> Federation is not set up by default. You can add this this federation block to your lemmy.hjson, and ask other servers to add you to their allowlist.
Bleh. So it's not federated by default, meaning there's very little reason to even spin up an instance?
Sounds fair. I think I gonna go deploy some lemmy and poke around it then.
@Compgeek oauth for fediverse. Oh boy, that sounds like so much fun /s
@Compgeek absolutely. Or needs two things: filter lists (that's mostly client side) to separate the toot stream (check up on often) vs however the subreddits on lemmy are called (check once in a while in bulk). And then you need a list of posts only from the former with an option to drill in.
I know, those are still different paradigms. It's just weird that I can authenticate to so many things online as my google id and yet I must have different identities for the “federated” crowd.
Following (https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy) was a bad idea. It's literally every comment with subpar context. Which is fine, the mental models of twitter and reddit are different, after all, but it's
Following @lemmy was a bad idea. It's literally every comment with subpar context. Which is fine, the mental models of twitter and reddit are different, after all, but it's not digestible from the stream as it's just an excessive amount of noise.