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YSK: If you're on Lemmy.World or Sh.itjust.works you should not subscribe to any Beehaw communities
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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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My understanding is that Lemmy isn’t peer-to-peer, it’s more like hub-and-spoke, relative to the instance that the community is on.
So if users on B and C are interacting with a post on A, then it’s the responsibility of A to be the postman and handle the syncing between A<>B and A<>C; B and C don’t directly talk in this case.
Thus, nobody outside of Lemmyworld sees posts from Lemmyworld made on Beehaw communities, because Beehaw doesn’t accept them, and therefore doesn’t pass them along to the other instances, either.
So let's say A is Beehaw and C is Lemmy.world and B is a hypothetical instance that Beehaw and Lemmy.world approve. How does that work?
Does it just clip off viewability of the comments for A if a post from C is made?
Trying to understand your comment it sounds like your saying if A bans C, then no on other than C can view their comments?
Not quite. So imagine each Lemmy instance is a post office, responsible for receiving mail from other instances on your behalf, and also responsible for sending your mail to other instances.
The post office (instance) that matters is the one where the thread is taking place. When you write a message on a thread - if the thread is on your home instance, great! No outbound mail. If it's not, your post office (instance) will send your mail across the fediverse to the instance where the thread actually lives, and the receiving instance adds it to the thread.
Likewise, when users reply to you, their instances mail their replies to the instance where the thread lives; the thread's instance is then responsible for re-forwarding their mail to you.
In this case, Beehaw has unilaterally decided not to accept mail from, or deliver mail to, Lemmyworld. So your experience varies based on which is your home instance, and which instance you're interacting with.
So exploring it by example, let's consider we have three instances: Beehaw, Lemmy.world, and (shameless plug) my adorable little home instance of federate.cc, which is federated with both of the above (and is accepting membership applications by the way!)
If the thread lives on Beehaw, and you are a member of...
If the thread lives on Lemmyworld, and you are a member of...
If the thread lives on federate.cc, and you are a member of...
Phew! How confusing. A far better solution would be... don't defederate, splitting the community!
Hmm, what happens to the comments in your third situation? Do Beehaw users see some kind of "Cannot display this message" error on LW comments but can still read replies to it made by other users or does the entire comment chain just disappear?
Third situation being, thread on neutral server? AFAIK the comments from LW just never appear at all. They won’t know they’re missing any content.
That's good. It's always annoying to see "Hey, there's content here but you're not allowed to see it" on sites like this.