I’ve had a few questions about trouble accessing other communities from here.

First and foremost, I request you to be patient, lemmy is…alpha software at best imho. There’s 200+ issues on github right now and very few maintainers. No one expected things to take the turn they did within a matter of days, but here we are :)

Biggest known issues:

Websocket support is being reworked

This is out of my hand and I can confirm that its busted. I tested locally and the current main lemmy backend branch is incompatible with lemmy-ui branch. Can’t even login if you set everything up locally.

Accessing communities from other instances is flaky

Good news is that there is shoddy workaround. Say you want to access c/gaming from beehaw.org. Enter the full url https://beehaw.org/c/gaming in your search, it won’t show up, click search a couple times then wait a sec, then enter just gaming and it pops up magically.

No high quality mobile apps

There’s jerboa for Android and mlem for iOS. Both are under heavy development. Thankfully the website works fine on mobile…mostly.

PS: I’m not a lemmy maintainer, just a hobbyist self-hoster and professional Rust developer trying the fediverse as much as y’all are :)

  • Deebster@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Today seems to work better. TL;DR: to fix subs, unsubscribe, wait 20-60 seconds, subscribe.

    I tried un- and re-subscribing to !rust@lemmy.ml (no pause) and grabbed the websocket messages.

    Unsub

    Sent:

    {
    "op": "FollowCommunity",
    "data": {
        "community_id": 8,
        "follow": false,
        "auth": "x"
    }
}

    Received: op: FollowCommunity response with data.community_view.subscribed = NotSubscribed

    Resubbed

    Sent: op: FollowCommunity msg with data.follow = true Received: op: FollowCommunity response with data.community_view.subscribed = NotSubscribed

    Then I tried on a small sub (to test a theory) and I got two responses, the second being shortly after the first but saying .subscribed = Subscribed.

    Then I retired for !rust with a delay between unsub and resub and this time I got the two responses, the first being the normal NotSubscribed response and the second Subscribed coming 22 seconds later.

    I’m wondering if there’s some batch processing or something that I was falling foul of by being too quick.