Hello, today I set up my own Lemmy instance through YunoHost, but when comparing posts here and on (for example) lemm.ee, on my instance the same posts have less votes. Is there a setting or something I’m missing?
Edit: also, some comments and posts are missing, how do I federate with more instances? Do I just subscribe to random instances’ communities?
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Federation takes time. For federation there are bots, that automatically subscribe to communities on different instances.
The difference in votes is normal. To easily federate with other instances, you can use the ‘Lemmy Subscriber Bot’. LSB
Any other helpful Lemmy self hosting tips are also welcome.
you will only see posts/comments/upvotes that happen AFTER you’ve subscribed to a community
when you subscribe to a community it will pull the most recent posts made but it won’t pull the comments or upvotes for them, just the post itself
this is why a lot of instances use https://lemmy-federate.com/ but that will use up a lot of your disk space
but that will use up a lot of your disk space
About how much? I’ve got 128gb ssd in my “server” (ThinkPad X260).
It will increase over time, and I think it would pass 100 GB in less than a year, but I’m just guessing. You can help reduce this by tweaking some settings with image caching/proxying
My instance has 82GB of DB size. It is almost two years old. I think you’re overestimating.
Not sure whether it helps but after the last major update on YUNOhost it notified me of a few extra DNS entries I had to make. If I remember correctly it was under Domains, rather than Diagnosis.
