

Abolutely necessarily.
it works like this:
@privateuser@mastodon.example.com
has a “followers only account”.@someuser@pixelfed.example.com
is a friend of above account, requested access and was granted. This now causesmastodon.example.com
to push all messages of@privateuser
topixelfed.example.com
.@anotheruser@pixelfed.example.com
requests access, but gets ignored. But the pixelfed instance marks the user as “follows@privateuser
”- In the interface of
@someuser
, the messages are shown as expected. - In the interface of
@anotheruser
, they are also shown. Because PF basically does a database “select messages of users that the user follows”, without checking if the access was ever granted.
Important to note, that this would not happen, if the messages weren’t already pushed to the server due to the “allowed” user
As I haven’t seen this mentioned so far: Be sure that you both learn the language.
Seen a lot of posts in other immigration heavy subs/communities where people move to europe and don’t make any effort on learning the local language, and then are surprised/depressed that they can’t find any friends or jobs