Question about federation and comments

3 years ago by Sarcasthik to c/asklemmy

Hi there ! So I've been using my own Lemmy instance for the past 3 weeks or so and everything's good except maybe the time it takes to sync with federated instances. But there is one thing that is bothering me greatly.

I federated lemmy.world and a few others and can see and interact with posts from these instances but I noticed that I can't see the comments from other people like me with their own instances or just the ones I did not federate.

As I understand it, this is intended design but I like to have it all. Is there any way to get that without federating every single instances out there ? This seems like a massive headache as anyone can deploy a new instance any time and start commenting with it and I won't see it, ever.

EDIT : Right on ! I wasn't seeing any responses so I got to lemmy.ml to check and saw the answers. I did exactly what you kind people recommended and comments are starting to show up, thank you very much !

ram 19 points 3 years ago

Don't fill in this field, that turns your instance into a whitelist server. Remove everything from the allowed instances list

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path: 0 1119159, hotness: undefined, score: 19, children: 0

8565 12 points 3 years ago

If you leave your allow list blank it federated everything. I'd leave allow list blank and block specific Instances instead

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path: 0 1119132, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 0

TheOneCurly 10 points 3 years ago

This is from my own instance so I guess you might not see it.

Are you saying you only allow-listed certain instances? Federation is on for all instances by default, you don't need to enable federation for each remote instance in the admin panel. Remove everything from the allow-list, add any thing you don't want to see in the block-list and all those little instances should start appearing.

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path: 0 1118893, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 1

Sarcasthik 1 point 3 years ago

Yes that was the issue. I thought I had to allow instances in order to sub and interact with any "sublemmy" but turns out I was very wrong, thanks !

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path: 0 1118893 1121097, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

hsl 7 points 3 years ago

This is more of a support question - please take a look at the sidebar for good alternatives where this question would be a better fit.

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path: 0 1120292, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 0

Blaze 2 points 3 years ago

If you want it all, you have to federate every instance.