this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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The point of federation is we don't have to go to other instances to see there posts. I'm commenting from hexbear all, not the Lemmy meme community.
This is the lemmy.ml memes community, so unless I am very mistaken about how things work, I don't think you found your way here from hexbear all.
If lemmy.ml defederated from hexbear, you would no longer see this community on the "fediverse all" section, just like you cannot see communities from lemmy.world.
The point being, as available communities become fewer and fewer, hexbear users looking for meme communities will probably concentrate on the few remaining to them, instead of being spread out over the many otherwise available.
It's literally the top non-stickied post in our active feed
I wonder if half the agita about this comes from not understanding how federation works. Federated lemmy instances behave almost like a single website, your posts are our posts and vice versa.
I guess the thing I don't get is don't they see the exact same thing we do if they select Active and All?