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Beehaw defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by gary@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] NotInTheFace@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

So what does defederation mean in practice? I can still see communities on beehaw im subbed to. Is it just that I won't see new ones? Or that I can't search/comment on them?

[-] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ok so Lemmy instances can decide to disconnect from other instances.

We have instance A, instance B and instance C

initially all 3 are interconnected or "federated with each other" - any member of any instance can see the communities and users from any other instance.

Suddenly something happens that makes instance A defederate with instance B

So now instance A cannot see and participate with the communities and users of B and vice versa. However instance C can see and participate in the communities of Both

So in terms of beehaw vs lemmy.world I would be on instance 3 - I can see and participate both, their defederation from each other doesn't affect you, it only affects the users of beehaw or Lemmy.world

EDIT:

I just realised your in lemmy.world. huh weird... Maybe it takes a while for the defederation to settle, or maybe it makes it a one way communication.

EDIT2 I might be wrong, see this post

lemmyworld@lemmy.world/t/22361/-/comment/96933