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Managed to set up an instance using Lemmy-Easy-Deploy but federation is being a bit weird

Is it always weird on new instances, I'm seeing posts from a random amount of days ago, no votes and no comments.
Also, is it possible to federate with communities automatically or do I have to search for them all one at a time to add them to my instance?

arudesalad ,

Update: I think it works now!

Marsupial ,
@Marsupial@quokk.au avatar

I’ve been getting the same.

Some times it’s fine, other times it can take like 8 hours to “update”.

Someone told me a while ago to restart it every few days, it seems to help a bit.

stown ,
@stown@sedd.it avatar

Give it a couple hours or even a day. Stay active in the communities you subscribe to. Eventually your server will get most posts and comments.

Apollo2323 ,

I remember there was a tool so you can download your lemmy subscriptions then upload it to your new Lemmy instance so in that way it will federate with those you are interested in. I don't exactly remember the name but if I find it will comment back here.

iso ,
@iso@lemy.lol avatar

You need to search them to make them available to your instance. You can also use lemmony or lemmy community seeder to automate it if you care enough.

arudesalad OP ,

Thanks, does it usually miss votes and comments then?

iso ,
@iso@lemy.lol avatar

It wasn't but now it does I guess. I just searched a community didn't existed locally on my instance and I got same result as you. No votes, no comments. I think this is enough to open an issue in the Lemmy repo.

arudesalad OP ,

!selfhosted on my instance:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/7a029b94-cc9f-4025-9608-3b1c99ac0243.png

and on sh.itjust.works:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/005fbf44-c6da-4055-938d-006034cc871f.png

ninjan ,

The stickied posts get a bit weird and I've experienced them staying wrong until new ones are set. But this was last summer, unsure if it works better now or not.

The only thing I find concerning is the post "feedback on design and Firewall options" which you don't have and really should have unless there's something odd with that specific post. I have noted some issues with federating content from kbin/mastodon etc users but I saw that post on my self-hosted Lemmy instance...

arudesalad OP ,

The screenshot was taken less than 8 hours after the instance was up

ninjan ,

Ah, I'd give it at least a day before I start digging too much into it.

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