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Trying to add remote community, getting an error. (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Trying to add [email protected] so I can subscribe to it from this account, and I get this message:

An unexpected error has occurred

Sorry for the inconvenience! Please let us know about this, so we can repair it and make PieFed better for everyone.

I figure this is the place to do that?

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

Trying from my personal instance i see:

400: {"error":"unknown","message":"Domain \"jolly-piefed.jomandoa.net\" is not in allowlist"} - https://hilariouschaos.com/inbox

So piefed.social may not be on that site's allow list.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanks for looking into this!

We need to handle this situation better. I've made an issue on codeberg to track work on it https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/312

Even if piefed.social was on their allow list, we've defederated from them at our end anyway. It's a troll instance. https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/hilariouschaos.com

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

I think that's it. I tried from my own personal single-user pyfedi instance (which has only been functionally live for a few days) and was able to load the community itself onto my instance without issue, but got the same 400 on attempting to actually join/subscribe to it as a user.

Edit: So I think they're just maintaining a white-list or something of the more well known instances, so you may need to get ahold of the admins there to ask them to add piefed.social to the list

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

How do I see their allow list, or if they've not allowed piefed where do I see why not?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

How do I see their allow list

Probably it's a whitelist (likely to prevent trolls and such from using fly-by-night instances to spam them). That list can be viewed at https://hilariouschaos.com/instances - then click on "Allowed Instances"

or if they've not allowed piefed where do I see why not?

Unless they posted publicly in a community somewhere, you may not be able to see that - you'd have to ask them.

That said, it's likely the former - just they didn't notice piefed.social until now because it was so small compared to some of the other instances on that list.