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.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      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.orgEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.worldEnglish
      11·
      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?

        • penguin_ex_machina@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          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?