I heard Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.world among others, but recently I have been seeing content from beehaw communities and users. Did they re-federate? If so, why? And if not, why am seeing updates from their servers again?

  • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Add this level of confusion to the growing list of things I hope Lemmy can handle better in the future. I don’t know the answer, but damn.

      • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If an instance is defederated, is there any way Lemmy pings the other instance to let them know, like in the code? I think it might be useful, at least on first thought now, to then maybe hide those communities on the defederated (non “true”) instance. Not unsubscribe on the user end, but maybe not populate when searched, hide in subs list, and don’t show in feeds. A shadow block or something. Then unhide on refederation since none of the posts that happened in between will be back-synced, so to speak. I think that’ll alleviate the confusion. Or it might create more. I don’t know. 😂

        • Senokir@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I can see where you’re coming from for sure. There is nothing stopping lemmy.world from defederating as well which would clear up any confusion like this at the cost of further restricting its users. It would be nice though to have something like a visual warning or something letting the user know if they are visiting a community that is hosted on an instance which has defederated from their home instance. It could be something as simple as a little icon that if you click on it will link to a page explaining what defederation is or something.

          • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah. I like your warning idea as well. I don’t know how invasive it needs to be, but I think there should be some clarity that you’re basically screaming into a literal echo chamber.