Why are only SOME communities inaccessible on lemmy.world?
Why are only SOME communities inaccessible on lemmy.world?
I can access c/world on lemmy.world without problem:
lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/world@lemmy.world
But I cannot access c/whatstheword:
lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/whatstheword@lemmy.world
It seems unlikely that this specific and innocent community is blocked on either instance.
What's going on here?
And now I suddenly can. Was something tweaked by the admins?
I also couldn't search for the said community. Now that is also resolved. Very very odd.
EDIT: interestingly, from the instance lemdro.id the said community is also inaccessible
if you're the first person from your instance to interact with a remote community, it takes a moment for it to sync.
also keep in mind that lemmy.world is too fucking big, so they're very slow to talk to.
how do I interact with a community I cannot connect to? Would I need to manipulate the URL in order to "access" it, although this gives the error page not found, of course. (Not the best method of poking another community.)
But that's interesting that it takes some time to sync or whatever. Unfortunately, this immediately creates the illusion that some communities don't exist, and causes people to create a double community. This just happened to me. I created c/whatstheword on my instance...
Sometimes it has to do with if a user from your instance subscribes to the community
You're on a small instance where most of the users I see are brand new troll accounts, I don't think there's very many active users who maintain accounts and subscribe to communities.
So there's probably lots your not seeing.
You may want to think of migrating to another instnace. Doesn't have to be world, but it sounds like your problems is due to a low user base on your instance.
yeah well I also don't wanna join a big and slow instance like lemmy.world. Also, the theming options on dbzer0 are the best.
But it seems like this problem won't ever go away for small instances, unless someone "pokes" it, i.e. goes to the community. (Subscribing is kinda hard considering it's still inaccessible)
Lol, what? db0 is a medium sized instance ran by one of the former /r/piracy admins when they jumped ship during the exodus, and it's reasonably active with a decent amount of real users and a very active owner.
World is by far the largest instance by a huge margin. It is such an outlier that it effectively should be disregarded in comparisons with other instances.
Is that why my comments take hours to get replies? lemmy.world is too big?
Try select "Undetermined" in language options.
nah unfortunately that's not it