I’m with lemmy.world and I can still see beehaw recent posts and I can interact with them despite us being mutually defederated. How does this actually work?

  • @CylonBunnyEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    I think not, even if other servers are federated with World, they are pulling the comments from Beehaw, so they wouldn’t see the comment. Your instance doesn’t check every other instance for the comments on a thread, just the instance that owns the community.

    • deejay4amEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      This is correct.

      Comments made locally on an instance that has been defederated from the owning remote instance only exist on that local instance.

      I’m not clear on what happens when refederation occurs…

      • Playingwithethenew
        2•1 year ago

        I think that posts made when the instance was defederated will not be there, but posts made after will be. Correct me if I’m wrong.

        • Rhaedas
          1•1 year ago

          I think that is true just like the question of whether posts made, federated, then deleted would remain outside the instance. I can imagine the server drain if it had to recursively search through all history everywhere that’s connected to do such things. A refederated server, or even a newly online server simply shouldn’t spike the network with pulls from weeks, months, years back.

          This is why Kbin has the boost button in addition to an upvote. That’s being debated on if it’s the best way to do it, or if there’s a need for a more integrated way to do the same thing. It basically pushes old content back on the federated “stack” to refresh new views. Perhaps Kbin and Lemmy upvotes should do the same?