Hi all. Have tried on a few different devices, but I am struggling to sign up to lemmy.world. (My current instance is a bit hit and miss with pulling in non-local posts), and the talk around the communities is that lemmy.world seems to be the most stable instance.

I fill in the sign up form, hit the button and get the swirly progress spinner for ever. If I look in the browser developer console, I see a “websocket closed” error (although it does then follow up with “websocket reconnected”).

Does anyone have any suggestions?

  • 好かん@feddit.jpEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Sign up on a different instance? Take a look at this and find a server with open signups.

    You can still subscribe to communities on lemmy.world or anywhere else. That’s what I did.

    • Loccy@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Like I said, I’m already on a different instance (feddit.uk) but the instance I’m on seems a bit flaky. There are communities on other instances that don’t show any content, whereas they do on lemmy.world. I’d heard that lemmy.world was handling the influx of new users quite well in comparison, so thought I’d try to switch.

      • 好かん@feddit.jpEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        It takes a minute for posts to propagate to other instances but if you are dying to be on lemmy.world, have at it.

        • Loccy@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I can’t have at it, that’s the problem, that’s what I’m looking for help with. If I try to sign up the progress spinner never stops and there are errors about closed websockets in my browser developer console. That’s what I’m seeking help on.

          (in terms of propagation, there are ancient posts in c/cricket@lemmy.ml that I can see via lemmy.world but not on my “home” instance of feddit.uk. In fact on feddit.uk c/cricket@lemmy.ml appears entirely empty and has for several days).

          • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It’s worth noting that federation only kicks in AFTER someone subscribes to a community,.and only for new comments and posts on that community. Is it possible that you’re looking at several-day old posts, where someone from lemmy.world subbed last week and so they’re fully filled in… But someone on feddit.uk only subbed yesterday and so you only see comments from the last day or so but are missing the ones before that?

            If that’s what’s going on, it happens on all instances (though obviously on bigger/older ones the odds are better that someone else subbed before you and you won’t notice), and it self resolves. A few days from now, you’ll mostly be looking at posts that have been made since you subbed and you’ll get a complete view of them. For old posts, click the fedi-url icon to visit them on their home server… you’ll get a complete view but won’t be logged in to vote/comment.