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If the only people who can see the messages are local users, than you're not really posting on Beehaw, you're posting on sh.itjust.works
It's still replying to a discussion started on a beehaw community. All replies federated or not are "on your instance", only users on instances federated with yours can see your messages.
If we defederate from EH they'll still be able to post here and users from [insert instance federated with EH] would see their messages when looking at the post on our instance.
Not how it works.
Other instances get information about who posted/commented to your instance from your instance, and that tells them which instances to ask for the content of those posts/comments. If you're defederated from an instance, they will not get any notice that there is content to fetch from that instance in the first place.
Technically, it might be possible to ask the defederated instance directly if it had any content to show, but as it stands the only instance that gets "asked" directly is the local instance.
As such, if you defederate from EH, the rest of the fediverse won't see EH users posting shit to your instance. Only EH users will see EH posts/comments to your instance.
Yeah that's what I've realised now by checking a post where I was discussing it with other users, turns out we were all from the same instance.
Sorry, but comments you make on defederated instances are only available to you and other instance users. No one from beehaw will be able to see them. You'd be posting on sh.it, not beehaw.
That's exactly what I'm saying...
The goal is that sh.it don't have to deal with EH users, EH users can still comment "here" if they feel like it, we just don't see their post because we're registered to an instance that's defederated from theirs.
That's not how it works. It's only visible to you and you alone.
I just checked, it's visible to everyone on your own instance
Really? My testing has shown otherwise, though that was on burggit, which is different. Do you have any links?
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/267535
The thread is in beehaw and I can only see the comments by sh.it users
Oh, interesting, I take my point back then.
Though it still doesn't show up in search results from this instance.