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This is not the case.

The Lemmy devs decided to make federation either whitelist oriented or blacklist oriented by an admin setting. Blacklist oriented means that your server will federate with all servers it hears of except ones the admins block, whitelist is the opposite, the admin has to federate on purpose.

Since Lemmy is developed by and widely used by whiny tittybaby communists who plug their ears any time someone says something they don’t chant to themselves daily already, whitelist based federation is the most common way the other instances do it. As a result, most of the other servers know about this one.

So here’s the thing with an “introduction” community… It isolates newcomers from the actual communities they want to engage in. You’ll wind up with an entire community flooded with “hello!” posts, most of which will never post anywhere else again. The people youre trying to interact with won’t notice.

If you want to engage with people online you have to just do it.

I personally don’t like federation for this sort of user experience. And especially I don’t like the way Lemmy does it. It’s a huge mess.

Nope.

Just dive in!