Lemmy Federate

Sometimes instances can crash or slow down while following other instances. Or the remote instance may be blocked or the bot may be stuck at the rate limit.

To troubleshoot such issues I added a logs section to the instance management page.

Note: these logs are responses of requests sent to your instance. You can only see the logs from your own instance.

Some techie friends may ask why I didn't use something like Grafana. My answer is, I was just lazy :)

Hey how can we troubleshoot when communities are not being federated?

For example, this community shows that there was an error federating to Lemmy.nz (but not what the error was). Previously it was showing as not allowed.

Here are my settings:

There are other communities listed in this post, though really I'd like the tools to troubleshoot myself: https://lemmy.nz/post/21531352

Any help appreciated 🙂

Generic Threadiverse support

Thanks to @[email protected]'s contribution (#28), Lemmy Federate now supports all software types that implements group federation such as PieFed, NodeBB, Guppe 🎉

But unfortunately, not everything is perfect. Since there is no Fediverse standard for verifying whether a user is an admin, I have to register admins manually. I am also considering manually approving instances that are not guaranteed in Fediseer against spam attacks. Please contact me for this.

Note: Lemmy and Mbin works as before.

Top instances of Lemmy

With the addition of Lemmy.ml, the top 25 largest instances on Lemmy now use Lemmy Federate (except slrpnk.net). I think we can now consider that we have fixed the accessibility issue that was the reason I created this tool. Even if we didn't fix it, at least we band-aided it :)

Instance blocking feature

In addition to the allow list, a block list has been added.

• If you allow at least one instance, you will not follow any other instances.
• If you block an instance, you will continue to follow instances other than those you blocked.

Dedicated community

I didn't want to open it before, but now that we are trying to be compatible with more software, I believe a dedicated community could be useful. That's why I created a community here [email protected]. If I make an update from now on, I'll probably post it there.

https://lemmy-federate.com/ https://github.com/ismailkarsli/lemmy-federate