Does federation happen automatically when someone first searches for a community on another instance, or does it have to be done manually by the instance owner?
What does it mean if an instance is neither linked on blocked (i.e. does not appear at all on the <instance_site>/instances page)? Is it effectively blocked, or has it just not been added through a method in the above question?
Also some tangential questions
Does federation happen automatically when someone first searches for a community on another instance, or does it have to be done manually by the instance owner?
What does it mean if an instance is neither linked on blocked (i.e. does not appear at all on the <instance_site>/instances page)? Is it effectively blocked, or has it just not been added through a method in the above question?