Awesome! No problems, I'm glad I could help. Took me a bit to figure out what was going on too.
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Might be, the current docker-compose.yml has it in there properly. However, when I used the install with docker guide a day or two ago it hard linked to the 0.17 version which didn't give external network access to the lemmy service. Sounded similar to the problem I was facing, but if you used the current docker-compose.yml I guess that is not it.
It sounds like the back end has no external network access. You can check with something like sudo docker exec -it lemmy_lemmy_1 ping archlinux.org
Check sudo docker logs lemmy_lemmy_1
right after you search. I was getting http get request failures to the other servers.
Add 'lemmyexternalproxy' to networks for the lemmy service in docker-compose.yml and rebuild 'sudo docker-compose up -d --build'
Fixed it for me.
Edit: just read the part about nothing in the logs. If this is not it, I'm not sure.
I wanted to check it out a while back when looking for reddit alternatives, but not necessarily so much to beg for an invite. I remember back then I tried Hubski instead, but it seems kind of dead now.
Never heard of this, granted I've never looked for something like it either. Sounds very interesting and seems mature albeit with a few platform specific catch's in the readme.
Anyone use this before? Thinking about checking it out for fun. I don't really have use for it myself but I am interested in the implementation.