Thank you. That's marvelous!
Still learning reddit hacks after all these years.
https://feddit.uk/c/ukpersonalfinance is another one that is closed and being squatted upon. I understand the reasoning, but personally it really rubs me the wrong way. If you can't moderate it, I don't think you should squatted on it for more than a few days or a week. I think there should be an expedited way to claim squatted-upon communities.
Even though email is supposedly "open", and federated, is no longer is really the case. Big services like Gmail are suspicious of non-big-name servers, and often flag email coming from them as spam.
About a year ago I came across an article from a guy who'd been running his own email server since the 90s, and finally gave up. I couldn't find that article in my quick search, but I did find this:
https://twitter.com/greg_1_anderson/status/1425113874722820100
"I run my own email server. It's no longer a good idea, because the anti-spam arms race makes delivery from small independent servers very difficult, even when you keep yourself off the block lists, so it's a continuous struggle. Would switch, but I have too many domains/addresses"
Oh hey, you're right! Posts from those "pending" communities are actually showing up in my feed.
Further discussion in the comments of this thread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14eq8ip/the_entire_rmildlyinteresting_mod_team_has_just/
Could you give me basic instructions for how to use this?
Well, my understanding is that email is federated, and SMS text messages are federated, but it isn't easy to email a phone number, or send a text to someone's email. So I'm surprised that Kbin and Lemmy can talk to each other.
But I see someone else answered that Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon all speak the same underlying protocol, ActivityPub. Now it's starting to make sense.
I came here to request /r/BestOfRedditorUpdates, but saw this post indicating there were problems.
Hopefully you can get the name thing sorted out and add this to your copied content.
I think /r/BestOfRedditorUpdates actually would be good for this kind of crossposting, because most of the content is copied into the posts. You don't have to go to the links.