Last week was my first time really looking into what settings are available to admins who run their own instance. I was a bit surprised to find there isn't much there. At least through masto.host. I don't think they hide settings though. Only some of the deeper technical stuff.
As I continue to educate myself about how mastodon and ActivityPub currently works, I found myself asking a basic question. How do I see the list of servers I'm currently federated with?
I expected to see a list of servers that I federate with. There is a view that looks like it *should* show that list. Under the moderation tools. But it was empty.
Not weird at all. We have been trained out of wanting to understand and control our own experience. But it's actually very cool and empowering.
https://mastodon.social/@Palleas/111998749838523835
So here's my best theory. I know that another implicit way to enable federation is if a user on my instance follows a user on another instance. My instance will start pulling those posts in automatically and putting them into that user's feed. It looks like that kind of implicit federation is not shown in the tools? That's very surprising to me.
@polotek From what I understand it's not so much your instance is pulling but the followed instance is pushing uodates to the follower. Mastodon in particular is pretty much only waiing for data to be pushed to it. It makes it annoying when you want to see posts on a profile that hasn't been followed for a while yet.
