Those communities still exist on this instance, they just aren’t synced. You can see new posts from only lemmy.world users. Any posts/comments you make are not shared within the wider lemmyverse.
Effectively that community is a zombie community on this instance. Just unsub from that community, it’s useless to you unless behave decides to refederate.
The fact that these communities exist to instances that are cutoff from the “true” instance is a horrible UX. There should be a giant “unplugged” overlay signaling that that youre essentially writing to a google doc that is not connected to the internet.
This is where the Lemmy interface could use some work. It should definitely notify users when they are about to post to an instance that is defederated with them and let them know that no other instances will see the post.
This is the correct answer, lots of people think defederating is one-directional when it’s not. It’s 100% blocked communication both ways, meant to be the nuclear option as a last resort (sadly the lack of other moderation tools makes it a second resort after reaching out to the other instance).
If defederating still allowed any communication, it wouldn’t be useful if a remote instance was malicious and exploiting protocol-level bugs and trying to exploit other instances. Defederating should protect against that too, hence 0 communication whatsoever.
The uni-directional option would be limiting a remote instance, which unfortunately isn’t implemented here.
I read elsewhere that it’s not completely bidirectional when it comes to posts on a third party instance. For example, if lemmy.world and beehaw.org users both post to a thread on another instance that they are both still federated with, lemmy.world users will see the beehaw.org users’ posts, but not the other way around.
I haven’t confirmed if this is true yet though, so maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
I explained this in my post: https://lemmy.world/post/149743
Those communities still exist on this instance, they just aren’t synced. You can see new posts from only lemmy.world users. Any posts/comments you make are not shared within the wider lemmyverse.
Effectively that community is a zombie community on this instance. Just unsub from that community, it’s useless to you unless behave decides to refederate.
The fact that these communities exist to instances that are cutoff from the “true” instance is a horrible UX. There should be a giant “unplugged” overlay signaling that that youre essentially writing to a google doc that is not connected to the internet.
This is where the Lemmy interface could use some work. It should definitely notify users when they are about to post to an instance that is defederated with them and let them know that no other instances will see the post.
Out of curiosity, are lemmy.world mods still able to moderate these zombie communities?
It seems odd that people would be able to post in them when the people who are supposed to handle the communities just aren’t there.
This is the correct answer, lots of people think defederating is one-directional when it’s not. It’s 100% blocked communication both ways, meant to be the nuclear option as a last resort (sadly the lack of other moderation tools makes it a second resort after reaching out to the other instance).
If defederating still allowed any communication, it wouldn’t be useful if a remote instance was malicious and exploiting protocol-level bugs and trying to exploit other instances. Defederating should protect against that too, hence 0 communication whatsoever.
The uni-directional option would be limiting a remote instance, which unfortunately isn’t implemented here.
I read elsewhere that it’s not completely bidirectional when it comes to posts on a third party instance. For example, if lemmy.world and beehaw.org users both post to a thread on another instance that they are both still federated with, lemmy.world users will see the beehaw.org users’ posts, but not the other way around.
I haven’t confirmed if this is true yet though, so maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong.