Hi all,

I’ve been running my Lemmy server since 2023 with minor issues, however I recently had my server go down for about two weeks due to a drive failure (should have been a RAID array, I know, but when I set this up originally I wasn’t sure if it would be a mainstay and then I never revisited my design).

So, this has brought about a couple different problems, first and foremost federation seems completely broken? My proxy configuration and cloudflare stuff has been unchanged, so I don’t think that is the issue. However, I’m not receiving new posts, comments, or upvotes (after what gets synced initially).

Here are the logs from the lemmy backend:

2025-10-14T21:05:39.429156Z  WARN lemmy_server::root_span_builder: CouldntFindPost: CouldntFindPost

   0: lemmy_api_crud::post::read::get_post

           with data=Query(GetPost { id: Some(PostId(1495861)), comment_id: Some(CommentId(4689293)) }) local_user_view=None

             at crates/api_crud/src/post/read.rs:18

   1: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request

           with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy:8536 http.target=/api/v3/post otel.kind="server" request_id=f47caa4f-2ef1-4bff-a7fa-f8d27c75294b

             at src/root_span_builder.rs:16

and lemmy-ui has:

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_person', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_comment', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }

So I assume that posts are getting pushed across but not actually getting created?

The second question I have, and I fear there may be nothing i can do about this, is since I had to recreate my lemmy db I don’t have any of the posts from my users on here anymore. They were all to other servers, so I assume there is some sort of copy out there. Is there a way that I can get them to federate back to my server? Or are they just lost to the ether of posts?

EDIT: The plot thickens…

I connected to the database, and I can see a ton of recent posts/comments/interactions, but those aren’t showing up in the frontend? Maybe there is something messed up in my config, but its more or less what was in the docs (only changes were to make it work with my proxy vs the built-in nginx)