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What does it mean by a community getting defederated in an instance? (lemmy.one)

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I saw that beehaw.org was defederated from lemmy.world but not on lemmy.one. And I am on the latter one. What does it mean exactly?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine you are at school and every class display their drawings/paintings. And because the teacher are super nice, they allow you to write comments under the drawings. That school is one lemmy server, with each class being a subreddit.

What is nice about lemmy is that it is federated. This means that by going into your school, you can also view what other schools are doing, and that is really nice to learn what other people are doing. This is also used so that you can have lots of small schools everywhere with a smaller size, closer to everyone's home and can also be better for some people.

However, at some point the administrator of beehaw saw that some pupils from lemmy.world were a bit annoying, putting graffitis and making a mess. And the administrator of lemmy.world wanted to have as many pupils in his school as possible, which makes filtering and managing bad pupils difficult. So the administrator from beehaw basically established a rule: the pupils from lemmy.world cam still view our drawings, but they are not allowed to write anything. And this will be the rule until the behaviour of the lemmy.world school improves.