big update, awful.systems is now a federated lemmy instance. let me know if anything looks broken! here’s what to expect:

  • to pull up an awful.systems community on another instance, just paste that community’s URL into the other instance’s search bar
  • federation with other lemmy instances should work, and probably kbin too? there’s no way I can find to pull in pre-federation posts on remote instances though, so send your friends here to read the backlogs
  • we can’t federate with most of mastodon right now because lemmy doesn’t implement authorized_fetch, which is a best practice setting for mastodon instances. if your instance doesn’t use it, try entering something like @sneerclub@awful.systems into your mastodon search; lemmy communities are represented to mastodon as users
  • this is pretty much an experimental thing so if we have to turn it off, I’ll send out another post
  • reply to this post with ideas for moderation tools and instances you’d like to see blocked (and a reason why) and we’ll take action on anything that sounds like a good idea

federation was made possible by

  • lemmy’s devs skipping their release process and not telling anyone 0.18.2 was released on friday? so we’re on 0.18.2 now
  • updating all of the deployment cluster’s flake inputs just in case
  • @dgerard@awful.systems shouting yolo
  • David GerardA
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    31 year ago

    weird - i went to make a post and a zillion communities that aren’t on this server showed up. How does Lemmy work these out? People here posting to them or something?

    • @selfOPMA
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      21 year ago

      from a prior attempt at making sure federation worked, it seems that dropdown gets populated with every community our instance knows about everywhere (with no sort or anything to surface local communities). I think unused communities are supposed to get trimmed by a scheduled process, but I never actually saw that happen

    • @Evinceo
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      21 year ago

      huh, I can only see a few communities when I look at all…