A lot of us are in tech and we come across these problems and just troubleshoot our way around them and don’t really think about them, so I figured a “case study” might be helpful. Image unrelated.

Anyway, yesterday I tried making an alt account on lemmy.world. When last we left the situation, I had been notified that my registration application had been denied, but I’d been asked to confirm my email and https://lemmy.world/u/sergio had been created. A couple helpful commenters suggested my account might still be under review.

  • Today I tried logging in again. But when I entered my username and password, I got a popup that said “incorrect login credentials”. Maybe I needed to verify my email again? I went to my email, clicked the “verify your email” link, and just got a page with text that said “verify email” and nothing else. Maybe it didn’t like me using my username to log in? So I tried logging in with my EMAIL and my password, and still got that “incorrect login credentials”.
  • Maybe something’s wrong with my password? I’m using a password manager but OK, let’s just try changing my password. I clicked on the “forgot email” link on the login page. I entered my email address and clicked “reset password”… and nothing happens. No feedback, and I don’t get an email. (10 minutes so far).
  • maybe I should check https://lemmy.world/u/sergio ? Hey, that’s no longer there, I just get an error! I check the user page of another lemmy.world user and it works, so it’s not a server problem. Maybe my application really was denied? Was it really reviewed? What do I do now?

(my intuition is to try again with a different username, email address, computer, and browser from a different location at a different time of day…)

  • JayGray91@kbin.earth
    72·
    2 days ago

    I personally am abandoning my l.w. account.

    from a content discovery and interaction aspect, lemmy.world has its fair share of federation fights. this would mean you wouldn’t see content from instances that defederated them, nor will users from those instances see yours

    and from the aspect of the software of Lemmy itself, it’s not up to date. I personally am not sure what that entails, but it’s probably not good

      • JayGray91@kbin.earth
        5·
        2 days ago

        that’s good news then. but it wasn’t when I looked way back idk 3 weeks ago?

        that’s not the main reason I wanted to jump ship though. it’s the defederation that pushes me to try other lemmy and even mbin instances.

        • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yeah that’s fair. I wound up here when I first migrated but I’m thinking about changing instances too, mostly for the same reason.