In my experience it looks like a case of matrix clients not doing a good job of communicating that things happening in the background haven't finished yet, and throwing generic error messages (a bit like lemmy-ui does sometimes).
I've been able to join invite-only rooms on other instances - it said 'failed' at first, but when I went back later it turned out that I had actually joined.
I'll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks' novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.
Yeah, it's the strange thing about engaging post titles - people seem to be so busy answering them, they 'forget' to also upvote them. In contrast, a meme that's funny but about which there's not much to say, is more likely to get an upvote as some kind of compensation for the lack of discussion.
Lemmy and PeerTube hasn't worked for a few months now - you'll have to fetch the vids manually if you want 'em.
There nothing wrong from PT's end - they fed with PieFed (e.g. the Linux experiment channel is here assuming your UI doesn't redirect you), MBIN (I believe), and Mastodon, but some change in Lemmy broke something.
Hmmm. Well short of running your own server and hacking away at whatever platform it's running, I think you're looking at a Feature Request for Lemmy devs (for an option to be included with blocking Instances, to hide/show reply notifications from that instance's users)
I don't think you can use Lemmy's user-level Instance blocks for what you want. The assumption is that if you're blocking an Instance, you don't want to see either the communities or the people. There's a bit of compromise happening that appeases the majority: you can't block the replies from physically existing, but you can at least prevent being notified of them.
It might be better not to use the Instance block, and individually block all ml's communities. This would be ball-ache to do by hand, but is scriptable via the API (you'd just have to rerun your script occasionally to catch newly-created communities)
If they're just looking for the word 'lemmy' in the URL, link to the version of the post from an instance that doesn't have 'lemmy' in. E.g. for this post, instead of https://lemmy.ml/post/19458783, link to https://piefed.social/post/208919 or some even more obscure platform.
I seem to have stumbled into an argument that people are more passionate about than me. I mentioned I'd seen 'active/passive' used (in computer networking), and in that context, it 'seems alright' (in the sense of actively giving demands, vs. passively accepting them [and doing what it's told, of course])
If someone has made good-faith request not to use certain terminology (like Master/Slave), then I'm generally more interested in finding acceptable alternatives than I am in dismissing their concerns outright. If, at the end of a proper search for alternatives, nothing suitable can be found, then fair enough. I'd question the idea that it's really impossible to find something else though, but - for now at least - I'm sure that Dom/Sub isn't it.
I've seen 'Active / Passive' used, that seems alright. There's plenty of alternative terms to use without borrowing terminology from sexual roleplay.
Anyway, the Sub is supposed to be the one that's actually in control for this kind of thing (otherwise you'd just be in an abusive relationship), so that confuses things when you start trying to applying it elsewhere.
The 'real user' and the 'private voter' are 2 different accounts as far a external instances are concerned, but only 1 as far as piefed.social is concerned. So if you banned either one, it would have the same effect, because PF would locate the same account from the information provided.
Likewise, a piefed user can't vote twice on something, they make one vote, and then the 'private voting' setting determines how it is sent out. The local system has tracked that they have voted, and changing the setting won't change that.
There's always more work to do of course, but piefed.social is a small instance, with manual approval required for registration, no API to script things like mass downvoting, and concepts such as 'attitude' which would prevent that anyway, so I can't foresee anything too disastrous happening from this little experiment.
No, the other account isn't something you can log into or interact with. PieFed knows whether I've already voted on something, so it won't let me vote again by changing the 'vote privately' setting.
On lemmy.ml, it's showing that your post has been made in the 'afaraf' language btw, so most people won't see it, and it's probably worth fixing with an edit.
My experience from when my backend server died, and Lemmy instances were getting a 502 response to ActivityPub POST activity, they eventually stopped sending anything. They kept trying to GET stuff though (user account details, nodeinfo responses), and lemmy.ml has never stopped POSTing, even though I configured nginx to always respond 403 to anything from them for about a year now.
On lemmy, accessing it through the website, click on your username in the top-right, and choose 'settings'. On that page, choose Export in the 'Import/Export Settings' section. This will give you a file to save to your computer.
On piefed, go to Account-Edit profile & settings, and use the 'Import' button to choose the file you just saved.
This will import your followed communities and blocked users.
Re: your edit - please feel free to open an Issue for PieFed about it. It's MBIN content in Lemmy's communities, so it's something that needs attention (we should show it, even if Lemmy doesn't). I'll have a crack at fixing it next time I'm working on the code.
In my experience it looks like a case of matrix clients not doing a good job of communicating that things happening in the background haven't finished yet, and throwing generic error messages (a bit like lemmy-ui does sometimes).
I've been able to join invite-only rooms on other instances - it said 'failed' at first, but when I went back later it turned out that I had actually joined.