That’s true. But I guess I’m not the only one haha!

Why did they use such an obscene word for this?

“Ploopy”? I would say it’s weird (for headphones) and maybe non-descriptive. How is it “obscene”?

65 minutes to go!

Thanks! Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be working so there must be something else going on. I appreciate you trying the change for me though!

Maybe not the same issue but I can’t see communities with names longer than 20 characters here. There’s a discussion and solution (I think) here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3449

Any chance of getting that fixed?

Figured it out! You have to use your email address, not your username.

Figured this out. On desktop when you hover over “Forgot Password” it says “You must enter an e-mail address to reset your password”.

When you enter a valid email address the “Forgot Password” link enables and works. 👍

Yeah, I have a PM but it didn’t seem to work for whatever reason with the sign up on Lemmy.

Bump! (I’m playing with different Lemmy apps and can’t remember my password…)

Capstone Green Energy Corp, BHE (Berkshire Hathaway Canada), Bird Construction

I agree 100%, it’s not user friendly at all. I’m new here too, it’s just what I’ve found to work.

Okay, I’ve found searching with the full url in the search on the website of the instance you’re trying to see it on works best. So put “https://sh.itjust.works/c/japanese_metal” in the search. Initially you won’t get any results, but after a few minutes searching normally (just the name) will work. I don’t know how long, I usually just put the url search in then “walk away” and check back later.

You’ve confirmed that those instances are federated with this one? Like, other communities from here show up there?

What I don’t understand is why we can’t see me posts and comments read only on Beehaw. I can see it by going to their (public) website, why can’t I see it from here?

Are you searching on Jerboa?

So I don’t know what solutions you have discussed with the other instance admins, and I actually know little about how it all works currently, but I had a thought about this for the fediverse as a whole: the admins/moderators of a user’s home instance should be moderating/responsible for that user’s engagement with communities on other instances.

Right now if Person A creates Instance A and a community on that instance becomes really popular fediverse-wide, Person A is stuck in the lurch of dealing with all of the engagement from everywhere else in the fediverse. If Instance A has 10 users or 100000 users, they still have to deal with x-thousands of users from all over the fediverse. More than likely they’ll just want to defederate, especially if they are small. At the same time, if Person B creates Instance B that invites trolls (on purpose or not) it seems that they have little say in what their own users do on Instance A’s community. In fact, as you pointed out, Person B might not even know that a user from their instance is trolling Instance A.

Instead, if mods on Instance A take any action against the user on their instance, mods on the user’s home instance (AKA Instance B) should immediately and automatically be notified. Then the moderators from Instance B will need to respond how they see fit with the user. If they don’t see a problem, maybe they do nothing (e.g. the two instances have different philosophies.) But if they do see an issue, they then have the opportunity to respond in whatever way makes sense. Then, between the two instances, if the actions taken on either side seem appropriate, the two instances can continue to get along (i.e. federate). If they disagree in some way (maybe Instance B thinks Instance A is too draconian or maybe Instance A thinks Instance B is too lax) they can part ways (i.e. defederate).

As an extension to this, it could help Instance B from being a source of brigading. If they suddenly see a bunch of reports coming in from Instance A they would be able to take action on their own side to stop it, either through temporarily defederating or some other mechanism.

All in all the purpose would be to give both instances the chance to deal with the issues before defederating; hopefully alleviating some of the pressure off of Instance A, and giving Instance B the opportunity to show whether they should be trusted (or not) in general.

This could be taken a step further and their could be trusted and untrusted federations. Trusted federations work like normal and untrusted federations require mods from the user’s home instance to moderate all engagement before it actually posts to the remote instance. This puts a burden on the home instance, but that’s actually the point. If you’re willing to grow to large numbers and federate widely, then you need to be willing to moderate your users’ content, rather than imposing your users on everyone else (until they defederate.)

Edit to add: I should mention that I very much appreciate this instance and that I was able to easily create an account, and, I was disappointed by the defederation as it seems like the kind of thing that will kill Lemmy from scaling to something mainstream. I don’t think that’s what the creators of Lemmy want though, anyway.

I was just explaining what their issue was, I wasn’t defending it or proposing any solutions.

Yeah someone else pointed out shell and I’m kicking myself for missing it!

They can ban them for 5 minutes until they make another account and start spamming again

But they can still do this from any federated instance. Meanwhile they just banned 20k+ contributing users.

Isn’t the issue that this instance (and some others) don’t have any controls on creating new accounts?