It's how both platforms (and I assume the rest of fedi) work. If you follow an account from Mastodon, that your server has never seen before, it'll be blank until new posts are made. That goes for other Mastodon accounts, Lemmy communities / users, Pixelfed accounts, PeerTube channels, etc etc.
If you subscribe to a Lemmy community, and your Lemmy server has never seen that community before, same thing. Blank until new posts.
It caused a lot of confusion and tech support last summer but now that most servers know about most other ones I guess it's not as common to run into these days :D
I'm all over the Fediverse under this name and also @TeaHands@lemmy.world so could be either tbh. I did a lot of tech support in the early days of the big migration here :D
The blank feed is just because nobody from your Mastodon server was following this account yet. Works the same as following any other new-to-your-server Masto account in that respect, but it should start showing new posts made since you followed.
I know exactly what you mean, my IG had started going that way around certain world events before I quit logging in there. Which was interesting because I'd moved to IG originally to get away from it on Facebook! These things are inevitable, it seems.
There are just too many terrible injustices in this world for us to hold on to the fury about all of them all the time.
That is very true and for a moment I debated taking a selfie holding up a message, AMA-style. But ultimately I was too lazy so I guess we'll never know for sure 😉
If your Mastodon server has a setting called authorized_fetch on, federation with Lemmy is currently broken (they've just pushed a fix so hopefully that'll be live soon).
That said, it only affects posting to Lemmy for me, I'm still able to follow communities just fine. So maybe it's yet another setting causing havoc that we don't know about yet!
Had a very good day thank you, despite not really doing anything majorly out of the ordinary. Just on with the weekly Top of the Pops watchalong on Mastodon now, after a day of fiddling with code and cross stitch and meeting cute dogs while out on a walk. Not bad going, really! 😄
No idea what timezone you're in but it sounds like it's earlier there, I hope your regular day is awesome! Nothing wrong with just a nice, uneventful regular day.
Currently cross stitching Errol from Discworld, a steampunk style world map, and a design of my own based on one of this year's Eurovision entries.
Currently knitting a pair of socks in ridiculous multicoloured yarn, and a poncho-style lacy shawl that will probably take a year (but it needs to be done by July 🤦♀️).
Currently not crocheting or sewing anything but that will no doubt be rectified soon! And then of course there's all the things that have been put into hibernation that I'll hopefully get round to finishing one day eventually maybe...
There's a decent craft community on Fedi if you happen to be into any of these things!
We're middle aged and still make our guests sleep on an airbed on the floor of the craft room, so two actual decent beds in one house sounds so grownup to me you wouldn't believe 😅
In our defence though we both work from home and I need somewhere to keep all this yarn, whereas house guests are relatively rare. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Oh that sounds like the perfect treat, take the self-care to that next level!
My old IG account was mostly photos of cross stitch projects and yep, you guessed it, still got creeps. People are absolutely wild. I guess it's because we had the gall to show our naked hands?!
I hope you're feeling a bit better soon, those low energy days (or weeks, or months) are the worst.
thegiddystitcher @ thegiddystitcher @lemm.ee Posts 6Comments 417Joined 2 yr. ago
It's how both platforms (and I assume the rest of fedi) work. If you follow an account from Mastodon, that your server has never seen before, it'll be blank until new posts are made. That goes for other Mastodon accounts, Lemmy communities / users, Pixelfed accounts, PeerTube channels, etc etc.
If you subscribe to a Lemmy community, and your Lemmy server has never seen that community before, same thing. Blank until new posts.
It caused a lot of confusion and tech support last summer but now that most servers know about most other ones I guess it's not as common to run into these days :D