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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?

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[–] penguin_ex_machina 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to hijack the conversation, but once a server is open and set up what are the best ways to attract people to it? Just start telling people about it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interact with other communities on other servers. Your Instances will start to populate that way.

[–] penguin_ex_machina 1 points 1 year ago

That makes sense, but I can't even get my search function to return anything at the moment, even if I copy+paste direct links. Is there another way I can access other servers from my own instance?