I’m considering running my own Lemmy instance just for myself and maybe a few friends, but before I go to the trouble I want to make sure I don’t get into a place where I’ve put the instance up but no one will federate with me because I’m too small to be worth it and they’re overwhelmed by federation requests.
Those of you who’ve set up an instance, was this a problem? Do the big servers have explicit allowlists, or do they tend to blocklist instead?
It happens automatically. You just need to search for and subscribe to some communities on a few of the bigger instances from yours and it’s like magic.
In all seriousness, that’s all you need to do.