I set up a self-hosted instance yesterday, so far it runs fine. I can subscribe from there to communities hosted on other instances, I can comment from my instance and the comments show up on other instances.

However, I subscribed to https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworldtest from my own instance to test if my posts will be propagated, and that seems not to work (yet?).

Is this a known problem? Would the upstream instance subscribe to my instance for this to work? Or is this a bug in my configuration?

  • twitterfluechtlingOPEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    The community is originally from lemmy.world, I subscribed on my own instance. In my example it was just “lemmyworldtest”, but a proper use-case would be to subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/techsupport on my own instance and post an article to that community. Since the community has its home on lemmy.world, I would expect/need my post to be visible there in order to actually receive some support.

    Also, at the time I’m writing this, your comment to my post is not yet visible on my own instance although I’m subscribed there as well.

    • KNovaEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      You might want to link your self hosted instance so we can get a better sense of what’s going on here.

        • KNovaEnglish
          0•2 years ago

          Things don’t automatically propagate to other instances FYI. Someone from a remote instance would need to follow your community

          • twitterfluechtlingOPEnglish
            3•2 years ago

            I get that, but it is not my community. It’s the community on lemmy.world, to which I subscribed.

            • KNovaEnglish
              0•2 years ago

              Sure. But things don’t push to remote communities, it’s a pull system. So can you see the lemmy.world community you subscribed to from your instance?

                • KNovaEnglish
                  2•2 years ago

                  Hmm, I may need to freshen up my understanding of ActivityPub dynamics

              • twitterfluechtlingOPEnglish
                2•2 years ago

                Sure. But things don’t push to remote communities, it’s a pull system.

                I understand that I complete communities are not pushed, but for articles this seems counter-intuitive:

                1. My comments to remote posts are automatically replicated, so it is not only pull

                2. What’s the point of subscribing to a remote community via my server if the articles I post to that remote community are not pushed? My own instance is basically useless if questions to e.g. support-communities remain only on my own instance and I have to create an account on the remote instance in order to actually interact with that community.

                So can you see the lemmy.world community you subscribed to from your instance?

                Yes, although the comments to this article, for example, are still not replicated. But it seems comments are slowly arriving on my server…