One thing I’m not clear about is the impact my home instance has on me. I joined lemmy.world and am currently using the connect for lemmy app. I know when I sort by Local it will only show me posts from lemmy.world, but beyond that are there any things to keep in mind?

I have read that lemmy.world has been hit by DDoS attacks but I’ve never had any problem using connect for Lemmy during those times as far as I know.

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Really the biggest effect your home instance has is who you’re defederated with. Your instance admin can choose to defederate with an instance at any time, blocking your communication with that instance.

For most instances this isn’t a real problem because nobody defederates without a clear reason, but in some cases like Beehaw users were upset that the admin decided to defederate with instances they use.

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I recently signed up and didn’t know where to park myself. So I got accounts on both lemmy.world and beehaw.org.

From lemmy.world I’ve added to a few of the beehaw subs that I’m subscribed to there. But I can tell you I see different content in my lemmy.world feed.

Don’t know why. A delay in the content making it over from beehaw to lemmy? But my home feed certainly looks different in both (even subscribing as closely is I can to the same feeds).

So for now I’ll stick with both and see how the dust settles.

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or you can join a smaller instance that beehaw has not defederated and interact with both beehaw and lemmy.world communities

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Doesn’t defederated mean cut off? Because I certainly get beehaw content at lemmy.world. Just when sorting by “hot” seems different. Then averaged over a bunch of subs, my home feed is quite different.

Anyway 🤷‍♂️

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It’s because Beehaw defederated with most of the popular instances. Their communities still exist but none of the posts will come through to Lemmy World and vice versa, they can’t see any new posts in Lemmy World communities.

IMO just stick to lemmy world and avoid beehaw communities (they’re effectively dead for us) unless you want a “safe space” and live in the small Beehaw instance.

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That’s a little harsh. I was here before beehaw defederated, and the content over there was high quality. Some bad actors spoiled it for everyone over here.

Hopefully they’ll be back once the mod tools for cross-instance content management improve.

No need to sneer at them, it was a community decision. You can still interact wth the content on most other instances than .world and .itjust.works

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But I still see some posts at eg gaming@beehaw.org from lemmy.world. And comments and votes. But maybe 20% of what I see if I’m looking from my beehaw account.

Could these be crossposts and comments from non-beehaw users? Ie stuff that hasn’t originated at beehaw?

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Same here. One when I want to keep it polite and the other when I want a little more freedom.

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