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 !

  • Big P
    1·
    1 year ago

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

    • TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page
      1·
      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.