I’m with lemmy.world and I can still see beehaw recent posts and I can interact with them despite us being mutually defederated. How does this actually work?

  • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I thought I read somewhere that other local users can also see your comments?

    I wonder if that applies to other federated instances as well. Like if my home instance (lemmygrad.ml) is federated with lemmy.ml, and I make a post on BeeHaw (which is not federated with either), could lemmy.ml users see my comment?

    • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The host instance is responsible for federating (is that a word?) the posts/comments to others. So any comments on lemmy.world to a beehaw community will only show to other lemmy.world users. No one on lemmy.ml would see them.