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How does Lemmy -> Piefed* work?
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It appears that they do talk to each other:
This works: https://aussie.zone/u/Zarobi@quokk.au
but this doesn’t, and I don’t know why: https://quokk.au/u/Zarobi@aussie.zone
I don’t know why that doesn’t work when this does: https://quokk.au/u/davel@lemmy.ml
Perhaps it’s because none of your Zarobi@aussie.zone comments or posts have ever federated to quokk.au, so quokk.au isn’t aware of user Zarobi@aussie.zone’s existence yet. You could try subscribing to or commenting in a quokk.au community; maybe that would “prime the pump.”
Yeah it's extremely weird… but I'm getting the feeling that these "instances" are kind of their own servers that are "friends"and subscribed with other servers? So maybe one of them refreshes more often than the other, or some friendships are one-way… That's just how I'm interpreting it based on all the info you gave me anyway
They don't refresh at all, posts and comments get delivered to subscribed instances when they are created. Likely no one from your Piefed instance has been subscribing to the communities you posted to with your lemmy account at that time.
ActivityPub federation is very complicated, and I don’t have a full understanding of it myself. I’ve never come across a situation like this one before, where a user on one instance appears to not exist at all from the viewpoint of another instance that’s federated with it.
I do know that, compared to Lemmy, Piefed is buggy, and PyLova, as a soft fork of Piefed, presumably is buggy as well. You might try asking in a Piefed/PyLova support community. Maybe they’ve encountered this before.
Yeah it seems very complicated. I think I'll stick to my Lemmy account for now, it has all my post history and stuff as well. I might retry Piefed again after a while to see if it works better, my account will be waiting for me. Thanks for the help!