I thought we were looking at it as a potential USA-based instance, though perhaps I simply misremembered it as actually being within the USA rather than merely being a general-purpose one that could be used. Sorry. Either way if the admin is not fixing the server issues after this long... then I am going to stop worrying (as much) about communities being properly federated with it.
Yes:-). BTW have you had any further issues after all that weirdness with the images awhile ago? Also, wtf I just noticed that Fediverse Explorer is now reporting it as being from the UK?! "Server looks to be located in Slough Slough United Kingdom"
I subscribed so that should start federating content from Discuss.Online.
Lemmy.cafe seems to often get left behind though, and I checked and see that none of the posts there have any comments or votes on them - can someone with a lemmy.cafe alt subscribe to it?
Noice! I can't see any of the posts except one from today, though now that I've subscribed at Discuss.Online others should be able to see it there too.
A....nd now there's 5 posts and 8 subscribers there from DO, wow it's growing quickly, keep up the excellent work!:-D
You are right of course. On the other hand, the developers are working slowly on other issues and do not seem to have made this one a priority. And Rust is reputedly an exceedingly difficult language to learn to program in, even for someone who already knows C++. I expect PieFed (Python) and Sublinks (if still active, Java) to quickly surpass it with features, though Lemmy definitely has the edge in terms of most effort put into it so far.
On the other hand, we are still at version 0.19.7 - so definitely still a beta software rather than a fully functional one? Plus it's not meant for profit, so we make do with fewer features, and have only a very tiny set of developers working - those that can be supported by grants and donations.
Plus the entire thinking about how things should work seems to keep changing? Like, the original federation model was not built around the idea that Lemmy.World would have ~80% of all Lemmy users on it - and yet on the other hand, moderation tools, especially across instances, suck absolute ass (reportedly), so the entire Fediverse is kinda really struggling right now, and niceties such as this simply don't get worked on until the more major foundational issues get laid down. Fortunately new communities don't get created every day:-).
Second, all posts have just 1 upvote (the default) and most have no comments (except the one I made half an hour ago) - that seems due to a delay that ended sometime after the 1st subscriber joined it. As time goes on, new posts and new comments should appear there, though unless there is also a backlog issue on top of the initial delay, those old ones are likely a lost cause and will never ever reflect the full complement of comments & votes. But new ones will, like https://lemmy.cafe/post/10565961 with 3 comments in it.
Let me know about the above link, and either way, thanks for raising the issue to make sure that it works on your instance. :-)
Yay! I would love to be co-mod with you (I tried to tag you specifically in a message earlier to this effect:-D). You'll need to make a comment or post or something within the community itself, so let's transfer our discussion over to the cross-post I just made of this.
Assuming someone else joins, I can make them the top mod, then you (or I guess they would have to be the one to make you a mod, perhaps, if you specifically do not want to be on top).
Or if nobody does, then it can still be just you and me, though we keep it casual and light-hearted until someone else is willing to take on mod-ship offering more serious discussions.
I don't think being American matters so much (surely it would help though) but you already do so much, as too does PhilipTheBucket, and it makes sense to share the load:-)
Damn, I just created !askusa@discuss.online ~2 hours ago, already filled it with 3 posts just to get it off the ground, and there are already more than twice as many downvotes as upvotes. I knew it would be brutal - b/c "Lemmy", ofc - but yeesh! 😰
I do hope that someone wants to help mod, and/or create content b/c I'm definitely not wanting to do this alone!
I don't know if temporarily muting those accounts was the right call or not - I did not even look at the pictures of the modlog here much less elsewhere - but entirely separately from that I wanted to say thank you for offering your explanation here. Whatever you end up deciding, your willingness to be introspective is already a powerful thing.
I thought we were looking at it as a potential USA-based instance, though perhaps I simply misremembered it as actually being within the USA rather than merely being a general-purpose one that could be used. Sorry. Either way if the admin is not fixing the server issues after this long... then I am going to stop worrying (as much) about communities being properly federated with it.