• planetaryprotectionEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    FWIW, I am not able to sign up to midwest.social - after filling out the info in the sign up page, I hit the submit button and it spins forever. I don’t see a network request in dev tools or anything in the console to indicate an issue.

    Also, (and I’m not sure if this is a bug or just some part of the fediverse that I don’t fully understand yet) comments don’t seem to be getting federated properly? For example, here is a post that has two comments when viewed on midwest.social but no comments when viewed via lemmy.ml.

    • DarraignTheSaneOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve experienced the thing with Lemmy just sitting and spinning on user (and community) creation, and in my experience that means the username is already taken on that server. Did you maybe already sign up?

      I know I messed up when I first didn’t understand Fediverse logins and deleted my original user there on midwest.social (which matched my username here on lemmy.ml), and had to recreate it with a shortened version because it wouldn’t let me recreate it after deletion.

      For the second part - that’s because I’ve created the same communities on both servers. The one with two comments is on midwest.social, and the one without comments is here. Feel free to stick with whichever server and community you want to follow. :)

      • planetaryprotectionEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I asked in the midwest.social matrix chat and the admin there seems to have fixed something that now allows me to sign up.

        I was under the impression that those were the same “post” but when I’m viewing it on lemmy.ml it’s the same post as the original on midwest.social but it’s been federated to lemmy.ml.

        Here is the post on lemmy.ml - it says that it’s !stlouis@midwest.social, not !stlouis@lemmy.ml:

        HERE is the cross post/duplicate post you made on lemmy.ml/c/stlouis. It does also have two comments now, but not the same two comments as the “original” on midwest.social:

        I think one of the good parts of federation is that your post on a different instance shows up on this instance (theoretically with comments if I understand how it’s supposed to work), but obviously the downside is that communities can be fragmented (as there are now two discussions for “Calling all St. Louisans!”.

        There’s been some other discussion around fragmented communities (i.e. which is the REAL c/stlouis). I wonder if it’s worth deciding i.e. that midwest.social/c/stlouis is the “official” Lemmy St Louis community and having lemmy.ml/c/stlouis pin a post that directs people to the midwest.social/c/stlouis community? I just tested and I can cross-post from lemmy.ml to midwest.social which is pretty cool.

        • DarraignTheSaneOPMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, I created the subs at lemmy.ml first, and really I think it’s going to be a thing that time will tell. I want to promote midwest.social for the target audience (midwesterners) so that we get more of them in that server specifically, but if not then I’d like to have that community presence established on lemmy.ml as well. Something tells me there will be a number of iterations before the Lemmy-verse settles on which servers become predominate.

          I took the same approach with my user accounts. Sure I feel like I belong in midwest.social, but if that dwindles and ultimately doesn’t stand the test of time I want my account to be present on what is currently the largest server. I also created my account at lemmy.one and subscribed to many of the same communities on other servers, mainly for those instances where lemmy.ml is down due to load, which I highly suspect we’re due to see more of June 12th and the reddit API changes approach.