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Issue Creating Community: "[This name is in use already.]" (piefed.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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When attempting to create a community with the URL c/MindfulMaverick, I encounter the error message: "[This name is in use already.]" However, no community by that name currently exists. It’s possible the system is incorrectly flagging a conflict with my username rather than an existing community. In fact, browsing https://piefed.zip/c/mindfulmaverick redirects me to https://piefed.zip/community/add_local, suggesting the name is not actually taken.

Also, there should be a dedicated flair for issues to help categorize and address such problems.

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Looking at the webfinger route handler, piefed most likely does not allow the same name for a person, group or feed.

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/d525ded112306a06a90310be7bac59064aff45fb/app/activitypub/routes.py#L95

It is stated that the user is looked up first, then the community and then the feed. So if you had a community named MindfulMaverick, it could not be looked up by webfinger, as the response would always be your user.

This could be solved by doing what lemmy does: querying all of them and seperating them in the webfinger response by type if they do exist.

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

I am not a webfinger expert, but my understanding is that what lemmy does is not technically compliant and messes stuff up for some other software (relevant github issue).

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

I bought this up with feeds and community names clashing before and got told that it's hard to unravel.