I’ve reinstalled lemmy several times and after I went public with my instance, I figured out federation is broken for those posts with a low id, because those posts got federated and after reinstall, they have been ghost data and no sync happened.
Now, I’ve figured out that almost every post is broken and doesn’t federate correctly. It shows the wrong posts on different mastodon instances.
Will a new installation, BUT with a new subdomain solve the problem?
If yes, will it be possible to move all posts to the new installation without breaking anything or do I have to rewrite every post?
I’ve created a question about the moving posts on Github, too.
It should. However moving things around is difficult and will cause synchronization issues.
In most cases starting from scratch on a fresh subdomain is the best solution. ActivityPub is really finicky unfortunately.
A new Subdomain is like a whole new instance. I would not move over old posts or something else.
Start completly fresh and have fun instead of headaches because of broken Posts 🌞
You can try your setup with another subdomain. This way you will see If there are any problems
And never lose your database. It is the heart of your instance, so do proper backups ☝🏻
