House was started in part to have a backup in case reddit bans Monero or otherwise goes to shit (looks like it will) but also from my horrible experience fighting ai-bot-comments that look just about human at first glance but add zero value.

Because of the latter, monero.house was only federating with very few other lemmy instances and puts a lot of emphasis on verifying that every single user is really human.

By now I have learned a lot more about how Lemmy works and cleared up the concerns I was having about ressource usage when federating (it is apparently close to zero) as well as concerns regarding moderation.

With that being said:

monero.house

now has open federation.

I'll evalute how this affects our little Monero Lemmy instance over some time but for now it seems like a very positive change. Due to the increase in content brought from federation, there is now finally a reason to check house more than once per day 😅

For people who dont care about anything but Monero, the "local" tab should still be largely the same experience as before, with the only difference being that people from other instances can now comment on posts made here.

The sign-up process will also stay the same so you'll always know you are most likely talking to a real person when they dont have another @-symbol+ domain behind their username.

Should this for some reason not work out, we can always silo the instance again but I'm optimistic about this change.