I get the idea of federation etc now in terms of the fediverse but when something is defederated does that just mean it’s not integrating with all the others/the one I am currently on?
Like I am on Lemmy.world and for arguments sake I can view posts etc on Lemmy.bullshit cos it’s federated. Then Lemmy.bullshit ends up being full of nutballs and Lemmy.world admins cut ties with them so I can no longer see their stuff from my instance and is now ‘defederated’, is that right?
Yes, we only see stuff from lemmy.bullshit to the point where lemmy.world were still in sync. So we can only see lemmy.world users interactions with post from lemmy.bullshit after the defederation. The same goes for them they can’t see lemmy.world users interactions either. because what lemmy.world users are interacting with is a copy (of lemmy.bullshits original post) and isn’t sending the updates back to lemmy.bullshit and the other way around, the original isn’t updating the copy.
Yeah, my understanding is that defederation prevents any incoming communication, so you won’t see any posts or comments that come from lemmy.bullshit, however users from lemmy.bullshit will still see all of your comments and posts from lemmy.world unless they choose to defederate you back.
however users from lemmy.bullshit will still see all of your comments and posts from lemmy.world unless they choose to defederate you back
see, but not interact with, is that right? Or can they still reply, but it’ll only show up on their end (and for whoever they’re still federated with)?
Yeah, they can vote and reply and all of that and others who remain federated will see their interactions, but you or any other server who defederates them won’t.
I get the idea of federation etc now in terms of the fediverse but when something is defederated does that just mean it’s not integrating with all the others/the one I am currently on?
Like I am on Lemmy.world and for arguments sake I can view posts etc on Lemmy.bullshit cos it’s federated. Then Lemmy.bullshit ends up being full of nutballs and Lemmy.world admins cut ties with them so I can no longer see their stuff from my instance and is now ‘defederated’, is that right?
That’s how I have experienced it.
Yes, we only see stuff from lemmy.bullshit to the point where lemmy.world were still in sync. So we can only see lemmy.world users interactions with post from lemmy.bullshit after the defederation. The same goes for them they can’t see lemmy.world users interactions either. because what lemmy.world users are interacting with is a copy (of lemmy.bullshits original post) and isn’t sending the updates back to lemmy.bullshit and the other way around, the original isn’t updating the copy.
Yeah, my understanding is that defederation prevents any incoming communication, so you won’t see any posts or comments that come from
lemmy.bullshit, however users fromlemmy.bullshitwill still see all of your comments and posts fromlemmy.worldunless they choose to defederate you back.see, but not interact with, is that right? Or can they still reply, but it’ll only show up on their end (and for whoever they’re still federated with)?
Yeah, they can vote and reply and all of that and others who remain federated will see their interactions, but you or any other server who defederates them won’t.
Good to know, thanks!