Well, I have an instance running. At startup it outputs federation enabled, host is redacted, but I don’t see anything when looking at all. I can’t search for other instance communities. I thought I would be able to use my local instance to browse other instance/communities and post there from my instance. Is that not how this works? Did I miss a step setting it up?
Some more details:
Any search I do results in a timeout error. This is from the lemmy logs.
In all my years of software development and testing, I’ve never seen an HTTP status code 101… 101: switching protocols
UPDATE: it’s fixed!
Thanks to @pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev who pointed me in the right direction, and thank you everyone who contributed to this post in the comments with suggestions and support!
Here are the steps:
add a new network interface
docker network create lemmyexternal
connect the lemmy container (lemmy_lemmy_1, unless you renamed it)
docker network connect NETWORK_ID CONTAINER_ID
(you can get the network and container IDs with docker network ls and docker container ls)
modify the docker-compose.yml to add the new network, and link it to the lemmy service
networks:
# communication to web and clients
lemmyexternalproxy:
lemmyexternal:
# communication between lemmy services
lemmyinternal:
driver: bridge
internal: true
services:
lemmy:
image: dessalines/lemmy:0.17.4-rc.1
hostname: lemmy
networks:
- lemmyinternal
- lemmyexternal
save, and restart
docker-compose restart
I don’t know if you already got an answer but here’s the fix: add a non-internal network to the lemmy’s container. https://lemmy.pe1uca.dev/comment/14022
This was the key that led to to the fix. Thank you!
It seems like you’re on you’re way already, but this is the best post to learn about empty instance syndrome: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827.
It feels very weird having to search for specific communities before anything appears, but once you learn the ropes it works ok.
Thank you for this. I will look through it now to see what I can learn.
I thought I would be able to use my local instance to browse other instance/communities and post there from my instance. Is that not how this works?
That is how it works. What is your instance domain? I want to see if I can access it from my instance.
Please let me know if it isn’t working. My block & allow lists are empty.
Just submitted a test post to you.
When you search for remote communities, make sure you are searching for the entire URL (https://hakbox.social/c/test) or the shortcode (!test@hakbox.social)
So for my social community, it would be !social@links.dartboard.social or https://links.dartboard.social/c/social
I think mebbe that’s what OP is missing. A new (empty) instance doesn’t know anything about what other communities exist. @slashzero@lemmy.ml you gotta search for the communities before your instance will start snarfing posts.
yeah, once I added about ~5 popular communities discovery became easier. People were suggesting other communities etc. so it helps your instance know whats out there.
Well that begs the question then - if communities are “homed” on instances (although the same community can exist on two different homes as completely separate communities) and then get “subscribed” or federated to other instances through searching, how does one know what all communities exist? Short of going to, or scraping the /Communities page of each Lemmy or Kbin instance, how does one know whats available?
Clearly we need a Lemmy411 Community. :)
Be the change you want to see in the world: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy411 TADA!
Discovery is still a challenge, but if instance admins subscribed to that it would make it easier on users.
What I think would be better would be to automatically send some kind of community digest out to other known instances once a week or something. That way if a user searches for a “music” community, they will get results from instances they may not personally know about.
Thanks! I’ve been searching for known communities I have posts in, but not getting any hits. Using the full shorthand, like:
!wow@lemmy.mlthere are no results.I also find that sometimes the search takes… a while?
So by wow you’re talking about the world of warcraft community @ lemmy.ml?
Took a bit of futzing in the search screen but I see it:
Yes, I have a few comments in the world of warcraft community on lemmy.ml. When I search for that using the shortcode: !wow@lemmy.ml , I get an immediate response with no results.
Server side, there is a timeout error in the log, but that is timing out in less than a second.
I wonder if instances need to be allowed to interact with lemmy.ml?
Naw, because sometimes it works and sometimes it don’t. I think lemmy.ml is just getting slammed right now.
Try it with a community from a different instance.
Its federating to lemmy.ca now. : https://lemmy.ca/c/wow@lemmy.ml
I just had to bash the search form a few times. Intra-instance community discovery/seraching seems to be a bit “sticky” for lack of a better way to describe.
Also, as the “prime” instance lemmy.ml is getting hammered with new Reddit exodus users at the moment, so I suspect lemmy.ml may not be the most responsive atm.
Its federating to lemmy.ca now. : https://lemmy.ca/c/wow@lemmy.ml
I tried search for
https://lemmy.ca/c/wow@lemmy.mlfor giggles, and that also had the exact timeout error.
hey, this might be a bug - try going to your community tab now, and press the “All” button. See if my community shows up now.
Searched for that 👆 and checked the logs… timeout issue…
ERROR HTTP request{http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=hakbox.social http.target=/api/v3/ws otel.kind="server" request_id=882fc7cd-bb3f-4df7-b6d4-a9bece907745 http.status_code=101 otel.status_code="OK"}: lemmy_server::api_routes_websocket: couldnt_find_object: Request error: error sending request for url (https://links.dartboard.social/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:social@links.dartboard.social): operation timed out 0: lemmy_apub::fetcher::search::search_query_to_object_id at crates/apub/src/fetcher/search.rs:17 1: lemmy_apub::api::resolve_object::perform with self=ResolveObject { q: "!social@links.dartboard.social", auth: Some(Sensitive) } at crates/apub/src/api/resolve_object.rs:21 2: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=hakbox.social http.target=/api/v3/ws otel.kind="server" request_id=882fc7cd-bb3f-4df7-b6d4-a9bece907745 http.status_code=101 otel.status_code="OK" at src/root_span_builder.rs:16Interesting. I have a “subscribe pending” from your community. But I’ve gotten that with other instances before, not sure what it means. Its not like you need to approve my subscribe request.
I have no idea what that means, either. I checked all the admin sections, and nothing pending anywhere on my end.
No, it is not there.
I can see your comment in your link but if I try to reply it says I have to login first. To what, I’m not sure since I’m logged in to comment here.
It’s possible I have something misconfigured… but what I don’t know!
I’m also getting the same behavior while trying to use the Docker install on macOS. I tried the same fix but it’s not working, and it looks like I can’t access a community in my instance from another instance.
It actually looks like every single query is returning
invalid query, even something likelemmyIt looks like it’s getting the host properly though… Like it says
federation enabled, host is kleptonix.com
I was able to fix it!
