AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoShould I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community?message-squaremessage-square190fedilinkarrow-up1220arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1214arrow-down1message-squareShould I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community?AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square190fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekring@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoIf you host your own, do you need to establish federation with all other instances or only with the ones you want to use communities from? If I only federate with lemmy.world, would I be able to see comments on /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world on my instance made by a user from lemmy.ml? Would a user that reads /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world on lemmy.ml see my comments, if I only federate with lemmy.world?
minus-squarejcg@halubilo.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years ago only the ones that host communities you subscribe to, in fact you can specifically whitelist certain instances yes, comments and posts made from other instances are forwarded on to subscribers yes, for the same reason
If you host your own, do you need to establish federation with all other instances or only with the ones you want to use communities from?
If I only federate with lemmy.world, would I be able to see comments on /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world on my instance made by a user from lemmy.ml?
Would a user that reads /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world on lemmy.ml see my comments, if I only federate with lemmy.world?