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My instance isn't federating with others very well. What's wrong? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by mplewis to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I recently got https://globe.pub up and running and I'd like to get it federated with other instances.

My https://globe.pub/instances page shows that globe.pub can talk to other instances, but it doesn't seem to be pulling in their full metadata properly – the Software or Version columns are entirely empty.

I am receiving some posts from other communities (see attached photo), but only three of them are sending posts my way at all. For any other communities, I am unable to view posts, even when I navigate to them manually, and I do not see any of their posts in my All feed.

I have no communities in my whitelist or blacklist, so my server should be configured to openly federate.

Does anyone know what might be going wrong here? What debugging tips should I try next to diagnose this issue?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Welcome to the Lemmy network.

There is a pretty steep learning curve to this, and there have been a lot of little tweaks to the install that it's hard to know for certain what is causing your problems.

Lemmy does not bring in messages automatically. You have to subscribe to each community from one user on your server. I see some of your listed communities have zero subscribers: https://globe.pub/communities?listingType=All&page=1

You also have many that do list 1 subscriber, did it ever go past "pending" for that one user to "joined" for the community?

Are you running on Ubuntu 22.04 server? How did you do the install?

[–] mplewis 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for the late response. I was out of town and wanted to give the server a chance to catch up just in case.

I am running this on a bespoke stack:

Kubernetes for lemmy, lemmy-ui, and pict-rs
AWS S3 storage backend for pict-rs, with a persistent volume claim for the sled db
Postgres "serverless" DB hosted by https://neon.tech/

For all the communities with 1 subscriber (me), they have not gone from "pending" to "joined" yet, so I am worried there is some issue with establishing communication between the instances.

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

If you are getting pending to every server you try, your proxy (typically nginx) config might be the problem. You should maybe try some of the curl test to federation endpoints from an outside box and see if something isn't blocking the connection.

[–] mplewis 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I am pretty sure you have uncovered my problem! I am not properly reverse proxying requests with the Accept: application/activity+json header (docs). I will configure this now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Adding on to the comment by @[email protected], Lemmy Community Seeder can help with populating your instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh hey, I made that ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IGNORE: '[ "feddit.de" ]'

Why'd you do that?

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

Oh wow, I had meant to turn that off. I was getting a lot of extra data in my tiny instance from their posts in non-english before I figured out some settings. Thanks!

[–] mplewis 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the suggestion!

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