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[Help] New self-hosted instance not crawling communities (notnotlemmy.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by NotNotMike@notnotlemmy.com to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Just got my own instance up and running finally, but it doesn't seem to be federating as expected.

I can search for and subscribe to communities, but unless I specifically search for the URL (e.g. selfhost@lemmy.ml) nothing shows up. I'm also making this post from my instance as well (to see if anything happens...)

Is this something I just need to wait a few hours to happen or is something incorrect.

Thanks in advance

Edit: Oh, and when I do subscribe to a community, I can only see new posts. It doesn't retrieve older posts

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[–] fireshaper@social.belowland.com 5 points 2 years ago

You don't get federated automatically. On your own instance you will only see posts in communities that you subscribe to. What I did was set up a "bot" user that I used to subscribe to a bunch of communities that I might find interesting when just browsing the All feed but I didn't want in my personal Subscribed feed. There's a few tools that will automatically subscribe a bot user on your instance to all the top communities but I found just manually going through https://lemmyverse.net/communities and clicking subscribe as that bot user worked for me.