How to initiate federation to an instance
How to initiate federation to an instance
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/350
In case your instance does not federate to something you would like it to, follow these steps:
- Go to your instance URL in a web browser - https://lemmy.cafe
- Click
Communities
- Enter something in format <!community@instance>, e.g.
!general@lemmy.cafe
. Click the search button.- Nothing will show up, give it a couple of seconds
- Click
Communities
again- Select
All
- Your searched community should now be on the list
- Click
Subscribe
next to it- ???
- Profit!
Tried this, and it's not working. The instance I'm on still cannot see mlemapp@lemmy.ml
You need to add an exclamation mark in front.
There’s a little bit of a delay as well sometimes between the search results showing “no results” to showing the community - I think the server may take a couple of seconds to do a lookup start federation, and show the community as a valid result. Just a heads up.
It finally showed up later in the day, but posts didn't show up on my instance until almost a day later. I'm hoping this gets better with time.
Don't know what else to try - I've just subscribed to it. Is your instance up to date? Any other differences?
It took several hours before I could subscribe, and almost a day for any posts to start showing up. I hope this gets better with time.