Hello all,

I am trying to understand what I need to do to ensure that my Lemmy instance can be federated, found, and usable with other instances and users.

Currently, the issues I’m running into are:

• If I search for my own user@myInstance.tld from any other instance, nothing comes up.

• When I try to add my instance to FediDB.org, it shows that my “Instance is invalid, unreachable or unavailable.”

• When I subscribe to other communities from my instance, I am seeing posts, but no comments appear at all. I have verified that those same threads appear on the instance that they are generated on. (My understanding is that I should be able to see these comments and be able to respond to them)

• All of the other communities that I have attempted to subscribe to are showing “Subscribe Pending”, but the 2 communities that I’ve created on my instance are obviously showing as Joined.

I know I’m asking a lot, but it seems to me that obviously something is misconfigured, or I’m using Lemmy wrong.

What am I doing wrong? I can post configs if needed.-