EDIT: Issue is fixed now, thank you.

I’m not sure anything from this instance is federating anywhere since this change.

Looking at activitypub, attempting to subscribe to something gets no reply (the screenshot below shows me trying with 3 different communities, followed by what’s expected to happen with a random community on another 0.19 instance)

Looking at an active community (like nuclear@feddit.nl), there’s been 6 posts in the past 2 days that aren’t showing up anywhere else (at /c/nuclear@feddit.nl)

Re: trending communities, if a link gives you this error:

The server returned this error: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/post/list?community_name=exchristian%40lemmy.one&page=1&limit=20&sort=New&type_=All. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error

that’s just a timeout that’s usually resolved by a refresh. It’ll happen more often with links from that list than elsewhere, because it’s more likely to provide links that no-one else on feddit.nl has visited before.

I just had a click around on the latest post, and that was the only error I got. If it’s not that though, please leave a comment. I’m on the same instance as you, so can investigate what the problem might be, and it’s my bot, so can try to fix it if need be.

I created an account here and a couple of communities, but it was sort of by accident that I’m here. At the time, join-lemmy referred to the Awesome Instances GitHub page, and that recommended feddit.nl, and said don’t overthink it, so I didn’t. If I had thought about it more, I would’ve joined up to feddit.uk I suppose (although that’s the instance that people are now concerned about now, ironically enough).

But given the .nl domain, maybe feddit.nl should just be a place for people to talk to one another in languages (other than English) that are popular in The Netherlands. For the focus to generally be specific to one location, and for Communities that other instances in the Fediverse don’t provide. (sort of like what I imagine feddit.it does for the people of Italy).

I’m fairly active on Lemmy (from accounts on endlesstalk.org and lemmy.world), but the content I really want to create is animated in some form - as a gif or a webp file. My efforts in this are being stymied by Lemmy, as it seems utterly determined to wreck them, either by half-arsing an unwanted transcode, or re-compressing something that’s already compressed. So, similar to others in this thread, but for completely different reasons, I’m waiting for the software itself to mature before I can fully unleash my genius on the world.

As for frontends, I’ve started using photon at lemmy.world. It’s really nice, especially for the aforementioned animated stuff. I’ve even started using phtn.app for browsing on my phone too. (There’s also Tesseract, a fork of photon that I’ve only seen at db0 and dubvee.org, but would like to play with.)

RESULT! Thanks, works now.

Re: navigating between Subscribed, Local or All on the Alexandrite version, I’ve just realised that I also have to press “Go>” to make it change, so sorry about that.

Re: using LASIM to upload subscriptions still doesn’t do anything, unfortunately. It might be the app - I’ve never used it on anything before tbh.

new.endlesstalk.org looks very pretty, and it’s all very speedy, but - for me, on Microsoft Edge - clicking ‘Subscribed’ or ‘Local’ or ‘All’ doesn’t actually change anything.

Also, I tried to migrate my subscriptions etc with LASIM, but - for old.endlesstalk.org - it says the API isn’t there, and for endlesstalk.org and new.endlesstalk.org it uploads and says it’s worked, but nothing is there for any of the site versions.

Oh right, I tried that - I was going to put a link in my comment, not just complain - but it didn’t work, so I assumed it must be elsewhere. But now I’ve clicked on your link a few times, it shows up. Thanks.

There’s some sticky posts for this community - on the importance of initially populating a community, and providing links (I’ve no idea where ‘protest’ is hosted)

Thanks. Subscribed.

The Name of the Wind is a brave first recommendation though. A little joke: for George R R Martin’s unfinished work after he dies, Patrick Rothfuss has already been selected as the author to also not complete them.

Lists like this should be pinned somewhere IMO. Blocking all bots to hide the output from indiscriminate repost automators is a bit of sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Not yet. It’ll be a few days before it will have 7 days’ worth of complete data to take a rolling average from. It’s fudging things a little in the meantime.

That said, it’s just a bash script (I’m not much of a coder), so I don’t know how much use it’ll be to you.

Clicking that link on mobile opens up my email app! I think it needs a ! before it to work.
Alternatively: embedded link to Trending Communities

It’s maybe better to start something yourself and then request help if it’s gets popular rather than ask someone else to start it for you.

On average, Lemmy communities have about 170 subscribers, so there’s every chance you wouldn’t have to do any moderation at all.

Accidental Renaissance on Reddit was set to private by its mods, who opened up here instead. I don’t know how subscribers on Reddit there was, but yesterday’s surge now means there’s 1659 Lemmy subscribers.
So yes, there’s some movement, but I doubt it’s a “mass exodus”

Looks like it. The last Spock and T’Pring episode was that fun body-swap one, I think.

PRAW is the Python wrapper for Reddit’s API, and searching github for “lemmy api python” revealed some results, so you’d use one API to download a post, and the other to upload it.

There’s existing bots that do this though, and they all seem to just fill feeds with indiscriminate, un-replied to, spam

Hi. Your Link #1 doesn’t work because you have a space between the ‘]’ and the ‘(’

Fixed version: Social Anxiety

I only have mild anxiety that this means this comment will likely get clobbered by that link-fixer-bot. Or maybe it won’t and I’ll look foolish. Hello Bot!

You can search on lemmyverse.net or browse.feddit.de

Or see if anything in !newcommunities@lemmy.world takes your interest.

I think you’re limited to when the first person on your instance subscribed to a community on another instance - from that point on, all posts/votes/comments will shared with your instance and be visible, but before that, I’m not sure (you might get the post, but not the comments, or you might not get the post at all).

I wanted to comment on a couple of 2-year old posts I found via google - when searching from my instance, I found one post (but no comments), but not the other post. When I added my comment and re-viewed it through google, it was there alongside the 2-year old ones.

If lots of people are signed up to lots of different instances, then a ‘fediverse’ will grow as expected, but if a majority are congregated on a few big ones, it limits the potential for spread.

I’m still trying to understand all this, so I might be wrong.

This post is very old, but it’s what came up when I googled it, so for anyone else, here’s some basic scripts for logging in and then using the authentication to get something that may help you get started in exploring the API.