originalucifer

theres the https://lemmy-federate.com/ service where instances can ‘pre-subscribe’ communities to each other automatically. this allows local noobs to be able to find remote groups by just checking whats available on their ‘home’ instance.

not from lemmy. you would have to use a microblog-interacting platform like mbin

ex: https://moist.catsweat.com/

there you can follow and be followed by microblog platforms like mastodon.

no, its an open source platform just as kbin was a platform. kbin was never a ‘single instance’. my instance started on kbin before migrating to mbin.

the dev for kbin had personal issues and abandoned it. kbin was forked to mbin with the goal of having a ‘community’ of developers instead of a single one.

https://joinmbin.org/

you might like mbin then. same content, more reddit-like plus includes microblog interaction that lemmy fails at

ex: https://moist.catsweat.com/

i noticed the spam accounts but appreciated the content, which is also usually in appropriate communities… so i assisted them by updating the links directly to the intended video.

i would generally not approve of these kinds of edits if they werent bots spamvertizing a blog site

link edits fail to propagate from mbin to lemmy… not sure why. thats why the different urls

https://catbox.moe/ can host short/small mp4 files

the protocol itself creates a barrier to entry preventing other organizations. it puts all the eggs in one basket.

agreed. the follow up is just as good.

good luck to them. the router piece is incredibly top heavy and not designed for horizontal scaling.

ha, no… bluesky is not open to federation. they control the only router and do not allow connectivity to routers not controlled by them.

there isnt a single non-bluesky controlled instance that can federate natively with bluesky.

bluesky is just twitter with a little more user-controllable data sourcing. not that theres anything wrong with that, but its certainly not a part of any federation.

e. suggested reading: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

the only reason would be to prevent impersonation

because whole instances could suck, and admins need an easy solution.

dont like it? switch instances or setup your own. that is the beauty of the fediverse