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Sure thing. Although for maximum autonomy you might consider creating your own instance.
There's a user, Perfect Dark, who does regular blog-style posts in the steam deck and gaming communities.
https://blorpblorp.xyz/home/c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz/posts/https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpost%2F33486016
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.
Piefed uses the same technology to federate, so does Piefed have tools to determine federation problems?
It's not the same code, so maybe the admin UI is more helpful ?
In the admin UI it shows all the activities that are going in and out, and the JSON of each activity can be viewed:
So it's already better.
Looks like it is!
But whatever issue you are having with federation is most likely not related to Lemmy itself. Piefed is a solid choice though, so if it helps you get it sorted then great!
For federation issues, I would check various things like where are you hosted (if at home, do you have a public IP?)? Are you hosting in Singapore, China, or other areas that commonly host AI scrapers as many Lemmy instances block IP ranges from those areas? Was your instance set up with a domain name that you have been using since the beginning (if you change your domain name or move to a subdomain then federation won't work). Are you using Cloudflare or similar - if so, be aware that federation is bot traffic, any settings around blocking bots or AI will break federation. Remember your instance has to be publicly accessible to receive anything!
Also see this showing the federation state of instances (enter your own if you are having trouble with outbound, enter a remote one if you are having trouble with inbound then check where your site is): https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=lemmy.world
Also see this for showing which instances are having trouble with federation. Set targets along the top: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/edf3gjrxxnocgd/federation-health-activities-behind?orgId=1&var-instance=All&var-remote_instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_software=All
At Netcup, in Germany.
Yes, and it's very fresh.
No and never.
Yes.
All numbers are at zero : https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=blog.kaki87.net
Hmm, how does that one work ?
Instances report the latest activity ID through a public API endpoint. This compares the latest across instances. I can't remember the details, but one thing to remember is that not every instance gets every activity so it's not 100% accurate.
The way federation works is that you subscribe to a community, then that community starts sending your instance new content from the community posted after you subscribe.
If you have no subscribers, then you have no federation.
Check out https://lemmy-federate.com/ for getting federation started. This lets you enter a community and instances that have signed up will have a special account subscribe which causes your community to start sending content to their instance.
You can also post in special lemmy communities for letting people know about your new community.
Hopefully this is all the issue is! Have you tried using your account on your instance for commenting on other instances, e.g. replying to me here?