letstry

so what should I do now?

Should I restore the backup from before I ran the recreate command or do something else?

I ran the force-recreate option.

Now when I go to the instance I get a spinning wheel where the posts would normally appeal. I am assuming this is just rebuilding all the pages and may take some time? Would take be correct?

While it is not displaying images from my instance it does from communities that are federated from other instances e.g. https://exploding-heads.com/c/[email protected]

I uploaded the Docker Compose log here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2637#issuecomment-1374590645

Thanks

I did the docker-compose restart. It is still not working.

So I went to post a test image so the logs would show what happens and I got this error in the UI

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON

Quick question.

Can you nest communities? e.g. Could you have a group call "Crypto Currencies" and nest communities for the different currencies under it? Or could you have a group called Europe and nest the different countries underneath it?

I would love to see a Blog front end for Lemmy.

@nutomic is certainly a good ambassador for Lemmy. That sort of informative welcome would make most new instances feel more committed to joining the Lemmy bandwagon.

Did you know wolfballs and lemmy.ml federated for a long time?

Do we know why they stopped federating? It might be a useful exercise to find out why and how Lemmy can be improved to allow them to federate again. Especially as you said they are both active in the software development - it seems to be the perfect opportunity to workout how to remove a roadblock to Lemmy's growth.

It also demonstrates another shortfall is this entire instance blocking system. If Lemmy.ml has blocked wolfballs, then the owner of the wolfballs instance cannot even participate in this discussion to help work out a better way forward.

Out of interest, do you know who blocked who first? Was it a tit for tat response? You blocked me, so I am blocking you?

instances are usually blocked to stop their users coming over and posting unwanted things

It is easy enough to block individual users if they are misbehaving on your instance rather then blocking an entire instance. I think it does the potential of Lemmy a disservice to cast it in terms of one tribe versus another tribe. Don't fall for the old "divide and conquer" trick.

leading many apolitical instances to not follow it

There is a difference between a user choosing not to follow a community (which is the default for all Lemmy users - you need to make a conscious decision to follow/join a community) and an instance deciding to block another instance - in which case they are making a decision for all their users. They are taking the decision to follow or not follow out of their users hands.

Seems to me if you want to maximize the growth of Lemmy, you really want to give the freedom to users to choose. But at the same time, the instance owner needs the right to stop material that is clearly inappropriate polluting their instance. That is why I think blocking at a community level would be a good middle ground. It would give users more freedom, help non-political instances gain critical mass, while allowing instance owners to nurture their instance.

Hope that make sense.

Wow, you have made the upgrade process so smooth, so easy.

Thank you.