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Federation issues (suppo.fi)

submitted 1 year ago by Skelectus@suppo.fi to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thanks. More specifically it seems that searching for my posts in another instances search fails every time if it somehow isn't already there.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fetching remote content only works if you are logged in.

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well I guess this explains it then. Thanks! Maybe it would be good idea to mention this in the troubleshooting page too

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. https://suppo.fi/post/189 via sopuli.xyz, I did that one yesterday.

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 :/

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, feddit.de was strangely the only instance that had my posts when I searched. Anyway, thanks for looking into it

[–] bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com 2 points 1 year ago

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.