Well, I have an instance running. At startup it outputs federation enabled, host is redacted, but I don't see anything when looking at all. I can't search for other instance communities. I thought I would be able to use my local instance to browse other instance/communities and post there from my instance. Is that not how this works? Did I miss a step setting it up?
Some more details:
Any search I do results in a timeout error. This is from the lemmy logs.
In all my years of software development and testing, I've never seen an HTTP status code 101... 101: switching protocols
UPDATE: it's fixed!
Thanks to @pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev who pointed me in the right direction, and thank you everyone who contributed to this post in the comments with suggestions and support!
Here are the steps:
add a new network interface
docker network create lemmyexternal
connect the lemmy container (lemmy_lemmy_1, unless you renamed it)
docker network connect NETWORK_ID CONTAINER_ID
(you can get the network and container IDs with docker network ls and docker container ls)
modify the docker-compose.yml to add the new network, and link it to the lemmy service
networks:
# communication to web and clients
lemmyexternalproxy:
lemmyexternal:
# communication between lemmy services
lemmyinternal:
driver: bridge
internal: true
services:
lemmy:
image: dessalines/lemmy:0.17.4-rc.1
hostname: lemmy
networks:
- lemmyinternal
- lemmyexternal
save, and restart
docker-compose restart
https://hakbox.social
Please let me know if it isn't working. My block & allow lists are empty.
Just submitted a test post to you.
When you search for remote communities, make sure you are searching for the entire URL (https://hakbox.social/c/test) or the shortcode (!test@hakbox.social)
So for my social community, it would be !social@links.dartboard.social or https://links.dartboard.social/c/social
I think mebbe that's what OP is missing. A new (empty) instance doesn't know anything about what other communities exist. @slashzero@lemmy.ml you gotta search for the communities before your instance will start snarfing posts.
Thanks! I've been searching for known communities I have posts in, but not getting any hits. Using the full shorthand, like:
[!wow@lemmy.ml](/c/wow@lemmy.ml)there are no results.I also find that sometimes the search takes... a while?
So by wow you're talking about the world of warcraft community @ lemmy.ml?
Took a bit of futzing in the search screen but I see it:
Yes, I have a few comments in the world of warcraft community on lemmy.ml. When I search for that using the shortcode: !wow@lemmy.ml , I get an immediate response with no results.
Server side, there is a timeout error in the log, but that is timing out in less than a second.
I wonder if instances need to be allowed to interact with lemmy.ml?
Naw, because sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. I think lemmy.ml is just getting slammed right now.
Try it with a community from a different instance.
That's a great idea. I will try some other communities.
Its federating to lemmy.ca now. : https://lemmy.ca/c/wow@lemmy.ml
I just had to bash the search form a few times. Intra-instance community discovery/seraching seems to be a bit "sticky" for lack of a better way to describe.
Also, as the "prime" instance lemmy.ml is getting hammered with new Reddit exodus users at the moment, so I suspect lemmy.ml may not be the most responsive atm.
I tried search for
https://lemmy.ca/c/wow@lemmy.mlfor giggles, and that also had the exact timeout error.