What is the current workflow of federating with other communities?
As many others here, I come from Reddit. I recently setup my own mastodon and matrix instances so the complexity required to federate with other instances on Lemmy surprised me. Am I missing something?
When federating with other communities I have to manually add them to an allowlist. Why is there no option to federate with all available communities by default? If I don’t like a particular community, I could block it.
You might slightly misunderstand how federation works. On Mastodon someone on your instance must follow someone on a remote instance to get their posts pushed to your instance. Same with Lemmy, someone on your instance must follow a remote community to get posts & comments. Since you’re on a single user instance (like me) we don’t see anything we don’t follow/subscribe…