Logging in, seeing who else logged in, to a small community that controls its own destiny.
Lately I’ve been nostalgic, I guess, about how tech was in the 90s. It was less glamorous, less usable, but also way more human and civil. Everyone was just into technology and sharing cool stuff.
This little corner of the web kind of feels like that sometimes.
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Could anyone help me understand why I have such a hard time finding and joining communities from some instances using Partizle? For example, I would expect (https://partizle.com/c/stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com) or (https://partizle.com/c/cyberpunk2077@dataterm.digital) to resolve, but I instead get a “could not find community” error. However, I don’t seem to have any issue with beehaw.org or lemmy.ml communities.
Have these instances blocked Partizle, has Partizle not expressly federated with them, or is something else going on? Is there a tool I can use to determine which Instances’ communities are browse-able/sub-able from other Instances?
Sorry for all the questions, I really want to leave Reddit behind and Lemmy seems great, I just need to find a good (primary account) Instance for all my niche cross-Instance subscriptions.
I don’t see any evidence that they’re blocked, no.
It’s just that no one on this instance has yet subscribed to those communities, so they don’t show up until someone searches for them, then subscribes from there.
Basically just go to Search and copy/paste the URL of the community you want. (Eg, paste
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/stable_diffusion). Then wait a few seconds for it to fetch that community or try again in a minute.It’s not as smooth as it could be. But that’s how Lemmy works.
I finally understand, thank you! I’ve seen this comment re: searching a few times but I thought it was for just that, “searching.” I figured if I already knew the community and instance it would be as simple as appending to the Partizle URL. Searching via complete URL isn’t bad either, and users in bigger instances shouldn’t see it pop up as often.
Yeah, it’s not as elegant as it could be. And it’s basically unexplained using the site.
Plus, it doesn’t really provide any feedback that it’s trying to go out and find it. It just says no results, until it finds it, and then results just show up.
Lemmy is a little rough around the edges.
Replying again because having a direct line of comm with an Instance Admin is pretty awesome.
Is there a reason we should see any desync issues between the same community on different Instances? For example, https://partizle.com/c/sysadmin@lemmy.ml shows 0 comments on most threads, while the “native” https://lemmy.ml/c/sysadmin has all the comments available.
This issue is not unique to Partizle, seeing similar from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/sysadmin@lemmy.ml, though there are more comments (but not all.)
I haven’t dived into the codebase at all for Lemmy (and I don’t really know Rust anyway) but my best guess is that, because lemmy.ml had a lot of downtime in the past 48 hours, it had trouble fetching comments. I checked it twice yesterday and got 503 or similar errors. I would assume (but haven’t personally verified) that periodically (or based on activity) they’ll resync comments and it’ll show up again.
Again, I’m not a Lemmy developer and couldn’t say directly. I just wouldn’t be surprised of all the lemmy.ml downtime this week affected its synchronizations with other instances.
Tell us young folks what BBSing is
You’d connect your computer literally to the phone line, such that if you picked up the phone, you’d just hear computer noises. That was called “dialup.”
But instead of dialing up to an internet service provider (ISP), you’d call a BBS, where someone else had a computer hooked up to a phone line, waiting for strangers to connect. Some BBS’s were professionally run and had many banks of modems and computers in parallel. Most BBS’s were run by volunteer amateurs who put a computer in a basement and hooked it up to a second phone line.
If the phone line was busy, someone else was on the BBS or it was out of phone lines. Your time was limited to avoid you hogging the line and there were sometimes quotas for uploads and downloads (you had to upload files to download files).
It was all 100% text-based. You could message other users (or users on other networked BBS’s), play some text-based games, share files, and post to forums. It was like the Internet, but local.
Great description! Ran a single-line Wildcat! BBS back in the day. Respectful, interesting people, never had to use the ban hammer.
It kind of does. You should start calling us, sysops.
May I also ☎️ call you on the telephone using a local phone number? That’s what I would do when I couldn’t connect to the local dial-up bbs. I would bring pizza over, btw, and we’d figure out what DIP Switch settings were needed on my 2400 baud modem, to connect.
If you’re within pizza-bringing distance, yes. Though my wife might be weirded out by it.
bouncing> If you’re within pizza-bringing distance, yes. Though my wife might be weirded out by it.
<3
similar situation here!
