I’ve been doing things the wrong way for a long time and now it’s time to pass my incompetence onto others.
The lemmy user in the database needs superuser privilages. Add superuser to the lemmy account, drop the database, and then recreate it.
sudo -iu postgres psql -c "ALTER USER lemmy WITH SUPERUSER;"
sudo -iu postgres psql -c "DROP DATABASE lemmy;"
sudo -iu postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE lemmy WITH OWNER lemmy;"
Edit: they may have fixed this but I’m not sure what version it’s in. Let me know if that doesn’t work. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3002
This reminds me of when digg blew it self up and everyone was complaining that Reddit wasn’t like digg. In time something good enough will come along if lemmy isn’t it. In the meantime I’m enjoying myself here.
I tried pasting a kbin magazine link into the search box but nothing ever showed up in my communities. I would love to be wrong but I’m not sure we can subscribe to their native groups.
I’ve found the solution to this problem is to not have friends.