Got it. The federation was lagging, so I hadn’t seen that reply yet. Best of luck!

Oh, yep, you’re right. As I stop gap, if you’d like, I can crosspost for you, so at least you can watch for answers at !ece@lemmy.world in a browser. Just let me know if I should do that.

Ah, it’s because nobody on your instance is currently involved in that community, so it hasn’t been federated to Beehaw yet. To fix that, go to the search tool, make sure that you have “All” selected for all four filters, and enter “https://lemmy.world/c/ece”. If you get a community result, you can click on it and subscribe to the community and then crossposting should work. If you get too many results, try switching the scope from “All” to “Local”. If you get no results, it means that federation is pending but delayed. Give it a minute or two and try the search again; eventually the community should show up.

Maybe also crosspost to !ece@lemmy.world, which should be good at helping out with such questions?

Searchable version of the link: https://lemmy.nerdcore.social/c/mahjong

The grey link button takes you to the comment in the same instance as you are currently using.

The rainbow pentagon button takes you to the comment in the hosting instance (which may be the same if you’re browsing a local community).

I don’t know many situations where one would actually click on them—maybe the latter is useful if you’re worried that federation is being slow and you’re not seeing votes or replies through your local instance. But the two links can be useful to copy (by right-clicking, or long-pressing, or whatever you do to copy links in your browser/app), the former if you want to show somebody else what a comment looks like through your home instance and the latter if you want to link to a post/comment normally.

Every server just has a cache … there is no profit for the whole network …

I wouldn’t say that caching is no profit. Yesterday there were several times when lemmy.ml was struggling or effectively down for some people, but despite complaints over there I could read lemmy.ml communities just fine through my instance. Caching meant that I was isolated from the service interruption, and the lemmy.ml server was isolated from my contribution to its load.

Since you found this sacred knowledge, it would probably be a good idea to comment on the GitHub issue in addition to here, since that’s where most people will be looking if they get these errors.

I have several, but in addition to some that others have already mentioned, these long-runners are quite good:

• Carciphona (ongoing)
• Digger (completed)
• Everblue (ongoing; might be back from hiatus?)
• Habourmaster (ongoing)

Update courtesy of @chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org: kbin.social has enabled DDOS protections that “may cause some issues with the federation”. They will return to normal operation when possible.

No worries. My post hasn’t gotten a clear answer yet either, except for suspicions that it’s issues with load . I just wanted to make sure that if someone does figure out the issue, we get everyone who is asking filled in.

See a very similar conversation at https://lemmy.ml/post/1192168.

PRs for join-lemmy.org now here and here. If I have time later, I’ll also look at a PR to expand what is already in the doc repo a bit.

AFAIK, that’s supposed to work, but it doesn’t for me either. Question raised here. We’ll see what people say.

(My instance does federate with the kbin instance for the magazine I tried to search for, so the problem must be something else. It looks like your instance federates with kbin.social at least.)

Sentence added to the second-to-last paragraph. Let me know if it looks okay or it you think it could use some edits.

(AFAIK, this is not something that varies by instance.)

Thanks so much! I’m glad it’s turning out to be useful, and I’m glad there are people like you staying on top of all those questions.

Good idea. Tentative edits made. I currently have the link sorting by “hot” rather than “active”, since I think that’s closer to how r/all works (?), but I’m not sure which option is best—thoughts?

Thanks. I did not know that posts could be pinned across instances. Comment edited.

Since people are pinning this, I’ve removed the description text, but I’ll include it here for context:

With the ongoing large influx, I was thinking that it might be nice to have some instructions for new users pinned across instances’ front pages, not only to be more welcoming and help with the learning curve, but also to maybe direct people to less popular instances. Something like this post, but more detailed. I wrote this draft—any thoughts on the idea or the instructions?

Explain why users might want to join an instance that isn’t crowded.

Done. See if the explanation looks okay.

Explain how users will know when their account is approved

I actually don’t know—how does that work? (I joined lemmy.blahaj.zone, where registration is open.)

explain the community link form in bullet point two: !community@instance.tld

Done, but I thought I had heard that this was less reliable than using the URL. Does it doing it this way work consistently?

might want to just say there are three ways to find a community, and then link to https://lemmy.ml/c/findacommunity as the third option

Done. Again, let me know if you see any further tweaks to make.