How do I request federation?
How do I request federation?
KDE just created their own Lemmy instance https://lemmy.kde.social/ and I would like to see it on kbin
Red alert:
https://lemmy.kde.social/instances
lemmygrad.ml lemmy 0.18.0
burggit.moe lemmy 0.18.0
They seem to federate everyone, including the weird CP guys.
Honestly they should only federate with instance from official, hand picked, high standards projects, kernel, gnome and Co. They don't want to take any risks with an instance like ours.
edit: the demonstration for it is the person who downvoted my post: https://kbin.social/u/iluvroris (visible in the activity tab)
even his profile is nsfw. This is exactly the reason why kde must NOT federate with us, because of freaks like iluvroris. That's the harsh reality. As long as we accept nsfw, we cannot and should not be federated by big brand like KDE. We have to pick who we federate and it cannot be everyone.
I don't agree with this.
We should work towards better tools for letting people tailor make their own feeds to show the content they want to see, not call for defederation based on content or ideology.
We should
It's not there. Even the admin of lemmy recommends to not federate everyone:
By default, both allowed_instances and blocked_instances values are empty, which means that Lemmy will federate with every compatible instance. We do not recommend this, because the moderation tools are not yet ready to deal with malicious instances.
There will always be malicious instances, if you allow every instance by default then you will have to fight against an infinite amount of child porn. Non stop. It will last 24 hours until the admins of respectable instances like KDE or Mozilla defederate everyone by default and only federate on-demand, after vetting.
We have to decide where kbin.social stands in term of federation. But I can tell you one thing is that KDE and Mozilla will never, ever tolerate the slightest nsfw on their instance.
Federation is done via content mirroring. That means in order to see sonething from remote sites, it needs to be hosted locally.
That makes instance admins ethically responsible for what's viewable from their site. And, depending on legal jurisdiction, it may make them legally liable for them.
If you want unfettered access to everything and anything, prioritize finding a site that puts that first and foremost, or host your own. This "let me choose what I want to see without limitations" stance is actually demanding something from the people who bare responsibility for running the sites you're using.
Big corporate sites are ok with this, because as an active user you're a potential revenue source. Here? You're not, and you shouldn't expect anyone to cater to you.
So a thought here, I would assume that each server is responsible for it's own federation? Like if kbin.social doesn't federate KDE and lemmy.world does, KDE posts would only be visible on lemmy.world, but someone on kbin.social looking at lemmy.world posts wouldn't see KDE ones? Or am I missing something?
I don't think so since the content is tagged with the origin instance. If it did propagate it would loop and carry tags after tags after tags.
FYI lemmy.world federates with lemmygrad.ml
Trying this since yesterday without success. Must be something wrong with that instance.
It's federating with Lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
Must be something particular with kbin
Missed opportunity. KDE should have picked Kbin! XD
add the communities you want by searching for them in the top right search option, format it like this: "@CommunityName@lemmy.kde.social"
for example. "@kde@lemmy.kde.social"
You just start subscribing to it. That makes your instance aware of the new instance and start pulling stuff from it.
In the search bar (the magnifying glass) type @kde. Depending on the instance you're on it will not work since there are some problems with federating Lemmy. Also, you cannot federate the whole lemmy.kde.social instance. You can only do it magazine for magazine.