Hi, I’ve got my instance (the one I’m posting from) running a couple days ago. Everything seems to work, but I notice that the little content I have on my instance can only very rarely be found from other instances. I installed lemmy with the ansible method, but is there something I should still look at myself? Thanks.
Federation for Lemmy and mastodon works on a need to know basis. Otherwise even the smallest server never used would have to download all content immediately all the time.
What this means is that a community will only show and receive posts if someone from your server joins it.
Right now it’s still okay to join every community that you see (I do that), but with increasing traffic that won’t be useful.
If a community isn’t shown on a server, you can always search on the server for https://serverThatTheCommunityIsOn.domain/c/community and the server will check if that address has a community.