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Just got my own instance up and running finally, but it doesn't seem to be federating as expected.

I can search for and subscribe to communities, but unless I specifically search for the URL (e.g. selfhost@lemmy.ml) nothing shows up. I'm also making this post from my instance as well (to see if anything happens...)

Is this something I just need to wait a few hours to happen or is something incorrect.

Thanks in advance


Edit: Oh, and when I do subscribe to a community, I can only see new posts. It doesn't retrieve older posts

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[–] NotNotMike@notnotlemmy.com 2 points 2 years ago

Yep you're right. And I've discovered that, in order to see posts from a community, at least one user in your instance needs to be subscribed to a community to view it.

Would be nice if someday the browse functionality provided by some sites was integrated into Lemmy but for now I had to go through and manually subscribe to a bunch of things.

I'd use a scraper but there's a lot of content I don't care to see right now, and I'm assuming subscribing comes with a small storage cost, so may as well avoid it for now