I still see posts from other instances on beehaw communities, and it makes me wonder: If those posts can’t be seen by the mods, then is there simply no moderation possible for them (other than the instance owner, I guess)?
You’re seeing a cached version of the post from before defederation. Those comments only exist on your instance and the post will drop off your feed soon enough.
I dunno, I’ve seen plenty of recent posts on the defederated communities. Here’s just one example from new.
I might be wrong. But I think we lemmy. world users still see Beehaw because we have old versions of everything locally. But we can still interact with it. The example you shared is a local user so that kinda tracks?
Let me see if I understand this correctly:
If there’s community C from instance A, and it’s visible to instance B, then there’s a “view” of C@A that B users can see. We can say that B “sees” C@A; when B users “look for” C@A they see this view of it.
So long as A and B federate, those stay in sync, and the moderators of C@A can control what B users see when they look for C@A.
But if A and B stop federating, then the view of C@A from B becomes decoupled from the view of C@A from A.
And this stops the A moderators from having any effect on posts to (the B view of) C@A from B.
Users on B still see C@A, but their view is onto an unmoderated C@A that only contains traffic from B.
So, any community that is seen and then defederated, becomes an unmoderated space on the seeing instance.
Am I missing something? That seems like a pretty bad bug.
