I have been looking through a long thread on another instance where a few users have been trying to convince that instance to defederate from Exploding Heads - because they do not want to see the content posted on Exploding Heads.
I have thought long and hard about how to please these people. They do have the option to individually block Exploding Heads communities or users, but they either do not know how to or simply do not want to.
In the end I realized if I ban those specific users requesting defederation from Exploding Heads - they will not see any content from Exploding Heads and therefore will not be offended by it. (Truth be told I am not sure if some of these users have really visited our site or interacted with our users).
So today I have banned those users with the explanation that they have said they do not want to see Exploding Heads content. If any of those users wish to be unbanned in the future, all they have to do is say so and I will happily unban them.
These users are not being banned in order to censor them, but to help them achieve what they have been requesting - to not see Exploding Heads content.
I hope you all find this a fair and reasonable action - if not let me know.
Have you gone onto the beehaw instance directly to see if your posts are there? From what i’m aware it’s possible to post in the snapshot of a defederated instance but it won’t actually reach that site.
The only threads that should be on your instance are the ones from prior to defederation
Thanks for the clarification!
I just checked and I can see posts on their technology community from 12h ago…
So I checked your instance, sh.itjust.works
All of the threads for [email protected] are 5-7 days old
There are comments, but those comments are from non-beehaw users (aka, users who aren’t defederated) posting to 7 day old threads
I think those people are equally confused as to how defederation works.
Though, I am confused as well as there’s a thread that says it was posted 19h ago that seems to have slipped in, but none of the other posts on their main site did. Which is odd.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/294216
https://beehaw.org/post/630312?scrollToComments=true
Is it perhaps that it’s not both ways for users, and the user posted the thread to both sites, rather than a sync occurring?
That’s what I see sorted by new 🤷