the whole point of federation is networks being able to connect to each other. it will hopefully be a matter of course in the future.

what features do you miss?

it’s so good, wish I’d found it sooner

use it for home assistant. I’m astonished because my test install from years ago on a pi that’s around 7 years old is going with no intervention aside from updates. it’s crazy robust.

for a while my laptop was slow and I needed a test local environment rebuilding with webpack so I set up a newer pi that ran the Dev servers so my laptop didn’t choke. I’ve got a better laptop now.

not sure if you’re joking but I can see the url is wrong… .ee on the end, not .me

I saw an issue that would allow admins to just point a sub to another server, if that community grows more. seems like a reasonable idea.

lol it’s all good 😁 I don’t mind the posts at all

right? “sync users never shut up”

meanwhile my feed:

edit: and three posts down:

we get it you don’t like sync, I’m just trying to find content in an app i enjoy 🤷‍♂️

oh nice. thanks!

I think full federated auth across servers is a much more difficult problem - it’d be nice but outside the scope of this request!

Ya if it’s not federated already, I’m thinking the link will just remain as-is?

yeah that seems entirely reasonable. it’ll still be a big improvement in most cases. also even if it only happens as it federates initially it’ll probably still catch many cases. is it possible to do a follow-up check only for links that weren’t updated the first time? if you could store a cool-off and maximum number of tries that would probably keep it light and as functional as possible.

when serving posts with un-processed links that haven’t been updated, and it hasn’t been checked in the last 3 hours, re-check for a federated article and update. do this for up to 24 hours after the comment is posted, after that just give up? that gives it a few opportunities but doesn’t continue to waste resources if it’s unlikely the link will be resolved.

I’m not sure if it’s easy to add columns to track those attempts though.

oh that’s awesome! yeah i can see it being an issue especially if that post isn’t already federated. would be a great quality of life improvement though.

Found the feature request issue, it’s at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

ok sounds like it’s not a feature - the link format i suggested includes both the instance ID and the instance url, so it would be possible for your home server to use that to preprocess to a useable link. I wonder if there’s a suggestions box 🙂

I think my home instance blocks porn-only instances, which is fine with me. I can open an account on the porn instance if I want, it’s not the same kind of browsing.

i’m sadly finding communities with only one or two posts mostly, but i’m staying the course and i’m hopeful!

no and i’d struggle to recommend it. it seems to be mostly talking about being on the fediverse and hating other social media… hopefully we’ll get to a point where there’s more discussion outside of just being here and why.

privacy concerns around their app, it’s a nightmare. never install it. but they can’t get any data from the protocol that you aren’t already publishing, and they can already get that without starting a different service.

I’m not sure how you know that?