I set up a self-hosted instance yesterday, so far it runs fine. I can subscribe from there to communities hosted on other instances, I can comment from my instance and the comments show up on other instances.
However, I subscribed to https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworldtest from my own instance to test if my posts will be propagated, and that seems not to work (yet?).
Is this a known problem? Would the upstream instance subscribe to my instance for this to work? Or is this a bug in my configuration?
Sure. But things don’t push to remote communities, it’s a pull system. So can you see the lemmy.world community you subscribed to from your instance?
pretty sure you webfinger resolve the community and it gives you an inbox for activitypub that you publish to. Everything is push, nothing is pull.
and i’m pretty sure that when the community receives the post, it then pushes it to all the subscribers.
Hmm, I may need to freshen up my understanding of ActivityPub dynamics
I understand that I complete communities are not pushed, but for articles this seems counter-intuitive:
My comments to remote posts are automatically replicated, so it is not only pull
What’s the point of subscribing to a remote community via my server if the articles I post to that remote community are not pushed? My own instance is basically useless if questions to e.g. support-communities remain only on my own instance and I have to create an account on the remote instance in order to actually interact with that community.
Yes, although the comments to this article, for example, are still not replicated. But it seems comments are slowly arriving on my server…