Submitted 11 months ago by glowie@h4x0r.host to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hello! A new self-hoster of lemmy instance. I’ve confirmed fedi is working and able to return json result for my server.
However, I am only able to find users and/or communities if I manually search for them.
Is there some sort of propagation or sync that needs to occur in order for searched queries to correctly populate data from the fediverse? Cheers
No, lemmy currently does not implement any kind of syncing unsubscribed communities (,
On the off chance you aren’t using it already, lemmyverse.net is a decent, relatively instance-agnostic way to discover new communities.
Nice, that’s a great explorer. Looks like I’ve got quite a lot of indexing to do.
can@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lemmy only starts the federation process once a user subscribes to it. I think there are scripts to preload some popular ones though.
glowie@h4x0r.host 11 months ago
Ah interesting, thanks. I’ll see if I can find some. That makes sense that it relies entirely upon the users of the instance and what they search/subscribe to. So, as a single-user instance, it’d only show what I venture out to find. Hopefully, the scripts you speak of can help automate some of that.
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
There is a tool I’ve heard about that subscribes to remote communities for federation until a real subscription. boost.lemy.lol