That is interesting behavior, thank you for checking and responding!
When I click 'Saved' on other people's profiles, I see empty results, but probably because of what you said - I haven't saved anything yet so nothing to show. And I would have never guessed that clicking 'Saved' on other people's profiles would show my own saved stuff.
Created an account earlier in the month and was able to login at first but now I’m having trouble. Also I never received a confirmation email so that might be part of the problem. Is there a way to receive that confirmation email or do I have other issues ?
I had the same problem and I believe you fixed it for me too, thanks a lot.
I'd just like to add that I tried "forgot password" from another not-logged-in browser a few times over the last few days and never received any password reset email so I'm still a bit concerned that lemmy.world cannot email me. I checked the spam folder and nothing's there either. My email address is not something major like gmail but I have had no problems with signing up on other places.
It is not high priority as I am able to log in, but perhaps why email doesn't deliver for some people is something you can look into when you have spare time.
Hi! So, I understand how the federated system works between all the Lemmy systems, but I'm confused on one thing, and I was hoping someone could answer it.
With the ability to merge many instances of Lemmy, including it's own communities, what do we do about having 15 of the same community?
If Lemmy.world has a community for let's say gaming, and another community also has one for gaming, now we run into a conflict of which one do I use, which one is more populated, etc.
Is that just how it's supposed to be or are there plans to work on some type of system to prevent duplicate communities(which seems hard from a programmer's perspective in this situation)
Basically, what you're describing is a feature, not necessarily a bug to be resolved. Some apps may decide to implement ways to compile them all, but by design, instances can/should have duplicate-named communities.
Imagine two instances with very different idealogies that both have a c/general community. One is discussing their next hate crime, while the other is discussing the bake sale at the local HS basketball game. Merging those would be a mistake, right?
I do see where you're coming from with this question though. I did wonder which communities to follow when I first joined, but now I follow a few same-named ones and appreciate the differences between them.
I tried to create https://lemmy.world/c/cryptocurrency, but it kept spinning. It looks like someone else started that community, but it says it was deleted, and I can't subscribe or post.