just indefinitely pending? I subscribed to the Linux community on lemmy.ml a couple days ago from vlemmy and it’s still pending.
I had to unsubscribe/resubscribe a few times for it to work. An even then, I don’t see all the comments that are actually there. I think it’s just an issue with Lemmy.ml being overloaded.
Edit: for example - https://vlemmy.net/comment/51035
I see. Thank you for responding.
Are there any plans yet to update the server to v0.18? Just wondering because I get an error when trying to log in with jerboa.
EDIT: It’s done.
I’d like to thank the admin for the great work! I’ve just migrated from Lemmy.ml to help spread the load. I was wondering why when I subscribe to some communities I get “pending”. Is it due to the new account?
Yeah the subscribe pending is most likely their end, alot of instances are being slammed atm with so many new users, what community is it your trying to subscribe to?
I’ll add for what it’s worth I’m having ‘pending’ on many communities I have tried to join some 4-7 days ago maybe, but yeah I’ll wait.
I can’t subscribe to any community on Lemmy.ml. it’s pending for “books”, " linux", world news" on there.
I’ve found that if I goto my sub list and tap again on the pending community it stops trying, then I tap subscribe again and it goes through.
Is ‘Hot’ broken for anyone else?
It’s set to ‘All’ and ‘Hot’ here.
I get that too. I can only guess that the algorithm is looking at how many total upvotes and views the post has, and probably doesn’t account for how old it is.
Hi, I’m new to Lemmy and the fediverse. I learned how to subscribe to other instances but I am not seeing all of the comments unless I go directly to that instance.
For example: I have an account on vlemmy.net. I do not have an account on slrpnk.net If I go to nolawns@slrpunk.net through vlemmy I see fewer comments than if I go through slrpnk.
Is this working as intended? Here is a link to a pair of screenshots demonstrating my problem.
Hey, thanks for asking this question. I had no idea there was any issue like this, so I’ve been finding a bunch of communities through the search, and was surprised that none of them had more than 1 post.
When I subscribe to a remote community and we become federated with that instance for the first time, does the whole remote instance and all it’s communities start showing up in
allfor everyone on our instance? Or just the one community?Just the one community that is subscribed.
