Comment on Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one?

• FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sorry but I’m not sure. Every time I’ve used that tool the setup has gone flawlessly. The first time you use it you put in your instance URL and it should output something for you to add to your DNS records. If you just made the DNS changes it can take a few minutes to several hours for those changes to be pushed out.

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  • uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thank you. I think I figured it out.

    In my lemmy.hjson file, I accidentally put the internal IP address of my server instead of the domain name. This was a carry-over from testing on my main machine by using an IP address and port forwarding because I didn’t have a domain name to use.

    I changed the hostname setting in lemmy.hjson to my domain name, and now it seems to be working. Sort of.

    Now I have a different error, “Your instance is not guaranteed in Fediseer. Please check fediseer.com”, but this one seems less of a technical issue. I will have to learn what this is about and hopefully I can get it to work :)

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    • FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’ll have to claim your instance on fediseer and have another instance endorse yours. It’s a system of trust to help keep bad actors from having too much influence over the platform and causing others grief.

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      • uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thanks yet again.

        I tried claiming my instance, but now I’m getting the error: API Key PM failed

        Slowly and steadily, this problem will be solved!

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