Now that I (I think) understand federation I was going to unblock the beehaw communities since I should still be able to vote and comment on them but I can’t find them now.
Now that I (I think) understand federation I was going to unblock the beehaw communities since I should still be able to vote and comment on them but I can’t find them now.
fwiw, you can’t actually vote and comment on them, when federation is removed that means every communication from here to there is ignored - posts, comments, votes, user DMs, all of it. We can still see their posts, but what’s happening is we’re federally pulling their posts over to our side, you’re voting and commenting on them, this instance is recording those votes and comments, and when it tries to send them over for federation purposes beehaw rejects them.
But don’t our comments stay in our copy of the thread, so in my case (as a .world user), other users from my instance would see my comments? No one else would, right?
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/502284
To add to this, yes, other lemmy.world users will see it, but if the post gets deleted over there for beehaw reasons, we wouldn’t know or have any say, it’d be gone if beehaw ever went down, OP will never be able to participate in discussions, posts made on beehaw that violate our rules will still make their way over here, and more. It’s just not a good fix. Let them be a splinter community and repost the links and images to your home instance or a relevant instance.
Yeah but I’m pretty sure we’re the bigger community so it’s now really beehaw that isn’t seeing most posts and comments.
That’s true, but if you’re voting and commenting on those posts, your discussion is all isolated from the OP and the admins and mods who control the post. You’re better off grabbing the link/image and posting it outside of a splinter community (Beehaw).