After almost a year of hard work implementing ActivityPub support on Lemmy, it is finally done! Anything that works here on dev.lemmy.ml, also works over federation between different instances (with one notable exception, community mods have to be on the same instance as the community for now).
Before we consider federation ready for production, some more testing is needed. And that’s where you come in: go to our test instances enterprise.lemmy.ml, ds9.lemmy.ml and voyager.lemmy.ml, and try things like:
- post, comment and vote
- delete and restore posts/comments
- send private messages
- create communities, remove/restore posts and ban/unban users
- setup your own lemmy instance, and federate with enterprise.lemmy.ml or ds9.lemmy.ml
If you notice any bugs, please report them on Github, as comments on this post, or in our Dev Chat on Matrix. Please keep in mind that our code of conduct also applies to the test instances.
The more you test, the sooner we will feel confident to enable federation on dev.lemmy.ml. Happy testing!
Did you change your displayname after that post was federated? In that case its expected, because Lemmy only refetches user profiles every 24 hours at most.
Yes, exactly. Ok great, so I’ll check in 24 hours then, thanks.
It is only refetched if some federated action is happening after that interval, so you will have to do something like vote, or create/update a post or comment to trigger the refetch.
Checked and it works now. Thanks guys!