I’m with lemmy.world and I can still see beehaw recent posts and I can interact with them despite us being mutually defederated. How does this actually work?

  • Gatsby@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    From my understanding, in a federated scenario,

    1. your home instance is making a copy of the remote instance.
    2. Comments you make are on the local copy your home instance made.
    3. Your instance tells the remote instance the comments made in your home copy.
    4. Comments in your home copy are written to the remote instance.
    5. Instances now have your comment when they copy the remote instance

    Defederation breaks the process at step 3.

    So your instance is still copying their remote content, and you can still see and comment on it, but those comments are only in your home instance. They can only be seen from people within your home instance looking at the same copy.