I’m trying to subscribe from lemmygrad, but it’s stuck in “Subscribe Pending”, which usually means there was some error. It doesn’t look like either instance is blocking, and the initial posts from visiting the comm did sync. Is there an error in your logs?
Hey! Thanks for looking into this. I posted this from lemmy.ml because I was able to subscribe from this instance. I was also trying to subscribe from https://lemmygrad.ml/c/croak@r1b.it and that’s where things are failing.
As a result, yes, I can see your new post from https://lemmy.ml/c/croak@r1b.it at https://lemmy.ml/post/54201793 but I cannot see it on lemmygrad!
I’ve had enough adventures with federation woes that I wasn’t in too much of a rush to get this sorted, though I’m looking forward to being able to see frog posts everywhere. I did also reach out to the admins on the other side, and will ping them in a day or two if they don’t run across it before then: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/13069086
Ah, you said that clearly the first time – I’m just a dummy… I’m very new to the whole running an instance thing, and my outside technical and self-hosting knowledge is only taking me so far :/ I think I have a few ideas on how to establish that federation link, though. Give me a little bit, and we’ll see if I can figure something out
No worries, I’ve never had the joy of running a Lemmy instance, and that certainly leaves me lacking some perspective/info, but as a user I’ve run across and reported more than my fair share of peculiarities (especially with federation).
At this point, trying to act as an intermediary between 2+ different instance admins to figure out where things are going wrong is a practiced (if not well-oiled) process.
Unfortunately, with two instances involved, it’s always hard to tell where things go wrong, but so far I’ve observed that:
I’ll see if I can work something on my end, too. I doubt it, but maybe being an instance owner will give me at least a little leverage in DMs.
Are you sure the link you provided to your lemmygrad post is accurate? I keep getting an error screen telling me to come back later. If it is the right link, that could be a clue 🤷
Oh, actually, just learned this: yeah, you got the error page I showed - the link only works when I’m signed in
I’m guessing that’s related to being a Local Only comm!
The one at the very end of the post before last where I said I reached out to them? Yeah, it works for me:
It is a Local Only comm, so you can’t visit it from your instance, but the link shouldn’t get translated to a local link.
What kind of error page do you get? Like this or different?
That error, and I tried through the lemmygrad.ml site itself. Perhaps it doesn’t like that I’m browsing as a guest? Probably not a symptom of this issue
After resetting the federation status, a lemmygrad admin said:
That was about 1.5 hrs ago, so hopefully I’ll be able to subscribe there soon! Thanks again for helping look into this!
Ok, awesome! I’ll also set a reminder to follow back up tomorrow