big update, awful.systems is now a federated lemmy instance. let me know if anything looks broken! here's what to expect:
- to pull up an awful.systems community on another instance, just paste that community's URL into the other instance's search bar
- federation with other lemmy instances should work, and probably kbin too? there's no way I can find to pull in pre-federation posts on remote instances though, so send your friends here to read the backlogs
- we can't federate with most of mastodon right now because lemmy doesn't implement
authorized_fetch, which is a best practice setting for mastodon instances. if your instance doesn't use it, try entering something like @[email protected] into your mastodon search; lemmy communities are represented to mastodon as users
- this is pretty much an experimental thing so if we have to turn it off, I'll send out another post
- reply to this post with ideas for moderation tools and instances you'd like to see blocked (and a reason why) and we'll take action on anything that sounds like a good idea
federation was made possible by
- lemmy's devs skipping their release process and not telling anyone 0.18.2 was released on friday? so we're on 0.18.2 now
- updating all of the deployment cluster's flake inputs just in case
- @[email protected] shouting yolo
So! I have subscribed on awful.systems to [email protected] - and if I post here, the post shows up over there. But new posts over there don't make their way here. Also, I see "subscription pending" at this end, but the kbin buttcoin mod doesn't see anything at that end. I would have presumed that lemmy and kbin talked to each other OK, but then that's like assuming computers work.
I think kbin is a bit slower than lemmy-to-lemmy communication
You can ignore the "subscription pending" message, for all intents and purposes you are subscribed. Consider it a UI quirk.
huh, I need to check back on it but I felt like the behavior we were seeing was severely broken:
looking through the logs around when you did this, I see the requests flowing to and from kbin.social but a frustrating lack of any errors -- and lemmy just loves logging errors even during normal execution flow. I'll dig into lemmy's github issues today and see if anyone else has a trip report matching yours