@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 6 months agoHow does federation actually work?message-square12fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareHow does federation actually work?@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 6 months agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNaNlinkfedilinkEnglish6•6 months agoIt doesn’t. Even if you defederate with an instance, you can still comment and vote on posts from that instance that predate the defederation and people on your instance will see them, it just won’t go to the original one.
minus-square@[email protected]Mlinkfedilink3•6 months ago it just won’t go to the original one. And for clarity it won’t go to any other instances’ copies either.
It doesn’t. Even if you defederate with an instance, you can still comment and vote on posts from that instance that predate the defederation and people on your instance will see them, it just won’t go to the original one.
And for clarity it won’t go to any other instances’ copies either.