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Federation issues (suppo.fi)

submitted 2 years ago by Skelectus@suppo.fi to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I've got my instance (the one I'm posting from) running a couple days ago. Everything seems to work, but I notice that the little content I have on my instance can only very rarely be found from other instances. I installed lemmy with the ansible method, but is there something I should still look at myself? Thanks.

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Hi! I've checked and federation with your instance appears to be working properly.

For content from another instance to fetched, a person in your instance has to be subscribed to the community in which it is posted in the other instance. As an admin I try to browse other instances and subscribe liberally so that I can pull content into mine.

Likewise, for your content to be fetched to another instance, you need a user from that instance to be subscribed to the community in your instance.

If you search for a specific post, the content of that post will be pulled into the instance from which it is searched, but you need a subscriber to pull new posts.

I hope that makes sense.

[–] bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com 2 points 2 years ago

I've made a second account on my server that is just a dummy account which subscribes to everything I can find.

Actually thinking of maybe writing a script to check popular instances for new communities daily and having it automatically subscribe.

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