• sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’m confused. If you run your own instance, allowing no new accounts, can’t you federate with whomever you want, without anything spilling over to other instances? Maybe I don’t understand how federation works if that’s the case…

    • ShittyKopper [old]@lemmy.w.on-t.work
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      1 year ago

      I mean, just by replying here content from my single user instance (this comment, specifically) is “spilling over” to all the instances who can see this post.

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        1 year ago

        Yup, I totally get that if you decide to post crap on somebody else’s instance, you are “spilling over” and might get defederated.

        But I was pondering a different question in my initial message: If I decide to create my own instance, onto which I allow no-one else to create an account, and I’m nice individual with no desire for racism, genderism or any other tendency for -isms, how does my federating with racism-instance.social, on my local instance, spill over to other instances that I also federate with?

        • ShittyKopper [old]@lemmy.w.on-t.work
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          1 year ago

          This is less of an issue (if any) in Lemmy, but at least in Mastodonland, the fact that you can boost/retweet stuff to other people does mean that a defederated instance can see your content boosted through a “neutral” instance. There were several instances like “dot technology” who went beyond defederating not only the crap instances, but instances that refused to defederate from said crap instances to lessen this problem over there, but with Lemmy not having boosting this isn’t really a problem over here.

    • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Yes you can. You can have a instance completely cut off from the fediverse if thats what you want, but you’d be missing out on most of the content. I don’t know of any such instances that actually have any activity.