Hello all,

I am trying to understand what I need to do to ensure that my Lemmy instance can be federated, found, and usable with other instances and users. https://geekroom.tech/ is my instance.

Currently, the issues I’m running into are:

  • If I search for my own [email protected] from any other instance, nothing comes up.

  • When I try to add my instance to FediDB.org, it shows that my “Instance is invalid, unreachable or unavailable.”

  • When I subscribe to other communities from my instance, I am seeing posts, but no comments appear at all. I have verified that those same threads appear on the instance that they are generated on. (My understanding is that I should be able to see these comments and be able to respond to them)

  • All of the other communities that I have attempted to subscribe to are showing “Subscribe Pending”, but the 2 communities that I’ve created on my instance are obviously showing as Joined.

  • If I comment on a post from within my own instance, that post does not show up on the original post. (again, may be my misunderstanding of how to use Lemmy lol)

I know I’m asking a lot, but it seems to me that obviously something is misconfigured, or I’m using Lemmy wrong.

What am I doing wrong? I can post configs if needed.-

Edit1: Looks like, based on some changes I made here: https://lemmy.world/comment/15359241, that federation is now partially working as it is sending out activities… however, after waiting some more time eventually it shows that there are more activities that are behind (possibly after trying to edit a comment that I made and was trying to get it to post something to the feed)

Edit2: I have attempted to unsubscribe and resubscribe and it appears that is not working even after 24 hrs. The logs are showing when I am attempting to subscribe, and then the logs show that I am 1 activities behind for that action on all the subscribed servers. In addition, I changed the following:

set $proxpass "http://127.0.0.1:10633/";

to

set $proxpass "http://127.0.0.1:1234/";

However, I’m still not seeing any action on being up to date. I’m not seeing any new posts from other communities and I’m not seeing my comments on those remote subscribed communities showing up on the original posts.

Edit3: After doing some more digging, I believe I have found another part of the issue. So there’s the NGINX reverse proxy that I have installed at the host level, which redirects to port 127.0.0.1:10633 for the geekroomtech-proxy-1 container to serve content from.

If I set the initial $proxpass value to port 1234 it gives me a 502 bad gateway when doing the curl tests. If I set it as: set $proxpass “http://127.0.0.1:10633/”; then it returns values properly.

However, the issue becomes when I have these next two conditional sections that breaks the curl tests and goes back to 502 bad gateway:

        if ($http_accept = "application/activity+json") {
        set $proxpass "http://127.0.0.1:8536/";
        }
       if ($http_accept = "application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams/"") {
       set $proxpass "http://127.0.0.1:8536/";
       }

When inside the internal proxy that lemmy provides, I can issue: curl -H “Accept: application/activity+json” http://lemmy:8536/c/rDataHoarder and returns information properly.

So… I exposed the ports 8536 on the Lemmy container, and magically, I’m no longer getting the 502 bad gateway errors.

ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:8536:8536"

While I’m not seeing any failures for activity trying to come in, I’m still seeing communities aren’t updating, subscribes are still pending, and I’m still not getting any activity showing up in the feel.

  • Marmalade3@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    20 hours ago

    Yes, set it up today. Was having issues with sending emails only to find out I had to just specify a different “hostname” in the lemmy.hjson file other than GeekRoom.Tech… so www.geekroom.tech got that working.

    I enabled the lemmy_federation trace settings and am seeing that it is finally federating and trying to send updates. Being that no one but myself is on it currently, I’m not terribly surprised by the instances being “behind”.

    Example:

    ` 2025-02-28T00:32:14.394971Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.nz: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394974Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.blahaj.zone: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394976Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.cafe: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394979Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: libranet.de: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394982Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: theprancingpony.in: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394984Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.cloudhub.social: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394987Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.dbzer0.com: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394990Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: monero.town: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394992Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394995Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: 1337lemmy.com: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.394998Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: palaver.p3x.de: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395001Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: jlai.lu: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395003Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.toldi.eu: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395006Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: discuss.online: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395013Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.crimedad.work: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395016Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: mander.xyz: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395018Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: programming.dev: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395021Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: fedia.io: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395024Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: pawb.social: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395027Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: feddit.it: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395030Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.blackeco.com: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395032Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: www.foxyhole.io: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395035Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.world: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395038Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: sopuli.xyz: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395041Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.nowsci.com: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395043Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.thewooskeys.com: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395046Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: startrek.website: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395058Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: lemmy.zip: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395061Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: hackertalks.com: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395064Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: feddit.online: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395067Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: midwest.social: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395070Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: kbin.earth: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395072Z DEBUG lemmy_federate::stats: feddit.rocks: Ok. 1 activities behind

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.395076Z INFO lemmy_federate::stats: 0 others up to date. 61 instances behind.

    2025-02-28T00:32:14.662688Z INFO lemmy_federate: Federating to 61/61 instances (0 dead, 0 disallowed) `