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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everyone subscribe! We should make it at least the main KDE community.

Love me some officially supported federation!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why start a new one? We already have tons of users and content here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because it's better in term of health of the fediverse if we don't end up with only a few big instances like lemmy.ml. Also people can interact with lemmy.kde.social while not being on that instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately my instance (https://feddit.de) is not federating with it yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It seems to work now, I'm on feddit.de too and I just subscribed to [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do they need to approve each and every instance manually? I thought it would happen automatically as soon as someone is trying to subscribe to a "channel" of another instance. No?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not familiar with the exact process yet. But doesn't that mean if you wanted to run an unfederated instance, you'd need to manually block every other instance there is?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's how I understood it. There is maybe a way to blacklist everything (like using a wildcard) or disable federation? I don't know. Maybe I will try to run my own personal instance just to learn how it works :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

By default, lemmy will federate openly with any other instance. You can then block specific instances. (Disallow-list)

You can additionally disable federation altogether, or only federate with a specified list. (Allow-list).