For anyone else wondering, btw, it’s because lemmy expects all ‘id’ fields to be unique, so it would error if the inner object actually was a copy of the original vote.

Well, for my own nefarious purposes, I would’ve preferred to have all the info in one place. I’m not using Lemmy or Mastodon, just messing around with ActivityPub, so it’s be easier not to have to rely on past data about who voted for what that I haven’t necessarily kept.

Speaking of bots that should have some checks built in, ha.

Bots are clients that use the HTTP API

Voyager was set up to test the app, but that doesn’t mean other clients can’t use it.

Enterprise is full of random test communities that have many been populated by bots. I don’t understand how something like https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/mels_test (to pick a random one) isn’t useful for what you’re trying to do.

I think https://enterprise.lemmy.ml is specifically for testing. It’s not typically federated with other instances, so it won’t be a problem if your bot goes crazy again.

this page also mentions https://voyager.lemmy.ml/ and https://ds9.lemmy.ml/

An interesting thing about Lemmy is that if you delete your comment, it also nukes every comment underneath it. So if you say something, and then people are giving you a hard time about it, and then you go out for a walk and are still annoyed about it, you can self-destruct and take them with you (this isn’t based on a true story of course, but if it was, I’d say it’s terrible in that it discourages engagement and deletes someone else’s actually-correct info, but it’s a good way to get over it all)

For me, being stuck at ‘Subscribe Pending’ does seem to happen for KBIN mags, but it isn’t exclusive to them. Whenever it happens, it does the mad thing of bringing everything though up to the point I tried to subscribe, but nothing after.

To fix it, you can often - but not always - go to the source Mag or Community, and find a semi-recent post from after you subscribed, and copy the absolute link (e.g. https://kbin.social/m/science/t/383186/Visualizing-the-mysterious-dance-Quantum-entanglement-of-photons-captured-in), then go to your instance and post that in the Search field. And then the change the thing your searching for from ‘Communities’ to ‘Posts’, and then wait a bit, and then click the link if it shows up.

This tends to force through the change past ‘Pending’, and from then things will start turning up.

I have Feelings about certain instances (too unreliable, too much interference, too little / too much moderation on certain specialised instances) so that helps me choose. It’s not something you necessarily get right first try.

The data could be better if I used the API or added the information from lemmyverse.net on the total subscriber counts but I spent a lot of time on this as is and don’t know how to use the API.

Your approach may have ended up being for the best. lemmyverse.net can’t index lemmy.world (broken DB => broken API => “well, we didn’t want to be part of the fediverse anyway”), and if you’d tried to use their API yourself, it might have totalled your project the same way it did for lemmyverse.

https://citizensgaming.com/ - for fans of the Star Citizen MMO

https://hobbit.world/ - for fans of Tolkien

I assume they were talking about !newcommunities@lemmy.world

I thought for a second that the OP of the other post had changed the title (missed opportunity, there).

Serious answer: TIE fighter pilots climbing into their ships against the backdrop of The Eye, with the klaxons fitting perfectly with the music.

The ones added in the “special” editions

Although it can feel like “A link aggregator for people reluctant to click on external links”

You’re showing up as a bot, btw. Anyone with a blanket ban on bots won’t see your comments, so it’s maybe an idea to change it in your settings.

Blatantly.

Well, personally I use IRC to steal media, but I realise that’s not why you’re asking.

I suppose the reason people might use it for chat is that it’s been around a long time, so there’s clients (with endless plugins) that do exactly what people want, and it’s all simple, text-based often unencrypted stuff, so it’s easy to write bots for (that might notify you of something, for example)

I think I use ‘pretty good’ to pretend I have an opinion about something, rather than it being a moral judgement:

How was the film? Pretty good vs.
How was the film? Good.

Hey, that’s not true. They also had posts complaining about trans people existing and Star Trek fans being nerds. Still, it’s admirable - in a way - the effect they had: I ask the lemmy.world admins for updates on fixing their technical issues, and get no reply. This guy makes one post, and they all leap into action.

I’d mind less if their own instance wasn’t so broken.