Hi there ! So I’ve been using my own Lemmy instance for the past 3 weeks or so and everything’s good except maybe the time it takes to sync with federated instances. But there is one thing that is bothering me greatly.

I federated lemmy.world and a few others and can see and interact with posts from these instances but I noticed that I can’t see the comments from other people like me with their own instances or just the ones I did not federate.

As I understand it, this is intended design but I like to have it all. Is there any way to get that without federating every single instances out there ? This seems like a massive headache as anyone can deploy a new instance any time and start commenting with it and I won’t see it, ever.

EDIT : Right on ! I wasn’t seeing any responses so I got to lemmy.ml to check and saw the answers. I did exactly what you kind people recommended and comments are starting to show up, thank you very much !

  • Ram@lemmy.ramram.ink
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    1 year ago

    Don’t fill in this field, that turns your instance into a whitelist server. Remove everything from the allowed instances list

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    1 year ago

    If you leave your allow list blank it federated everything. I’d leave allow list blank and block specific Instances instead

  • TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page
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    1 year ago

    This is from my own instance so I guess you might not see it.

    Are you saying you only allow-listed certain instances? Federation is on for all instances by default, you don’t need to enable federation for each remote instance in the admin panel. Remove everything from the allow-list, add any thing you don’t want to see in the block-list and all those little instances should start appearing.

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      1 year ago

      Yes that was the issue. I thought I had to allow instances in order to sub and interact with any “sublemmy” but turns out I was very wrong, thanks !

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      1 year ago

      Where does it get the list of instances from if it will automatically federate with all other instances?

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        1 year ago

        Users on your instance need to search/subscribe to communities. Those are the ones that get federated, there isn’t any automated discovery.

        Edit: I use the site admin account on my instance to sub to anything remotely interesting to any of my potential users and to populate a more lively all feed.

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    1 year ago

    This is more of a support question - please take a look at the sidebar for good alternatives where this question would be a better fit.

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    If you want it all, you have to federate every instance.

    Sorry for that, I don’t think there’s any way around it