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
I set up this: https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs
It goes somewhat slowly but it's been pulling in communities for me.
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