I’d like to create a safe space without distraction and a focus on specific topics.
But as soon as a user from my instance posts or reacts to something outside of my instance, a lot of data gets transferred and everyone from my instance will see the post in the “All” timeline.
This could lead to a lot of distraction pretty fast, especially people with ADHD could lose track if they see some interesting stuff from other instances. I want to avoid this and give them a safe space to be able to focus.
The only way I figured out was to deactivate federation at all. There is only one button in the settings.
But I would like to keep the feature that people could comment from other Fediverse tools like Mastodon, Kbin, Peertube, etc., but it doesn’t work anymore, if federation is deactivated.
Is there a way to keep away all federated content from other instances, which got in touch with my users (proactively cross-posted stuff is okay), but keep the feature so people from other instances could post something?
And it would be okay if my users comment on external posts, too, but not all people on my instance have to know it or get distracted by it.
Thank you for your help :)
Yes, that’s exactly what I described with the issue, that a lot of other features will be deactivated too, because there is only one button for everything.
But if you know it: How exactly do I deactivate the “All Feed” to not pollute my server and avoid distractions to the users, but let them comment on external posts, without having the complete post on my instance and let external people comment on posts on my instance?
Thanks for your help.
How exactly do I deactivate the “All Feed” to not pollute my server and avoid distractions to the users, but let them comment on external posts
How would they ever find the external posts to comment on in the first place?
Like normal people! :D
Go to another instance, if you find something interesting, copy the link and paste it to the search field of your instance. After that federation starts and you can post.
There must be at least one person doing this, because otherwise ALL wouldn’t contain anything from other instances.
But it’s a little bit sad, that you’ve never done this and only look at all. It means you watch only stuff other people on your instance have seen but you don’t get further.
Like normal people! :D Go to another instance, if you find something interesting
So “normal people” would go read another instance just to bring a single comment or post over. They may as just well join the other instance. Which is what I see actually happening… Many of these lemmy accounts are the same person duplicated to route around crashes.
But it’s a little bit sad, that you’ve never done this and only look at all.
If you had any clue what I have been personally doing with lemmy for the past 90 days, you would laugh at yourself. I’ve been logging in to several different Lemmy servers every single day for months and posting about my observations… such as when a big instance put new user interfaces online, upgrade their backend, crash on their home page, etc.
