Lemmy-Federate doesn't subscribe if there is a local subscriber already.
Lemmy-Federate doesn't subscribe if there is a local subscriber already.
Report of the same issue in lemmy support - https://hackertalks.com/post/9701951
If a user is the only subscriber on a instance, and gets banned, and unbanned, then unban wont federate.
If lemmy-federate would subscribe even if there are already local subscribers, then this lemmy issue would be moot for lemmy-federated communities (there would always be at least one subscriber on the instance with the lemmy-federate bot, so the unban gets federated).
This seems more like a Lemmy issue. However, to fix this issue, we can unsubscribe after 2 users follows instead of 1 🤔
agreed, its 100% a lemmy issue. Out of curiosity, why unsubscribe at all? What is the downside?
For example, when I first heard of lemmy-federate, I added the bot to my instance, and then i unsubscribed from lots of communities in my feed, assuming the bot would subscribe, and I could use "subscribe" like a normal user... but the bot didn't subscribe, and i lost all those communities - unless i subscribed again.
Will the bot eventually subscribe again if the followers hit zero? I've waited 24 hours, and so far it hasn't.
I didn’t want to manipulate counts. If we had 500 instances registered, that would be problem.
Currently it doesn’t re-subscribe because it’s kind of edge case. It would also be fixed by increasing count to 2. I’m resetting the database every 1-2 months too.