Thanks for digging that up. Had been one of my outstanding questions. I agree with the initial requestor of that issue; it will be a major source of friction for users migrating to Lemmy from Reddit.
I'd like to be able to at least manually trigger the retrieval of a set of posts/comments as a user. Otherwise as the requestor noted, its going to make interacting with "new" communities difficult and unintuitive if you can't see comments from before when it was synced to your local instance.
Are there any published guidelines on the server requirements for an instance? I have my own instance running, seems to be working fine. But I'm reluctant to open it publically without an idea of if I'm setting myself up for failure or not.
Related, is there a way to entirely disable image uploads to my instance? I'm ok with it being a "reader" instance, but don't want to be hosting content directly.
Test comment reply :)
Ok, figured it out myself. For anyone else that needs it..
Run a shell within the postgres docker container:
docker exec -it _postgres_1 sh
Connect to the postgres service:
psql -U lemmy -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 -d lemmy
Connect to the lemmy database:
\c lemmy
Then the user table: \d local_user
Find the user ID of the account you want to manually toggle, probably #1:
SELECT * from local_user;
Then update the email_verified and _accepted_application flag on the first account:
UPDATE local_user SET email_verified = 't', accepted_application = 't' WHERE id = 1;
lemmy=# UPDATE local_user SET email_verified = 't', accepted_application = 't' WHERE id = 3; UPDATE 1 lemmy=# UPDATE local_user SET email_verified = 't', email_verified= 't' WHERE id = 3; UPDATE 1 lemmy=#
Thats what I figured... I just have no idea how to do it. Can you point me to any info on how to do that? :)
The recommended ansible playbook, on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 VM.
This is quite accurate. I've stood up my own lemmy instance... but hitting some pretty basic issues in the process. Not sure its ready for prime time.
Votes and edits makes sense, sounds like a good guess to me!