I’m honestly super confused about what you can and can’t do when federation ties have been cut.

  • Seems like this effectively creates a community wide version of twitter’s verification check removal.

    Depending upon what instance you’re using to view a community, you could be getting fed disinformation or hate speech and not know it. No?

    • Not exactly, because it’s not like mods are on vacation, and I don’t know what incentive trolls would have to post somewhere they can’t get a rise out of most people or spew their propaganda.

      I do think there’s got to be a more prominently displayed flag when within a community that is currently defederated.

      • 100% agree with the bottom statement. There needs to be a way to say that this is not content from beehaw.

        As for modding though… since federation was severed, wouldn’t someone like a beehaw c/lgbtq_plus mod not be able to touch content that was being posted to lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org on the LW instance?

        Couldn’t it just turn into a shit show of people impersonating communities within an instance?

        • I’ll try to get some information on it from the admins, whether reports propagate to the hosted instance, the post’s instance (and whether it still works after de-fed) or both.

          In any case the lemmy.world admins should ban misbehaving and impersonating users.