I built my own instance, and it federates with other ones just fine.
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Self-Hosted Lemmy instance as well, your post is being seen.
I'm using public instances, and mine are both federated with kbin.
If I spun up a private instance, and I'd like to, I'll see if I can't federate with more services... but only text ones. No PeerTube or image-sharing for me.
Every post to a community is boosted, because as far as itβs concerned each user is only posting to their own feed, thatβs how it ends up centralized. Replies might also show up as boosted.
It can work but is not ideal.
So far it seems kind of hit or miss whether stuff shows up, but some of it is!