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?

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    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

      • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        51·
        2 months ago

        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

        • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          My instance has 82GB of DB size. It is almost two years old. I think you’re overestimating.