Your instance will locally generate and save thumbnails for external links in posts.
Also user avatars, community icons etc for your instance.
Every response of his has been downvoted to oblivion. The community has made their thoughts on him loud and clear.
yeah that should be your own hostname... "apollo.town".
Sorry I have no idea. I've just never seen an instance "linked" to itself. Something is definitely wrong. Might be easier to blow away the database and start again.
During initial setup, did you specify to federate with yourself? Clicking the instances link at the bottom of your page, shows:
If you specify an instance to explicitly federate with, all other instances are disallowed.
I've stood up aussie.zone primarily for Australians, but open to anyone. Same as poVoq, its just me at this stage.. but I've disabled community creation.
That works.. hadn't realised it was randomized with only two recommended.
Ideally the recommended instances section wouldn't be static. It would put a different instance in prime position for each user that visits... a poor mans load balancing I guess.
Doh! Started measuring just before I rebooted for an upgrade. Oh well.