GeekFTW

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

LFG! Gonna be a good event!

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

(For next time of course given Revolution is over lol): No matter what at this point we're gonna keep a backup community around for these kind of situations, since federation can't really be predicted.

Until we 'deprecate' this magazine (be it tomorrow or March 18th), lemmy.zip will stay open for posting as our backup so no matter what we got a place.

Assuming Fedia were to fully work out (doing tests) and become our new 'home', lemmy.zip will stay the backup (but probably with posting restricted to avoid spam until it's needed, if it's needed).

Should lemmy.zip become our new home but Fedia still works out, I'll make Fedia our backup community instead so we're still covered (even if it probably won't be needed). If Fedia doesn't work out I'll figure out a different backup community regardless lol.

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

Well the fact that he flubbed the rap again is making me triple down on my 'the first one was a work' idea lol

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

AEW's best get in the company's history was Schiavone and I will not take any questions about that.

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

In the meanwhile I'm gonna resume posting news and whatnot on lemmy.zip so it's at least out there.

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

Fair haha. We'll def test out fedia some more too. I can see a couple of the posts I made on fedia federated to lemmy.zip, kbin.social still isn't seeing it, dbzer0 just did so it could be working its way finally.

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

It's quite disappointing. That being said Fedia is still on the options list once more of us test it out and ensure we can all see it and have no issues.

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

Just makes ya miss the days of normal forums (which technically is an option for us for the record with phpbb [or tapatalk if we were truly desperate lmao] but we'd shoot ourselves in the foot discoverability and growth wise lol.)

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

I legit just got notifications just now at 5:23am for the convo we were having yesterday, on the other thread, via fedia lol

GeekFTW, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Just about to start the PPV (after waking up to like fucking forty plus notifications coming through from the last few days jesus fuck kbin.

I'm quite glad to see with 184 comments that kbin seemingly didn't shit the bed during the PPV (though I didn't go through the comments yet so maybe it did at some point lol).

I'm gonna make another post or two on Fedia today and keep testing federation as well while catching up on the show, but I do wanna take a moment to thank all of you for the patience you've had lately with how shits been going. This has been the kind of shit that makes a mother fucker wanna go back to Reddit (if Reddit wasn't run by coked up half dead knob-heads of course) but we'll get through this shit.

Edit: Fedia is currently 1h since posting and nothing visible on 3-4 other instances.

Edit2: Ernest isn't dead! https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/875274/RE-Is-Ernest-still-here#comments

Edit 3: Fedia is currently 3h since posting and nothing visible on 3-4 other instances.

Edit 4: Almost at 6h.

Edit 5: Well it went through at some point but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

Not wrong. End of a damned era.

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

If I see a title on him I riot lol

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.)

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

Ironically I've been waiting 13h for a post I made on a mag I made on fedia to federate and none of the instances I have accounts on are showing it lmao https://fedia.io/m/SquaredCircle/newest#

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

With how things are going I have a distinct feeling we aren't gonna be making it to March 18th lol.

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

Montagge's good for whatever, Travon hasn't popped by yet so waiting on them too.

Also..

I’m Natalie Imbruglia levels of torn on this.

I never want gold to be a thing here but I'd give you gold for that reference lmao.

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

Yes! lol.

GeekFTW, 2 months ago

Hell I've had magazine deletion requests sitting around for months, since before ernest disappeared lol.

I run @SquaredCircle here and with all this never-ending breaking I've been spending the last 3 days testing out Federation between 4-5 other lemmy and mbin instances trying to find a place to move my account and the community as a whole.