G’day, I just got Lemmy going on my site https://apollo.town and it doesn’t appear to be federating. I ran through the Lemmy troubleshooting docs and I can return valid JSON from the site, but I can’t look up anything on lemmy.ml from my site - although I can look up my site from lemmy.ml.
Caddy is my reverse proxy with the world’s simplest config:
root@apollotown:~/lemmy# cat Caddyfile
# apollo.town Lemmy instance
apollo.town {
reverse_proxy :4040
}
Ah HA! Whatever I add to lemmy.hjson is added as a federated instance.
# the domain name of your instance (eg "lemmy.ml") hostname: "lemmy.ml"And now lemmy.ml is listed as my only linked instance.
yeah that should be your own hostname… “apollo.town”.
well that’s what I’m saying - it was set to “apollo.town” and I federated with myself. I set it back to lemmy.ml and blew the database, and now I’m federated only with lemmy.ml. Whatever I put there is federated.
I’m not sure that’s not by design, because lemmy.ml lists itself on Instances here.
Ok, weird. I guess set it back to your own hostname and create a local community to play with and find from other instances.
Sorry, not sure what is going on. I searched and added !announcements@apollo.town on my instance. But making a post never shows up on your side.