• Wintermute@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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    2 years ago

    Federation works in the opposite direction. Itā€™s push-based rather than pull-based. To get posts from Beehaw, Beehaw has to actively push those posts to your instance. With this move, Beehaw is choosing to no longer push posts to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.

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      Got it, this makes sense now. So in the case where I setup myownlemmy.com, I actually wonā€™t be able to get any content to my Lemmy unless I tell other instance admins I exist and they push their content to me. But then letā€™s say lemmygrad starts pushing me their stuff and Iā€™m like whoa donā€™t want all that, blocked.