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Dispelling the myth of a universal "Lemmy" community, and discussion of what the fediverse really is
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You're a little off. If Beehaw defederates with lemmy.world, users of lemmy.world can still see everything that users in Beehaw post in that instance. However, Beehaw users can't see anything coming from lemmy.world. Instances have their data on their server and pull data from other instances periodically after someone subscribes to a community in another instance. In the Beehaw/lemmy.world case, lemmy.world's instance will keep pulling data from Beehaw like it always has been. However, Beehaw won't pull any data from lemmy.world. So, lemmy.world users can still comment and post "in" Beehaw communities and threads, respond to replies in threads from Beehaw users, or respond to other lemmy.world posts/replies, the only thing is that Beehaw does not copy any of that data from the lemmy.world server back over to its server. All of the posts made in Beehaw communities will remain local to the lemmy.world server. Does that make sense?