So far we have managed to not block any other instance and I hope that can continue. :) I don’t feel instance owners should make decisions for their users. Besides, it’s going to become possible to block instances on user level in Lemmy soon I think.
kbin has user-level instance blocking already, so I can’t imagine that there are any fundamental technical problems with doing it.
Probably just a matter of prioritization I guess. The dev team for Lemmy have a lot on their plate now. I looked at the github repo and it’s a lot of issues… As with any big popular project.
But from what I’ve read, I think it’s scheduled for Lemmy 0.19 in about a month…
Neither instance has defederated from the other
Thankyou. I think it was problem with the client i was using cus it didn’t let me search my Sh.itjust.works account in that.
I think that what you may be seeing is that one lemmy server can only see the comments that are transferred to it. That happens when:
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The second server is federated with the first (which is the case here)
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Someone on the second server has subscribed to the community on the lemmy instance in which the comment was made prior to that comment being made.
Otherwise, lemmy.today will never know about the fact that another account you have somewhere posted a comment somewhere else.
It’s part of what lets the Fediverse scale up, because not every server has to have every comment made somewhere transferred to it. But…yeah, doesn’t help with visibility.
My guess is that someone will make a search engine that tries to slurp up the whole Fediverse’s comments at some point and make them searchable, if Google doesn’t get there first. Gopher had people index it (Veronica). Usenet had people index it (IIRC altavista, then Google Groups until whatever happened that made it not searchable any more). The Web had people index it (Google, Bing, a zillion others). All it takes is someone with the bandwidth, storage, CPU time, and some way to fund it (showing ads or something?).
Ah sh.itjust.works was just down at that time.
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Also, just to check that there isn’t something broken on the server side of things, federation is definitely working, because you can see new posts propagating from sh.itjust.works:
Look at:
[email protected] on lemmy.today
and
lemmy.today is getting new posts.
