Everything works great there locally, but I can't subscribe to communities on other instances and can't see my instance from lemmy.world.
I see no setting for this in the console other than "Federation enabled" which is enabled, and allowed and blocked instances. I added lemmy.world to allowed.
For example:
!hobbit_art@hobbit.world
(If it matters, I have new user accounts disabled until I figure things out.)
This sort of stuff is crucial and needs to be built in.
Most instances are one user's whim away from going away. This isn't a problem as long as clients back things up and migration is easy. But, that doesn't happen right now.
Guarantee we'll see some big news at points in the future when a big instance goes down because the owner died or just lost interest.
Again, these are easily overcome, but they are issues right now.