On the instance I’m using, my comments and posts have disappeared. It is ok?
I had a few helpful comments here that I saved, but it’s all gone.
Having got used to the stability in Mastodon I was surprised by such things in Lemmy as:
Unable to log into your account through the app after an update on the server.
Unable to log into your account through the app if your instance version is out of date.
Just because you’ve created a post or written a comment doesn’t mean other Lemmy users will see it.
I have to constantly check to see if my messages are visible on other instances.
You also need to have many sub-accounts on different instances in case some of the primary instances are unavailable.
I’m on programming.dev and using boost and have only had a couple issues.
Occasional downtime.
I had a weird one where I had someone else’s subscriptions and it gave a wrong user error every time I commented.
As for the apps. Unless they specifically code it to detect and handle the version it’s going to break. Changes to the required input or the output between versions are going to break apps.
That’s kind of the price you pay for running as a collection of instances and not a single one.
Overall it’s been great. But it do keep an account on lemmy.world incase my one goes down.
Looks like I’ll have to get an account on one of the big instances like lemmy.world as they have less problems.
I also have the boost app installed which I use with the fanaticus.social instance. Today when I try to post a comment I get an error “Incorrect login”.
Do similar problems exist in Mastodon and Misskey?
That’s a known issue. Tell the admin to look up Lemmy github.