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Federation is kicking my butt! (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi folks!

I‘m currently setting up a „fediverse vps“ so to speak but federation is no joke so far.

I got lemmy, mastodon and matrix running pretty stable now (in docker and behind nginx proxy manager which seems to be very rare).

The next step is enabling federation and so far it’s brutal. I broke matrix by changing up the .well-known stuff and now nothing works.

I think my knowledge is just lacking at this point. Does anyone have experience with a setup like this and wants to help? I basically need the npm config and/or other changed configs for federation.

Thanks for reading. Have a good one.

Edit: Since some kind souls wanted to help and need to see configs, here they are.

lemmy.hjson https://hastebin.com/share/giqoxejiru.yaml
docker-compose.yml https://hastebin.com/share/osavazijag.yaml
npm host file https://hastebin.com/share/ruyivojoyu.bash
lemmy ui log https://hastebin.com/share/lakurefohe.php

Let me know if you need anything else! :)

Edit2: Here is the synapse config

docker-compose.yml https://hastebin.com/share/izeroqiqil.yaml
homeserver.yaml https://hastebin.com/share/iquzehofen.yaml
npm host file https://hastebin.com/share/alolegoyey.bash
synapse log https://hastebin.com/share/abumisutuz.yaml (please note that these errors are not representative of the "functioning but no federation" I had earlier since I seemingly broke something when trying to set it up differently.)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just set up Lemmy using docker and it's set up to be accessed via NPM. I didn't have to do anything special. If you care to share some screenshots I can see if anything looks unusual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

lemmy.hjson https://hastebin.com/share/giqoxejiru.yaml
docker-compose.yml https://hastebin.com/share/osavazijag.yaml
npm host file https://hastebin.com/share/ruyivojoyu.bash
lemmy ui log https://hastebin.com/share/lakurefohe.php

Let me know if you need anything else! :)

Here it is! Thanks again for offering your help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I think I've heard that Lemmy 0.18.5 requires pict-rs v4 or higher. I'm currently using asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-beta.19. Give that a try.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Seems to work now :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Will check it out! :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Very cool! I‘ll post the configs as soon as I am on my computer! Thank you for offering.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can’t help with NPM, but I had a similar problem(s) when trying to use Cloudflare Tunnels — which was an absolute pain to setup. What Matrix server are you using? Synapse or a community made one, also what’s in your .well-know and configs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for answering. I‘m using synapse at this point but I‘m not totally set on that. I need to get back to you on the configs. They’re a huge pain to set up. I kinda get why people are using ansible playbooks. Getting the homeserver.hjson and compose file to sync up and generally getting the configs of those to sync up and then needing srv records and custom npm locations really gets to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I used Conduit, and it might be easier to setup, if you get those configs up for us I’d be willing to look at them still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I definitely will post them. Just gotta get to my pc. Thanks for offering your help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

docker-compose.yml https://hastebin.com/share/izeroqiqil.yaml homeserver.yaml https://hastebin.com/share/iquzehofen.yaml npm host file https://hastebin.com/share/alolegoyey.bash synapse log https://hastebin.com/share/abumisutuz.yaml (please note that these errors are not representative of the “functioning but no federation” I had earlier since I seemingly broke something when trying to set it up differently.)

Here is the config! Thanks again for offering your help!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The first thing I see is that your server name is matrix.***.com, which means that users/MIDs will be @hai@matrix.***.com, instead of @hai@***.com, which assuming the use of .well-known you want the second. Other than that I don't really see anything that'd be an issue, but again, I haven't used Synapse. I hope that helps, keep me updated!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks for pointing this out. For now, I'm good with the @matrix but I will keep that in mind. Now the federation seems to be working. I completely threw out the npm config and remade it. Here's the new logs. One thing doesn't work anymore though: I'm not receiving messages from my second account and am not getting "is online" notification (green circle). Here's the current log. https://hastebin.com/share/piyumiloho.yaml (btw the .well-known was because federation tester pointed out there was none and I assumed that was the problem.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hey OP, did you manage to fix this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Glad you asked. Yes, mostly. Some things are still janky but most of it works. Whats your setup?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't have a setup, but I plan to host my Kbin instance on a VPS sometime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ah! Nice. I can only encourage you to do so. It is in fact quite a bit of work but I‘m sure its both going to be easier every day and depending on your skillset and setup, you’ll probably have it a lot easier than me. I have like 13 docker stacks atm. only on my vps and another 10 or so on my homeserver. :)