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qaz piefed.social qaz@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-16
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I've set up a PieFed instance, but I'm not seeing any votes. Sorting by Top - All Time only shows posts with 1 vote.
How do I solve this?

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squirrel piefed.kobel.fyi squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi
Joined: 2025-12-06
#2 · Quote Reply

From my experience, votes that'd been cast before your instance was alive and before a community had been federated, will not federate to your instance.

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Björn swg-empire.de bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
Joined: 2023-07-08
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If it is anything similar to Lemmy you only get votes and comments that were made after federation started.

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wjs018 piefed.wjs018.xyz wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz
Joined: 2025-07-15
#4 · Quote Reply

Like others have said, votes are not backfilled the same way other content is. So, you will only ever get votes that are cast after the point in time that the content being voted on is present on your instance. Additionally, the community's home instance won't send new content unless there is one user from your instance subscribed to that community. So, even if you add a remote community to your instance, but then never subscribe to it, you won't get any new content for it.

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qaz piefed.social qaz@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-16
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Like others have said, votes are not backfilled the same way other content is. So, you will only ever get votes that are cast after the point in time that the content being voted on is present on your instance. Additionally, the community's home instance won't send new content unless there is one user from your instance subscribed to that community. So, even if you add a remote community to you...

I've subscribed to all communities on the home page, and I'm still not seeing any votes show up.
Also, I'm not seeing any new posts show up. It's like it's not receiving any federation events at all.

Celery is running, but the daily cron job is failing due to a foreign key violation.

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Rimu piefed.social rimu@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-01-04
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I've subscribed to all communities on the home page, and I'm still not seeing any votes show up. Also, I'm not seeing any new posts show up. It's like it's not receiving any federation events at all. Celery is running, but the daily cron job is failing due to a foreign key violation.

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/INSTALL.md#testing

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