I just tried it again from my account on lemmy.world, and it worked fine the first time. No issues, the link is there.
Just to be clear. From your own instance, which is lemmy.world, click the search icon in the upper right. In the search bar type:
https://lemmit.online/c/IdiotsInCars
and press the search button. You should get a link for the community. Click that to go to it and subscribe.
Yes, it does indeed work okay from here.
User migration as well as community migration in case of instances going into a black hole would indeed be useful features.
The developer isn't using the API. They're scraping according to my question and their response to this above. However, the moderation question is a really good point. The easy workaround for this is just set every new community as 'only moderators can post' and then it's just content read-only.
Use the search function in your instance, and you'll likely have to click the 'search' button twice to bring it in. Put the original URL from the developer's instance in the search, like this:
https://lemmit.online/c/IdiotsInCars
Then you should get a link for it.
You get the 404 because your instance doesn't know about that community yet. It has to be made aware, and then connected to it via you doing the search.
Well, as the bot is the moderator, and as the person running the bot is responsible for it, I suppose that's technically the answer. But it's an excellent question if there are hundreds of communities created and people start posting comments in them. The easy workaround is for the bot to set each new community to read-only (by checking 'only moderators can post'). But, that would be a bit unfortunate as then that limits opportunities to easily chat about it. I suppose cross-posting by someone that wants to comment on it is a solution.
There is no such thing as already the same community on another instance on current Lemmy.
Yup, I know. Not what I was asking, though. I was asking if the posts would go to an already established community somewhere on Lemmy, and the answer is 'no', instead they go to a new community on the developer's instance.
As of now all Lemmy instances can have e.g. a /c/cooking community, and they are all guns be individual communities.
Yup, I'm aware.
I kinda get what you're saying, but not really. Why would adding more content such as this lead to an instance wanting to defederate from that instance? There's no users from Reddit there (and thus no comments from them) to troll, spam, or break the rules. It just adds posts.
Okay, just tried it out. Added /r/bestof and it's working. Very cool!
I'm guessing this scrapes? Otherwise it'll stop working when the API changes happen on July 1.
Just to be clear, what if there is already a community on Lemmy that coincides with a subreddit? Will it make another community on your instance? Or will it use the existing community?
I'm a bit skeptical of 23k real new accounts in the last hour. If true, it's quite something. But, it could be bots, it could be some bug inflating the numbers, it could be somebody taking advantage of the account creation bug someone mentioned earlier.
We'll see.