• TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page
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    1 year ago

    Federation is on by default on all instances. As soon as you search and subscribe to remote communities they’ll start federating. So far so good on my little one user instance.

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    1 year ago

    By default lemmy instances will federate when they’re made aware of each other. I don’t think your instance will federate with any of you set it up as a private instance, though.

    Other than that, you can blacklist instances you don’t want to federate with.

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      After I setup my lemmy instance a few weeks ago and subscribed to a bunch of communities, I played around with the options to see what they do. I toggled the private instance to see what happen. Turns out it can federating just fine. I could post and comment in the communities I subscribed. Then I realized there are two big problems with turning on the private instance option:

      1. I checked the mod logs on some large instance, and turns out they are banning private instances that they came across with (possibly those private instance were a source of spam accounts). Luckily my instance is not banned.
      2. When I restarted my lemmy container, it refused to run again, throwing error about how you can’t turn on private instance option and federation option at the same time (even though it’s working when I tested it). I had to toggle the private instance option off manually in postgres table in order to get lemmy start running again.
  • AnAnxiousCorgi@lemmy.reddeth.com
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    I set up my own instance to mess around with (and what I’m posting from now). The other instances interact with mine just fine and by default. It is certainly possible they could explicitly blacklist your instance, but short of an admin of another instance personally taking umbrage with you I can’t see that happening.

    For myself I have set my instance to be private (for me and some friends) and the other instances I “federate” with are done on a whitelist, although you can definitely open up to everything and instead deny specific instances with a blacklist.