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New Lemmy Instance not federating I think

I set up a new lemmy instance. I can log in and create communities locally.

But I do not see ANY other instances.

I have checked Federation Enabled

I look through my logs and there appear to be no errors.

I check and save, Federation debug mode but it never stays checked.

I am trying to find the disconnect. Why is my instance not fully federating and why can I not find any errors...

Does anyone have a next step for me, what to look into?

docker-compose logs -f lemmy

Is where I look for logs

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  • Lemmy does not automatically discover communities from other peers, you have to search for them and have at least one user subscribe.

  • [resolved]

    To all who come here with the same issue, I am op posting from my new instance.

    • lemmy instances are not automatically connected
    • at least one user must be following a community for others to search it
    • to add your first community hosted by another instance, search for the full address in your lemmy search example: [email protected] after clicking search, wait 5-10 seconds and it will pull up
    • click on the link and subscribe. Now when another user, uses your instance they can find that community!
    • ok... Now you have 1 extra community... What about the thousands that exist?! Read through the comments. Someone provided a tool to basically create a bot account to add servers. I took this idea and created one as well (not sharing it's terrible) but it went through all of my approved instances and all of the communities and subscribed to all. I now have 2300+ communities.
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