jeena

joined 1 year ago
 

When in Japan we went to a theater where they needed a male voluntary to play a wealthy shogun meeting with the ladies of the night. Me as the only non Asian person there fit the bill perfectly.

 

I just realized that it might not be a technical issue that I can't subscribe to any kbin.social magazines from my one-person lemmy instance but that I might not be on the whitelist.

Every time I try to subscribe to any magazine I get "Subscription Pending". First I thought it was some technical issue, cloudflare, server overloaded, etc. especially because I had similar issues with lemmy instances.

Today I updated to lemmy 0.18.0 and all the lemmy servers started letting me subscribe, but not /kbin but perhaps there is something incompatible. But I found threads about people subscribing to kbin from lemmy successfully. And then I was reading https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/93050/How-do-I-request-federation and then it dawned to me that I might just either not be on a whitelist or even worse on a black list.

How is it supposed to work?

Is this the reason why my single-user instance can't subscribe to any https://kbin.social magazine? I'm not even getting an error, just "Subscription Pending". That sounds kind of broken and different to how Mastodon is dealing with that issue.

Do I somewhere need to apply to be able to subscribe to any /kbin magazines? If so where do I do that? Is there a email I can sent my application to? Or is the idea that if you have a single user instance you create a new user on every instance to find some meta-magazine where you can ask to be able to subscribe to a magazine on that instance?

Or are small instances not part of the design?

I also see that my comments in threads of other instances which kbin federates with don't show up here either, which is understandable if my instance is banned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is mine https://gist.github.com/jeena/6179470a8d616455f30635a5c71f5f64 which had a similar problem with the comments, although I couldn't post comments on my own instance either.

For me the thing was that I had to add:

map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
    default upgrade;
    ''      close;
}

and

        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;

And also change the nginx in the docker to port 8080 so my normal nginx could keep running on 80 and handle all the ssl certificate stuff.

My setup is:

Browser -> native Nginx -> docker Nginx -> lemmy

 

I'm showing you around how it looks on my instance and how to find communities, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would one instance know that I set up a new instance without a central service?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

They've been loosing money for 20 years, now they want the IPO so they need to show that they can also make money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I'm reading it on /kbin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have @foosel perhaps she should start the 3d printing one here :D

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Oh, and even if they're annoying, I understand how federation works and that users from lemmygrad could comment there etc. and I can handle the shills, what I was surprised about were the mods on lemmy.ml which started deleting my comments. Doing this, they make it impossible for me to even try to engage in a discussion and show a different point of view to the tankies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Whistle blowing is necessary but not sufficient to bring change.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Especially the lemmy.ml part was kind of terrible, I got into some weird argument with Tiananmen Square massacre deniers and the mods started deleting my comments, so the whole discussion was meaningless and left me very worried for the future of this corner of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes exactly, I call myself very left but the minute I tried /kbin a thread about china from lemmy.ml showed up and there full of Tianomon Square deniers I tried to engage but just after half an hour I was almost done with the whole reddit alternative and was on my way to delete my account.

People are put off of extremist places and don't want to join them, think they are lost already to the extremists. Both online and in real life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I was just listening to a podcast where you were a guest in https://pod.fossified.com/2023/04/05/s01e03.html and I had to lough out loud when they asked you what they could do to bring more women into FOSS or what it was and your response was to not invite them to podcasts only to discuss the topic of women in FOSS :D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, Julian is not USA's "own citizen".

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