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).

  • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • iso@lemy.lolMEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        500 would just become the new baseline, but i see your point.

        Thank you for explaining it.

        Is there a way to get lemmy-federate to refresh my instance? (i’m still trying to find all the communities that get unsubscribed)

        • iso@lemy.lolMEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          If you update your settings, all entries will be reset. Just click Save button in the management page.