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I made a Lemmy instance. How do I get it to federate? (sh.itjust.works)

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

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I created a Lemmy instance. Making posts, comments, all that jazz seems to be good. Sign up works. Other functions work. What doesn't work is federation. The instance is been alive about about 24hours and I don't see anything in the all tab. Directly going to communities via a url like "my.lemmy.instance/c/[email protected]" shows the external community's sidebar, bur not the posts I know exist.

I haven't added anything to the allow or block list and federation is turned on. Have I missed something or is it just a matter of waiting a little more?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Federated versions of communities don't load old posts unless they're explicitly requested, so you won't see anything until something new comes in.

Are you subscribing to communities? And how did you set up your instance? Federation is enabled by default, but is disabled in v0.18.0 if you also enabled "private instance".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Okay, it seems like you're right. I tried "my.instance/c/[email protected]" and I saw posts. I guess nothing is wrong. Thanks for clearing everything up for me!

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