It seems lemmygrad.ml is federating with them and I was just wondering if this instance will too. I used to browse r/chapotraphouse before reddit banned them and I didn’t know the community was still alive in hexbear until recently. I’m sure a lot of leftists in this instance would also benefit from being able to browse hexbear contents

  • bentropy@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    Okay maybe I need some explanation here but I was under the impression that, as long as your home instance isn’t actively blocking that other instance, you’re able to interact/join any* community on that other instance.

    I’m quite new to Lemmy so maybe I missed that info or misunderstood what being federated to another instance means.

    • Drewfro66
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Instances can be configured however they want. The standard right now is a blacklist (federate with everyone who asks except blocked instances). Hexbear was considering going with a whitelist instead (only federating with a small handful of servers).

  • Drewfro66
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    Hexbear published a small list of servers they intend to federate with, which included lemmygrad.ml, blahaj.zone, and lemmy.ml. It may have also included lemmy.world but I do not remember for sure.

    Since lemmy.ml federates with Lemmygrad, I don’t see any reason why the devs would block Hexbear.

    • AEHNH@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      ohh ok I was just confused because I thought lemmygrad and hexbear were already federated but I was mistaken.

      I just checked the original hexbear announcement about the federation and it seems like it’ll happen near the end of this week

      • Drewfro66
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        It was supposed to happen before the end of this month but they’ve pushed it back to the 5th.