I think I understand how the federation system works currently and I’m not sure if I think this is a good thing, but why does federation require the entire link between communities to be broken?
Like say that Community A wants to block out Community B. That’s fine, but can Community B still see posts on A? And if not, why not?
And to go further, if I’m part of Community A and I still want to interact with Community B, why can’t I? Like is there a reason for forcing users to only interact with communities that are federated?
Again, I understand there are restrictions with data and how things currently work. I’m just asking from an abstract perspective about the fundamental ideas.
I’d imagine you can’t allow a community to read only and not comment to another so that would necessitate defederation being bi-directional.
But would it be possible to have it read only? Or would that break functionality somehow (providing you at least inform the user they cannot comment or vote)?