Hey,

I'm trying to set up my own lemmy instance but I think I'm doing something wrong or don't understand federation. I'm using the elest.io automated lemmy build, and I think the site is up and working. I have admin and all that.

But I'm not federated? Or I cant tell if I am?

I expected to be able to connect to other sites in the fediverse and to be able to allow them to connect to me. I'm not sure thats working and I'm not sure if I need to change something in the setup of the lemmy instance or if this is something I would do from the admin console.

Would any experienced lemmings be willing to help me through this

Hi.

I'm using the elest.io automated lemmy thing to start my a WSB specific node. I can't find a specific guide to the federation aspect. Is there an instruction set for how to federate/ get federated?

Is this something I can do from the admin console?

This seems like something really obvious that I'm just missing.

I'm offically a lemming.

Or a lemur.

Whichever.

I like lemmings but it might be a bit derogatory. Even with that I still think it's better than 'redditors', which always sounded/looked goofy to me.

Any ideas? What do we call Lemmy users?

My current vote is for lemmings. I think it's cute.