I have gone ahead and added

federation: {
    # whether to enable activitypub federation. 
    enabled: true
    tls_enabled: true
    # Allows and blocks are described here:
}

to my site configuration file, however I am not able to view any of the other instances.

Many thanks

  • nutomicA
    3·
    3 years ago

    What you need to do is fetch objects from another instance manually. You do this by searching the url of a community, post or user.

    • punctualOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      I tried doing as you suggested but it seems that objects don’t sync on my instance. I subscribed to the community !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml but it shows up as empty on my instance

      • punctualOP
        1·
        3 years ago

        So i checked and it seems like federation only works for new posts and comments. It doesn’t seem to sync with any of the old posts and comments before I set up federation. Is there a way to get all the old comments and posts to sync?

        • punctualOP
          1·
          3 years ago

          Also is there a way to remove the blinking cursor that it appears on various parts of the page?

  • seahorse@midwest.social
    2·
    3 years ago

    In your lemmy.hjson file, you’ll need to add instances to your allow list by domain name:

    # list of instances with which federation is allowed
# allowed_instances: ["instance1.tld","instance2.tld"]
# instances which we never federate anything with (but previously federated objects are unaffected)
# blocked_instances: []

    If you want, tell me your instance and I’ll add you to my allow list (midwest.social)