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Has anyone self-hosting Lemmy been able to federate with kbin instances? I subscribed to magazines on a few kbin instances (kbin.social, fedia.io and kbin.sh) but they do not push new posts to my instance, while Lemmy instances have no problem.

Is it a known bug in kbin or Lemmy? Is there an issue with my install (which is behind a reverse proxy and WAF)? Is it a "feature" in kbin to stifle competition?

Update #1: I have been made aware (thanks @[email protected] and @[email protected]!) of a recent fix in the nginx config, but I don't think that's it: when looking at my reverse-proxy's logs, I don't even see any POST requests made to the inbox from kbin instances, so I believe they don't even try to push updates to me.

Update #2: Updating to Lemmy 0.18.1 resolved the issue!

So I'm currently trying to set up an instance, and I'm unable to upload pictures. The following toaster appears: https://imgur.com/d0MUhUb

And in the logs I see this: 2023-06-25T10:48:11.127198782Z 2023-06-25T10:48:11.127080Z WARN lemmy_server::root_span_builder: Request error: error sending request for url (http://localhost:8080/image): error trying to connect: tcp connect error: Address not available (os error 99) 2023-06-25T10:48:11.127262799Z Reqwest(reqwest::Error { kind: Request, url: Url { scheme: "http", cannot_be_a_base: false, username: "", password: None, host: Some(Domain("localhost")), port: Some(8080), path: "/image", query: None, fragment: None }, source: hyper::Error(Connect, ConnectError("tcp connect error", Os { code: 99, kind: AddrNotAvailable, message: "Address not available" })) })

I have a pictrs container up, and set the following options in lemmy.hjson: pictrs_config: { url: "http://pictrs:8080" api_key: "apikey" }

Also tried it with pictrs_url: "http://pictrs:8080" (as described here), but that didn't help either. Why is lemmy trying to access localhost:8080 rather than pictrs:8080?

Edit: This has been resolved, thanks to @[email protected]: https://lemmy.ml/comment/948928

Hello, I've been trying to setup an instance and have been running into an issue with federation. Despite having federation enabled (in the site admin panel), I can't seem to fetch or load content from other instances. I've checked the wiki and verified the system time, internet connectivity, and backend availability (via curl). I have it currently setup through Cloudflare and I am wondering if that could play into the issue. Would Cloudflare inhibit federation communication? I'd imagine the instance-to-instance requests being sent from my server would have the true origin IP that wouldn't match the DNS records (which would reflect cloudflare's ip addresses). Matrix doesn't seem to have issues with Cloudflare when it comes to federation from my experience, but I thought it would be fair to ask in case there are differences I'm not aware about. Any advice or insight would be appreciated.

I noticed that some communities on lemmy.ml are unable to be seen on other instances. For instance, federating the lemmy community works fine:

https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

But federating the kubuntu community returns 404: couldnt_find_community:

https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

I'm certain that second one should work... I've found perhaps two dozen other communities that have the same problem. Meanwhile, dozens of others work fine.

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Edit: @[email protected] suggested I try searching for the community first. I had actually tried this but it didn't work, which is why I started trying the deep link approach above; that worked for some communities.

Turns out the deep link by itself will not discover new communities, only searching for them will, and the search can take a long time and will show "No results" for a little while.

So if you're experiencing this, search instead for [email protected] from the remote instance, then the deep link will start working.