I’ve been rewriting Lemmy Federate for the last 3 days and finally finished it. While there are no changes on the frontend, many things have changed behind the scenes.

Mbin support

After several requests, I have added Mbin support to Lemmy Federate. It is currently in experimental state. I may improve it in the coming days.

Currently, Lemmy-Mbin connection is off by default. You can enable it by activating the “cross software” option in the instance settings.

how it works?

Since Mbin has OAuth support, the tool creates the client with OAuth instead of creating a bot user directly. Theoretically, you should be able to activate the tool simply by creating a OAuth client from instance settings.

But unfortunately, I couldn’t try it enough because I’m not an admin on an Mbin instance.

Federation mode option

I added this option for small/single user instances. If you select federation mode as seed only in the instance settings, your instance will not follow other instance communities, but other instances will follow your communities.

Although I am not a fan of this option, I think it will work for instances like under 100 users.

Lemmy Federate

source code

Here’s example settings page:

  • Draconic NEOEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    Would seed-only mode still be acceptable for an instance larger than 100 users? Asking because another instance admin is concerned about the possible ethical issues that might arise if larger instances use this. They haven’t used the tool up to now due to concerns of increasing storage and disrupting/affecting the natural All page by federating many new communities automatically, which is why seed-only mode was being considered.

    CC: @[email protected]

    (If I misunderstood something or got something wrong I apologize)