this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
10 points (100.0% liked)

Selfhosted

40394 readers
608 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I recently spun up my own lemmy instance and was wondering if I had to manually add other lemmy instances to the 'Allowed Instances' admin field, or if they are added automatically when someone searches for a lemmy instance?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wondered the same, so I added a few to the list and now I can sub to communities by taking the url and then searching within my local instance. Hope thay helps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I noticed when I go to the 'popular' lemmy instances such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml and click on communities | All that I see a lot of communities. On my own local server I only see the communities that I've subscribed to. Is that what you see as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You have 3 options of viewing posts in regards to where they’re posted, choose all for everything across the fediverse, also you click where it says new to view posts based on either date of post or popularity of post, lemmy is cool in that way, much easier to find old posts than gab, twitter or scored (not sure if that answered your question)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, your instance will only 'know' about communities that you have searched for from your instance. Once you search for some, they will appear under "All" communities. However your instance will only receive updates for those communities if at least 1 person on your instance has subscribed to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OK! Thank you. That helps.