Ok so beehaw.org defederated sh.itjust.works, and I post on lemmy.ml, they are unable to see what I post to lemmy.ml right?
If I understand this whole federation thing correctly, when a user makes a post/comment, that content is tied to their home instance.
So if the instance goes down, that content disappears completely. It’s not cloned to other instances.
Ergo the same should be the case if the instance gets defederated - content made by its users should become unavailable to instances that don’t federate with it.
Am I correct?
I believe so. If I understood it correctly, you are really just commenting on a copy of the original post on sh.itjust.works so the original comment is on sh.itjust.works and needs to federate from there.
But I am likely wrong, so wait for someone else to respond.
I’m testing. In conclusion, it is not possible to see comments from defederated instances’ users on federated instances’ threads.
- This post (where we are right now) is not on beehaw, for example: https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected]/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
- This post that is on beehaw is not on sh.itjust.works: https://beehaw.org/post/638729
- This comment thread that happened today only has the parent comment made by someone else, not mine that I made right after: https://beehaw.org/comment/317451
