A server will only pull in everything from a community once at least 1 person on that server subscribes. Then it will start pulling in every new post and comment as soon as they’re up.

/r/Tech, /r/Technology, /r/TechNews and others all exist. Which one is the “main” one?

Yeah, posts & comments can’t work in this way because each instance will have different ID numbers for their federated copy. I’m not even sure how to begin approaching this issue.

This is gonna be another gif situation, isn’t it? :))

It already says that at the top of the instances page

You do you, bruv

It’s not allowed in a lot of instances because the moderation is absolutely exhausting and sometimes NSFL material.

The only limiting factor here is admins + moderators of an instance willing to put themselves through that.

Definitely better than what we have! More info is better

It’s not a priority for the devs, for very understandable reasons. They just finished a HUGE performance pull into the github for lemmy-ui (the web platform). Anybody willing to make a new app or improve the existing one is absolutely welcome to do so.

I don’t think you can on Beehaw.org. All communities on your instance need to be created by an admin.

Probably a good thing overall, considering the thousands of dead subs that are going to be all over the place come Monday.

abraxas said he was a typescript vet just earlier, maybe we can coax him into having a look? xD

Worth a shot at least.

EDIT: Just shot him a message

You’re awesome man! This is direly needed. I’m just wondering how on earth to publicize this before the madness that hits on Monday.

Any chance you could find a place to fit this in the join lemmy site and do a pull request before then? I know it’s a lot to ask, but it would be huge.

Maybe you could bring it up with the Kbin devs? I’m sure it wouldn’t be too crazily difficult to have it work similarly over there. Just need to swap /c/ out for a /m/. Probably similar needed over here to translate /m/ to /c/ too.

Actually, the full URL is pretty easy to use if you know what you’re doing (which of course, everybody is trying to figure out right now).

Just switch the search from “Community” to “All”. Image from another thread

Have you tried the community browser yet?

Can confirm bang-prefixed is broken, c-prefixed works. At least from the website UI.

I’ll put up a github issue for it, maybe somebody can look at that

I have no idea. I’m currently trying to learn typescript to turn a link like this into this dynamically based on the base URL you’re seeing the page from. I’m lost and don’t know where to start.

EDIT: WHAT?!?!? THAT WORKS ALREADY?

test

EDIT 2: MUST PUT PSA IN LEMMY NOW

Yeah, definitely a papercut I expect we’ll see a lot of users hit. Early days yet, and more dev manpower needed. I’m learning TypeScript and Rust as fast as I can to help out xD

Do you mean at the technical level or UI level?

At the UI level, just have a look at https://kbin.social and you’ll see a lot of very familiar posts. Also their posts show up here, just like any normal post.

Mastodon is a bit trickier. If you put hashtags in your post text, I think it shows up like a “toot” for users following it? Sorry, not a Mastodon user, don’t really know how it works.

At a technical level, Lemmy is built on the ActivityPub protocol. It’s how Lemmy servers talk to eachother, it’s how Mastodon servers talk to eachother, and it’s how a hell of a lot more services talk. Best analogy I’ve heard is ActivityPub is like the email protocol for social media platforms.