Comment on Is Lemmy.World refederated with Beehaw.org?
Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 year agoWhat happens to the phantom posts if they were to refederate? Does everything just suddenly mesh back together?
Like if I commented on an old Beehaw post. Would beehaw users eventually get that comment pushed to that post, in the case of federation? Or is it just lost in the cracks because it happened during a time when they weren’t accepting lemmy.world content?
CMahaff@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My understanding is that right now Lemmy is very poor at “catching up” on missed content in general. You can see it anytime there is prolonged downtime that the same post across multiple instances gets out of sync. So most likely in the event of re-federation, as Lemmy is written today, the old content would not be received - just new content. Hopefully things are improved in the future