I’m still learning the quirks of federation and the behaviors of communities hosted on different instances, so I apologize if this is something that’s been asked repeatedly.

I made a post to a community I am subscribed to at lemmy.ca, from my home instance at slrpnk.net. Public posts on that community (as well as the post that I made) are not showing up from my home instance. My profile page on my home instance does not show any record of the post that I made.

I was only able to find existence of the post that I made by going to lemmy.ca, and then finding the community that I posted to from there.

!woodworking@lemmy.ca

      • Blaze (he/him)English
        21·
        2 months ago

        It is on your profile. Do you have “Undetermined” selected in your language settings?

        • technomad@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          The language settings are set to auto.

          I’m using the Photon frontend if it helps.

          • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            The auto-setting is about what the language the frontend uses, what Blaze meant is the language visibility setting in your profile.

            Edit: hmm, I can’t actually find that setting in Photon, but what ever you set it in the classic lemmy-ui might still effect visibility on Photon.

            Edit: https://slrpnk.net/post/14775569

            • Xylight@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              I need to add language settings to communities and profiles. I really dislike how lemmy handles this though.

              If you change it in lemmy-ui, it will propagate to Photon because it’s an account wide setting.

              • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                Ah, so that confirms my suspicion that is propagates from lemmy-ui, thanks.

                I agree that the way this is currently handled in lemmy-ui is really bad, but I am not sure how to do it better either. At the very least “undetermined” should probably always enabled and not possible to accidentally unselect.

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I believe to ping someone, you need to put an @ symbol before their name instead of /u/. Depending on how you’re interacting with Lemmy (web or app) it should provide some means of auto completing the ping.