Have you done anything special

Nope

If you want to push forward with using Lemmy I can try to help you troubleshoot.

Honestly, given everything you said, I don’t think so. The documentation on “Lemmy as a blog” is just too incomplete.

Thank you though, for your answers !

But if one uses search to fetch my article from their instance and comment on it, shouldn’t my instance still receive the comment ?

Because I don’t really want to send content to instances, I just want the abovementioned scenario to work, basically the purpose I see in Lemmy as a blog is to enable readers to interact with me from their own instance, which solves the issue with CMS-powered blogs which whom people never interact with because of not wanting to create an account there.

Thanks

Yes, I did see this one, it’s the only one I ever seen, in fact

where are you hosted

At Netcup, in Germany.

Was your instance set up with a domain name that you have been using since the beginning

Yes, and it’s very fresh.

Are you using Cloudflare or similar

No and never.

Remember your instance has to be publicly accessible to receive anything!

Yes.

see this showing the federation state of instances

All numbers are at zero : https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=blog.kaki87.net

see this for showing which instances are having trouble with federation

Hmm, how does that one work ?

I’ve seen people build custom frontends for Lemmy to make it look more like a blog.

Oh, I couldn’t find much of that ! Would you have links ?

So it’s already better.

It’s not the same code, so maybe the admin UI is more helpful ?

for maximum autonomy you might consider creating your own instance

Indeed.

In fact, I already created a Lemmy instance for this purpose, but it’s not going well : apparently federation isn’t working, and there aren’t any tools available to determine what’s wrong and how to fix it… So now I’m considering the alternative platform that is PieFed.

you are accessing the Lemmy admin page through the official Lemmy UI, correct?

Correct.

do you mind sharing (if there are any) error logs of the Lemmy backend?

I’ve got no “error” lines, but outside of “trace”, “debug” and “info”, I have the following “warn” line :

WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: pan_builder: InboxTimeout: InboxTimeout
   0: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
           with http.method=POST http.scheme="https" http.host=blog.kaki87.net http.target=/inbox otel.kind="server" d432-40fa-a865-6690f61e11dc http.status_code=400 otel.status_code="OK"
             at src/root_span_builder.rs:16

Btw you might want to close the registrations. They are open right now.

Indeed, which is weird, because I’m sure I closed them when I first created the instance. Are settings lost during upgrades ?

Go to the admin page in the lemmy UI and turn on federation. If you selected “Allowlist” or “Blacklist”, select “Open” as the federation mode.

All I see is a “Federation enabled” checkbox that is checked, an “allowed instances” list that is empty, a “blocked instances” list that is empty as well, and a “federation debug mode” checkbox that is unchecked.

I don’t see “allowlist”, “blocklist” or “federation mode”.

Thanks

Check the logs and config.

What should I be looking for ?

How to fix this though ?

Tesseract was the only client that had an in-community search input, compared to all the other clients that require re-entering the community name. That shows how functional it was to me.

I’m looking for third-party instances right now (that’s how I ended up on this post), found one so far (but outdated) : https://lemmy.max-p.me/

EDIT : found others

• https://t.lemmy.dbzer0.com/
• https://tesseract.lemmynsfw.com/
• https://tesh.itjust.works/
• https://hackingne.ws/

Lol, feel free to discard it as an option for your government agency’s social account 😂

Hi,

Did you end up doing it ?