Is it still possible to interact with the communities (post, vote, etc.)? If yes, is it still possible to delete them if the ownership of the community (aka the top mod) belongs to an user from another instance?
Is it still possible to interact with the communities (post, vote, etc.)? If yes, is it still possible to delete them if the ownership of the community (aka the top mod) belongs to an user from another instance?
Yes, but only locally.
If your instance already knows about the community, people on your instance can still post and interact with the community. However, anything submitted to it will not federate to other instances, so it’s analogous to a local-only community.
Unless the LW admins removed them already, there were some Beehaw communities that were still showing activity on Lemmy World from local LW users despite Beehaw not federating with LW. (Those communities were resolved prior to Beehaw defederating). The one I recall seeing no longer comes up, so they probably did remove them (admins were aware).
I don’t think so, at least not in 0.19.3. There are some operations that, if using a remote mod account (even if it’s top mod), throw a “not a moderator” error.
Thanks for the clear response. So it is safe to assume that federated remote communities get permanently saved to the instance?
To my knowledge (as of 0.19.3 anyway), yes. Except for any images, naturally, though possibly the post thumbnail could have a local copy.
aight