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
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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.zoneafter 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.
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