Still somewhat new to fediverse stuff and trying to learn. Could someone explain this? Thanks!

  • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    You can’t see new stuff from beehaw, unless the new stuff is posted by other members of your own instance.

    Each instance has its own rules and requirements, and beehaw decided that moderating users from lemmy.world and sh.it.justworks due to the volume of said users is too difficult with the current moderation tools and staff - so they defederated.

    This leaves lemmy.world unable to sync with original communities on beehaw, so it can’t update its own copy of the community with new posts and comments. But it also leaves members of beehaw unable to sync with Lemmy.world. - federation is by default enabled or “opt-out”, but in order to federate both instances have to agree to do so, if one suddenly refuses to federate, then no federation happens.

    The thing about the fediverse is it allows you to go where you want - my instance (iusearchlinux.fyi) is still federated with both, so I can see both beehaw and Lemmy.world, comment and make posts on both. - if you don’t like who you are federated with or not with, find a new instance.