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I'm so confused about Lemmy (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm not sure if I can post here. Lemmy seems kind of complicated. For instance, I tried to post something and it said I can't because I'm on a local instance. So how do I find out what instance a community is on and how do I make it so I can post?

An example: I went to https://join-lemmy.org/instances and searched for nostupidqestions and nothing was found.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Your post in No Stupid Questions was removed for the following reason:

  • Rule 1

You recieved this message because you are a local user of lemmy.world.
If you believe this was a mistake, please contact the lemmy.world admins.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

This message is in a very confusing format, evidenced by other people in this thread misunderstanding it. It also took me a while to figure it out. I'll take a whack at rewriting it.

It is policy of lemmy.world to send a message to its users when their posts are removed from a community by a moderator of that community. This message is notifying you of such an action. The following is the reason given by the moderator of the community.

Your post in No Stupid Questions was removed for the following reason:

  • Rule 1
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So everything worked as intended, the mods of that community removed your post for some reason. I can't guess without seeing the post

Some lemmy.world communities seem to be testing a moderation bot. The wording of that message is confusing, but I think they are testing the bot with their own users first.

Normally when a post is removed, users aren't notified. You were notified, and the bot is saying that you got notified because you are a local user.

I think they should change that line to something else, since it's confusing

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

It's not that you can't post because you're a local user.
You did post there, it's just that the community mod removed it because it didn't belong in that community (their call not mine). This has nothing to do with being a local user.

It's just that lemmy.world notifies their users about removals and bans. Whereas in general, you'd need to consult the modlog to know about it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You post was removed by a moderator. There was no error, everything worked the way it's supposed to.

"Rule 1" is in reference to the rules of the community you posted in, and the rest is just telling you why you got notified of the post being removed.

The "local" is referring to the fact that your user exists on lemmy.world, and is hence local to that server.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The modlog of that community shows all the removed posts, which one is yours? https://lemmy.world/modlog/4230

Also, the Rule 1 of [email protected] isn't what you quoted, but

Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My question was: Is there a way to join another instance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There is a way:

  1. Export your settings from your current account (last tab in the settings, "export settings")
  2. Register on another instance like Lemm.ee
  3. Import your settings on the new account (settings "import settings")

However, that would not solve the issue you had. You received this message because your post had been removed, not because you were on the wrong instance.

Which question did you ask?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They didn't quote it. That bit was added by the lemmy.world moderators.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Indeed, I had forgotten LW has that additional messaging system