I’m almost ready with my lemmy instance server. Now what are some steps that are definitly worth doing after setup?

  • lemmy@melly.0x-ia.moe
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    1 year ago

    Also, use cloudflare and …

    I was using CF initially for proxying, but noticed some weirdness with federation. I would only get updates from Beehaw, but lemmy.world and other servers’ updates wouldn’t come through. As soon as I dropped the proxy and restarted the server, my instance got flooded by updates. I’m really not sure where to start debugging, so I’ve kept it off for now

    • chrisA
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      1 year ago

      CF has some firewall feature active by default. You have to turn them off.

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        1 year ago

        Checked it out. I ended up having a WAF rule blocking non-US traffic… Given Beehaw is US based, the fact that I was mostly getting posts from this instance makes a lot of sense now. Thanks again