A few days ago the Beehaw admins decided to defederate this instance, which means (as far as I understand Lemmy) we should not receive new content from their side. However I keep seeing new posts and comments on my subscriptions (example in the screenshot). Should this be happening? Have they re-federated lemmy.world recently and I missed the news?
Yes but they are post from users not on beehaw. We have a mirror on our instance on which you can still post and comment. So those posts are new, but they’re not from beehaw. And if you have an account on beehaw you won’t see the posts you see here. If you’re seeing posts from beehaw users then somethings wrong
Basically upon defederation, we kept the community and you can still post to it. It just won’t sync with the real one
OK this finally made it click for me: new posts can still be created on the old version of the community that is hosted on lemmy.world, they just don’t sync back to the version hosted at Beehaw (their users don’t see it, everyone else does).
That does make me wonder how these “mirrored” communities get moderated though. If Beehaw users can’t see the new post, what’s stopping anyone from spamming these communities?
I really have no idea about moderation :/ I’m not seeing a way for the original mods to do it (obviously) so maybe they really can turn into troll farms.