You can’t. resolve_object in the API needs a full URL - something you could also put in a browser to uniquely identify an object - a user, community, post, or comment, but not a modlog entry.

You’ll have to get the mods / admin at blahaj to flip the ban again.

Other instances have recorded that particular unban, so it’s possible that - at the time it was sent, lemmy.nz rejected it because the community didn’t have any local subscribers. So, considering the activity, it would be a lemmy bug. Maybe not though, maybe lemmy.nz was just down at the time. Anyway, it’s showing 1 local subscriber now, so assuming that’s a different account, another attempt should be acknowledged.

I see this has already been answered, but I’ll post what I was typing out anyway.

It’s not enough to just provide your auth token if you want to fetch the details for yourself (even though the JWT decodes to identify you). You have to use /user like you would for fetching anyone else, e.g.:

curl --header 'accept: application/json' --header 'authorization: Bearer xyzyzyz' --location https://lemmy.world/api/v3/user?username=okelote360 | jq .

No, there doesn’t need to be 2-way relationship - it’s enough that the community exists in both places and there’s some subscribers on the receiver’s instance. You have a copy of !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and so you got my Mention, but if I did it on a community your instance had never heard of, then it would reject it.

Otherwise, just a normal @stinky@redlemmy.com will do (you should receive this, even though it wasn’t a reply to you).

There’s some restrictions within Lemmy for paging someone - you can’t do in the body of a post, only a comment, and the other person’s instance has to have the community that the comment belongs to (and that community has to have some local subscribers)

More abuse of this post for testing PieFed user mentions (sorry if you seeing this)

@freamon@lemmy.world

Yeah. ActivityPub has a type called ‘Announce’ that’s used to make your followers aware of activity by another account. Mastodon uses it only for ‘boosting’ another user’s content, but Lemmy’s communities use it for everything (‘Andrew has posted this comment’, 'Andrew has Liked this post’s, etc). Most of Lemmy’s activities are ignored by Mastodon, but the Announce of a post or a comment is interpreted as a Boost.

It sort of works as a way to follow a community on Mastodon, but the individual boosting of all comments makes it annoying. I doubt anyone has set up a different account - you should be able to see the details of which actor is doing by clicking on it or hovering your mouse over it.

Anyway, speaking of jokes, have you heard how many MBIN users it takes to screw in a lightbulb?
Answer: 10. 1 to screw in the bulb, and 9 to tell you how great the software is. (I’m just kidding - there aren’t 10 MBIN users, it just seems like there are because it evidently comes with a massive crowbar used to derail every thread to bollock on about it).

Brian Cox is too canny to be taken in by this kind of show, so you may as well throw a dick joke in there.

If an admin bans a local user, they’re banned once, but if they ban a remote user, the way Lemmy currently handles it is to ban them from every community they’ve subscribed to. There’s an Issue about it because it’s a hacky and incomplete solution. As such, the ‘banned 20 times’ thing isn’t something that people should read too much into.

I assumed that was there because there are some sites (e.g. reuters.com) that make it difficult to automatically grab a thumbnail image to go with the article. So if you’re posting a link to somewhere like there, you’d find a relevant image manually, and use that field so the post you make will be more engaging.

I don’t think it’s for posts that are an image - in that case, the software can just use that to create a thumbnail, so it doesn’t need the extra help.

I think you’re remembering wrong. The communities that have moved so far have been a manual affair: a post on the old community with a “We’ve moved” post, locking that community, and starting up brand new somewhere else. It’s a fresh start - nothing is migrated. It’s very likely to be technically impossible to move communities in the way you’re imagining.

Oh wow - I never realised that lemm.ee had got so far behind. That problem seems to be in the past now, and posts will only be missing from there if they’re relying on world to send them.

As the post that Blaze linked mentions, LW is catching back up now (it’s only if the delay gets over 7 days that you need to worry about them being lost)

The crawler is normally aware of about 30k communities, but this has only listed about 9k for the past few days.

I messaged the maintainer of lemmyverse yesterday - he’s replied that he’s going to investigate what’s happened with the missing communities.

Hypothetically, sure: the info exists in one place - they’d just have to arrange a way to transfer it.

Votes themselves are a simple activity, but each one can cause a surprising increase in storage requirements (every vote has a user, every user has an instance, every instance has admins, and all these entities might have avatar and banner images associated with them). Most instances are run by one person as a hobby, and paying for DB and image storage seems to be the no. 1 reason for instances folding, so there’s generally a question of how much one instance should be an exact mirror of another one.

You’re correct in assuming that nothing is stuck in a queue.

Compared with other Fediverse platforms, a feature that Lemmy lacks is paginated outboxes. These would allow communities to list all the posts, because other instances could get them a page at a time (e.g. 20 for page 1, then the next 20 for page 2, and so on). Instead, they provide a non-paginated outbox with only the most recent 50 posts. An outbox for comments isn’t really feasible without pagination, which is probably why they don’t provide one at all. For votes, it’s even less practical, and irrespective of that, it would go against the familiar hang-up about votes being private.

So if you’re the first person to join a remote community, then 50 recent posts are brought in, but no older posts, no comments, and no votes. There’s no way to get the old votes. If your instance receives some activity that makes it realise that it’s missing something, then it will resolve it (e.g. it will often fetch an old post if it receives a reply to it, and fetch a comment if it receives a vote for it), but it will start that post or comment at score 0.

If you really wanted to be fully in-sync for comments, then you could script it to use the APIs for the remote and local instance. For the remote instance it would be something like: list the posts oldest to newest (limited by the amount you’re missing); get the ap_id for each one, then login to your instance and ask it to resolve it. Then do the same for the comments in each post. Everything it resolves would be a score 0 though, and it assumes that the author hasn’t deleted themselves in the meantime, or that their instance hasn’t disappeared. Given that, I don’t really see the point, other than trying to a completist about stuff.

Ah, right - I see now thanks (it didn’t occur to me to click ‘show nsfw’).

As for the ‘oejwfiojwwqpofioqwfiowqiofkwqeifjwefwef’ - I remember them as being spam. It was maybe a year or so ago now, but a LW user tried creating communities with every name imaginable as way to squat on them. They got to about 2000 before they were stopped, and in retaliation they created about 4000 of the ‘wefwef’ ones (I guess that the deletion of them from LW didn’t make it somewhere, and so something out there still thinks they exist).

(that link needs the ‘https’ part in to work)

It was always a bit of bullshit from Apple, to make up for pulling the theatrical release. If they didn’t have faith in the first one, it’s not a massive surprise to find out they weren’t genuine about funding a second.

Scott isn’t exactly known as a schmoozer, so him not having an oscar makes perfect sense in a way. I doubt that Washington is naive enough to think these awards are completely about how good someone’s directing is (or that such a thing can be meaningfully defined and compared).