I’m trying to subscribe from lemmygrad, but it’s stuck in “Subscribe Pending”, which usually means there was some error. It doesn’t look like either instance is blocking, and the initial posts from visiting the comm did sync. Is there an error in your logs?

  • samMA
    2·
    14 hours ago

    Ah, you said that clearly the first time – I’m just a dummy… I’m very new to the whole running an instance thing, and my outside technical and self-hosting knowledge is only taking me so far :/ I think I have a few ideas on how to establish that federation link, though. Give me a little bit, and we’ll see if I can figure something out

    • Trying2KnowMyself [they/them/their/theirs/themself]@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      13 hours ago

      No worries, I’ve never had the joy of running a Lemmy instance, and that certainly leaves me lacking some perspective/info, but as a user I’ve run across and reported more than my fair share of peculiarities (especially with federation).

      At this point, trying to act as an intermediary between 2+ different instance admins to figure out where things are going wrong is a practiced (if not well-oiled) process.

      Unfortunately, with two instances involved, it’s always hard to tell where things go wrong, but so far I’ve observed that:

      • neither instance has the other blocked
      • both appear in each others Linked Instances
      • the initial requests to visit the comms did cause some activity to federate (this part has me particularly stumped!)
      • there doesn’t appear to be anything in the instance/comm sidebars that matches the lemmygrad slur filter (yes, that would break federation)
      • I was successfully able to subscribe from two other instances, which suggests that getting the grad admins to see my post to them & take a peek too is probably necessary to get to the bottom of this one
      • samMA
        2·
        13 hours ago

        I’ll see if I can work something on my end, too. I doubt it, but maybe being an instance owner will give me at least a little leverage in DMs.

        Are you sure the link you provided to your lemmygrad post is accurate? I keep getting an error screen telling me to come back later. If it is the right link, that could be a clue 🤷

        • Trying2KnowMyself [they/them/their/theirs/themself]@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          13 hours ago

          The one at the very end of the post before last where I said I reached out to them? Yeah, it works for me:

          It is a Local Only comm, so you can’t visit it from your instance, but the link shouldn’t get translated to a local link.

          What kind of error page do you get? Like this or different?

          • samMA
            2·
            13 hours ago

            That error, and I tried through the lemmygrad.ml site itself. Perhaps it doesn’t like that I’m browsing as a guest? Probably not a symptom of this issue