Mastodon (and related platforms) do not have a concept of magazines (communities), but Mbin requires that all posts should be categorized into a magazine, thus, most Mastodon posts you will find within the random magazine. They are still going to include external servers, which you can verify by checking the author of the post and seeing which server they are from.

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I am definitely seeing microblogs from non kbin.earth users on my account, and if you view the global microblog page not logged-in, you can also see it as well. I don’t believe there is a setting that would prevent seeing microblog’s from federated users (apart from the all/local feed option, which you already said was on all).

Also, here is an example peer tube channel, which you can see video posts federating under: https://kbin.earth/m/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com

I hope this helps.

I think it would be nice to be able to completely self-host (on my own hardware), but I’ve always wondered what you are supposed to do about power/internet outages? It’s not frequent at all, but there will be a few days out of the year where power is completely out (due to a storm for instance). Similarly, internet gets a bit spotty after a heavy storm. Maybe I shouldn’t be worrying about 100% uptime too much though, as I am offering a free service. Still, if I can help it, I’d prefer people not to have a 5-day period when they can’t access the server at all.

I’d be curious to know what those admins switched to (if you have any idea).