I had a similar experience getting my own lemmy instance into the network.

Took almost a day and some crossspostings between lemmy.world and my one until everything synced as expected.

Since then everything syncs basically instant.

Good question, my assumption is, that clearing the allowed list automatically opens it, but yea, from the documentation it’s not really clear.

Thank you, I’ll have a look at it.

Honestly, I even set up my own instance, feels much more relevant.

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