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What's something about the fediverse you know but most people seem not to? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I only just learned today that, when someone from one instance gets banned from another instance, that person not only is no longer able to interact with the second instance, but people from the second instance actually can't see anything the person said from the moment they got banned even though they're still there. I'm disappointed to learn all my friends who got banned from my instance are still saying stuff and nobody told me, making it more akin to an instance forcing everyone to block them (because individuals blocking each other the same way work like this). And this is coming from the person who has fantasized about universalization of federation.

What's something about the fediverse that was most recently unobscured but that you know now?

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think i heard somewhere that a request to delete content of yours is passed from instance to instance. It can be ignored too by specific instances I believe.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Something to consider is that any given instance can be a bad actor and do whatever the hell they want.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 1 week ago

That's good to keep in mind with everything you send out to the internet.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Possibly this was me yesterday.

While such requests could be intentionally ignored, I’m not of aware of a case where any actually have been. I can’t see why anyone would, and going rogue like that is liable to get your instance defederated.

[–] toototabon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How to monitor which instances ignored the request?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would it need to be monitored? I can’t think of a reason that an instance would not want to honor them, and if they were to, someone would eventually notice and complain. I don’t see a value in monitoring/policing it.

[–] toototabon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps «monitoring» was too strong of a word...

someone would eventually notice and complain.

I'll rephrase: if a layperson wanted to check if an instance is not following through, how could they confirm it?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If a comment were removed from instance A, you could go look at the same post on instance B and see whether the comment is also removed there. You don’t need a user account on either instance to do this.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Would be neat to have a site take in a Url for a post/comment and display a list of top instances or something stating whether it's visible there or not.