Why don't other instances and communities load for my instance? (lemmings.world)

submitted 10 months ago by joshikyou@lemmings.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Hi. I'm new to federation and would like to set up my own instance.

I'm able to get a lemmy website up and running, but for some reason I can't see or search for other instances.

The only thing that I'm able to connect to, for some reason, is the technology community for lemmy.world. Even that loads improperly though as the posts only seemed to load once and aren't getting any updates. There are also no comments and my subscription to the community remains pending.

Trying to connect to the community directly using myinstance.com/c/othercommunity@otherinstance does not work. It returns an error page that says "The server returned this error: Error".

Does anyone know what could be causing this, or a possible fix?

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 11 points 10 months ago

You have to subscribe to a community, otherwise you're not getting any updates. If no one on your instance subscribes, you get no updates. Try setting up a bot account and make it subscribe to a bunch of communities.

For example using https://lemmy-federate.com/.