I wanted to make sure we had a post up to welcome anyone who joins. So, welcome! I'll be trying to approve any applications as quickly as I can and hopefully finish setting things up and adding some communities quite soon.
If you do join, feel free to introduce yourself or make any suggestions as to what you'd like to see in terms of communities etc.
If you're new to Lemmy: creating an account on this instance doesn't limit you to only the communities here, it just sets this as your 'home' instance - you can still interact normally with users and communities from all the other federated instances.
You can browse, subscribe to, and participate in communities from other instances via the 'all' tab here:
https://lemmy.org.uk/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Active/page/1
If there is a community on another instance that you would like to view or subscribe to and you can't find it here, you can make it accessible to you and everyone else on this instance by going to the search page here and searching the full URL of the community you are interested in:
https://lemmy.org.uk/search
For example, if you would like to subscribe to the Humanities community from beehaw.org and you can't find it here, simply paste the full URL https://beehaw.org/c/humanities into the search form above and click 'search' (make sure you have 'all' selected). That should connect us to that community and it will be available to you and others from then on.
This instance currently has user creation of communities disabled. This is in the hope that it will lead us to create a more well-thought-out, unique, active set of local communities - all of which have a good moderation team. If you are interested in creating and modding a community here, head over to Community Proposals and create a post there outlining your idea.
Also just a note that I haven't got SMTP (email sending) configured on this server yet, so currently you won't receive an email when I approve your application, but I will be setting this up in the next couple of days. Until then, if you do apply then please just try signing in some time later.
It's because of the way lemmy federates. It doesn't pull any old comments when federating with a new community. if you manually search for the missing comments URLs it should pull them. unless beehaw goes down it should get all new comments though.
It should be possible to write a script to crawl lemmy instances using the API and pull in all the old comments, but I don't think anyone has done that yet.
Got it; I assumed it was something like that but I haven't yet delved into what the tech's doing underneath. Your search-for-comment-url trick worked, but since it's not made the comment's reply show up it's definitely not worth doing manually.
Anyway, I'm assuming that now I've subscribed, Beehaw might take more interest in pulling stuff over quicker. The comments do seem to be slowly appearing, but not in any order I can understand.
it's basically impossible on the bigger instances to pull all the old comments. since there there only 4 when I joined here I just pulled them all manually. and yeah you also need to pull the replies not just the comments. It's on an instance basis not a user one, so if someone else on beehaw pulls all the comment you should see them too.
EDIT: I just used my beehaw account to pull the remaining comments, so they should all show now.