New Lemmy Instance not federating I think (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by Linuxduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I set up a new lemmy instance. I can log in and create communities locally.

But I do not see ANY other instances.

I have checked Federation Enabled

I look through my logs and there appear to be no errors.

I check and save, Federation debug mode but it never stays checked.

I am trying to find the disconnect. Why is my instance not fully federating and why can I not find any errors...

Does anyone have a next step for me, what to look into?

docker-compose logs -f lemmy

Is where I look for logs

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[-] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 2 points 1 year ago

[resolved]

To all who come here with the same issue, I am op posting from my new instance.

lemmy instances are not automatically connected
at least one user must be following a community for others to search it
to add your first community hosted by another instance, search for the full address in your lemmy search example: [!cats@lemmy.blahaj.zone](/c/cats@lemmy.blahaj.zone) after clicking search, wait 5-10 seconds and it will pull up
click on the link and subscribe. Now when another user, uses your instance they can find that community!
ok... Now you have 1 extra community... What about the thousands that exist?! Read through the comments. Someone provided a tool to basically create a bot account to add servers. I took this idea and created one as well (not sharing it's terrible) but it went through all of my approved instances and all of the communities and subscribed to all. I now have 2300+ communities.

[-] Linuxduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks self!

[-] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 2 points 1 year ago

You're welcome self!

(I'm such a dork)

[-] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy does not automatically discover communities from other peers, you have to search for them and have at least one user subscribe.

[-] Linuxduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I apologize but I am not following.

On my instance I cannot search other instances.

But here on blahaj I can.

I tried adding instances but I cannot search those (that were added) either.

[-] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

for clarity, you are searching for communities, right? search for "!cats@sh.itjust.works"

[-] throwaway_OT05wZjv@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[-] infamousbelgian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I want to try this, do I need to change the lemmy domain to my own instance url? (if this is a double comment, I tried it from my own instance, but can't see it on my alt. If someone can see this 2 times, I'm sorry.)

[-] throwaway_OT05wZjv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[-] Linuxduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I am reading through the code : D

I think my disconnect is I don't understand how the instances connect so this is a HUGE help sends hugs

[-] throwaway_OT05wZjv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[-] Linuxduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I couldn't get it running but I was able to sub to a cat place!!!!!

I still want to get your thingy to work. I KNOW I am doing something wrong

docker run --name lemmy-subscriber-bot --restart always -dt --env 'LEMMY_USERNAME=lemmy_bot' --env 'LEMMY_PASSWORD=redacted' --env 'LEMMY_DOMAIN=nerdly.dev' lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot .

Returns

docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: exec: ".": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown.

[-] throwaway_OT05wZjv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[-] Linuxduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I will try it again but I just wanted to say thanks again. With your code I created my own dumb python script that is working. I want to create a great aggregator and you are sending me in the right direction!

I think I will keep working on this and share with you what I did (if you will find it helpful) Or create a pull req if I have the time for your code as well.

This is REALLY what Lemmy needs and is severely missing!

You rock! Meow!

[-] throwaway_OT05wZjv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[-] sean@murray.social -1 points 1 year ago

Would you be able to give a brief overview of what your tool does? I feel like it's perfect for my situation, but am new enough to all this that I'm not exactly sure what the tool does.

[-] throwaway_OT05wZjv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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