Hey friends!
I’ve recently set up my own Lemmy instance at http://chinese.lol:8536 and it’s been working well so far. According to what I know, I should be able to subscribe to other federated communities, but it seems like I’m having some trouble.
In the settings, I’ve enabled “Federation” and added “lemmy.world” and “programming.dev” to the list of allowed instances. However, when I search for communities, I still can’t seem to find any from these instances.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Am I missing a step or a setting somewhere? I’d really appreciate any guidance or advice you can offer.
Thank you in advance for your help! 🙏
I also posted it in Reddit and hope I can fix it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lemmy/comments/15tft63/need_help_with_lemmy_instance_federation/
Learn about reverse proxies such as Nginx or Caddy. The various selfhosted communities on Lemmy should be able to help with your questions. That’ll fix the port conflict problem. (Though I recommend wiping your Lemmy DB and starting from scratch when changing domains. Federation is really finicky in situations like that)
My second recommendation would be to use blocklists to deny the crap parts as opposed to allowlisting as that will impact your view of the threadiverse. (Which by itself isn’t a bad thing, but is the wrong tool for the job in most cases I’ve seen people asking about it)
