Hi! I have a brand new account here.

I was trying to subscribe to some communities but some are giving me trouble from this instance.

Issues: Some communities don’t show up when you search for them at https://leminal.space/search?q=&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

For example if I search for the WalkSpace Community when logged in, I can’t find it here at this URL

https://leminal.space/search?q=walkscape&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

When I navigate to https://leminal.space/c/[email protected]

For some reason all the posts were hidden (this is a brand new account). After unhiding all the posts by clicking on the eyeball icon, I could then see the posts. Only after doing that/subscribing, can I find the community in the search function.

Also some communities don’t show posts at all (except for maybe a mod pinned post)

https://leminal.space/c/[email protected]?dataType=Post&sort=Hot&showHidden=true

https://leminal.space/c/[email protected]

Some communities have all their posts hidden until I click unhide (on my brand new account), and some communities, no posts at all are coming through to this instance.

Thanks!

  • chrisbitMAEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    It looks like the issue you found of missing communities may have been because those communities hadn’t been subscribed to by anyone on this instance previously, and were therefore unknown to the instance. There is an automated process that periodically subscribes to top communities on other instances, but newer, niche communities will have to be manually searched for before they begin to federate with this instance, per the Lemmy ‘Getting Started’ guide:

    These previous ways will only show communities that are already known to the instance. Especially if you joined a small or inactive Lemmy instance, there will be few communities to discover. You can find more communities by browsing different Lemmy instances, or using the Lemmy Community Browser. When you found a community that you want to follow, enter its URL (e.g. https://feddit.de/c/main) or the identifier (e.g. [email protected]) into the search field of your own Lemmy instance. Lemmy will then fetch the community from its original instance, and allow you to interact with it. The same method also works to fetch users, posts or comments from other instances.

    This also means that content is federated from the point of the first local subscription (it won’t pull in older posts unless they’re pinned). This is why you’re only seeing pinned posts for [email protected] and [email protected] as there have been no new posts in either community for a month or more.

    As for posts being marked as ‘hidden’ for a new user, that’s not something I’ve come across before. Is it happening at all on established communities or only new (to LS) ones? We updated to a new version of Lemmy a couple of days after you joined, so if it was a bug hopefully it has been squashed.

    Sorry for not responding sooner - this one flew under my radar.

    • Shifty EyesOPEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      Thanks so much for looking into this and for running this instance, I appreciate it.

      I’ll let you know if I experience the hidden posts issue if I encounter it. Thanks!