this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
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I prefer the drip-feed as a regular user. Seeing a big influx of posts in one day from a community I follow tends to drown out other communities I follow, and feels intimidating. I've currently signed up to see bunnies, owls, foxes, and snakes. If I see mostly snakes at the expense of foxes, owls, and bunnies I'm not going to be too thrilled. (In practice, this doesn't happen, [email protected] isn't that active, if you like snakes please post! I do whenever I run across some pleasing snake content in my regular internet browsing, maybe I should put more effort into explicitly finding snake and fox stuff again…)
I am more willing to let it go if I followed some giant community with lots of subscribers, because what did I expect, a big community is going to have lots of people wanting to post stuff. But if it is a small niche…
As a poster trying to keep Lemmy active and as a mod, I find things in bursts. So I break them up with https://schedule.lemmings.world/. Post one thing right now, do all the rest on that scheduler so they come out a couple days from now. That way I still get to "post" all at once—just into the scheduler, which will actually submit the posts in a more spaced out manner for me.
Hi, Elevator,
I started using the scheduler last week, and it worked splendidly at the time.
Trying it again the last few hours, I'm getting "500" errors when trying to put something through. Can you confirm on your end?
@[email protected]
EDIT: Solved! See below.
No 500 errors on my end. What instance was the account you were you trying to schedule from on, and what instance was the community you were trying to schedule a post to on?
Thanks, mate!
So, both the acct and destination community were hosted by Lemm.ee. It's one of the big-five or big-four instances (whatever) across the Lemmysphere, FWIW.
I suppose I could test this from FF (I'm on Chrome) if you think that might work, altho it did work fine in Chrome just a week ago. *shrug*
Every single time I have used the Lemmy Scheduler I did it from Safari or Firefox. I do not have a lemm.ee so I cannot test posting from there unfortunately. I'll try to post TO lemm.ee and edit this comment with my result
Gooottt iiiitttt!
Okay, when logging in again just now, I realised that last time I seemingly made the mistake of filling in the instance field with my community name, instead (i.e. [email protected]). So then-- seems to be working properly okay, now. :D
@[email protected]
If I may-- I would suggest that the service check to see if at the very least, the field entry for "Instance" looked like a proper URL. Even better I'd think would be to actually ping the entry, or something like that.
Because you know... careless idiots like me. ^^
Not just that, but I'd think it really useful to check that stuff right up front when a user logs in, including checking their ID & PW to see if it successfully logs in. Otherwise I suppose users are bound to see these "500" errors if they screw part of that up, I guess.
EDIT: Nah, even when I seem to schedule things, the tool just doesn't seem to work anymore in terms of known time-differences.