I think there are good reasons to not let corporate interests join the space we built to escape them, but I guess every instance is free to (de)federate with whomever they want.
So let’s say my instance (mander.xyz) defederates from Meta but another Lemmy instance that meander.xyz federates with (let’s say “misguided.ml”) does not. What happens when someone from Meta comments on a post from misguided.ml and others from misguided.ml comment on that comment? Will I see the comments on the meta comment, but not the original meta comment itself? Or will I not see the entire thread?
Alright a quick experiment to help get you an answer. I’m posting from a lemmy.world account… I’ll reply from my lemmy.ca account.
Here I am replying from my lemmy.ca account, this won’t be visible from beehaw.org version of the post: https://beehaw.org/post/839481, even if a parent comment I write here would.