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How does federation with new communities work? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by iByteABit@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've seen that the instance owner has a whitelist and blacklist for their instance, but say that I make an instance of my own and want to federate.

Must each and every instance owner manually add me to the whitelist, or is there some kind of public database where I can add my instance and automatically be added to everyone's whitelist?

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[–] WtfEvenIsExistence@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most big instances federate with everyone. Those with "allowlists only" are not very common. If you want to federate with one of those instances, you'll just have to ask the admins.

Also, this is not a support community. (But I'm not a mod so I dont care)

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not a support community

I was trying to find one but couldn't so I came here, I can cross-post it if needed.

Most big instances federate with everyone

This is basically what I don't understand, how would they federate with me if they don't know I exist? Would I have to ask a big instance to federate with me first and then the rest would find me from there perhaps?

[–] WtfEvenIsExistence@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don't know you exist, but they don't block you either. You would have to interact with the instance to be under "Linked Instances". One way to establish a link is by finding a community on that instance you want to link by searching for them using this format:

!community@instance.tld

For example this community would be !asklemmy@lemmy.ml

You would need to manually do this for every community you want to see on your instance. If you never typed !asklemmy@lemmy.ml on your instance's search box, your instance would never know that this community exists.

Or you can use a bot to automatially add them for you.