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  • The downside to all this federated business I’m afraid. Usually it works… sometimes it doesn’t.

    The home server of askanamerican is infosec.pub and that instance IS on midwest.social’s list of “federated instances” here: https://midwest.social/instances

    Usually when you search for a new community/magazine, YOUR instance tries to reach out to the other instance and say “hey, do you have ‘askanamerican’? if so, gimme the info, Ima gonna subscribe to that, and give me the last half dozen posts to start my user(s) off until I catch up.”

    Sometimes this fails for whatever reason - misconfiguration, traffic, instance getting slammed with new accounts and flood of new posts, who knows. Infosec.hub isn’t the largest but its not the smallest. Tho, I know the admin @[email protected] runs several other instances of other federated platforms at various infosec domains, they’re rather busy.

    I’d recommend trying again in a few hours, or tomorrow.









  • ah. just obvious spam and obvious troll community/magazine requests. NSFW (“where do I find the donkey porn?” etc.). Bogus or troll community recommendation responses (I don’t know exactly what that might look like… (like asking about the Matrix movies and being redirected to /c/theredpill? dunno)) or anyone being rude or disruptive.

    For the time being as the Reddxile continues and Lemmy grows, am going easy on missplaced “related” posts like announcements of communities (should go -> [email protected] ) or instances, but have been recommending ppl remove and repost in the better community. Keep this one for “where do I find a community/instance for _____” type things. Enforce the things over there (which I totally stole from /r/411) -->