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Can someone give me some context here? Did beehaw.org do something to make things go one way only? If so, why?
Yes they did. The Beehaw instance has stopped listening to lemmy.world (and others), while lemmy.world still listens to Beehaw.
The Beehaw admins only want highly moderated content on their server and said they weren't able to moderate everything coming from large open instances.
I dont think this is quite right - lemmy.world can't listen to Beehaw either, it just still has the synced copies of the Beehaw communities loaded on it. So lemmy.world users can still see posts and comments from before the defederation and can even comment themselves but nothing gets synced between the two instances. Effectively there are separate instances of those communities now, one on Beehaw and one on lemmy.world. To be honest this way of managing defederation feels a bit misleading as it gives the impression there is still a connection, IMO when you browse a community that originated on a defederated instance it should be something really obvious and upfront.
Ah sorry for my misunderstanding. So, instances actively send their fresh data to the other instances; it's not a passive thing like one instance that looks at another (like we do through a browser)? What prevents the lemmy.world server to access fresh data from Beehaw? It's public after all.