A “true” copy of a community exists on Beehaw. Lemmy.world makes a copy of that community. They sync back and forth.
When they defederate, the copy on lemmy.world still exists, but it no longer syncs back and forth with the “true” one on Beehaw. So it gets fucky because the “true” one on Beehaw lives on. But if you interact with the community on lemmy.world, you’re only interacting within the copy - so it’s basically a literal echo chamber.
So like, any new posts you see on “Beehaw” (from lemmy.world) are from other lemmy.world users posting to the lemmy.world copy. It’s not syncing with Beehaw, so you’re only interacting with local lemmy.world people, not everyone in the greater Fediverse.
That’s why most Beehaw posts, aside from those made here (locally on lemmy.world), are like 4 days old now.
I hope that makes sense. Also, feel free to correct me if I’m incorrect somewhere.
Why doesn’t lemmy.world read new posts from beehaw? The local users here wouldn’t be able to send comments back to the beehaw version, but we could at least browse the posts, and even leave comments that other lemmy.world users could read.
Because beehaw will block sync attempts from lemmy.world. Users can’t directly connect to other instances. The instance they’re on connects with other instances and fetches data in the background.
just not the way it was originally coded i guess. Keep in mind, the beehaw admins intend to refederate with lemmy.world eventually. They are waiting until the moderator tools get a little better and they can handle the outer world. Last i heard, there was only like 4 mods on the whole instance.
A “true” copy of a community exists on Beehaw. Lemmy.world makes a copy of that community. They sync back and forth.
When they defederate, the copy on lemmy.world still exists, but it no longer syncs back and forth with the “true” one on Beehaw. So it gets fucky because the “true” one on Beehaw lives on. But if you interact with the community on lemmy.world, you’re only interacting within the copy - so it’s basically a literal echo chamber.
So like, any new posts you see on “Beehaw” (from lemmy.world) are from other lemmy.world users posting to the lemmy.world copy. It’s not syncing with Beehaw, so you’re only interacting with local lemmy.world people, not everyone in the greater Fediverse.
That’s why most Beehaw posts, aside from those made here (locally on lemmy.world), are like 4 days old now.
I hope that makes sense. Also, feel free to correct me if I’m incorrect somewhere.
EDIT: Holy autocorrect, Batman.
Why doesn’t lemmy.world read new posts from beehaw? The local users here wouldn’t be able to send comments back to the beehaw version, but we could at least browse the posts, and even leave comments that other lemmy.world users could read.
Because beehaw will block sync attempts from lemmy.world. Users can’t directly connect to other instances. The instance they’re on connects with other instances and fetches data in the background.
just not the way it was originally coded i guess. Keep in mind, the beehaw admins intend to refederate with lemmy.world eventually. They are waiting until the moderator tools get a little better and they can handle the outer world. Last i heard, there was only like 4 mods on the whole instance.