Is federation possible only between selected sites?
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Let's say I have several forums (NodeBB and Discourse) and I would like to have federation between them as I understand it (that is, the penetration of users from one instance to another without the need to re-register). I absolutely do not need (and my users) a large federverse. No ordinary person not invested in this politically or financially will study how it works. I am a tech geek and have been looking at this for a year now and I do not understand how it could be made so incredibly complex and unfriendly.
The only thing I can do with this is to merge my forums and communities into MyVerse, so that people from one of my forums do not need to re-register on another if they want to participate in a discussion there. And so that it would be possible to share some related topics affecting both of my communities. This is the only case that I see for me, my communities and my users. But I am 98% sure that no one except me and a few other moderators trained by me will use this.
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@Kosiak Sure thing, v4 shipped with allow/deny lists so you can specify which domains to add to that list.
In your case, you'd be using an allow-list.
The same limitations to the content sharing model still apply. Topics and posts won't magically flow between the sites unless follow relationships exist or you set up category syncing.
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@julian Yes, I still have to study this, but it really looks intentionally overcomplicated and confusing. It is now being forced by European funds, but I am extremely skeptical about this implementation. Much more friendly technologies have sunk into oblivion because they did not solve the problems of the mass audience and were not understood by them. Here, so many problems are created and it is unclear what problem is being solved at all. For example, discovery of new content or new platforms is impossible. I already need to have my own active communities or have many friendly platforms to get at least some distribution outside my forum. But if I already have friendly communities, then this technology is not so important to me because we can exchange links manually.
