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?

  • @[email protected]
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    44 months ago

    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.

    • @arudesaladOP
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      24 months ago

      Thanks, does it usually miss votes and comments then?

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        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.

  • stown
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    44 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    24 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      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…

      • @arudesaladOP
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        14 months ago

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

  • Quokka
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    14 months ago

    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.