A guy (he/him) that runs a server. Likes to tinker with it. And also likes plants.
Defederating in this situation means (to my very limited understanding). Users on lemmy.world can see posts from beehaw.org, they also can interact with the posts/comments. Those interactions just don’t show up on beehaw.org, so that they don’t have to moderate as much.
Reddit charging a metric ton of cash for their api is more or less if you would have to pay (the creator of lemmy) for each user if you decide to create your own instance (lemmy.world, beehaw.org and whatnot).
Is there already an issue where something like that gets tracked?
There is a post explaining the details here: https://lemmy.world/post/149743
And I am replying from a completely different instance. Isn’t the Fediverse great? (Even though I also noticed that comments from others on my own posts do not show up in my own instance)
The ones I played and enjoyed:
Edit: woups was still editing the list and accidentally hit the post button… Added more