TL;DR: You might have more people to talk to, we are now federating openly.

The longer version: Until now, we have been maintaining a list of instances that we are federated with. This was done out of an excess of caution, as it’s easier to keep tabs on who you link with.

The downside of this approach is that we haven’t been linking with many Fediverse instances that we simply weren’t aware of.

We have now switched to open federation and will instead maintain a blocklist, reserved for instances that host shit we really don’t want coming across to us (e.g. loli porn).

This of course doesn’t change other instances defederating from us, we’re scary that way.

Thoughts?

  • splinterOPMAEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    🙌

    I think it was the right way to go about it too.

    Subscribing their communities is the main thing you can do. Similarly, they would need to subscribe to ours to receive our content.

    I might try to reach out to some of the instances that have defederated from us, to see if we can reason with them. It all feels very irrational, maybe we can get them to see that the kitty isn’t scary after all. That’s one for when I have the time and patience though.

    • AliceMAEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Ok, I’ll continue to subscribe to communities.

      I think it was the right way to go about it too.

      It really was, and thank you for having it setup that way.

      I might try to reach out to some of the instances that have defederated from us, to see if we can reason with them. It all feels very irrational, maybe we can get them to see that the kitty isn’t scary after all. That’s one for when I have the time and patience though.

      Oh me oh my oh cherry pie! Oh yea, you’re gunna need to be in an EXTRA good mood too when you do lol man, I don’t fucking blame you for feeling that way lol I’ll be staying out of that one unless you request/need my input. I am so curious how that will go though tbh

      • splinterOPMAEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Haha yeah I’ll definitely need to be in a good mood for that one, but I’m curious too.

        I was thinking I could sign up on their instances and open an “embassy” thread (or community?) to see if we can talk things out / dispel some myths.

        • AliceMAEnglish
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Dang… That actually is a dope ass idea! And it sounds actually fun too! How crazy lol I’m on board! So freaking curious lol How would it work?

          • splinterOPMAEnglish
            2·
            11 hours ago

            It’s not very sophisticated, we just sign up, start a community called “HC Embassy” or “Embassy of Hilarious Chaos” or something equally stupid, and start something akin to an AMA thread.

            • AliceMAEnglish
              2·
              11 hours ago

              Makes sense. I’m complicating it in my head for no reason LOL but yeah I’m down.