I'm really confused here. I was kind of freaking out for 10 minutes because all the posts on my Lemmy account on the lemm.ee instance from the last 7 months completely vanished out of thin air on my profile.
Than I loaded my profile page (this account) on my new account which I just created on lemmy.ml, and the posts all appear to still be there. So I'm confused, why is it that others can see my posts, but I cannot? If you're reading this, can you check my profile and see if the posts appear for me please? The last post should be 5 days ago.
There's only two things I can think of that might have bugged Lemmy out:
- I was playing around in the settings earlier, and clicked the "Bot Account" checkbox; but I can't see how this would glitch anything, because I didn't click "Save".
- The profile I'm posting this on is on lemm.ee. My newly created profile is on lemmy.ml and has the exact same username (DreitonLullaby) as this one; but I'm not sure how this would cause issues, because they are on two completely separate instances.
That's all I can think of. Is this a known bug? How can I fix this?
Thanks, but no. I've realised now that I accidentally deselected English as a language option and saved changes (I saved changes because I was testing the "Auto expand media" option). But I was a bit mislead by the little note above the languages which says "Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.". It made me think that I needed to make sure that "Undetermined" is selected in order to keep seeing most content, because that's what it sounds like in its wording. So I re-selected "Undetermined" and saved changes, and it caused my posts to disappear; I just didn't notice immediately because I was busy transferring my subscriptions from this account over to my new one. I'm still not sure what that note was trying to say, but I've fixed it now by selecting English.
What makes it a bit more confusing is that when I select English, "Undetermined" becomes deselected, which is what the note is telling you not to do; this must be what compelled me to select "undetermined", because selecting anything else deselected "Undetermined". It's only after you save and completely refresh the page, that "Undetermined" suddenly becomes re-selected again, but English also remains selected at the same time.
Oh I should have thought of that. Language settings could definitely still use some work.