The default for federation is on these days (though your server will only federate with communities any user on your server has accessed, which is none by default). As these posts appear on your server, anyone will be able to see what content is being federated on the global timeline. That said, my server is receiving various communities I don’t believe I’m subscribed to, including ones that I’ve never even heard of. I’m not sure where those are coming from.
You can change the federation mode as instance admin; you can switch between blacklist (current default), whitelist (old default), or no federation at all (internal server only, maybe useful within companies?). Note that going whitelist-only will have an impact on the comments you’ll be able to see on your server.
Hey, I see you have experience with Lemmy and I don’t see any place to ask this type of questions.
I was checking a community in an instance and realized that there were no federated posts. Are federated posts only visible from the ALL view? I was hoping for community browsing to also have a federated experience to enhance content. For example, if I want to browse the Gaming community of an instance, why shouldn’t I see gaming communities from other instances?
I understand this type of federation would require more interaction than instance to instance federation, but still, would be amazing to see more content when checking communities.
The default for federation is on these days (though your server will only federate with communities any user on your server has accessed, which is none by default). As these posts appear on your server, anyone will be able to see what content is being federated on the global timeline. That said, my server is receiving various communities I don’t believe I’m subscribed to, including ones that I’ve never even heard of. I’m not sure where those are coming from.
You can change the federation mode as instance admin; you can switch between blacklist (current default), whitelist (old default), or no federation at all (internal server only, maybe useful within companies?). Note that going whitelist-only will have an impact on the comments you’ll be able to see on your server.
Hey, I see you have experience with Lemmy and I don’t see any place to ask this type of questions.
I was checking a community in an instance and realized that there were no federated posts. Are federated posts only visible from the ALL view? I was hoping for community browsing to also have a federated experience to enhance content. For example, if I want to browse the Gaming community of an instance, why shouldn’t I see gaming communities from other instances?
I understand this type of federation would require more interaction than instance to instance federation, but still, would be amazing to see more content when checking communities.