Need help with odd community naming behaviour - users having trouble joining my communities

I’m new to Lemmy and am pretty confused by a problem I seem to be having; I created a bunch of communities here on lemmy.world, but I’m having a weird issue with the naming of them, and I wonder if you all might be able to help. I tried messaging the admins of Lemmyworld but haven’t gotten a reply.

The communities I created look like completely normal remote communities to me from across the fediverse here from lemmy.pt, but I see that from inside lemmy.world, they have names that include lemmy.world.

For example, this board /c/wine - from my end it looks normal (https://lemmy.pt/c/wine@lemmy.world) but from inside lemmy.world it’s not got a /c/wine URL, instead it’s https://lemmy.world/c/wine@lemmy.world - which apparently breaks /c/wine links from inside lemmy.world.

I created like 10 other communities that are exhibiting the same problem.

It… seems like posts still get back and forth okay, but I’m at a loss to explain how this happened (I didn’t name the communities foo@lemmy.world when I created them), and I’m unsure how big of a problem it is. I don’t seem to be able to rename the URL component nor can I now create communities with the same name without the @lemmy.world part. My ability to do anything with the mod tools seems nonexistent.

It seems to be causing issues for some users however as I keep getting DMs about it.

If you have any suggestions on how to proceed, I’m all ears. Thanks!

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sven@l.mchome.net · 5 pts · 3y (2 replies)

It sounds like this bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1141 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3075

Basically caused if a moderator that isn't on your instance renames a community on your instance.

sparky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

That sure sounds like it. I don’t see any workaround however!!

sparky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Summoning /u/Ruud, any ideas or ability to assist?

Alchemy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

It let me join your community, can you see my test post here

Test Post in !wine

sparky@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

My /c/vienna community users are also reporting issues https://lemmy.world/post/199029

kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y (1 reply)

https://lemmy.world/c/wine seems to be working just fine while logged into lemmy.world.

sparky@lemmy.pt · 2 pts · 3y

Check out /c/macgaming for example - I bet https://lemmy.world/c/macgaming doesn’t work but https://lemmy.world/c/macgaming@lemmy.world does, right?