Good luck mate. It's a little intimidating at first but it usually boils down to something simple. A slight misconfiguration or minor syntax error can cause pretty significant issues. You might have a look at your logs or try running in debug mode to see if anything jumps out at you.
EDIT: Do you have federation enabled in the admin panel? Also probably worth making sure you DON'T have private instance checked.
IIRC the way it works is by PMing you the API key to get started and you're failing at that point. Are you sure your instance is federating? I don't know anything about how fediseer works on the backend but if it's not able to send you a PM that suggests you might not be federating at all or maybe you're running a whitelist or something? I'd start investigating if your instance is reachable from other instances and if you're able to send yourself a PM from another instance.
You'll have to claim your instance on fediseer and have another instance endorse yours. It's a system of trust to help keep bad actors from having too much influence over the platform and causing others grief.
Sorry but I'm not sure. Every time I've used that tool the setup has gone flawlessly. The first time you use it you put in your instance URL and it should output something for you to add to your DNS records. If you just made the DNS changes it can take a few minutes to several hours for those changes to be pushed out.
It's fine mate, I'm not here to crucify people who want to or have moved to piefed for any reason. People should be able to go where they feel comfortable and welcome and be happy about it. Do what you want and what works for you, of course. All I'm saying is that people should take note of what has happened and why, and do what they can to mitigate that problem going forward.
As long as communities are migrated and redirects are up before the last day of lemm.ee the transition will be miles ahead of what we've seen in the past where instances go dark without warning. Communities and users survived then and they will survive now I'm sure.
It's just a bit strange to see all the people saying how they would've helped lemm.ee if they'd known sooner or if more cries would've gone out, and then nobody spins up instances to actually DO the things they say.
I think the urgency is being blown out of proportion as a knee jerk to really crappy news. There is almost a month to move, which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse. Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.
Again, I'm not against piefed or against people moving somewhere they feel more comfortable or like more. Those are positive things that the fediverse could definitely use. I just don't understand why we can't learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn't happen again before more instances pop up.
Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
Right, I've seen pretty much that same reply already.
I think it's a chance to learn a lesson from how and why lemm.ee is shutting down. Right now I think people are risking moving the same problem somewhere else. Sure, in theory the problem gets better with time because the tools to move around are there, but that only matters if there's somewhere to move.
It would be much more encouraging to see dozens of new piefed instances being launched/advertised. I think there's a big push towards something new because it's in the right place at the right time, and I genuinely hope it's a successful project long term. I just hope the people utilizing it are willing to support it as a platform and not just as a flagship instance.
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to discourage people from moving to or using piefed. I understand the enthusiasm for it and utility of it. This is meant to foster discussion not hate on piefed.
Is it just me or are a lot of people just ignoring the fact that a lot of communities and people are centralizing to pretty much a single point of failure again? Wouldn't it be wise to expand the number of piefed instances to help keep things spread out there too if that's the platform you prefer?
No worries mate. It's easy to put the plants on a pedestal and forget what they are when you care about them so much. Of course damage has been done and it's a substantial setback, but I don't think all is lost. I sent you a message on SXC if you want to chat there.
It's a weed, not an orchid. Given the chance to survive they usually do.
I think you've got a good chance of saving them, especially since they are photos. They're being subjected to extreme stress that would likely herm autos as they would still be recovering at the same time they'd be transitioning. You've still got a long growing season left, plenty of time for photos to bounce back and relax a bit before flower. I'd still watch them like a hawk for stress herming, but I think the odds are in your favor to save them.
EDIT: It could be that this list is incomplete or something went wonky when they went through their domain drama. Looking around some of the larger servers hexbear.net is on the blocked list, but that isn't being reflected on the tool linked above. Some servers are defederated from either side but certainly not most.
This would be amazing.