Cool to hear, have a great weekend

it has 40 comments total, but the problem is that when I request comments without specifying max_depth, and sort ordered by New, I receive only 10 comments, if I try to specify page, or limit, I get an error {"error":"couldnt_get_comments"}.

What values are you sending for limit and page? Are you sure they just aren't out of range?

without specifying max_depth

I think max_depth has a default, but I don't recall at the moment. Are the 10 comments you do get all trunk level comments, directly on the post?

My intention is doing something similar to an user pressing “Comments” on front of a community, like calling the community URL

From what I understand, depth only comes into play when you are viewing the comments of a specific post. If you are just listing comments across multiple posts in a community... they are presented flat. At least that is how lemmy-ui does it when I view comments for a community... which I assuming is using API /comment/list. Am I following what you are attempting?

How am I supposed to copy everything from those communities

what exactly do you mean to copy? messages, posts and comments from other people?

Are no other servers subscribed to that community and have copies?

Storage was still pretty expensive, and there we transitions in computing from originally paper terminals to screen and people didn't have a sense of long-term retention of personal messages (I guess many people probably felt that way about SMS messages on mobile). There also wasn't really a way to look at a user's "profile" like you have on Lemmy - to see everything you post in any topic - which a search-engine provided a way to search for your name across a time period.

Really, are you going to ignore what it says? The opening?

It implies a flat /c/a /c/b /r/a /r/b system "until now"? Or am I wrong?

Perhaps you aren't faniliar with how under-utilizes naming dots matter in domain names?

smtp.chemistry.science.oranic.org has been in the Internet (Usenet) conventions for a VERY long time! Forgotten, burred in $$$$$$ wealth. "Windows"... Everywhere. Owning the words. TradeMarks.

Thank you for the code contributions!

I did some testing code on this, and it actually seems to prevent the replies count from increasing. I went though the more difficult case of it being users from different instances... They can comment reply to your comment after being blocked, and their comments will appear upon unblock... but I didn't see a reply notification. I didn't test mention on block, same server, etc.

Anyway, I am working to get routine testing code in for this so behavior changes are caught.

lemmy.ml shows the same thing: https://lemmy.ml/instances

Maybe some SQL is updating the wrong rows again?

A multi-community feature like multi-reddit wouldn't be that hard to implement. Basically build a subscribe list that isn't owned by a specific user and come up with a way to link them by name and ID. Being able to share community subscribe and block lists would seem a useful evolution of Lemmy.

Is this against a live server, or one of the testing servers?

There is logic within lemmy to try and detect the same network - and I can imagine it gets false positives with a variety of situations. Your one client is probably not the cause if you are posting 1 every 10 seconds.

Will Lemmy ever

Federation allows an Instance to receive anything you create and ignore delete, who knows what is already going on

I'll add some testing code to lemmy for that.