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Intended way to federate (lemmy.r.qudr.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What is the current workflow of federating with other communities?

As many others here, I come from Reddit. I recently setup my own mastodon and matrix instances so the complexity required to federate with other instances on Lemmy surprised me. Am I missing something?

When federating with other communities I have to manually add them to an allowlist. Why is there no option to federate with all available communities by default? If I don't like a particular community, I could block it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You should be able to federate with all available communities by default.

The trick is that your instance will not pull in all communities by default. Once 1 person subscribes to a community (a bit tricky for the first time, see here), all users on your instance will start seeing that community in their "All" feeds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You might slightly misunderstand how federation works. On Mastodon someone on your instance must follow someone on a remote instance to get their posts pushed to your instance. Same with Lemmy, someone on your instance must follow a remote community to get posts & comments. Since you're on a single user instance (like me) we don't see anything we don't follow/subscribe...

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

Once you add things to the AllowList, only things in the AllowList federate. You probably want to use empty AllowList + populate BlockList as needed.

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