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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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.
@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.
