Hi. After discovering the connected instances list on my instance, I saw a huge list of blocked ones, which(as I assume) is unique for each instance. So, I started to wonder: is there an instance that federates with as much others as possible and has the smallest black list? Maybe some kind of an observer instance on which you can access as much of Fediverse as it is possible? Thanks in advance.
If you’re looking for the broadest view of the fediverse possible, I would warn that the instances that block the least are often the ones that are defederated from the most. There’s a tradeoff – as you have more and more lax moderation policies, more and more instances seem to decide they don’t want to interact with your instance. Also, if your goal is to see as much of the fediverse as possible, most of the posts you’re missing aren’t because your instance blocks them, but because lemmy doesn’t support showing them – you’re missing way more mastodon and pixelfed and loops and bookwyrm etc posts because your software doesn’t support them than you’re missing lemmy posts because your instance blocks theirs.
Are you suggesting that other software allows to show more of the Fediverse with Lemmy included?
I am. Interacting with a lemmy community from mastodon is a bit unwieldy, but you can do it. I bet you could even follow and post from pixelfed, though I haven’t tried. Mastodon was the first fediverse platform, so i think it’s generally the one that most platforms play best with, if you’re just looking for the widest view – Hubzilla users tell me it’s the best for seeing and participating in the largest chunk of the fediverse, but I’m yet to try it. More than anything, though, I’m telling you that if you want to see everything, you’ll have to be prepared to make more than one account – some stuff, like wanderer or funkwhale or owncast are pretty far afield from lemmy or mastodon, and you’ll be best served by using that service directly instead of trying to listen in from outside, and if you want to see into some of the more block-happy instances, you’ll have to sign up for an account on a “known good” (to them) instance.