Why YSK: Choosing an instance with defederation policies you’re most comfortable with is important to make your Fediverse experience smooth in the long run.
Here is a chart showing the defederation count of each instance.
| Instance | Defederated with how many other instances |
|---|---|
| beehaw.org | 405 |
| feddit.de | 101 |
| lemmy.world | 63 |
| lemmy.ml | 44 |
| sh.itjust.works | 4 |
| exploding-heads.com | 3 |
You can get it by going to the instance’s instance list and scrolling/Ctrl+Fing down to “Blocked Instances”. To find the instance list, go to https://your-instance.url/instances, for example, https://lemmy.world/instances
So is it possible for users in lemmy.world to see content from beehaw? Does this only limit beehaw users from seeing content on lemmy.world?
Lemmy.world users can see behaw posts, but beehaw users can’t see Lemmy.world posts. Comments cannot be seen by anyone outside their home instance.
Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.world, but Lemmy.world did not defederate from beehaw.
If you look at a Lemmy.world community through beehaw, you will only see posts from before defederation, or posts made by unaware beehaw users.
What do you mean by comments cannot be seen by other instances?
If instance.c has defederated with instance.a and instance.b, instance.a can still comment and post on communities from instance.c—but neither instance.c nor instance.b can see those posts and comments.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure it goes both ways.
You are wrong. Defederation only goes both ways if both instances decide to defederate each other.
Beehaw and Lemmy.world was one way only. You can see all of beehaw’s posts, but none of your interactions will leave your home instance.
The comments under a post will only be from Lemmy.world users, however.
Thank you for clearing that up. I feel like I’ve heard both yes and no to this question. Still learning everything so it’s hard to recall what was correct. Also just want to say how cool it is that people don’t make you feel dumb for being wrong here. That’s one thing I will not miss about Reddit.
You can view beehaw through a browser. If you want to check for yourself. I did verify this by viewing the same community from beehaw and not just before commenting so I’m pretty certain I’m giving accurate information.
Welcome to Lemmy, I hope you enjoy your time here.
EDIT: upon further checking, what I have been saying seems to be inaccurate. It seems beehaw is no longer sharing posts, the newest beehaw post I can find in Lemmy.world is from 2 days ago. It is likely that 0.18.1 blocks post sharing to defederated instances.
Well that sucks, is it possible to transfer our account to another instance then?
My understanding is that we cannot. I’ve seen people talking about it maybe becoming a thing in the future, but right now the only option is to just go register your name on another instance. Alternatively, I guess you can host your own instance with just you (or a few friends I guess) and then you control what gets federated, but for me that seems like a little too much work right now. I may consider that in the future if I had more free time.
https://github.com/bunburya/lemmy2opml
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate
some tools you can use to transfer your subscriptions and such.
It was my understanding that defederation was a one way thing? So if instance A defederates instance B, A will not see anything from B but B could still see things from A?
I can’t get past your username, you degenerate
Thank you