I just wanted to say thanks to you guys for effectively running this site! as someone who managed to see some pretty bad posts/comments from these instances before they were removed i'm fully on board with this change.
agreed, as someone who's used fediverse platforms for a few years & seen cases of large scale raiding as well as just general infestation between some normal & some pretty bad servers, defederation is one of the main pros of the fediverse. without effective moderation, a community like ours cannot exist for long, & the only way to effectively moderate a foreign server full of literal tens of thousands of users who abide to a completely different law is to cut them off. while having to make an alt can be slightly inconvenient to some, the only alternative for a popular server like ours is to count down until it becomes too large to effectively moderate
yep, thanks for letting me know. just saw & edited my comment right as you posted lol. i thought it'd just block posts/comments from their end, didn't realize it'd be everything
Can someone explain like I’m 5 for the new folks here what this means in terms of the user experience?
lemmy.world & sh.itjust.works are two huge (well, compared to many other lemmy instances) communities, so this effectively means being cut off from part of the lemmy fediverse.
What are the restrictions around viewing and commenting on posts?
the servers won't be allowed to federate with us anymore. federation is the term for when an instance downloads posts, comments, profiles, upvotes, etc from another. this change means we simply won't see posts & comments from those instances at all.
Does this impact, for example, beehaw to lemmy.world the same way as lemmy.world to beehaw?
not sure, but if i had to guess i'd say probably not, unless they also defederate. i'll log into my lemmy.world backup account & test.
EDIT: seems to affect them just the same actually, i can't see any new posts or comments. i thought it'd only block them from posting but seems like it's a total severance.
What mod tools would beehaw need to remain federated?
the admins & mods here can answer this much better than me, but from the post it seems like it's more a problem of size & numbers than something a mod tool can solve.
has anybody been able to do the opposite & subscribe to a mastodon user from lemmy? i've tried to put beehaw.org/c/user@instance.url into the url bar but it doesn't work, neither does putting the full url into search
probably a little bit of both