Nice! That did it! Thank you so much!

Thank you, unfortunately I don’t think it worked. My posts from the last week or so are still not visible here.

They have NO reason to dox you.

If I get into details to explain why they do have reason to dox me, it could be used to dox me. Kind of tricky and maybe I’m being paranoid, but I don’t want to risk it.

Aside from version updates, I haven’t changed my server setup since I set it up months ago, and my instance has only a handful of active users. Only two of them subscribed to !fediverse.

Also, keep in mind that I am receiving updates just fine (maybe with some delay) the problem is that nothing I post on the lemmy.world communities end up visible here.

Isn’t the banlist public, available in the modlog?

You don’t need my instance to help me here. I already asked: can I just take the comment from https://lemmy.world/u/Wander@yiffit.net as an indication that I can bump the updated value in the instance record? If I run something like UPDATE instance SET updated = 'NOW()' WHERE domain = 'lemmy.world', will the communication be re-established?

I’m also here to expose bad excuses.

As for help, @Wander@yiffit.net has pointed me to the right direction, and he didn’t need to know my instance to do so…

Ok, you might be on to something. The updated value is set to 2023-06-11. Should I force this value to be recent?

My instance is not meant to be “popular”. It’s just for me and some friends, it’s federating just fine, I can receive all the posts but whatever I write does not get here.

If people land here and are not able to register they might not look into it further and give up because

Sorry, that’s a really bad excuse. Lemmy allows to have custom messages/taglines on the registration page, why not just add a quick paragraph saying “registration is closed because this server is overwhelmed, but here is a list of servers that you can use”.

Make it a rotating list, change it every 2-3 days if you want.

As for why I am not naming my instance: this post went to -1 as soon as it got posted. My comments are also being downvoted quite quickly. I don’t believe that I am being rude or uncivil, yet it feels like mods and admins are more worried about fighting to keep the status quo than helping the community at large, and I’d worry about retaliation.

Why is it so vital for you to keep registrations open? Can you please help me understand the logic behind it?