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.
It's been boosted by the KDE mastodon account and it was put up by this guy https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan so there is a good chance it is legit.
So full disclosure, the instance is not 100% official since it is not hosted on kde infrastructure, as this would create too much work on KDE's sysadmin to maintain another service.
But I manage it, and I'm a long-term KDE contributor (5 years now), maintaining most user-facing websites and various applications (Kalendar, Tokodon, NeoChat, Kontrast, ...). I'm part of the KDE Promo team (I have access to all the existing kde social media accounts) and of the fundraising team. And in the past, I was moderating r/kde, but I deleted my account a while ago already. And finally, I already maintain https://kde.social, which hosts the mastodon accounts of a few kde applications as well as of a few other contributors. (all that in my free time)
Hopefully, this is legit enough :) And I will add the link to the Lemmy instance in the footer of kde.org
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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