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Either my searching is wrong, or there’s a weird sub name out there….but I find it perplexing that us nerds haven’t made a big gaming sub yet?

I’ve seen a lemmy world one, a pcgaming on kbin, a beehaw one that’s mostly dead….but no big boi general one?

I’ve blocked 3 fuck cars communities just this evening but I nary see any gaming posts in my ALL - active/hot.

Weird. Someone point me in the right direction please 😅

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[–] rivingtondown 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is honestly very confusing.

When I originally decided to join a lemmy community I signed up with beehaw.org and was accepted. During the reddit apocalypse I also registered for lemmy.world

From my understanding, and someone please treat me like I'm a 5 year old, when I view [email protected] via my lemmy.world account I only see old beehaw user posts (from before de-federation) and every lemmy.world user post but only lemmy.world users can see my posts? However, if I view from my beehaw account I can see all posts from lemmy.world and beehaw users but only beehaw users can see my posts?

Does this extend to comments? If I comment on a lemmy.world user's post through my beehaw account... that OP just won't ever see it?

[–] WhoRoger 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Beehaw blocks lemmy.world (lw), but not vice versa.

Therefore, a lw user can see all new beehaw content, but any interaction - commenting or voting, will not get back to beehaw, and so it can't federate them to other instances either. So anything a lw user does on beehaw is only visible to other lw users.

Beehaw users can only see lw content from before when beehaw defederated from lw, but should be able to interact with it normally, except for other lw users like in the last paragraph.

[–] rivingtondown 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think you're mistaken.

A LW user does NOT see new beehaw content. If I visit [email protected] on my LW account and sort by new... the newest post is 2d old from an infosec.pub user and the next newest is 4d from a LW user. However, if I visit [email protected] from my beehaw account there's at least a dozen+ NEW posts from the last 24 hours, mostly from beehaw users.

But that kind of shows my point, it's confusing. I think the simplest way to think of it (again, very layman understanding that could be wrong). LW users on [email protected] can only see posts and comments from non-beehaw users but the vast majority of the users/posts on that channel are from beehaw.

[–] WhoRoger 2 points 1 year ago

Wait did I get it exactly backwards? I need more sleep and less heat.

[–] CaptainBlagbird 2 points 1 year ago

So non-local communities from (one-way) de-federated instances are basically mod-less spaces where users from federated instances can interact with eachother?

E.g. LW users and infosec users can create posts and comments on lemmy.world/c/[email protected], but the mods from beehaw.org/c/gaming have no power and don't even see it, since they are disconnected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that each instance essentially clones posts and comments of other instances that they are federated with. In the case of Beehaw, you'll see the old versions of posts and comments that were cloned to lemmy.world before Beehaw federated, but nothing since. So the users of each defederated instance will only see the respective version cloned on their instance, but not the new comments or posts that have happened since.