Can't create community on my own instance

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Hi. I’ve set up a new single-user instance for myself today and I’m trying to create a local community.

I’m getting this error:

“You are not able to do this action due to being a very new account or because of a low reputation.”

Can I somehow get around this limitation?

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Piefed.social Staff

Lol, glad it’s fixed. I think it might be an idea to make the community creation creation delay customisable.

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Wiki editor edited

That’s part of limitation for first account created on piefed to prevent spam and bots. According to the wiki, you just have to wait 24h.

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PieFed dev

Users with the admin role should be exempt from this restriction. @squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi

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Wiki editor edited

I wasn’t sure if it also applied to admin, thank i added your reply to the wiki.

https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-user-startingpack

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Do you have a problem with the admin account?

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OP

Good shout. I had to switch the role for my account from user to admin through the admin panel. Now I’m able to create communities.

But I wonder why the role of my admin account was “user” in the first place.

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Wiki editor

Glad it was solved. Maybe it was an issue ? @rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social

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OP

Maybe it’s got something to do with the YunoHost ldap auth for the first logged in user.

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