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The federation between mastodon and lemmy is strange. If a M account wants to follow a L community, they need to follow an automated M account which represents the L community. But if any M post by nar in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] nar@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It does seem to work -- let's see how a reply to a reply will appear on Mastodon.

Realistically, how could the USSR and the Warsaw Pact have prevented collapse? by nar in c/genzhou@lemmygrad.ml

[-] nar@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If Heydar Aliyev got the top job instead of Gorbachev, the USSR would've still existed to this day. Interesting article on it (Russian).

Aliyev would not have allowed us to lose our country that fast and that easily, and he was a very intelligent politician, just look at Azerbaijan now and Azerbaijan in the early 90s.

For those that don't know, Aliyev was the leader of the Azerbaijan SSR from 1969 to 1982, and afterwards he was a high-ranking member of the politburo, even becoming the First Deputy Premier at one point.

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Suggestion: Allow people to view the "home page" and/or a list of communities of other instances from your own instance (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by nar@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

4 comments fedilink

For example, I'm interested in programming.dev. I want to see what communities they have and how their local posts look like. Therefore, I thought it would be a nice idea for there to be a button which you can press to just see posts from that instance. This would be the same as simply navigating to that instance's homepage, but with the added bonus that you are logged in and can interact with posts.

Another interesting idea would be a place to view a list of communities local to that instance. For example, a "sort by instance" button could be added to the community tab, where instead of only showing local and all communities, you can also view all communities local to an instance (such as all communities on programming.dev.

What are your thoughts?

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What is a "subscribe pending"? (backdatassup.com)

submitted 11 months ago by nar@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

5 comments fedilink

When I was trying to subscribe to a news community from another instance of lemmy, the button read "Subscribe Pending" What does this mean? Does it mean that they have to approve me before I subscribe, or does it mean that the two instances have to communicate with each other, or something else?

Lemmy.ml `v0.19` upgrade issues and downtime. by nar in c/announcements@lemmy.ml

[-] nar@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

I was just wondering: Instead of testing these potentially disruptive changes on the main website, why wouldn't you make some testing instances where people can try everything out, like voyager, enterprise, and ds9 were back in the day?