Since you found this sacred knowledge, it would probably be a good idea to comment on the GitHub issue in addition to here, since that’s where most people will be looking if they get these errors.

Update courtesy of @chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org: kbin.social has enabled DDOS protections that “may cause some issues with the federation”. They will return to normal operation when possible.

No worries. My post hasn’t gotten a clear answer yet either, except for suspicions that it’s issues with load . I just wanted to make sure that if someone does figure out the issue, we get everyone who is asking filled in.

See also https://lemmy.ml/post/1192168.

PRs for join-lemmy.org now here and here. If I have time later, I’ll also look at a PR to expand what is already in the doc repo a bit.

AFAIK, that’s supposed to work, but it doesn’t for me either. Question raised here. We’ll see what people say.

(My instance does federate with the kbin instance for the magazine I tried to search for, so the problem must be something else. It looks like your instance federates with kbin.social at least.)

Sentence added to the second-to-last paragraph. Let me know if it looks okay or it you think it could use some edits.

(AFAIK, this is not something that varies by instance.)

Thanks so much! I’m glad it’s turning out to be useful, and I’m glad there are people like you staying on top of all those questions.

Good idea. Tentative edits made. I currently have the link sorting by “hot” rather than “active”, since I think that’s closer to how r/all works (?), but I’m not sure which option is best—thoughts?

Thanks. I did not know that posts could be pinned across instances. Comment edited.

Since people are pinning this, I’ve removed the description text, but I’ll include it here for context:

With the ongoing large influx, I was thinking that it might be nice to have some instructions for new users pinned across instances’ front pages, not only to be more welcoming and help with the learning curve, but also to maybe direct people to less popular instances. Something like this post, but more detailed. I wrote this draft—any thoughts on the idea or the instructions?

Explain why users might want to join an instance that isn’t crowded.

Done. See if the explanation looks okay.

Explain how users will know when their account is approved

I actually don’t know—how does that work? (I joined lemmy.blahaj.zone, where registration is open.)

explain the community link form in bullet point two: !community@instance.tld

Done, but I thought I had heard that this was less reliable than using the URL. Does it doing it this way work consistently?

might want to just say there are three ways to find a community, and then link to https://lemmy.ml/c/findacommunity as the third option

Done. Again, let me know if you see any further tweaks to make.

Got it. I’ll wait for a little more feedback and then try to figure out a PR.

From the new post’s “⋮” (three-dots) menu, choose the “Local” pin option. See Ada’s screenshot here. (Thanks, Ada!)