How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
  • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t defederation two ways, like if my instance (lemm.ee) defederates from threads, doesn’t threads not see any lemmy posts anymore.

    Assuming im not horribly wrong (and even if I am at least we won’t be able to interact with threads users) what’s the problem if we don’t see content.

    And don’t get me wrong I’m 100% against threads federating and I feel like I’m missing something but what’s the problem when defederation is a tool?

    • gullible@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      If A, B, and C are federated and A defederates B and B does not defederate A, then it would look like this. A>B=C

      A cannot see B, B can see A through C, and C can interact with both. Comment federation when B comments on A can be a bit spotty, from what I’ve seen.

      • Risk@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 year ago

        As far as I understand, this isn’t quite right (unless it’s changed recently).

        If A defeds B, then A no longer sends new posts to B, accepts comments or posts from B users, or receives new posts from B. Any comments from B users on A’s old posts (made before defederation) are no longer acknowledged by A.

        I think A users can still interact with B’s posts, but then I haven’t seen any beehaw users in forever. So perhaps not?

        C can obviously still interact with both A and B posts normally. On posts from C, both A and B users can still interact.

        So, in short defederation creates a hard wall preventing interaction between A and B. The only way A and B users can interact is on C.

        It’s unfortunate as beehaw would have benefitted from a uni-directional defederation (i.e. preventing .world users from posting on beehaw, but not preventing .beehaw users from posting on .world. Unfortunately, it’s both.)

  • 0x0@social.rocketsfall.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How many times is this going to get posted? We’re on the fourth or fifth repost since it was written. The last post was just 12 hours ago on this community and there’s still active discussion.