My self hosted instance works in every way for federation, the test curl commands return JSON, I can comment and invite on another federation, and I can retrieve comments and posts by search.
My current problem is my instance does not appear to get updates from other servers when new comments are made. Is there any other troubleshooting or recommended configuration changes I should do?
For context, I am hosting my instance through kurbenetes using nginx-ingress.
I had the same issue and the answer seems to be that it takes some time for comments to sync, especially from busy instances.