No problem! I had the same issue and was losing my mind trying to fix it. It still doesn't update the timestamp like it should automatically so I've been doing it myself.

I believe anything prior to that timestamp will not federate. New stuff should.

Try select * from instance where domain = 'popular.instance'; and see the last time it was updated via the updated column. I've been having to update that column with update instance set updated = now(); because once that timestamp becomes older than 3 days your instance assumes it's "dead".

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