Not trying to cast any doubt here, but how do we know this is officially done by the KDE team? I can't find a link to kde.social from kde.org. Even their matrix server is on kde.org.
@UrbenLegend @carlschwan
If you look at KDE's mastodon (https://floss.social/@kde) you will see that they boosted Carl's toot announcing it (https://floss.social/@carlschwan/110595345431992114)
Here's a link directly to their community: !KDE@lemmy.kde.social
Is there a special way to make those links? Half of them work, but then others are like an email address. This one didn't work.
Before you had to fiddle with the markdown link manually. As of v18, you can just type out the name of a community in the [!name@instan.ce](/c/name@instan.ce) format, in plain-text, and it will become a working link.
I believe links like this will be sorted automatically in Lemmy 0.18 but until then links are like this without the space between ] (
[!community@instance] (/c/community@instance)
Currently if the community hasn't been discovered by your instance then you'll get a 404 error like I just did, apparently it's a known thing and you need to search for the community before accessing it, see here - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1335
Ah OK, that one rendered correctly. But just crashes Jerboa, assuming that's because it has federated yet or something.
They are on lemmy.ml, they are already on v18, same as me with sopuli.xyz.
I am on lemmy.ml and that properly shows up as a link for me. Weird that it doesn't work for you even though we're both on lemmy.ml.
Everyone subscribe! We should make it at least the main KDE community.
Love me some officially supported federation!
Unfortunately my instance (https://feddit.de) is not federating with it yet.
Do they need to approve each and every instance manually? I thought it would happen automatically as soon as someone is trying to subscribe to a "channel" of another instance. No?
I'm not familiar with the exact process yet. But doesn't that mean if you wanted to run an unfederated instance, you'd need to manually block every other instance there is?
That's how I understood it. There is maybe a way to blacklist everything (like using a wildcard) or disable federation? I don't know. Maybe I will try to run my own personal instance just to learn how it works :)
By default, lemmy will federate openly with any other instance. You can then block specific instances. (Disallow-list)
You can additionally disable federation altogether, or only federate with a specified list. (Allow-list).
Why start a new one? We already have tons of users and content here.
Because it's better in term of health of the fediverse if we don't end up with only a few big instances like lemmy.ml. Also people can interact with lemmy.kde.social while not being on that instance
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