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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by maltfield@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If you query the lemmy API, you get a ton of fun JSON data:

One thing interesting that I saw was huge lists of other federated servers in the federated_instances dictionary.

There's three arrays in there:

What do each of these mean, and what impact does it have on the server when they're set to some list of hosts or if they're null?

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[–] poVoq 1 points 1 year ago

Even with open federation an instance needs to know about other instances before they can actively push updates to them. This is what "linked" means.