Can't create community on my own instance (cake.kobel.fyi)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Hi. I've set up a new single-user instance for myself today and I'm trying to create a local community.

I'm getting this error:

"You are not able to do this action due to being a very new account or because of a low reputation."

Can I somehow get around this limitation?

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[-] ranslite@pie.dasneuland.de 4 points 1 week ago

Do you have a problem with the admin account?

[-] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 4 points 1 week ago

Good shout. I had to switch the role for my account from user to admin through the admin panel. Now I'm able to create communities.

But I wonder why the role of my admin account was "user" in the first place.

[-] Snoopy@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

Glad it was solved. Maybe it was an issue ? @rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social

[-] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 2 points 6 days ago

Maybe it's got something to do with the YunoHost ldap auth for the first logged in user.

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