Well, first thing, you should read “allow list” as “federate ONLY with these instances”. Block list is the opposite of that, “DO NOT federate with this instance “.
Try removing everything from your allow and block lists and see what happens.
Probably, though you may have to dig to find them. Lemmy is rapidly becoming like Reddit in that if something exists, there is probably a community for it. If your local search doesn’t bring anything up, I would check on lemmyverse.net. It seems to have indexed most if not all of the current communities. A quick search just now for “liberta” pulled up roughly 10 communities.
Whoops! I did the title as a joke. I wonder what I goofed that caused it to become a link.
Following that link directly is giving me a server error, and it doesn’t bring anything except up in search except your comment. Is there a particular way I’m supposed to use it?
https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hfv05qcs5xf7irr
This is a post from their admin team. In short, the Mali government has taken back their domain space. Right now, for me, FMHY is kinda up, but mostly down. Nothing really works, but I can occasionally see my feed (up to date, too), and if I click on any links I get a timed out error.
Yea!!! It’s working! I can see this post from lemmy.world’s public feed. That was quick.
The only stupid question is the one you don’t ask.
First, I don’t like calling proprietary software “official”. Proprietary software is just software with closed source code. What makes something official is someone deciding “OK, this is what we are going to use” or that it definitely came from a particular source. Getting Docker directly from Docker repositories rather from a distributions repository for example.
My general take is if FOSS can do the job, I use FOSS. If FOSS can’t do the job I need, then I will go with the best proprietary solution to my problem. If I go with FOSS, I tend to prefer using the repository of the project in question rather than my distributions repository. The projects repository tends to be more up to date and there are fewer opportunities for ba actors to play with the code. Downside is that these repositories may introduce changes that may bork your OS when/if you upgrade to a newer major version. FlatPacks and AppImages help to mitigate this.
Hope that helps.