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Is it possible to partially disable federation to not pollute the server and keep focus? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by utopify_org@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I'd like to create a safe space without distraction and a focus on specific topics.

But as soon as a user from my instance posts or reacts to something outside of my instance, a lot of data gets transferred and everyone from my instance will see the post in the "All" timeline.

This could lead to a lot of distraction pretty fast, especially people with ADHD could lose track if they see some interesting stuff from other instances. I want to avoid this and give them a safe space to be able to focus.

The only way I figured out was to deactivate federation at all. There is only one button in the settings.

But I would like to keep the feature that people could comment from other Fediverse tools like Mastodon, Kbin, Peertube, etc., but it doesn't work anymore, if federation is deactivated.

Is there a way to keep away all federated content from other instances, which got in touch with my users (proactively cross-posted stuff is okay), but keep the feature so people from other instances could post something?

And it would be okay if my users comment on external posts, too, but not all people on my instance have to know it or get distracted by it.

Thank you for your help :)

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should use only the local feed then, that’s pretty much what you want, no? Only content posted to your instance.

[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yes, that's exactly what I described with the issue, that a lot of other features will be deactivated too, because there is only one button for everything.

But if you know it: How exactly do I deactivate the "All Feed" to not pollute my server and avoid distractions to the users, but let them comment on external posts, without having the complete post on my instance and let external people comment on posts on my instance?

Thanks for your help.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

No, OP is saying that if you keep federation, but only browse by "local", you will not see posts brought in from other instances by other users. That's only a thing if you browse by "all".

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Am just a layman myself so I don’t know with certainty either, but I don’t believe that is currently an available function. Either instances are federated or they are not, no in between.