I made two posts on !anime@lemmy.ml, neither are visible on both instances lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] are recommending. beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org] has already become a much bigger instance and they ban lemmygrad, we’re already invisible to half the people using lemmy. It will keep getting worse, at some point you’ll need to maintain two separate instance accounts and you’ll consider dropping one of them.
This site (hexbear) runs on a modified instance of the Lemmy project. One thing that project allows is for users of one instance (for example here on Hexbear) to interact with users/posts/comments on another instance, like lemmy.ml, if the two instances choose to do so.
Hexbear's codebase previously deviated too much from the original codebase of the Lemmy project to be able to give users the ability to interact on one anothers sites but recent hard work from the great devs here have allowed the site to get to a point where that will be a possibility again after the migration this post is about.
Hexbear stays here at this address but if it's decided that federation is desired then users will be able to interact with other servers and their communities also hosting the Lemmy project (like lemmy.ml).
Feel free to ask clarifying questions I'm glad to answer.
would the lemmy admins then be able to just come and delete us like :reddit-logo: did if we start talking about things they don't like, such as burning american troops?
No. At worst they could defederate Hexbear and we'd be back to the current status quo.
This is the advantage to federation in a nutshell. Hexbear admins have complete control over our instance and other instance admins have complete control over theirs. So long as the relationship between instances is seen as tenable the users can interact with one another's content.
If an instance becomes untenable to one another they can de-federate.
in addition to what @riseuppikmin said, the lemmy.ml admins are comrades and would likely not do that, though they will probably enforce some basic ground rules when posting on their comms (ours will stay the same)
This site (hexbear) runs on a modified instance of the Lemmy project. One thing that project allows is for users of one instance (for example here on Hexbear) to interact with users/posts/comments on another instance, like lemmy.ml, if the two instances choose to do so.
Hexbear's codebase previously deviated too much from the original codebase of the Lemmy project to be able to give users the ability to interact on one anothers sites but recent hard work from the great devs here have allowed the site to get to a point where that will be a possibility again after the migration this post is about.
Hexbear stays here at this address but if it's decided that federation is desired then users will be able to interact with other servers and their communities also hosting the Lemmy project (like lemmy.ml).
Feel free to ask clarifying questions I'm glad to answer.
Ahh gotcha that clears up a few things, thank you!
would the lemmy admins then be able to just come and delete us like :reddit-logo: did if we start talking about things they don't like, such as burning american troops?
No. At worst they could defederate Hexbear and we'd be back to the current status quo.
This is the advantage to federation in a nutshell. Hexbear admins have complete control over our instance and other instance admins have complete control over theirs. So long as the relationship between instances is seen as tenable the users can interact with one another's content.
If an instance becomes untenable to one another they can de-federate.
in addition to what @riseuppikmin said, the lemmy.ml admins are comrades and would likely not do that, though they will probably enforce some basic ground rules when posting on their comms (ours will stay the same)