Tagging this so I can come back to it in the future.
It's possible there was some federation wonkyness but I can't say anything for sure without investigating which might take a bit. Unfortunately we're working on changing hosting providers so the entire instance will be getting relocated soon and my time has to be spent on that for now.
Thanks for bringing it up!
ah; thanks for the explanation!
It doesn't accept it because the entire instance is already part of Lemmy-federate. Your community gets automatically added there, usually within seconds of it being created.
Dope! Thank you so much!
MLMYM is now available here: https://old.crazypeople.online/
Alexandrite looks like it requires Docker to run, which unfortunately causes conflicts with our hosting setup. I don't have the time to do a deep dive on it at the moment to see what other options there might be so that one will be on hold for now/indefinitely.
We're also now running the Voyager frontend which is more mobile focused. It can be found here: https://voyager.crazypeople.online/
Hopefully that takes care of your needs. Please let us know if you run into any problems.
Cool, thank you! If it's more effortful than it's worth, I'm fine with the default too.
We used to run mlmym (what you know as "old") as an alternative frontend before we moved to this domain but it didn't seem like anyone was using it so I didn't set it up when we moved. I'll work on that today and update you when it's active.
Alexandrite isn't something I've messed with before but I'll look into it. Thanks for the suggestions.
UPDATE
I guess it’s not visible now that some up votes came. But it would be nice to understand how this works. I suppose dbzer0.com allows downvotes so it perhaps keeps a separate count that can go negative.
You are correct, db0 allows downvoting. Each instance has their own vote totals.
What you are seeing is your local instance's voting data. This can look very different from instance to instance, mainly because not all instances communicate with each other, but also because not all instances federate downvote data. From our side they simply do not exist. Here's what your other post looks like to us right now:
This data is public and there are tools to view it without moderator or admin abilities. If you look it up from the db0 side you'll see who's downvoting you, which may or may not be something you want to see.
You may also notice the downvote arrow is missing. That's because crazypeople.online users are unable to downvote since our instance has that setting disabled. Why we've chosen to disable downvoting is outlined in our FAQ.
The downvotes don't exist for users on local accounts or anyone on another instance with downvoting disabled. That setting is determined by your home instance.
To put it simply- we can't stop the fediverse from downvoting posts on our instance. We can only remove them from the feed for local users and disable downvoting on the local instance via an admin panel setting. That's essentially what disabling downvoting does at the instance level.
Updating to show you how your post appears to our instance currently:
