Lemmy Federate updates: Mbin support and federation mode option

I've been rewriting Lemmy Federate for the last 3 days and finally finished it. While there are no changes on the frontend, many things have changed behind the scenes.

Mbin support

After several requests, I have added Mbin support to Lemmy Federate. It is currently in experimental state. I may improve it in the coming days.

Currently, Lemmy-Mbin connection is off by default. You can enable it by activating the "cross software" option in the instance settings.

Federation mode option

I added this option for small/single user instances. If you select federation mode as seed only in the instance settings, your instance will not follow other instance communities, but other instances will follow your communities.

Although I am not a fan of this option, I think it will work for instances like under 100 users.

Lemmy Federate

source code

Here’s example settings page: