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Hrefna (DHC)Feb 20, 2023

What if instead of opting _out_ of content and #federation (fediblock), instances had to opt _in_ to content and federation?

What I mean by that:

* Instead of "things appear in the federated timeline by default" it is "only servers that have been reviewed show up in the fedderated timeline."

* Instead of "follow requests require review if coming from a silenced server" it would be "non-mutual follow requests require review unless coming from a reviewed server."

#ActivityPub #SafErFediverse

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marius

@hrefna this is the way I plan to implement federation in my projects. The discussion platform #brutalinks requires explicit following other instances by admins in order for their posts to get pulled into the local timeline.

I achieved this by having every instance have a corresponding activitypub actor, and the "federated" part is done by explicitly follow/accept-ing from other instance actors.