I recently spun up my own lemmy instance and was wondering if I had to manually add other lemmy instances to the ‘Allowed Instances’ admin field, or if they are added automatically when someone searches for a lemmy instance?

    • BenDoubleU@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      thank you! that’s exactly what I was looking for. Was originally testing and added lemmy.world as an allowed instance and was wondering why federation wasn’t working. TYSM!

      • Rick@thesimplecorner.org
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        Yup, I had the same question and was frustrated I was missing so many comments from instances that were federating. Just leave allowed blank and then block the bad ones unless your really concerned about bad instance actors.

        current blocked from lemmy.ml:
        lostcheese.com,mandacaru.caatinga.digital,melonbread.dev,lemilat.ml,fc.monkee.ch,thu2.closed.social,a.t.roelroscamabbing.nl,kenstroller.fedi.bzh,lemmy.services.coupou.fr,lemmy.glasgow.social,lotide.fbxl.net,masr.social,community.hackliberty.org,legbeard.xyz,collapse.cat,lemmy.subtlefuge.com,b.tide.tk,bbs.9tail.net,remmy.dragonpsi.xyz,elgiebety.pl,lemmy.thebitpros.com,dev.karab.in,wiredentrypoint.xyz,federated.community,verity.fail,lemider.me,lemmygrad.com,exploding-heads.com,sportsfeed.me,delraymisfitsboard.com,dev.narwhal.city,lemmy.burger.rodeo,lemmy.juggler.jp,lemmy.mesh.party,c.tide.tk,narwhal.city,wolfballs.com,burggit.moe,lemmynsfw.com
        
    • penguin_ex_machina@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not to hijack the conversation, but once a server is open and set up what are the best ways to attract people to it? Just start telling people about it?

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          1 year ago

          That makes sense, but I can’t even get my search function to return anything at the moment, even if I copy+paste direct links. Is there another way I can access other servers from my own instance?

  • solidarity@suguha.net
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    1 year ago

    I wondered the same, so I added a few to the list and now I can sub to communities by taking the url and then searching within my local instance. Hope thay helps.

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      1 year ago

      I noticed when I go to the ‘popular’ lemmy instances such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml and click on communities | All that I see a lot of communities. On my own local server I only see the communities that I’ve subscribed to. Is that what you see as well?

      • falcon15500@lemmy.nine-hells.net
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        1 year ago

        Yes, your instance will only ‘know’ about communities that you have searched for from your instance. Once you search for some, they will appear under “All” communities. However your instance will only receive updates for those communities if at least 1 person on your instance has subscribed to them.

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    1 year ago

    Lemmy by default will federate with all instances if you don’t put instances in the “Allowed Instances” section. I’ve found, it’s easier to federatte with all instances and ban the ones you don’t want. Otherwise, you effectively use a whitelist to federate.

  • casey@lemmy.wiuf.net
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    1 year ago

    I believe I’ve had to put them in there if I wanted them to be easily searchable. It did seem I could access another instance but that mine didn’t have any interest in collecting data until that was put in.

  • taaz@biglemmowski.win
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    1 year ago

    Was asking that myself.
    To make your instance fetch a community on a different instance, you have to put the community link (starts with exclamation mark, for example !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone) in the search on your own instance. Thought it currently does not return any results but if you then switch to Communitites tab and select All you should see it there.