big update, awful.systems is now a federated lemmy instance. let me know if anything looks broken! here’s what to expect:

  • to pull up an awful.systems community on another instance, just paste that community’s URL into the other instance’s search bar
  • federation with other lemmy instances should work, and probably kbin too? there’s no way I can find to pull in pre-federation posts on remote instances though, so send your friends here to read the backlogs
  • we can’t federate with most of mastodon right now because lemmy doesn’t implement authorized_fetch, which is a best practice setting for mastodon instances. if your instance doesn’t use it, try entering something like @sneerclub@awful.systems into your mastodon search; lemmy communities are represented to mastodon as users
  • this is pretty much an experimental thing so if we have to turn it off, I’ll send out another post
  • reply to this post with ideas for moderation tools and instances you’d like to see blocked (and a reason why) and we’ll take action on anything that sounds like a good idea

federation was made possible by

  • lemmy’s devs skipping their release process and not telling anyone 0.18.2 was released on friday? so we’re on 0.18.2 now
  • updating all of the deployment cluster’s flake inputs just in case
  • @[email protected] shouting yolo
  • David GerardEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    So! I have subscribed on awful.systems to [email protected] - and if I post here, the post shows up over there. But new posts over there don’t make their way here. Also, I see “subscription pending” at this end, but the kbin buttcoin mod doesn’t see anything at that end. I would have presumed that lemmy and kbin talked to each other OK, but then that’s like assuming computers work.

    • Madbrad200English
      3•1 year ago

      I think kbin is a bit slower than lemmy-to-lemmy communication

      You can ignore the “subscription pending” message, for all intents and purposes you are subscribed. Consider it a UI quirk.

      • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        huh, I need to check back on it but I felt like the behavior we were seeing was severely broken:

        • on prod, it stayed on subscription pending and after waiting quite a while, we didn’t see anything come from kbin into our instance
        • on dev, subscribing succeeded right away (and showed joined after a UI refresh) and eventually it started receiving posts from kbin
    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      looking through the logs around when you did this, I see the requests flowing to and from kbin.social but a frustrating lack of any errors – and lemmy just loves logging errors even during normal execution flow. I’ll dig into lemmy’s github issues today and see if anyone else has a trip report matching yours