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.
Hey, I did the same thing recently! Set it up on my own server, and after a week, I’m starting to see new accounts being added to my explore feed. But there’s no user count.
It’s an annoying experience and I’m not fully sure how to resolve it yet, nor have I dung into it.
Thanks for the validation