hm. allowlist activitypub federation, but with a "friends list" of other instances where, if the other instance federates with an instance, *that's* the condition under which you also federate with them

so like, i could spin up a smaller instance and still receive the effects of being in a larger network and discovering other instances, but only those that are already in the subset of the network that i want to be in

@MindmeshLink so like, if our instance is trusted and we boost a post from quiltbags.example, your instance adds that to thr allowlist?

that's a cool setup

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@packbat exactly, but also - if your instance is trusted and you boost our post, and someone from quiltbags.example replies, the reply comes thru

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@MindmeshLink @packbat might be good to limit it to a certain (configurable) number of degrees of separation
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@Felthry @packbat i mean, i was thinking 1 degree of separation and only using this with other allow-list-federated servers

@Felthry @packbat i guess i didn't say "and quiltbags.example is allowlisted on weirder.earth" as part of my example lol oops

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