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how does self hosting works (apollo.town)

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Lets say i want to host my own instance of lemmy i will buy some domain and hosting server i will run an lemmy instance and then i can just start adding other instancies and post something on them or they also meeds to approve my instance?

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

Depends. I don't know much about the ActivityPub standard yet, but on my matrix instance I could set it up without federation, or with federation and a blacklist (blocked nodes), or with federation and a whitelist (allowed nodes).

So it depends on your setup, and the setup of other instances.