thegiddystitcher @ thegiddystitcher @lemm.ee

Proud multicrafter, making cool stuff and all over the Fediverse like a ras

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Not sure if you're aware but this is still happening. In fact, looking at the bot's posts today is it possible you accidentally set it to only respond to Mastodon threads? 😅

Examples: https://lemm.ee/post/1456125, https://lemm.ee/post/1375340, https://lemm.ee/post/1441558

Next time the spinny wheel thing happens, try selecting a comment language from the dropdown. I've noticed that sometimes (especially when replying to an external thing from Kbin or Mastodon, but also sometimes from Lemmy so god knows) it won't let me post without explicitly setting the language.

Very much a workaround rather than a fix but it might be easier for you than logging over. Assuming it works, of course, and your problem isn't something totally different!

It's a difficult one. There are ongoing federation issues just about everywhere even within Lemmy and Kbin themselves, so once we get to talking cross-compatibility the problem appears to be even worse.

It has got drastically better since I first joined, so there are clearly investigations underway, but there's still a fair way to go until it's totally reliable.

That said, just to clarify, when you say you're "unable to reply to them" do you mean because their comment doesn't show up on your side, or because you get some kind of error or other weird behaviour when you try to reply?

Absolutely expected this to be a weird makeup thread from the title. Don't Lemmy while tired, kids.

Well hey fancy seeing you here 😄

It is my sworn duty to drop the community link wherever it's relevant so please don't mind me jumping on your comment.

!lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works <-- we have cute cross stitch, satanic cross stitch, occasional embroidery, and at least once we've accidentally had crochet too!

Taking a break from making a video game to read this thread lol, you are not wrong about that part! Or any part, actually, programming is awesome and even outside of using it for work it's come in handy at least a little bit in every other hobby I've ever done. Up to and including knitting.

Yay this makes me happy to hear! Life's too short to not wear your hair long...or something 😄

Thanks for your service.

Now the natural question here is...has the wife come around? When I declared my desire for a "summer goth cruise witch" aesthetic I'm happy to report my husband was all for it lol.

I'm nearly 40 and rediscovering my inner goth. Honestly don't care if it looks "dumb", I'm having a lot of fun! Just go for it, do what makes you happy.

Yeah I generally leave the whole defederation nonsense for a followup when it seems like someone needs the bigger picture explanation, otherwise things get lengthy. But you are technically correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct.

Hmm, that's a new one on me. Are you by any chance using a mobile app? I'm wondering if it's maybe an app-specific thing and you could use the mobile site as a workaround.

lemmit.online is basically what you're suggesting, a self-contained bot spam instance.

Luckily it's all run through one bot so you can just block https://lemm.ee/u/bot@lemmit.online and you won't see any more of it.

Deep breath, it's all good!

.world was having trouble because it grew really really fast (like it's only existed for about six weeks at this point), and the Lemmy software had never been tested with the sorts of numbers we very suddenly saw during the Reddit migration. So naturally there were performance problems, as nobody had ever run a Lemmy instance that large.

A few instance admins put their heads together and figured out various fixes and optimisations, and now it's running fine. Maybe we'll get into more issues down the road, that's just the nature of being the first to try something new. But it's nothing to panic about, think of it more like you're a brave pioneer into an exciting new world :D

When you create a new community, other instances don't automatically know it exists yet. They find out when the first person from there, searches for your community (search syntax is given in the community sidebar: !community@instance <-- note the ! at the start). Once someone subscribes, it shows up in that instance's All feed.

To get the word out to other instances you can post in the various relevant communities as well as make sure to drop the link into any relevant conversations where people might be interested in checking it out. Since you have at least two accounts, if you create a community on one of your instances you can also use your other account as a shortcut and search for it yourself on the other instance.

Some useful communities are:

• !newcommunities@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin)
• !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca (Lemmy / Kbin)

Hey, you're getting some well-meaning but quite confusing answers on this so I'll try and sum up:

• Each instance / server is its own self-contained thing, so yes if you want to change which instance you use as your home you'd need to set up a new account on it. But...
• You DO NOT need to do this just to join and interact with communities from other instances, you can do that from your lemmy.world account
• Some people are uncomfortable with the idea of .world potentially federating with Threads down the line, so are pre-emptively making the jump to another instance

There are other reasons to have multiple accounts, for example I have one account that is mostly subbed to gaming stuff and then I have this account that is mostly subbed to crafting stuff, because I like to have the two separate subscription feeds. I did the same thing over on Reddit, on Mastodon, etc etc. Some people have a dedicated NSFW account. Whether you personally have a use case for multiple accounts, or whether you personally want to steer clear of any potential future federation with Threads, is up to you.

In the interests of making you feel awesome about your level of knowledge, you should know this is in fact correct!

Thanks, I didn't want to go pestering individual admins if there was a form somewhere or a support community I'd missed so wanted to check first! Appreciate the help :)

Still looks like it's the default when you sign up from the mobile app, but both my accounts are on tiny servers so I'm far from an expert here 😅

Oh no.