They don’t appear to have federation enabled yet.

Lemmy has mangled that script a bit.

Lemmy seems to mangle a lot of links that aren’t basic urls. SimpleX chat links break for some reason here too.

Thank you for the suggestions. At this point it seems the best option may be to just shutter this instance and start over with a fresh database instead of dealing with a bunch of nagging problems from previous experiments. I’ve done plenty of testing in production because for most of that time it was only me being affected by the consequences lol.

Yeah that would do it lol. Thanks for that info.

Apologies OP, I don’t keep up with who’s blocking who on Lemmy.

It could be that LBZ hasn’t discovered the community yet. If that’s the case you may have to try a couple times before it actually populates. One of many federation quirks. Here are some other links to try.

[email protected]

https://hexbear.net/c/mutual_aid

There’s [email protected] which I believe allow GoFundMe links.

I’m not sure it’s been entirely solved. Our host is working through an unrelated hardware problem that hit in the middle of our last round of tuning but things have been behaving better aside from that.

The answer for us has been in adjusting the lemmy pool size to the database and tweaking the available resources to find a happy medium.

Can my humble, single-user instance handle it?

Maybe?

FWIW this information is based on the experience when using remote hosting not self hosting.

The main issue for us was tuning the database performance. The bot can beat your database to death sometimes and just throwing resources at it won’t necessarily solve it. related low effort meme Our experience was that the bot performance hit wasn’t really noticable immediately but it adds up as more and more communities are added to the database. There also seem to be bursts of database load at times, maybe that’s when new instances join the network? They seem to only last a short time though and haven’t really caused problems.

TLDR- Expect an eventual performance hit. If it’s too much you can always disable the bot or adjust what it does.