• dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        2·
        5 months ago

        how do I interact with a community I cannot connect to? Would I need to manipulate the URL in order to “access” it, although this gives the error page not found, of course. (Not the best method of poking another community.)

        But that’s interesting that it takes some time to sync or whatever. Unfortunately, this immediately creates the illusion that some communities don’t exist, and causes people to create a double community. This just happened to me. I created c/whatstheword on my instance…

        • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          how do I interact with a community I cannot connect to?

          are you using the website, or an app? i can see the community, but not the posts (presumably because they aren’t synced) (forgot i have lemmy.world blocked).

          do you not see the community landing page at all? is there no ‘subscribe’ button? subscribing is the best way to trigger the sync job; i could try doing it for you, but i want to see if it’s possible for you to do it first.

            • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              21·
              5 months ago

              whoops, i forgot i have lemmy.world blocked. i don’t see comments or posts from that instance.

              still tho, i wasn’t getting the undiscovered 404 on dbzer0.

            • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              i don’t know about lemdroid. federation could be backlogged for aforementioned reasons.

              the link you gave works fine for me in Firefox: clicking, dragging or pasting. the 404 likely indicates that lemdroid hasn’t discovered that community yet; probably because it’s still waiting to finish asking lemmy.world about it.

              • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
                1·
                5 months ago

                are you sure about that? on FF if I click on the first part of the link it redirects me to lemdroid, but clicking the part after the /c/, redirects me to dbzer0. Also different part of the link lights-up when hovering over it

      • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        4·
        5 months ago

        yeah well I also don’t wanna join a big and slow instance like lemmy.world. Also, the theming options on dbzer0 are the best.

        But it seems like this problem won’t ever go away for small instances, unless someone “pokes” it, i.e. goes to the community. (Subscribing is kinda hard considering it’s still inaccessible)

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          5 months ago

          Yeah, I mean a solution would be a bot that just crawled World and subscribed to anything with more than X users/posts/whatever.

          Then it would pull all those communities into your instances feed.

          At least I think? I’m like 90% sure that’s how it works.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        5 months ago

        Lol, what? db0 is a medium sized instance ran by one of the former /r/piracy admins when they jumped ship during the exodus, and it’s reasonably active with a decent amount of real users and a very active owner.

        World is by far the largest instance by a huge margin. It is such an outlier that it effectively should be disregarded in comparisons with other instances.

      • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        13·
        5 months ago

        You’re on a small instance where most of the users I see are brand new troll accounts

        You wanna back up that statement with a fact or two?

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          5 months ago

          Here’s an example example from your post history

          https://lemmy.world/comment/10279387

          You’re saying that piracy is competition to record industries

          Like sure, they’re exploitive and greedy, but how the fuck can anyone compete with the exact same product but the price is zero?

          Only a troll would present that as a valid opinion.

          Same with selioning on a 3 day old comment, so obviously I’m blocking as soon as I hit submit.

          • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            32·
            5 months ago

            Lol ok I get where you are coming from now, dipshit.

            Edit: Commenter did not provide any supporting evidence for brand new troll accounts on our instance, because there aren’t any. Clearly, they don’t like piracy though, so I’ve done them a favor and removed dbzer0 from their feed.