That’s a fairly recent feature to let the instance admin curate the popular and all feeds. I.e. not show posts from specific instances and(?) not on the front page. It’s in the announcement of PieFed v1.6.23 here: https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/2048738/piefed-v1-6-23-is-released

Instance silencing similar to Mastodon. A silenced instance is not defederated from but their posts do not show in the Popular or All feeds and their communities are not shown in Starter packs aka Topics. Their communities can still be found in the communities list and joined in the normal way. Once joined, posts in there show up in the subscribed feed as usual.

Maybe that’s a bug introduced in the silencing feature? Seems the piracy community doesn’t load either. Nor do communities from lemmy.ml and the common denominator is, they’re on silenced instances. That’d be a bug.

Maybe there’s something wrong with the “show_all” in the API code: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/ba8569b27858fd260a2412373d2f7e6eed20ee67/app/api/alpha/utils/post.py#L199

(Sorry if this is a double-post, my comment from my instance didn’t federate (yet).)

Seems my comment didn’t federate:

Huh. Seems like a bug… If I refresh the page a lot of times, sometimes the button works, sometimes it doesn’t. I’ve attached a screenshot of the browser’s developer console. Let’s see if that image loads. It says “image button not found”.

Maybe some race condition between the separate parts of the JavaScript?

That is in the Downarea editor. (I have “Use Markdown editor […]” enabled in my profile.

Thank you very much, issue is solved for me now.

I might have changed my IP within my assigned range many months ago. That might explain why I was on the allow-list with a different one.