GeekFTW

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

If I see a title on him I riot lol

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

has anyone thought about spinning up a server and hosting a squaredcircle.social instance? i’ll have to investigate this. :^

My own coding experience ended (for now 👀) with QuickBasic so outside of my own capabilities but should this spur anyone to do so I will not argue!

GeekFTW, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I did notice that @Neon_Carnivore's comment on the .zip announcement doesn't appear from lemmy.ml though, 8 hours later. Are we sure that instance is federating any better than kbin.social is, or is lemmy.ml the issue here?

As of 6:15 EST Neon's comment still does not look to be visible via lemmy.ml (which is odd because my post there very obviously does..).

Checking both .zip and .ml's instance list, both appear federated with each other, let me test.

Edit: I just made a comment via my lemmy.zip account to the same post Neon commented on on the lemmy.zip community and checking via lemmy.ml it looks like it federated after 30 seconds or so. (https://lemmy.ml/post/12635141?scrollToComments=true)

So probably just normal federation glitch.

Edit 2: Checked my account on dbzer0, the post shows up but neither Neons nor my own new comment..hmm...will def give mbin a try today...

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

I'd love to if kbin had a locking feature XD fucking hell lol

GeekFTW, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The lemmy.ml admin made a comment on my post on that community which I'll re-share here (their comment will probably show up in 2-7 hours lmao):

Hey guys, tried posting this as a response to a federation query but i keep getting 5xx errors on kbin.social so thought i'd post it here for visibility.

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Hey, lemmy.zip admin here - what you're seeing is a side effect of how lemmy works vs some of the stuff we do on lemmy.zip to promote communities using a tool called Lemmy Federate - basically all our communities are federated out to 27 other instances and the comments etc should pull through without issue there (reddthat, feddit uk, midwest.social etc - full list is here (currently squaredcircle@lemmy.zip is at the top) - the other instances (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, lemm.ee etc) don't actually know about the community because no one from those instances has subscribed, so no information is given to those instances UNTIL someone subscribes or searches it for the first time on that instance, at which point its a blank slate - its the same with users, hence why neon_carnivores comment might not show on other instances - its because they're not aware of them as a user on lemmy.zip yet. It should balance out over time as more instances become aware of the community.

You can see live federation stats for lemmy.zip here.

PS - thats a really terrible explanation from me about federation on lemmy there but tl;dr its how federation on lemmy works - it just takes time until a few users are subscribed from each instance, then its good to go.

ETA - i can see upvotes pulling through properly too now on lemmy.ml as i upvote or downvote on lemmy.zip so federation going forwards should work fine...

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

Welcome to the Fediverse! lmao 😆

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

I've gone ahead and made a fedia.io magazine for us as well https://fedia.io/m/SquaredCircle in addition to lemmy.zip's since they are currently the most populated mbin instance (and likely the most supported as a result). Going to post a thread or two on it and see if things federate. (Kbin hasn't sent anything their way in 4 days it looks like, at least as far as our community goes.)