# A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world. Privacy has
become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments
constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the
importance of digital privacy. In this community everyone is welcome to post
links and discuss topics related to privacy. ### Some Rules - Posting a link to
a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind
a paywall maybe copy them into the post - Don’t promote proprietary software -
Try to keep things on topic - If you have a question, please try searching for
previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered - Reposts are fine, but
should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a
new audience - Be nice :) ### Related communities - Lemmy.ml libre_culture
[https://lemmy.ml/c/libre_culture] - Lemmy.ml privatelife
[https://lemmy.ml/c/privatelife] - Lemmy.ml DeGoogle
[https://lemmy.ml/c/degoogle] - Lemmy.ca privacy [https://lemmy.ca/c/privacy]
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
I’m new here, fleeing reddit and it’s war on anonymity.
Happy to be here!
I created my account on Lemmy.world, and yesterday learned how to subscribe to communities on other servers.
I was adding a few from Lemmy.ml, but hit a snag with a couple, using the ‘Privacy’ community as my example: when I hit ‘subscribe’ and enter ‘Lemmy.world’ as the instance to follow from, I just get a white page with ‘Server error’.
I left it 24hrs and tried again, and its still the same.
Cheers and welcome. Not sure if this is your issue, but I found I can’t subscribe to an community that has a user with the same name as the community…never found a workaround for that. Also, .world may have just banned .ml out right lol.
It is and whoops you said that lol.
Yah I tried to subscribe to it from my instance as well and it retuned “Server error” as well so it’s not just you.
Looks like you are .world, so go to the main page and check the sidebar. There is a questions/help section. I think there is a support community listed.
Cheers and welcome. Not sure if this is your issue, but I found I can’t subscribe to an community that has a user with the same name as the community…never found a workaround for that. Also, .world may have just banned .ml out right lol.
.World and ML are still federated
Thanks! That’s… An interesting bug. I’ve added a couple of communities from .ml without issue, so it does seem to be specific to that one community.
It is and whoops you said that lol. Yah I tried to subscribe to it from my instance as well and it retuned “Server error” as well so it’s not just you.
Thanks for trying.
Maybe its the username thing - who do we talk to about bugs around here?!
Looks like you are .world, so go to the main page and check the sidebar. There is a questions/help section. I think there is a support community listed.
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