Comment on What does your 'home' instance really matter?
Monologue@lemmy.zip 11 months agoor you can join a smaller instance that beehaw has not defederated and interact with both beehaw and lemmy.world communities
Comment on What does your 'home' instance really matter?
Monologue@lemmy.zip 11 months agoor you can join a smaller instance that beehaw has not defederated and interact with both beehaw and lemmy.world communities
djc0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Doesn’t defederated mean cut off? Because I certainly get beehaw content at lemmy.world. Just when sorting by “hot” seems different. Then averaged over a bunch of subs, my home feed is quite different.
Anyway 🤷♂️
Monologue@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
that should be because lemmy.world did not defederate with beehaw, it only happened one way.
federation is not perfect, it might take a while for posts and comments to sync up so you might be able to see differences because of that. also in a smaller instance you might have to search the community by it’s full name to start federation (if nobody subscribed to that community first from your instance), luckily lemmyverse exists so you can search there first then look it up.
hope this helps :3
djc0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Appreciate the explanation. Let me see if I understand. Beehaw defederated, which means you can stay in the beehaw bubble and never have to connect with/put up with the outside lemmy-verse.
Whereas from lemmy.world, all content is viewable, including beehaw …?
If that’s the case I might stick with my lemmy.world account as I can see more of the fediverse from there.
Monologue@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
so let me try to explain more clearly, beehaws defederation makes it not very useful to stay subscribed to beehaw communities from lemmy.world
you can still see posts from beehaw communities but you can not see any votes or comments, for example look at this post from beehaw and from lemmy.world as you can see from lemmy.world’s side it looks like a wasteland
what i meant was you can sign up to another small instance which is not defederated from beehaw like the one i am in, lemmy.zip and participate in both of the communities, also lemmyverse is a website that you can use to discover communities to subscribe to or instances to sign up.
feel free to pm me if you have more questions
Silviecat44@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Beehaw just cant see what you post i think