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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by tlonny on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:14AM (#36547926)
I'm not too clued in with how federation works - but is this practical?

Doesn't federation require admins of both instances to agree to federate?

If so, I could imagine it not scaling for larger instances that could receive 100+ federation requests a day.

Further, you would have to repeat this step each time to encountered a new instance you wished to participate on.

Is my understanding of the federation process correct or have I totally missed the mark? :D

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by kalleboo on Saturday July 01, 2023 @10:16AM (#36550361)
The federation is opt-out, so by default an instance will accept any federation request. You only block bad instances after the fact (or use some kind of shared blocklist)
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