Vancouver Chinatown is the second (or third) oldest Chinatown in North America after San Francisco (and maybe Victoria). Beside of the Chinese community living there since generations, it is a popular tourist attraction and a unique neighbourhood its own character that you can't find in Richmond (or anywhere else in VGA) in this form.
IMO, it would be a shame to stamp out this uniqueness and replace it with the same style of glass and steel towers with the same style and look that you can find anywhere else. There are ways to build up and provide more living space, while retaining the character at street level if must be.
Thank you so much for looking into this! You must be swamped with all of us newbies here on lemmy.ca.
If it's a general Lemmy federation issue. Do you have any guess, if the issue can be resolved at some point? (I'm aware, it might not necessarily be at the top of anybody's priority list with all the influx happening right now.)
I doubt that it's defederated because of the bot count. I ran into the issue (Lemmy.ca <-> Lemmy.world) already well before the bot invasion
The list says non-comprehensive, but with an instance as large as lemmy.world, you'd expect it to be listed, if it would be defederated. Plus Lemmy.world is still listed on linked instances.
There must be a different reason for the poor synchronization between the two instances
Edit: See comment further down. Smorks is aware of the issue and will look into it.
Thank you for your explanation. This makes it much clearer for me :)
On a separate note, because, I just notice this in my comment:
Are there plans by you and lemmy.world to increase synchronization?
I've noticed just typing lemmy.ca and lemmy.ml turn into an automatic link, while typing lemmy.world doesn't.
I've also noticed, the sync between these two instances (lemmy.ca and lemmy.world) is lagging or problematic when looking for communities on the other instance or trying to post from within one one instance to the other. Sometimes my lemmy.ca account doesn't let me post or comment to lemmy.world and vice versa and I have to switch accounts.
Awesome! Thank you for posting this!
I'm much more hesitant to go with my new bike anywhere and leave it than with my previous beater bike. Now I know, where I can safely leave it and use my bike more often.
Thank you for this explanation! I've been searching for an answer on how to subscribe to communities that are not on your home instance.
Hi There,
Yet another reddit refugee from Canada's West Coast. I've been in reddit for 15 years, mostly as a lurker with intermittent contributions (mostly comments in discussion threads). I used to use old.reddit, so would not have been affected (yet) by the announced API changes directly, but I am disappointed in the most recent behaviour of the admins over there and their disregard for the communities at large and the countless contributions of volunteer moderators, developers and content contributors that helped reddit to grow to what it is today.
I'm looking forward to explore Lemmy and Tildes and enjoy the reddit feel of the earlier days.