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 :)
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.
At this point it sounds like you don’t know how federation work, otherwise you wouldn’t have different accounts.
You really have blind faith that federation even works, when I’ve been validating data and highlighting that delivery is not reliable when it has so much overhead it crashes servers.
Sorry about my last post. After reading it again, it sounded rude.
Sorry! I am a little bit stressed right now, because I was working the last 2-3 weeks to set up a Lemmy instance, working every day on it and one issue after another appeared and now it even looks like that comments don’t even reach me, because they land in the void because of the reinstall problem.
I could cry!
