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I’m honestly super confused about what you can and can’t do when federation ties have been cut.
So here is how it works. Once you are de-federated, you can still post to existing beehaw communities, however those discussions will only be visible to other users on your own instance. Other instances will not see the discussions such as the $1.2B fish barricade article lemmy.world/c/news@beehaw.org. Look at the new posts under https://feddit.de/c/news@beehaw.org or https://lemmy.ca/c/news@beehaw.org, they are synced with Beehaw's, and the version of Beehaw news within lemmy.world is now it's own thing until re-federation. Vice versa for Beehaw to lemmyworld communities
Our posts still show up in their instance up until the point of defederation. But their comments/posts in the Beehaw communities are only viewable to their users/other users and are not visible/sync to the Beehaw instance.
Super weird. So lemmy.world’s view of beehaw c/technology could just be littered with troll or spam posts for all beehaw users would know?
It's just posts from before the defederation though, right?
Edit: Yeah, for clarity, they shouldn't see any of our new community posts from that point. They should still see all the historical content from our community up until that point. Then they'll only see stuff they post into it from their instance. That's my understanding at least.
If I sort by New in Lemmy.world, I still see posts that just went up within the hour.
Weird. Clearly what I read in another thread on this same topic must've just been speculation. It's good to be having these discussions because there are still a lot of confusing things about the Fediverse that aren't very clear.
Yeah, this is kind of a confusing mess. I'm totally lost. I just posted to a beehaw community from Lemmy.world, and a bunch of people on Lemmy.world replied.
https://lemmy.world/post/158352
That seems like a disaster waiting to happen. Doesn't this effectively create beehaw branded communities on LW with no beehaw community content within them?