Instructions for running your own lemmy instance.
For the moment, lemmy.ml is using an explicit allowlist
for instances we federate with. If you currently run an instance, and would like to be added to join.lemmy.ml:
- Let us know either on !lemmy_instances, or commenting here.
- We’ll add you to our allowlist.
- Add this block to your server’s
lemmy.hjson
config (for open federation):
federation: {
enabled: true
tls_enabled: true
# allowed_instances: lemmy.ml,other_instance.tld,... uncomment this to use an allowlist
}
- Type
!announcements@lemmy.ml
into your server’s search box, and subscribe to it to connect the two instances.
This is awesome! Greetings from Lemmygrad.ml 😎👍
Reddit killer, woo-hoo!
i took a few months off from posting. I missed you all, and I’m glad to see new folks here. Congrats on the fruits of your labor comrades <3
Good to have you back :smiling face:
Does it make sense to use a single-user instance like I do with pleroma? Probably not at this stage since it would require manual whitelisting, right?
You could I guess, but it’d be a bit weird since lemmy is built around communities.
In a hypothetical future world where there are many vibrant lemmy communities, a person with their own instance could participate in each without their identity being tied to an instance owned by someone else. You could also host a com related to a project you maintain that would be open to lemmy users form other instances, etc.
There is also the problem of having your federation choices made for you. If you use a federation instance with good moderation policies, they also likely do not federate with instances that do not. That’s perfectly understandable and I support any instance owner doing that, but I would prefer to make those choices myself.
At this point it might be premature, but maybe this is a use case you want someone kicking the tires on.
congrats this is a huge milestone
Hey look, a user from another instance!
It’ll get added automatically the next time we deploy joinlemmy, which should be soon.
i made mentano.org
I could use some tips
That is great! Impressive work. Congrats!****
This is very good news! Have been looking forward to this for long time already.
But it’s seeming that some things aren’t working right (Maybe it’s transfer problems? New posts seem to be working fine).
For example, here the same post viewed from Lemmygrad:
and from “main” Lemmy:
Apparently the upvotes and some of the comments don’t show up when looking at it from Lemmygrad. This isn’t a single problem in only that post, you can look at !asklemmy@lemmy.ml for some more, or for example this post with no comments and 2 upvotes when viewing from Lemmygrad and 101 upvotes (and 32 downvotes lol) and lots and lots of comments when viewing from “main” Lemmy.
On another note, are there plans to make the search search across instances? At the moment, it seems to not find posts from another instance:
Lemmy does some history fetching, which means getting the current (top 10 or so) posts when the first person subscribes to a federated community, but it doesn’t grab all history. It only fetches comments (and their parents), that are made after that first subscribe. I don’t think other fediverse projects do much if any history fetching.
As for federated search, it would only find things that it has history for.
The search is only local, but you can search the URL of a remote post/comment/user/community, and it will fetch that.
does that still work? If so, how? Just entering it into the search box doesn’t seem to work (anymore) for me.
Yes, if its not working then either that instance is not on the allowlist of your instance, or the remote instance is misconfigured.
Removed by mod
What do users do if they want to enjoy !hentai@lemmynsfw.com? Will such things be added to the whitelist? I can’t seem to access it
I think an allow list is the only acceptable way to do it. If you’re going to host some other site’s content, you should be sure you want to.
I think by default most of the fediverse uses the blocklist method, which they can always remove offending content after the fact. We don’t want to start out this way, but after mod actions get federated correctly, that’ll be more a possibility.
Is there a way to publicly see what instances are blocked by the way? I actually wouldn’t like a feature like that because someone could use it to seek out toxic instances.
We don’t have blocked shown, just linked instances: https://lemmy.ml/instances
Good!
I’d like to federate my new instance with you :) lemmy.jdelcampo.eu running (sometimes) on a Rock64 !
Maybe good to post in /c/lemmy ? Are you using dynamic IP or does the site go off-line sometimes ?
The IP is dynamic and updated with nsupdate, via my OpenWrt router. But for now it’s mostly under heavy testing from my side (I want many services to be running on this Rock64), so it’s mostly offline for now.
Test
So if server A federates with server B, and server B federates with server C, will server A also display content from server C?
There’s a check to make sure that the received content is “allowed”, IE in your allowlist or not in the blocklist.