Hi, I’ve got my instance (the one I’m posting from) running a couple days ago. Everything seems to work, but I notice that the little content I have on my instance can only very rarely be found from other instances. I installed lemmy with the ansible method, but is there something I should still look at myself? Thanks.
Hi! I’ve checked and federation with your instance appears to be working properly.
For content from another instance to fetched, a person in your instance has to be subscribed to the community in which it is posted in the other instance. As an admin I try to browse other instances and subscribe liberally so that I can pull content into mine.
Likewise, for your content to be fetched to another instance, you need a user from that instance to be subscribed to the community in your instance.
If you search for a specific post, the content of that post will be pulled into the instance from which it is searched, but you need a subscriber to pull new posts.
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks. More specifically it seems that searching for my posts in another instances search fails every time if it somehow isn’t already there.
Fetching remote content only works if you are logged in.
Well I guess this explains it then. Thanks! Maybe it would be good idea to mention this in the troubleshooting page too
I can’t tell you why this happens, but I can tell you that if you search - click somewhere to go to another page - and then search again for the same url, then the post should appear. I think that the first search will fetch the post but not display it, and the second search it will display it.
When I search for foreign posts from my instance it usually appears within seconds or at least under a minute. But the other way around searches I made yesterday still yield no results, so that’s why I think something’s wrong.
I was able to pull posts from your instance without problem (https://mander.xyz/post/645330)
If you give me a specific example I can look at it!
Thanks. https://suppo.fi/post/189 via sopuli.xyz, I did that one yesterday.
Strange. I can pull it from Mander (https://mander.xyz/post/645346), so I was not able to diagnose the problem by monitoring the logs. I could also pull it from feddit.de
I confirm that I can’t pull it from lemmy.ml, sopuli.xyz, lemmygrad.ml, nor beehaw.org but without looking at their logs it is difficult to diagnose what is going on. Sorry :/
Yeah, feddit.de was strangely the only instance that had my posts when I searched. Anyway, thanks for looking into it
I’ve made a second account on my server that is just a dummy account which subscribes to everything I can find.
Actually thinking of maybe writing a script to check popular instances for new communities daily and having it automatically subscribe.