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Café

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Welcome to our virtual third place, The Café.

Come on in and make a new human connection over a cup of coffee (or Teh Tarik). This is a casual community, do whatever you want, share your oyen pics, your frustrations, and even organize a weekend picnic with the community. The world is your oyster.

Rules are simple, be kind and civil with each other. As with any other café, rude patrons will be kicked out.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Noob question about creating a new post in this community- I tried yesterday and today, got nothing but the endless whirring green circle for all 3 times attempts.

  • What I did was:
  • Click on "Create a Post" button in the side bar.
  • Left "URL" field blank cos I only wanted to do a text post.
  • Filled in the "Title" field
  • Typed the test of the post in the "Body" field.
  • Make sure Café is selected in the "Community" field
  • Left "NSFW" unchecked
  • Selected "English" for language.
  • Clicked "Create"

No progress. Is something wrong? @[email protected] @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmm, have you make sure "cafe" is selected in the "community"?

Maybe try posting it in incognito mode to make sure cache didn't mess it up. The endless spinning mean it has an error but the current version is incapable of displaying error message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I did that. I typed that up must have deleted the whole line when i was putting in the * for the bullet points.

I'll try incognito mode and report back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't work on the following:

  • PC Chrome normal and incognito
  • PC Firefox normal and private
  • iPhone DuckDuckGo
  • iPhone Safari normal and private

Don't know if there's something I'm doing wrong consistently, or lemmy is bonkers not

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haiz...maybe Lemmy really sot dy. Mind sending me the title and body and see if i can post it from my phone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also tried once with a generic test post (and once with the URL field pointing to monyet.cc), also unsuccessful

Title:

Simple introduction to Fediverse, Mastadon and Lemmy

Body:

I'm still wasn't not sure of the topology of these spaces so I asked chatGPT. Here's the gist of it (I edited and rearranged the reply):

  • Fediverse is a network of interconnected social media platforms that are decentralized and based on open protocols.
  • Mastodon is a one of the social media platforms within the Fediverse that resembles Twitter.
  • Lemmy is also a social media platform within the Fediverse that is similar to Reddit.

The Fediverse is a network of interconnected social media platforms that are based on open protocols and standards. It's like a collection of different communities that can communicate and interact with each other. These platforms are often decentralized, meaning that they are not controlled by a single entity or company.

Mastodon is one of the most popular platforms in the Fediverse. It's similar to Twitter, but with some key differences. Mastodon allows users to create accounts, post messages (called toots), follow other users, and interact with their posts by liking, reposting, or replying to them. One of the significant advantages of Mastodon is that it is decentralized, which means that anyone can set up their own Mastodon instance (a server), and users from different instances can still connect and interact with each other. Think of it as many different communities hosted on different servers, but they can all communicate and share information with each other.

Lemmy is another platform in the Fediverse, but it is more similar to Reddit. It allows users to create communities (called instances) based on specific topics or interests. Users can join these communities and post links, text, or discussions related to that topic. Other users can then upvote, comment, and participate in those discussions. Like Mastodon, Lemmy is also decentralized, so there can be multiple instances of Lemmy running independently, but they can still interact with each other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I tried and it immediately posted. Weird. Lemme ask the tech first, see if they can resolve it

Edit: did you mess around with the language option?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dont think so, i put it as English all the times

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, did you uncheck undetermined?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Da fuq, that was the problem. posted d

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huhu, that language option always causing huge issue, i've learned changing that option will cause me unable to post and some people reported unable to see a lot of comment. It's annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No idea what's going on with that. I put it to undetermined but at least one other person can see the post (and commented)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Undetermined is the default, and i think Cafe set to undetermined as well, so if you pick English you can't post it to community that isn't set to English. It's very janky. And if you change your language setting in your profile setting, you won't be able to view a lot of comment and post as well.

Honestly, i still have no idea how that thing works, so better just leave it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Aight, lemme try