has anyone tried tagging through direct url, something like this:
https://monyet.cc/u/Annoyed_Crabby
https://monyet.cc/u/truckdrifter2

my current theory is that lemmy scans the comments for urls that look like a user profile, then visits it to trigger a mention notification.

>If a server moved their domain they had to have a way to broadcast the name change to all the other instances.

even if lemmy had a way to do this, doing it for all the users at lemmy.ml would create a large load of federated network traffic between instances, and at the level of a single instance it would cause a lot of database changes (I've heard that the sql schema for lemmy isn't very optimized).

also, as activitypub doesn't prioritize synchronization (unlike git and matrix), there could be a lot of desynchronized state, with the name change of users reaching some instance but not others.

it would be interesting if lemmy.ml really went the clean slate way (and I think the original intention of the devs in running that instance was just to test their code, not to have it become a "flagship" instance), it would sure showcase a valuable lesson in the fediverse…that you shouldn't rely too much on big instances (there is no huge facebook/twitter/reddit-like thing here).

from what I heard, it won't me easy, but it would be one real stress test for federation. hopefully, we don't have to block them out while they're migrating. I wonder if perhaps it would be better for them to just start over with a clean slate.

@cendawanita not all is well with firefish.

I really hope we do not see a repeat of that phoenix ➡️ firebird ➡️ firefox saga that mozilla had.

>but cumulated likes and federated comments didn’t get carried over.

this is actually normal behavior for loading new remote communities in lemmy. for new likes and comments (that were made after the initial load) to come in, you usually have to subscribe to the community.

try clearing cookies (if you don't want to be logged out everywhere, do it only for this site) because there was a lemmy cookie bug that was fixed last week, and old cookies carried over from before the fix could cause such problems

today's theme for me is alt frontends and fediverse software:

1. https://libredirect.github.io/ is a web extension for firefox and chrome that auto-redirects to alt frontends (as an aside, don't you find it interesting that there are redirects for tiktok and bilibili, but none for zuck's networks?)
2. use https://farside.link/ if you don't want to install anything (so instead of https://reddit.com/r/popular, you modify the url to https://farside.link/reddit.com/r/popular and farside redirects you to a random alt frontend instance)
3. last but not least, https://fedi.builders/ is a huge list of fediverse software for building a real alternative internet, because alt frontends are more of a stopgap measure, and sooner or later they will be taken down

>You can build your own search engine???

do you remember google desktop search?

before https became so ubiquitous, there were also proxy servers that you could run to index the websites you visited on the browser.

I also found this lemmy moderation tool (seems to be by the same dev as lemmyverse.net), which the tech team may want to take a look at to see if it's comparable to what you all had on reddit…at least after the security issue thing blows over.

#redditmigration

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1895 has more information on mitigations, which may not be necessary if no custom emojis were added.

it also has something for invalidating all json web tokens by changing the signing key (all users will need to re-login after doing that), which may be necessary depending on whether the tech team believes any of them (especially any of the admin's) have been compromised (there is currently no expiry date on the tokens).

#lemmyworldhacked #fediversedrama

here are 2 more websites you can find information from:

- https://jointhefediverse.net/ explains things in a simple way. I especially like the analogy with email, and I'd add: just like you aren't able to login to gmail and outlook with the same username (email address) and password, you can't login to a fediverse instance with your credentials from another one.
- https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/ offers a more technical overview, giving you a bird's eye view of the fediverse by listing the major fediverse platforms and protocols (yes, activitypub used by lemmy/kbin/mastodon isn't the only protocol in the fediverse, there are others…)

looks like today's theme for me is search engines, already found:

1. https://search-lemmy.com/ for searching lemmy
2. https://searchengine.party/ for the usual web search engines