Lemmy Support

4634 readers

2 users here now

Support / questions about Lemmy.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

submitted 1 year ago by Linuxduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

20 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I set up a new lemmy instance. I can log in and create communities locally.

But I do not see ANY other instances.

I have checked Federation Enabled

I look through my logs and there appear to be no errors.

I check and save, Federation debug mode but it never stays checked.

I am trying to find the disconnect. Why is my instance not fully federating and why can I not find any errors...

Does anyone have a next step for me, what to look into?

docker-compose logs -f lemmy

Is where I look for logs

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[resolved]

To all who come here with the same issue, I am op posting from my new instance.

lemmy instances are not automatically connected
at least one user must be following a community for others to search it
to add your first community hosted by another instance, search for the full address in your lemmy search example: [!cats@lemmy.blahaj.zone](/c/cats@lemmy.blahaj.zone) after clicking search, wait 5-10 seconds and it will pull up
click on the link and subscribe. Now when another user, uses your instance they can find that community!
ok... Now you have 1 extra community... What about the thousands that exist?! Read through the comments. Someone provided a tool to basically create a bot account to add servers. I took this idea and created one as well (not sharing it's terrible) but it went through all of my approved instances and all of the communities and subscribed to all. I now have 2300+ communities.

[–] Linuxduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks self!

[–] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 2 points 1 year ago

You're welcome self!

(I'm such a dork)