I also know there is a script you can set up which will handle the initial contact to federate automatically.
I tried finding such a script but had no luck. I was able to export my subscription list from sh.itjust.works and imported it on my instance.
I had to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the communities I follow as I was experiencing the ‘Subscribe Pending’ issue but after a little while things seemed to start evening out and becoming a bit more stable.
My instance has been online for about a month, the supplied docker-compose.yaml was quite straightforward, had a little headache with Nginx but nothing overly complicated.
The long-con so to speak is federation, you have to subscribe to each community manually to begin federating with them, i have noticed timing issues with other instances such as Lemmy.world and have not been able to resolve them.
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Exists however I found it to be a hassle to setup so I never used it for my instance, I’ve noticed certain instances have troubles federating when they have Cloudflare or Anubis sitting in front of Lemmy on their reverse proxy. I can’t get Lemmy.world to federate properly and I suspect it’s because of Cloudflare sitting at their root path.
Debian for everything.
Only game I care about from Microsoft is Halo Wars 2. Shame it got released as a UWP application.