When I connect to my VPN, Feddit won't load. Is something being blocked?

So some people out there have clearly been successful in persuading their instance to connect to Kbin, as if I browse "All" there are some kbin.social hosted communities (or "magazines", as they call them). But I've had pretty limited success myself, at least from Jerboa.

Can anyone suggest a workflow whereby I can find and subscribe to Kbin magazines that are not already showing in "all"?

I dont like tankies or tories any more than the next person, but breaking federation is just wrong.

I dont want to have to make a separate account just to get around that, mainly because this is actually already my account for getting around that!

Its quite easy to block a community at user level, if needed, and we are not the target of any spam, but now we users have lost the option of the ability to interact forever with a corner of the threadiverse, which i think is not cool.

If its just me thinking this way, fine, i'll just maintain several accounts, but i would hope its not, because its feeling like instances are gettinh pretty triggerhappy with the block button https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/tree/main

I search for 'history' and zero results. I know for a fact there are history communities on other instances, why can't I find them using the search feature?

UPDATE: Tom has now added the Undetermined language option to our instance. To make sure you can see the majority of Lemmy content from within your feddit.uk account, do the following:

Click your profile name - click settings - scroll down to the Languages box (not interface language) - hold down Ctrl (cmd on Mac) and select both English and Undetermined. On mobile browser: Tap the Languages box and make sure both are selected - scroll down and click save

You can also select any other languages which are beneficial to you.

If you don't see everything listed in the box, try refreshing the page.

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When viewing profile settings, you will see a box which says:

Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.

On feddit.uk we currently have no selectable language option other than English. This means that (sometimes?) we will not see a lot of posts / comments on other instances / communities where the OP did not specifically select English before posting

See also: This Lemmy documentation under 'Setting up your profile'

• Languages: Select the languages that you speak to see only content in these languages. This is a new feature and many posts don't specify a language yet, so be sure to select "Undetermined" to see them.

Ideally, we need the ability to select English (or whatever language) AND undetermined - you can select multiple, as long as they are available.

When I view X community@instance from my lemmy.world account (with Undetermined language selected in profile settings), I can see all posts and comments. When I view the same community@instance from my feddit.uk account, there are missing posts and often 0 comments on everything. This needs addressing if possible!

Anyone else? My comments seem to just sit there and the circle icon keeps spinning but the comment never applies. Happened on various sublemmys across a few instances now so wanted to ask if anyone else experiencing the same.

Seems fine locally

Update: setting my profile settings to English has fixed the issue for me

We still federate, but god knows how long that will last. They have defederated nearly 400 instances and they sound lile theyre losing the plot

so, i was wondering why i couldn't find outside communities by typing a direct URL (example: feddit.uk/c/@

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/federation_getting_started.html

from the docs, i quote:

Fetching communities

If you search for a community first time, 20 posts are fetched initially. Only if a least one user on your instance subscribes to the remote community, will the community send updates to your instance. Updates include:

New posts, comments
Votes
Post, comment edits and deletions
Mod actions

You can copy the URL of the community from the address bar in your browser and insert it in your search field. Wait a few seconds, the post will appear below. At the moment there is no loading indicator for the search, so wait a few seconds if it shows "no results".

i have found that to correctly "link" a community across from another instance, i need to be:

1. logged in on feddit.uk (this part is important)
2. type !community@instance
3. wait 5-10 seconds, even if it claims "no results". it will populate eventually

but i have also realised an important implication. this must work both ways! i was also struggling to figure out why feddit.uk communities weren't showing up on other instances, and this is why.

this means that if we want feddit.uk communities to be indexed on other lemmy instances, we need to be logged in on that instance, and then type !community@instance in that instance's search bar, and then our communities will be indexed. this could also be the case for kbin and other software

in other words, gogogo! get out there! our communities will not be seen if they have not been indexed by at least one user from that instance - and as a result, wont show up in other instances search bars until this is done. and we won't see outside communities either until we index them here too!

I'm trying to create a community but get a form error which says the name needs to match the requested format, but not what the format is or what's wrong with the name I've tried. Any help (even just a point at documentation I haven't found yet) gratefully received!

i have a few subs to federate forums that seem to be stuck at 'pending'

any ideas ?

I'm fairly new to Lemmy but have been on Mastodon for a while.

I recently tried to comment on this post but I seem to have a never-ending loading symbol on the post button after pressing it.

I've been able to comment on a post on another server that isn't feddit.uk without issue so I'm not sure what's going on here.

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post!

While doing bits of setup over the last day, I've had to search to work out a couple of things. I thought this might be a good place for people to post up other tips and gotchas.

Avatars and Icons: Currently, non-square images are squished to fit in spaces. Cropping or blankspacing can improve the way things display.

Adding mods: To add an additional mod to a community, currently they need to comment on a thread in that community. From there, an existing mod can click the 3 dots menu next to their comment, and add them as a moderator.

I'm having issues uploading an avatar image. I keep getting the following message:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON

I tried it on Chrome and Firefox and the same thing happened. I'm pretty sure it was working yesterday though.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/1

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is link aggregator software that exists in the fediverse, meaning it connects with other “ActivityPub” software like Mastodon and other Lemmy instances. Basically, you can follow and interact with communities here on feddit.uk, on any other Lemmy instance, or even from your Mastodon account!

What is Feddit.uk

Feddit UK is a UK specific instance of Lemmy, ideal for people from the UK or are just interested in following the UK community.

This instance is hosted by me Tom, an experienced software dev based in London. I decided to host Feddit UK as I saw many instances already made for other countries and none for the UK and saw the need for a UK community on the Fediverse. To help the upkeep cost of this instance, please consider donating by buying me a coffee!

Why Feddit

Feddit comes from the combination of the words Fediverse and Reddit. Lemmy is a new alternative to Reddit based on the Fediverse!

What are the rules here?

• No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia
• No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
• No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
• Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
• Do not spam or abuse network features.

Hey guys, just to let you know I'm upgrading the server tonight to a dedicated server which should improve the speed of the site significantly. It shouldn't take too long and might resolve some issues we were having on the instance.

At the moment, the server has been running on shared hosting which is cheap hosting where the server that runs the website is shared among many users. I upgraded it this morning but it didn't seem to help at all so I'm opting for a dedicated instance.

Over the last few days we've seen a good number of users join the instance and I've had a good number of donations from some great people!

My intentions are to run this server for as long as I can even if I'm putting some of my own money into it. I know some people may be worried about an instance like this being hosted by one person but I promise I'll keep it up and keep regular backups just in case I can't host it anymore or something happens to the server!