I’m planning to self host - but just have one question, mostly a confirmation, as long as you’re not hosting communities, you can comment and interact with others, without needing other instances to explicitly sync with your insurance, right?
I kind of want my own instance just to control what communities I sync for my own account, but not going to host any myself, so defederation of some instances doesn’t affect me (unless I myself want to block them)
No. In both cases, they’d either have to manually block federation to your instance, or be operating on a whitelist-only federation basis.
Once you spin up your own instance and browse around a bit/subscribe to some communities, wait a bit, and then click on the “Instances” link at the bottom of the page and you’ll see a bunch of instances that will have automatically federated.
I self host! Very nice having an instance all to myself.
I’m planning to self host - but just have one question, mostly a confirmation, as long as you’re not hosting communities, you can comment and interact with others, without needing other instances to explicitly sync with your insurance, right?
I kind of want my own instance just to control what communities I sync for my own account, but not going to host any myself, so defederation of some instances doesn’t affect me (unless I myself want to block them)
This is exactly what I’m doing and it has been working great so far.
Do the big instances need to give permission, to your self-hosted instance, to read and post on their communities?
Do those instance owners need to manually approve access from some unknown small instance?
No. In both cases, they’d either have to manually block federation to your instance, or be operating on a whitelist-only federation basis.
Once you spin up your own instance and browse around a bit/subscribe to some communities, wait a bit, and then click on the “Instances” link at the bottom of the page and you’ll see a bunch of instances that will have automatically federated.
That sounds correct to me.
Same here. I love owning my own identity.
How do you self host? Is the always free AWS package an option to do this?
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