Running into a weird issue with my self hosted Lemmy instance and was hoping to get some help. I have 2 accounts on my instance and the first account made during the setup can’t subscribe to any communities (they show up in my feed, but never change from pending, not a single one), can’t post comments others can see outside my instance, and interact in any way really. I only just realized this recently and tried making a post here that still hasn’t shown up outside my own instance, so now I’m trying on my other (intended to be) bot account. This account can subscribe and unsubscribe from communities no problem, aside from the big instances that everyone seems to have trouble with, so I’m hoping this post makes it through? Please let me know if it does and if you have any idea on why this might happen, thanks!

  • MooseBot@moose.bestOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ok, I already see this when I look on lemmy.world instead of my own instance so obviously something is up with my main account for some reason…

    Edit: And comments appear fine too. I did have a previous Lemmy instance set up before that I messed up and deleted / started from scratch again where I had the same account name, could it be related to that somehow? Any ideas appreciated!

    • techie@techy.newsEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I seem to recall from reading a GitHub issue that a public cert and private key is generated for your user account upon creation. Once you start federating and interacting with other instances, the cert is distributed. When you delete the instance and start all over from scratch with the same username, now there’s a different public cert and the remote instances no longer trust your username.

      I’ll try to find the GitHub issue that discusses this issue.

    • Noogs@lemmy.noogs.meEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Did you purge your database when you destroyed the old instance? I’m not sure how Lemmy handles instances and databases under the hood but I suppose a database from a different instance might cause problems.

        • Noogs@lemmy.noogs.meEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Ah ok. So the only thing left behind really is your name which again I suppose could cause problems out in the ActivityPub world but that’s way too deep into the development of Lemmy for me so I’m only speculating. Basically my random theory is if @youraccount@moose.best is somehow tied to a particular instance ID and now that instance ID is different, I’m not sure how ActivityPub handles that or if that even matters.