My self hosted instance works in every way for federation, the test curl commands return JSON, I can comment and invite on another federation, and I can retrieve comments and posts by search.

My current problem is my instance does not appear to get updates from other servers when new comments are made. Is there any other troubleshooting or recommended configuration changes I should do?

For context, I am hosting my instance through kurbenetes using nginx-ingress.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    Do you have at least one user who is subscribing to these communities? You’ll need that.

    • seang96@exploding-heads.comOP
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      1 year ago

      I am subscribing but they all show pending subscription, which I read doesn’t matter usually but a first time setup private instance I was thinking that it might.

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            1 year ago

            I am not 100% sure since I am still getting up to speed on all this, but I belive there is a bug where its not updating correctly and that is causing posts/votes/mods to not federate correctly. You could block and test to see if that helps.

      • Slashzero@hakbox.social
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        1 year ago

        Yes, it does matter. Unfortunately you will have to try canceling (just tap or click the pending button) and subbing several times until you get lucky and it finally works.

        This is sort of a catch 22, because the issue is caused by the server being under load (and some bad code or database queries likely needing to be fixed / optimized / refactored), and clicking the buttons is adding to that load, contributing to the problem.

        TL;DR pending subscriptions are not subbed, so do not federate.

        • rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io
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          1 year ago

          On my personal instance, this hasn’t been the case. I’m fully federated with communities that show “subscription pending”. I get comment updates with sub-minute delays. I think this is sometimes just a cosmetic issue.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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        1 year ago

        It does. I’m having that issue a lot with lemmy.ml communities, think it’s an issue on their end.

        Try communities on other instances.