I’m wondering if this post will even go through**. Long story short, I had to rebuild my Lemmy instance without importing the old data. I manually recreated my account (Knova@links.dartboard.social) and was able to subscribe to communities (although everything says “subscription pending”*). But it doesn’t seem like my posts federate properly.
*additionally, a third party Lemmy app I use does not recognize my subscriptions when they are in this pending state, further driving me to conclude it’s broken.
I made a new account on my instance to see if things were broken, and under a new name things seem to be working. Is my original username doomed to purgatory?
**test - posted this originally from the KNova account but doesnt look like it hit the lemmy.ml server. See here - https://links.dartboard.social/post/7176 - trying to repost from my other account now.
I can see this from lemmy.world. it was showing 1 upvote when I saw it and I upvoted it to 2 as of this post.
Thanks. Odd though that my original post (via the KNova@links.dartboard.social account) did not federate out. I'm not too worried about it as long as this second account works, but I would really like to know why it broke