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