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I recently spun up my own lemmy instance and was wondering if I had to manually add other lemmy instances to the 'Allowed Instances' admin field, or if they are added automatically when someone searches for a lemmy instance?

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

According to the documentation, the allowed instances field is to restrict federation to specific instances.

I'd recommend leaving it empty and leaving federation open

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

thank you! that's exactly what I was looking for. Was originally testing and added lemmy.world as an allowed instance and was wondering why federation wasn't working. TYSM!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup, I had the same question and was frustrated I was missing so many comments from instances that were federating. Just leave allowed blank and then block the bad ones unless your really concerned about bad instance actors.

current blocked from lemmy.ml:

lostcheese.com,mandacaru.caatinga.digital,melonbread.dev,lemilat.ml,fc.monkee.ch,thu2.closed.social,a.t.roelroscamabbing.nl,kenstroller.fedi.bzh,lemmy.services.coupou.fr,lemmy.glasgow.social,lotide.fbxl.net,masr.social,community.hackliberty.org,legbeard.xyz,collapse.cat,lemmy.subtlefuge.com,b.tide.tk,bbs.9tail.net,remmy.dragonpsi.xyz,elgiebety.pl,lemmy.thebitpros.com,dev.karab.in,wiredentrypoint.xyz,federated.community,verity.fail,lemider.me,lemmygrad.com,exploding-heads.com,sportsfeed.me,delraymisfitsboard.com,dev.narwhal.city,lemmy.burger.rodeo,lemmy.juggler.jp,lemmy.mesh.party,c.tide.tk,narwhal.city,wolfballs.com,burggit.moe,lemmynsfw.com

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I gave a quick review in comments below how to go about finding posts and comments on lemmy, hope it helps ;)

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Not to hijack the conversation, but once a server is open and set up what are the best ways to attract people to it? Just start telling people about it?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Interact with other communities on other servers. Your Instances will start to populate that way.

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