Hello! A new self-hoster of lemmy instance. I’ve confirmed fedi is working and able to return json result for my server.

However, I am only able to find users and/or communities if I manually search for them.

Is there some sort of propagation or sync that needs to occur in order for searched queries to correctly populate data from the fediverse? Cheers

  • can@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Lemmy only starts the federation process once a user subscribes to it. I think there are scripts to preload some popular ones though.

    • glowie@h4x0r.hostOP
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      11 months ago

      Ah interesting, thanks. I’ll see if I can find some. That makes sense that it relies entirely upon the users of the instance and what they search/subscribe to. So, as a single-user instance, it’d only show what I venture out to find. Hopefully, the scripts you speak of can help automate some of that.