I'm planning to self host - but just have one question, mostly a confirmation, as long as you're not hosting communities, you can comment and interact with others, without needing other instances to explicitly sync with your insurance, right?

I kind of want my own instance just to control what communities I sync for my own account, but not going to host any myself, so defederation of some instances doesn't affect me (unless I myself want to block them)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is exactly what I'm doing and it has been working great so far.

[–] venusenvy47 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do the big instances need to give permission, to your self-hosted instance, to read and post on their communities?

Do those instance owners need to manually approve access from some unknown small instance?

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

No. In both cases, they'd either have to manually block federation to your instance, or be operating on a whitelist-only federation basis.

Once you spin up your own instance and browse around a bit/subscribe to some communities, wait a bit, and then click on the "Instances" link at the bottom of the page and you'll see a bunch of instances that will have automatically federated.

[–] slashzero 2 points 2 years ago

That sounds correct to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Same here. I love owning my own identity.

[–] sayitghoul 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you self host? Is the always free AWS package an option to do this?