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Question about federation and comments (lemmy.lif.ovh)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there ! So I've been using my own Lemmy instance for the past 3 weeks or so and everything's good except maybe the time it takes to sync with federated instances. But there is one thing that is bothering me greatly.

I federated lemmy.world and a few others and can see and interact with posts from these instances but I noticed that I can't see the comments from other people like me with their own instances or just the ones I did not federate.

As I understand it, this is intended design but I like to have it all. Is there any way to get that without federating every single instances out there ? This seems like a massive headache as anyone can deploy a new instance any time and start commenting with it and I won't see it, ever.

EDIT : Right on ! I wasn't seeing any responses so I got to lemmy.ml to check and saw the answers. I did exactly what you kind people recommended and comments are starting to show up, thank you very much !

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is from my own instance so I guess you might not see it.

Are you saying you only allow-listed certain instances? Federation is on for all instances by default, you don't need to enable federation for each remote instance in the admin panel. Remove everything from the allow-list, add any thing you don't want to see in the block-list and all those little instances should start appearing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes that was the issue. I thought I had to allow instances in order to sub and interact with any "sublemmy" but turns out I was very wrong, thanks !