• llama@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    As long as beehaw is only de-linking these instances rather than actually blocking them, doesn’t that still allow them to pull new posts and comments from beehaw? It’s like the no-participation mode that r/bestof uses.

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      1 year ago

      Federation works in the opposite direction. It’s push-based rather than pull-based. To get posts from Beehaw, Beehaw has to actively push those posts to your instance. With this move, Beehaw is choosing to no longer push posts to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.

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        1 year ago

        Got it, this makes sense now. So in the case where I setup myownlemmy.com, I actually won’t be able to get any content to my Lemmy unless I tell other instance admins I exist and they push their content to me. But then let’s say lemmygrad starts pushing me their stuff and I’m like whoa don’t want all that, blocked.