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Federation is now enabled for https://lemmy.ml !

Instructions for running your own lemmy instance.

For the moment, lemmy.ml is using an explicit allowlist for instances we federate with. If you currently run an instance, and would like to be added to join.lemmy.ml:

  • Let us know either on !lemmy_instances, or commenting here.
  • We'll add you to our allowlist.
  • Add this block to your server's lemmy.hjson config (for open federation): 
 undefined
    
federation: {
  enabled: true
  tls_enabled: true
  # allowed_instances: lemmy.ml,other_instance.tld,... uncomment this to use an allowlist
}
  • Type [email protected] into your server's search box, and subscribe to it to connect the two instances.
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  • Good, congrats! I can see that the development instance (dev.lemmy.ml) is also redirecting to lemmy.ml from today onwards. I was using this development instance until now.

    edit

    There seems to be a small bug on this new instance though. The theme change from settings isn't effected once you refresh and move to a different page, it reverts back to the default theme.

    • The theme change from settings isn’t effected once you refresh and move to a different page, it reverts back to the default theme.

      Hrm... did you click the save button after changing theme?

  • This is great! I read there will also be federation amongst the entire fediverse soon. What exactly does this look like? Being able to sign in with mastodon accounts or?

    • No, it means that it will be possible to view and comment on Lemmy posts directly from Mastodon. But don't expect that to work anytime soon.

      • ah ok, makes sense.

        P.S. I know this isn't the place to do this but any chance we can get ctrl + Enter to submit a post

  • i took a few months off from posting. I missed you all, and I'm glad to see new folks here. Congrats on the fruits of your labor comrades <3

  • Does it make sense to use a single-user instance like I do with pleroma? Probably not at this stage since it would require manual whitelisting, right?

    • You could I guess, but it'd be a bit weird since lemmy is built around communities.

      • In a hypothetical future world where there are many vibrant lemmy communities, a person with their own instance could participate in each without their identity being tied to an instance owned by someone else. You could also host a com related to a project you maintain that would be open to lemmy users form other instances, etc.

        There is also the problem of having your federation choices made for you. If you use a federation instance with good moderation policies, they also likely do not federate with instances that do not. That's perfectly understandable and I support any instance owner doing that, but I would prefer to make those choices myself.

        At this point it might be premature, but maybe this is a use case you want someone kicking the tires on.

  • So if server A federates with server B, and server B federates with server C, will server A also display content from server C?

    • There's a check to make sure that the received content is "allowed", IE in your allowlist or not in the blocklist.

  • I'd like to federate my new instance with you :) lemmy.jdelcampo.eu running (sometimes) on a Rock64 !

    • Maybe good to post in /c/lemmy ? Are you using dynamic IP or does the site go off-line sometimes ?

      • The IP is dynamic and updated with nsupdate, via my OpenWrt router. But for now it's mostly under heavy testing from my side (I want many services to be running on this Rock64), so it's mostly offline for now.

  • I think an allow list is the only acceptable way to do it. If you're going to host some other site's content, you should be sure you want to.

    • I think by default most of the fediverse uses the blocklist method, which they can always remove offending content after the fact. We don't want to start out this way, but after mod actions get federated correctly, that'll be more a possibility.

      • Is there a way to publicly see what instances are blocked by the way? I actually wouldn't like a feature like that because someone could use it to seek out toxic instances.

  • Hello :3 I made a new instance, mind adding it to the allowlist?

    Dissonanz

    • It'll get added automatically the next time we deploy joinlemmy, which should be soon.

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