I believe lemmy.world and other instances should start defederating lemmy.ml and other “tankie” instances.

Many users have blocked these instances for extreme political content already.

Please suggest any changes.

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The existence of a list of linked, and a list of blocked, implies three, possibly four independent states of “instance relationship”.

    Can someone who understands it deeply please explain to me? What is the relationship between a “linked” instance and a “blocked” instance, and how does that relate to “defederated”?

    Does federation require active configuration from one instance to another? Or is federated the default relationship when no config data exists?

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Instance Target gets linked when someone from instance Source subscribes to a community of Target

      Defederating = blocking in this context, defederated instances show up in the blocked instance list