Newbie here. Why does it say “Subscribe pending” when I request to join certain communities? And how long does it take to obtain approval?
Newbie here. Why does it say “Subscribe pending” when I request to join certain communities? And how long does it take to obtain approval?
okie dokie, thanx! I was just wondering since I just read something about beehaw communities shadow banning if I sign up for certain other communities and was wondering if that had something to do with it. Reference: https://lemm.ee/post/547600
Due to the nature of Federation, don’t hesitate to make accounts on different instances as needed to access that instance’s content. I reckon a number of people have accounts on Beehaw and accounts elsewhere.
Agh, I’m not excited about having to do that. I like to keep things simple.
Yea unfortunately the nature of Federation means that instances (servers) are dissociated from each other but nonetheless communicate with each other via a standardized protocol. Consequently, there is nothing stopping one instance from saying they want to stop communicating with another instance
In some situations that makes sense. For example, if you are running an instance and don’t want to get people/content from another instance that posts incredibly hateful messages, you can choose to defederate from that instance.
In other situations it creates complications. For example, if you are on a somewhat popular instance (like Lemmy.world) but then get defederated from an instance you want to participate in (like Beehaw.org), even if the defederation came from justifiable reasons, you will need a Beehaw account in order to view that content as you won’t be able to access new content from Beehaw.org using your Lemmy.world account.
For the most part, in pragmatic terms what this really means is if one wants to participate in the most active instances, they’ll probably want an account on an instance that federates with the biggest instances.
One small correction, you will still be able to see posts on beehaw from lemmy.world but if you comment on something there they won’t see it.
Yeah that seems like a huge hassle :(
I’m pretty new to all this, but I’m assuming that subscriptions are instance account specific. If there was a way to sync subscriptions between accounts in different instances then that would be good, but I’m finding that without subscriptions the default feeds are kind of all over the place.
Yep.
So I have one primary account on Lemmy.world and then have additional accounts localized to those instances.
For the time being things are a bit of a hassle because there’s no good way to migrate from one instance to another and bring your data with you, and the underlying lemmy software is still in development.
Effectively we’re doing this in production!
Beehaw isn’t happy with how the other instances moderate there instances so they blocked themselves off from several instances I say just except there choice the vast minority of the fediverse does not do that honestly you aren’t missing much let go of the fomo