EDIT: Issue is fixed now, thank you.

I’m not sure anything from this instance is federating anywhere since this change.

Looking at activitypub, attempting to subscribe to something gets no reply (the screenshot below shows me trying with 3 different communities, followed by what’s expected to happen with a random community on another 0.19 instance)

Looking at an active community (like nuclear@feddit.nl), there’s been 6 posts in the past 2 days that aren’t showing up anywhere else (at <whatever_instance>/c/nuclear@feddit.nl)

Re: trending communities, if a link gives you this error:

The server returned this error: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/post/list?community_name=exchristian%40lemmy.one&amp;page=1&amp;limit=20&amp;sort=New&amp;type_=All. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error

that's just a timeout that's usually resolved by a refresh. It'll happen more often with links from that list than elsewhere, because it's more likely to provide links that no-one else on feddit.nl has visited before.

I just had a click around on the latest post, and that was the only error I got. If it's not that though, please leave a comment. I'm on the same instance as you, so can investigate what the problem might be, and it's my bot, so can try to fix it if need be.

I created an account here and a couple of communities, but it was sort of by accident that I'm here. At the time, join-lemmy referred to the Awesome Instances GitHub page, and that recommended feddit.nl, and said don't overthink it, so I didn't. If I had thought about it more, I would've joined up to feddit.uk I suppose (although that's the instance that people are now concerned about now, ironically enough).

But given the .nl domain, maybe feddit.nl should just be a place for people to talk to one another in languages (other than English) that are popular in The Netherlands. For the focus to generally be specific to one location, and for Communities that other instances in the Fediverse don't provide. (sort of like what I imagine feddit.it does for the people of Italy).

I'm fairly active on Lemmy (from accounts on endlesstalk.org and lemmy.world), but the content I really want to create is animated in some form - as a gif or a webp file. My efforts in this are being stymied by Lemmy, as it seems utterly determined to wreck them, either by half-arsing an unwanted transcode, or re-compressing something that's already compressed. So, similar to others in this thread, but for completely different reasons, I'm waiting for the software itself to mature before I can fully unleash my genius on the world.

As for frontends, I've started using photon at lemmy.world. It's really nice, especially for the aforementioned animated stuff. I've even started using phtn.app for browsing on my phone too. (There's also Tesseract, a fork of photon that I've only seen at db0 and dubvee.org, but would like to play with.)

I replied to Blaze in another thread, essentially saying that !trendingcommunities@endlesstalk.org is currently a backup / potential replacement for this community (depending how things go with feddit.nl)

(Commenting on an old post to see if it’ll bring it - and hopefully everything after it - through to a new instance)

Confirmed: they’re all just saying ‘Good Night’ to each other like the end of a “The Waltons” episode. It’s very wholesome.

Minor edit to move ‘Sex Meme Pit’ up a few places - it’s swapped back again from a NSFW to SFW community, and the list was only showing its growth as a SFW one. I’m guessing that the Mod is going for ‘SFW community with the more egregious posts NSFW’d out’ approach.

No post yesterday, and some communities are possibly missing from today. Lemmyverse.net wasn’t able to update - the dev has said it was due to issues with lemmy.world’s API responses.

“Grenoble” is mostly in French, btw. So if you click, you’ll probably only see the 2 or 3 posts that aren’t tagged ‘François’ (depending on how you’ve set your profile up). This is how things should be, I guess.

Data is over for 18 hours (rather than 24) because LemmyVerse hasn’t updated in 17 hours (it normally updates every 6-12 hours), and the day (for me) will be over in a bit.

nosleep at lemmyworld? That’s only got 5 posts from a month ago, so someone will have to get their finger out.

I wrote a function that sent a post to the top community in New Entries, but then changed my mind about using it. That was for everyday though, so I thought it might get intrusive. I’ll re-think it when a month comes up - it’s difficult to know how users feel about bots.

Does the community need to be older than 7 days?

It does, yes.

I discovered eXoLite from your Community, btw. It’s amazing, so thank you.

It’s up now. It was feddit.nl’s turn to fall over today. Sorry if you asked me this ages ago (I’m only just seeing it for the same reason)

Cassian Andor’s on here!

Okay bot, you can put me down now

I spent some time being “funny” at shittymoviedetails yesterday, which illustrated 2 things to me today:

1. Creating Content is a good trick for driving up subscribers (18% in one day, so the 4.22% average demonstrates how in the doldrums it was)

2. Visiting it from a instance from which nobody had subscribed showed me all the posts, but not of the lovely upvotes and comments. So things may appear deader-than-are if you’re the first person from your instance clicking on one of these links.

Interesting. My source is obviously anecdotal and from another country. Is it verified that Buffalo tribes always thought this vs. being influenced by European colonisers?

(I don’t want to fall into the trap of thinking older civilizations didn’t have the same gender hang-ups as modern ones.)

I heard from an Aboriginal tour guide that in native populations everyone just did the role they wanted / were good at, and it was only from the introduction of Christian missionaries that such a division of labour was encouraged.

Adding descriptions would be complicated tbh: some are massive (so it’s difficult to know where to cut off), the JSON from lemmyverse.net doesn’t include them, and I’d have to make a new decision about how many Communities to include (this post would probably be unmanageable if it was full of descriptions too)

The metric used (subscriber growth) doesn’t account for if there’s actually much of anything there, but I like that these lists highlight new stuff that people might be interested in, rather than ones that people probably already know about.

The new posts (from today onwards) include the subscriber count in them.