Well, I have an instance running. At startup it outputs federation enabled, host is redacted, but I don’t see anything when looking at all. I can’t search for other instance communities. I thought I would be able to use my local instance to browse other instance/communities and post there from my instance. Is that not how this works? Did I miss a step setting it up?

Some more details: Any search I do results in a timeout error. This is from the lemmy logs.

In all my years of software development and testing, I’ve never seen an HTTP status code 101… 101: switching protocols

UPDATE: it’s fixed!

Thanks to @[email protected] who pointed me in the right direction, and thank you everyone who contributed to this post in the comments with suggestions and support!

Here are the steps:

add a new network interface

docker network create lemmyexternal

connect the lemmy container (lemmy_lemmy_1, unless you renamed it)

docker network connect NETWORK_ID CONTAINER_ID

(you can get the network and container IDs with docker network ls and docker container ls)

modify the docker-compose.yml to add the new network, and link it to the lemmy service

networks:
  # communication to web and clients
  lemmyexternalproxy:
  lemmyexternal:
  # communication between lemmy services
  lemmyinternal:
    driver: bridge
    internal: true

services:
  lemmy:
    image: dessalines/lemmy:0.17.4-rc.1
    hostname: lemmy
    networks:
      - lemmyinternal
      - lemmyexternal

save, and restart

docker-compose restart

  • SlashzeroOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Thanks! I’ve been searching for known communities I have posts in, but not getting any hits. Using the full shorthand, like: !wow@lemmy.ml there are no results.

    • tezoatlipocaEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Its federating to lemmy.ca now. : https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]

      I just had to bash the search form a few times. Intra-instance community discovery/seraching seems to be a bit “sticky” for lack of a better way to describe.

      Also, as the “prime” instance lemmy.ml is getting hammered with new Reddit exodus users at the moment, so I suspect lemmy.ml may not be the most responsive atm.

    • tezoatlipocaEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I also find that sometimes the search takes… a while?

      So by wow you’re talking about the world of warcraft community @ lemmy.ml?

      Took a bit of futzing in the search screen but I see it:

      • SlashzeroOPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Yes, I have a few comments in the world of warcraft community on lemmy.ml. When I search for that using the shortcode: [email protected] , I get an immediate response with no results.

        Server side, there is a timeout error in the log, but that is timing out in less than a second.

        I wonder if instances need to be allowed to interact with lemmy.ml?

        • tezoatlipocaEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Naw, because sometimes it works and sometimes it don’t. I think lemmy.ml is just getting slammed right now.

          Try it with a community from a different instance.

          • SlashzeroOPEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            That’s a great idea. I will try some other communities.