Excuse me while I go donate even more money to PieFed

  • Ech@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Am I missing something? Aside from the “baked in” claim, how is this different from defeds on Lemmy? It’s always one way, ie the instance that defeds can’t see content from the other instance, but the target instance can still see them.

    • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      It is indeed the same, some comments in that thread make it look like some people discovered defederation today

      • Ech@lemmy.ca
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        2 days ago

        Ok, that’s what I thought. Which is funny because I learned how it works after learning that hex admins (generally) defed mutually to avoid a one way issue, exactly like they’re freaking out about here.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      Blocking an instance in lemmy, just stops direct communication between the two instances. However it does not stop you from seeing their comments or posts on third instances.

      So for example you would be able to read this comment, even if lemmy.ca would have blocked slrpnk.net, because we are on sh.itjust.works. In Piefed you would not.

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        1 day ago

        I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works. Even on communities from another instance, I don’t see anything from defederated users.

        *A quick rough search and I found this post (https://lemmy.ca/post/49536847) (apologies for the content, it’s just an example). It’s absolutely flooded with hex users “contributions”, but I see none of that.