Although this one: ml user posting to lemmy.world can be seen by me and also sees my post to Lemmy.world - I’m not sure about that. I doubt you’d see anything posted by a .ml user.
Defederation is another layer of blocking and it works almost the same but slightly differently too.
Honestly I haven’t systematically tested all the possible combinations of settings and all the different places where it might have an effect on other instances. It’s a lot. Also most of the blocking code was written almost 2 years ago so it’s not something I look at often anymore.
i blocked the tankie instances, but it wont stop tankie accounts from being seen by you, if they comment on another instance. they only pose a problem if they post outside of tech related posts.
Oh, now I see what you’re getting at. No, if the user and the community are on different instances then the community instance wouldn’t know what the user has blocked. What I said earlier assumes you’re posting on a local community.
But honestly why wouldn’t everyone just be a piefed.social user and post exclusively in piefed.social communities? ;) /s
Does that mean Piefed also blocks comments and posts of blocked instance users to other instances?
Yes, when you post to a PieFed community on your own instance your post won’t be sent to any instances that you’ve blocked.
Although if you post to a Lemmy community we can’t control where they forward it to. It’s complicated.
That’s my line!
I love complicated! I am trying to understand. Let’s say I have blocked lemmy.ml:
Did I get it right? This is of course a purely hypothetical scenario, I would never speak bad about our great tankie leaders from lemmy.ml
The joys of federation lol
Yes, I think so.
Although this one: ml user posting to lemmy.world can be seen by me and also sees my post to Lemmy.world - I’m not sure about that. I doubt you’d see anything posted by a .ml user.
Defederation is another layer of blocking and it works almost the same but slightly differently too.
Honestly I haven’t systematically tested all the possible combinations of settings and all the different places where it might have an effect on other instances. It’s a lot. Also most of the blocking code was written almost 2 years ago so it’s not something I look at often anymore.
So on Pyfedi, does the instance have two layers of blocking? Meaning, “block” and “defederation,” or is blocking only for users?
Blocking is a the user level
Defederation is at the instance level
(and it’s called Piefed)
i blocked the tankie instances, but it wont stop tankie accounts from being seen by you, if they comment on another instance. they only pose a problem if they post outside of tech related posts.
Hey, I wanted to confirm something. Does that mean the blocklist of users are sent to the community’s instance?
No, we check your blocklist before sending and just don’t send there if it’s an instance you’ve blocked.
So the user’s instance sends the activity? The community’s instance doesn’t do the sending?
Oh, now I see what you’re getting at. No, if the user and the community are on different instances then the community instance wouldn’t know what the user has blocked. What I said earlier assumes you’re posting on a local community.
But honestly why wouldn’t everyone just be a piefed.social user and post exclusively in piefed.social communities? ;) /s
Ah okay, got it. Thanks for the info. Sorry for the previous misunderstanding.