I have gone ahead and added

federation: {
    # whether to enable activitypub federation. 
    enabled: true
    tls_enabled: true
    # Allows and blocks are described here:
}

to my site configuration file, however I am not able to view any of the other instances.

Many thanks

  • nutomic@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    What you need to do is fetch objects from another instance manually. You do this by searching the url of a community, post or user.

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        3 years ago

        So i checked and it seems like federation only works for new posts and comments. It doesn’t seem to sync with any of the old posts and comments before I set up federation. Is there a way to get all the old comments and posts to sync?

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          3 years ago

          Also is there a way to remove the blinking cursor that it appears on various parts of the page?

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    3 years ago

    In your lemmy.hjson file, you’ll need to add instances to your allow list by domain name:

    # list of instances with which federation is allowed
    # allowed_instances: ["instance1.tld","instance2.tld"]
    # instances which we never federate anything with (but previously federated objects are unaffected)
    # blocked_instances: []
    

    If you want, tell me your instance and I’ll add you to my allow list (midwest.social)