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Defederation? (lemmy.one)

From my understanding federation is having services be able to communicate with one another. If my understanding is wrong can you correct me or explain it further.

Also what is going on with defederating lemmy?

Thx

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[-] crashspeeder@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not that Lemmy is defederating, it's that Beehaw is choosing to block sh.itjust.works and Lemmy.world, which means those two are no longer able to federate to Beehaw, and vice-versa. So to that end, they're defederating. Beehaw will keep federating content to other instances (like how I read this from FMHY, and am commenting from FMHY, which you can read).

Hopefully that helps

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not vice-versa, oddly enough. I don't know if this is the norm for the fediverse, but on Lemmy, instance blocking goes one-way. So users on those instances can federate with Beehaw and see communities, posts, and comments, and even post their own stuff, but users on Beehaw won't see it.

Edit: Ah, correction, this only applies to things on instances that are still federated to the defederated instances. The two instances defederated from Beehaw will no longer get any updates directly from Beehaw, but will still see Beehaw users' comments on posts on other instances.

[-] LambentMote@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

They have a cached copy of the content from before defederation. It's a bit weird, but they can still comment and make posts in the zombie community, but the posts go nowhere. Only users from their own instance can see them, every federated instance sees the 'true' Beehaw content.

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