Hi all, I tried hosting my own lemmy instance to take some of the load off lemmy.world, but a lot of the posts do not get synchronised to my instance. When they do, they never got more than a couple upvotes.

I get a lot of warnings in the logs that I’ve got an incoming connection not on my allowed hosts, of which I’ve put “lemmy.world” and “lemmy.ml”

Does self hosting like this actually reduce the load on lemmy.world and the fediverse? And how can I fix the issue I’m having?

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    5•1 year ago

    You won’t get much old data when you first start subscribing to new communities from your instance. You’ll only get new content. When you add a community you’ll get 20 recent topics with no comments or upvotes. As new content comes in you’ll pick up all of it. At least one member of your instance needs to subscribe to a community to begin syncing with that community. To solve the lack of content on my personal instance, I made a bot that subscribed to the top 300 communities with more than 1000 subscribers. After a day or so I now have tons of content… I may stick the bot script on a weekly cronjob to keep my instance synced with the largest communities.