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Can a defed instance see comments hosted on other instances by defed users? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ok so beehaw.org defederated sh.itjust.works, and I post on lemmy.ml, they are unable to see what I post to lemmy.ml right?

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[–] WhoRoger 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I understand this whole federation thing correctly, when a user makes a post/comment, that content is tied to their home instance.

So if the instance goes down, that content disappears completely. It's not cloned to other instances.

Ergo the same should be the case if the instance gets defederated - content made by its users should become unavailable to instances that don't federate with it.

Am I correct?

[–] ItsYourBoyHalo 2 points 2 years ago

I don't know if Lemmy works in the same way Mastodon does, but in Mastodon the content is cloned to other instances.