Disclaimer: I’m a noooooob.

I am logged in to lemmy.world.

I have a feed (Beehaw Local) which I open in a new tab about Reddit affecting Google. with the beehaw.org URL (so I’m not logged in or registered) posted by someone at lemmy.world.

If I follow the @ lemmy.world link, I’m still inside Beehaw, same goes for the Technology link.

My confusion is that I can’t see how to open and interact with that post without making a separate Beehaw account.

Why am I so stupid on this platform?

  • fiah
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    1 year ago

    Why am I so stupid on this platform?

    you’re not stupid, it’s just that the federated aspect of it combined with technical problems (things not being completely in sync) makes everything a bit confusing

    edit: btw, I think the easiest way to link to another community is simply with /c/community@server, so /c/technology@beehaw.org for example. Sadly these aren’t converted into links automatically yet, but if you do that manually like this, it should work on all instances: /c/technology@beehaw.org

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      1 year ago

      Ah, when I do that, I see ‘Subscribe Pending’ :(

      Strangely, I cancelled and subscribed again - now ✔ joined

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        I seem to have ‘Subscription Pending’ on quite a few instances. It does seem to be server dependent. I’m not sure how it effects anything yet. I’m still quite new to this and learning as I go along.

      • rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io
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        1 year ago

        Pretty sure that’s just a cosmetic issue on Lemmy 0.17.3. BeeHaw is updating to 0.17.4 in about 4 hours, which may resolve that. Either way, if you see that, you should be subscribed!

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        Some of the popular servers are probably struggling right now, so it might have just needed a do-over.

        I’m still figuring out this stuff too though so who knows!

        • Ben@lemmy.worldOP
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          Yes, I’m not too worried yet.

          Some folks are busy setting up subs here - it’ll be interesting to see if we can get subs with both direct posts as well as direct feeds from Reddit too (I get 99% of Reddit via RSS).

          This is the way.

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    I think you need to search for it on lemmy.world and then subscribe and post from there. I’ve had luck copying the urls and pasting them into the lemmy.world search.

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    You can’t. If you are on beehaw you need a beehaw account to respond.

    But why do you need to be on beehaw? Is the community you want to look at not available to lemmy.world?

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      Well there’s the rub. I added the RSS a day or two ago, I saw that post. The post is from a lemmy.world account on Beehaw - I think it should be trivial to open it and interact.

      If I look at the similar Lemmy feed, I don’t see it - and I can’t find it in a search - it’s kind of ‘walled off’ to me.

      Beehaw and Lemmy.World don’t have the same headers.

      • Communist@beehaw.org
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        This might be related to beehaw running an outdated version of lemmy, they’re fixing this in about an hour.