Update
Zooming out made an error message visible over the name field when the cursor looped back. The message: "Please match the requested format. lowercase, underscores, and no spaces."
I zoom in so that I can read a large external monitor at 3m/10', HDMI out from Android.
The format of my chosen name was abceFghij and the capital was causing the error. Though there are other community names with capitalization, it won't fly in this case.
Thanks for following along.
Hit the 'Create Community' button, fill in the fields, upload a pic, and finally hit the 'Create' button.
One browser loops my insertion point back to the Name field after hitting the Create button.
The other browser does nothing, no response to the Create button.
I've created another community on a different identity. But am enjoying no success on lemmy.fmhy.ml
Any ideas why and how to fix this?
Proper backup protocol raises HW requirements. But if you want to do something right, it's just the cost of doing business. There's the old saw, "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?" But there may not be an opportunity to do this one over.
I foresee moneyed interests working steadily, diligently, relentlessly (with paid labor!) to help this entire effort fail. The success of this concept represents the loss of inestimable billions to today's dominant platforms. Those corporations will, as always, work hard toward their self interests.
I've been out of this loop for decades, but can see a train wreck if this vulnerability isn't addressed.
Matrix says, "The functionality that Matrix provides includes: Creation and management of fully distributed chat rooms with no single points of control or failure..."
I don't know what 'fully distributed' means. But one potential way of securing everything might be through something like torrenting. Have all Instances on several servers, such that the loss of a single server or Instance couldn't wipe out a community. If that happens more than a few times, I could see federating setback considerably.
That's my two cents, and I'll leave it to the smarter and more capable folks to resolve.
And somehow be redundant/mirrored/backed up. Hacks, crashes, instance owner gets pissed, decides to take their sandbox and everything in it. Lots of ways and reasons that communities wlll disappear and a way to recover might be helpful.
Definitely appreciate the sauce, because I'm curious.
Not looking it up, because I'm not that curious.