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How come I can't see a community any longer? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by theacharnian@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca

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I can't see any content from https://lemmy.ca/c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world even though the community is right there https://lemmy.world/c/progressivepolitics

Instead I see a "Error! There was an error on the server" message.

As far as I can tell from my modlog and the modlog of the community I haven't been banned.

I can see other lemmy.world communities, like for example https://lemmy.ca/c/world@lemmy.world so I don't think some kind of block at the instance level has happened.

What is going on?

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Odd, it showed as "Removed by mod" on our side. I've restored it now.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

thanks!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How does a mod remove a community? That a thing?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From my understanding, admins can "remove" communities, and mods can "delete" them. The effect is similar for users in both cases, and the difference is in who can restore the community.

This case looks like some kind of federation issue with LW. Maybe that community was briefly deleted/removed as a test, but the undo action didn't federate over to us? The only record I can find about this community is the restore action from 2 days ago

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Interesting. Good to know, thanks!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

That's weird. It used to work for me. It no longer does.

[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It could be blocked/defederated by lemmy.ca

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

As far as I understand it, blocks and defederations happen at the instance level, but like I said I can access other lemmy.world communities.