Yes, federation isn’t a passive thing that the instance does. Think of it as us living on an island and striking forth as explorers to make new trade routes with other lands. We can only know about those other lands if one of our explorers has sought them out.

I guess this explains some of the waiting times in Ausländerbehörden and is hopefully a kick in the pants to make the whole system more efficient. I'm very glad I had help getting through it.

The fediverse is deliberately designed not to do that as federation is not cheap in terms of computing resources. I believe it’s exponentially complex as the number of federated instances grows, at least that’s my understanding with Mastodon.

If you want to subscribe to another instance community, you can either enter its full URL in the search (for instance beehaw.org/c/technology) or if someone else is already subscribed you can find it listed by going to the communities section here and selecting the “all” filter.

It's a minor thing but I'm glad they've fixed the "Enemy Hack in Progress" glitch with money transfers and other interactions. It was pretty immersion breaking.

Ah, much more coherent.

I haven't been involved in the project for a decade or so but I was one of the founders of OpenRA, so thanks for recommending it! I'm very happy it's still actively developed nearly two decades later.

I’m glad I got out of webdev when node.js started taking off.