Stood up my PixelFed server yesterday. Federation seems to just…not be happening. I manually added a bunch of servers in the “instances” tab but they all say 0 users. If I search for exact profile names, I can find them but they’re completely empty. Pictured is my server on the left and .social on the right. The weird part is that a handful of posts do come through. Like, maybe a dozen in the last 24 hours in my global feed.

I made a test post and someone on .social followed me, so they can obviously see me, but when I went to follow them back, their profile was also completely empty.

Is there something I need to do to “kickstart” this into gear? Do I need to just continue waiting? It’s been ~16 hours at this point.

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    3 天前

    And you can see in my photo that I’ve followed Dansup but his profile is still not showing any posts or even a profile picture.

    His last post was 4 days ago so there hasn’t been anything new enough to send to you. Try following his Mastodon account, he uses it a lot more.

    I also have several posts that predate my server in the global feed from accounts I have not followed.

    Someone you followed may have boosted them, old posts will show up if the boost happens after you follow them.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      51·
      3 天前

      So it won’t even send me any of his profile info until after he posts something?

      • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        3 天前

        IDK, how software fetches profile info is implementation dependent, so you’d have to dive into the source code or wait for him to post and see if you get it.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgOPEnglish
          31·
          3 天前

          Okay, thanks for your help. Honestly, it’s a bit of a relief as I didn’t want a bunch of data I’m not using filling up my server.