Are there any Discord servers or somewhere in the Matrix to chat about hosting a Lemmy instance? I’ve got Lemmy running, but I think there are several of us in the same boat struggling with federation performance issues and it might be good to have some place to chat real time.
My server is struggling with federation. Pretty much everything I see in the logs with debug turned on is this:
2023-06-20T01:55:28.018419Z WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: Header is expired
There is an nginx setting you can tune as well. I believe it was worker threads? Can’t remember the exact one and too tired to ssh into my instance to check.
From the docs / troubleshooting:
“Also ensure that the time is accurately set on your server. Activities are signed with a timestamp, and will be discarded if it is off by more than 10 seconds.”
Yeah, I’ve been selfhosting for nearly a decade and setting up lemmy was, surprisingly, a challenge, and not because it was all that difficult but because the documentation was contradictory, out-of-date, or non-existent in key areas. Federation is my current hurdle, too. It would be nice to have a place to compare notes. Maybe here?
I would be up for something like this. I host my own 8nstance as well. I’m having issues updating communities though. Every time I try I get the button spinner of death. I think in the end, the software is buggy and needs some time to get the bugs worked out, but it is frustrating.
