Elara [she/her]

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This post of mine - https://hexbear.net/post/971624?scrollToComments=false - has a 1 comment but I can't see it. There's nothing there.

I can see a comment from HexReplyBot there:

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It's probably the hexreplybot. I have no idea how the bot works but I assume it automatically doesn't send a comment to the OP but the messages still appear in the header anyway.

There's no way for the bot to actually do that. The only thing the bot can do is basically send some text to the Lemmy server and then Lemmy makes that appear as a comment for everyone. There's no way to not send a comment but make it appear as a notification. What you're seeing seems like a Lemmy bug.

Yeah, Teddit and Libreddit are really unreliable after Reddit's api changes.

It does archives already with the !archive command: !archive https://gitea.elara.ws/Elara6331/lemmy-reply-bot. There's also a !paywall command for removing paywalls.

I used to have it change Twitter links to Nitter but Nitter almost never works now with the API changes so I removed it. I might end up having to do the same with teddit/libreddit. Without a command, it currently handles YouTube, Imgur, Reddit, and Google AMP.

You don't have to see it if you don't want to. You can just show local posts only. The point is if anyone wants to join and interact with a community on another instance, they can, and they can do so without needing 50 accounts. Also, each instance can have their own rules, their own ban lists, etc. which means you can choose your favorite instance with the rules you prefer as your "home instance", but that won't prevent you from talking to people on other instances.

It's the same idea as with email. You can send an email from gmail to yahoo without needing an account on yahoo. This is because gmail's email server can talk to yahoo's email server and share the content.

There are other platforms that are similar, such as Matrix. I run my own Matrix server which only has a space for me and my friends, but I can still join matrix spaces on other servers without needing an account on that server.

That makes these services decentralized. Even if matrix.org goes down forever, I can still use Matrix without an issue, including the rooms that were on matrix.org. If matrix.org creates a rule I don't like, it doesn't apply to me. For example, matrix.org requires an email address for registration. My server doesn't, but I and everyone else registered on my server still has full access to the entire matrix network, including matrix.org.

Lemmy is a federated service. That means that there are many Lemmy servers and they can all share their content with each other. If you post something on lemmy.ml, all the servers federated to it will be able to see and interact with that post using their account even though it's not on the same server.