Is it possible for a user to query the state of a given lemmy server’s federation state?

According to the lemmy documentation the server can be configured with one of three different states of federation:

  1. Open
  2. Blocklist
  3. Allowlist

Unfortunately, I joined a lemmy instance that was set to “allowlist” and therefore I couldn’t interact with most of the lemmy fediverse :(

I’m wondering if it’s possible for non-users to query a server to see what federation state it’s set-to, so that users can be aware of how limited their content will be before they signup.

  • @PriorProjectEnglish
    6•11 months ago

    Each instance has a /instances/ url that shows its current federation links at least. It doesn’t tell you its federation config, but you can at least tell if the federation list looks weirdly small or the blocklist looks weirdly big.

    And you can see that monero house has a pretty short list in comparison. This is absolutely a page I was scoping out when shopping around for an instance to join. I would also spend some time scrolling through /modlog/ to get a feel for what their moderation was like in practice.