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Federation
How your stories travel
Independent sites on this platform can share content. Here's how far this site reaches, what it takes for your posts to travel, and where they actually go.
Content can flow to and from any connected instance across the wider network.
Every site is its own authority. It sets its reach — how far its content travels, and how much it pulls in.
Reach runs two ways, each set on its own: inbound (what you see) and outbound (where you appear). The operator sets a ceiling — sub-sites can be more private, never more open. Even on a closed site you can opt your own posts in under Settings → Community Discovery.
Reach sets how far this site can send. But not everything you post is eligible to go — a title has to graduate first.
Every post is visible here the moment it goes up, and gathers community feedback in the Film Lab.
Once enough of the community approves a title (3 here), it's cleared to travel. Until then it stays home.
Approved content federates out — as far as this site's reach allows. Pending content never leaves.
Two ways your work reaches another site: with the community's stamp — a title approved here, carrying this site's endorsement — or by your own hand: if you hold an account on another site, you can republish your work there yourself. That travels as you, not as us — and the receiving community still reviews it.
Want to keep something home? Mark any post Local Only when you create or edit it — it stays on this site even after it's approved.
Your content
— where it actually travels from Thunder Hill Cinema, right nowSign in to trace exactly where your own posts, reviews, events, and venues travel across this site's connected peers.
Your feed has a three-way switch — Crew · Local · All — plus a hashtag mode for following a tag across the whole network. Even "Local" can pull in posts from other sites serving your area.
Two things have to be on for any content from other sites to appear: this site's federation switch, and your own "show federated content" preference. Turn either off and you only see this site's own posts.