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What's something about the fediverse you know but most people seem not to? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I only just learned today that, when someone from one instance gets banned from another instance, that person not only is no longer able to interact with the second instance, but people from the second instance actually can't see anything the person said from the moment they got banned even though they're still there. I'm disappointed to learn all my friends who got banned from my instance are still saying stuff and nobody told me, making it more akin to an instance forcing everyone to block them (because individuals blocking each other the same way work like this). And this is coming from the person who has fantasized about universalization of federation.

What's something about the fediverse that was most recently unobscured but that you know now?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In most lemmy instances, the default feed is a mix of that instance's and popular threads from other instances. Participating in such a thread that you find spontaneously is therefore not anything resembling "brigading," even if other people on your instance also see it spontaneously and participate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Same stuff happened on Reddit. Threads would get popular and hit r/all, people would say they were being brigaded.

[–] do_not_pm_me 2 points 3 weeks ago

I was banned from a community on Reddit for brigading once, but I had found the thread on my own and participated.

I don’t know if they actually thought I was brigading or if they just didn’t agree with me. Probably both.