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Federation can be a one way street. The problem with that is your comments and votes will only be visible from the instance you did it from. Lemmy.world will show other Lemmy.world users your comment but Beehaw will not ever see it, which means your comment will not proliferate to other instances either.
You can still browse content from an instance that has defederated yours but your actions will only be visible on your own instance.
Does this mean that only beehaw will not be able to see your interactions but every other instance would still be able to?
Everything you post in a beehaw community won’t be seen by anyone else. Everything you post in a community of any other instance will be seen by everyone who isn’t on an instance that defederated yours
That's a very interesting setup. Seems kinda weird that it wouldn't just block anything coming from the defederated instance.
But it does.
Example: You're on lemmy.world. Let's say lemmy.world defederates lemmy.ml today.
Now you won't be able to see any new posts made by users of lemmy.ml, be it on lemmy.ml itself or on any other instance. You will still see everything that was posted up until the defederation though because defederation just means that your instance won't request new copies of the content of lemmy.ml .
And they also can't post stuff on comunities of lemmy.world(I believe they technically could do that, just that nobody could see it, but it may be that by now it's entirely blocked to even make a post there).
Now as long as lemmy.ml doesn't defederate lemmy.world too, their users will still be able to see your comments and may also reply to your comments on other instances, but you won't see that.
So defederation mainly serves two purposes for the users of the instance that defederates another instance: