Post AxGVqvRIpZWmrx8eu0 by nicholas@aklp.club
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 (DIR) Post #AxGVqtehSn3XKvOKVU by mllsc@beige.party
       2025-08-17T14:21:26Z
       
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       I still don't understand federation and defederation. I know a lot of Japanese-language instances are defederated (or unfederated?) from here because when I look up hashtags in Japanese, only like 1 or 2 instances appear. But one post from misskey dot design appeared on my home feed, and I was able to boost it. The person's account shows zero following/followers, which seems unlikely given how many posts they have.If I try to follow this account, is that a problem? If the instance was blocked, would this account be completely invisible to me instead? Are blocking and defederating the same?If somebody could just point me to a good resource? I looked at fedi.tips but it didn't explain what I was looking for.#AskFedi #AskMastodon
       
 (DIR) Post #AxGVqvRIpZWmrx8eu0 by nicholas@aklp.club
       2025-08-17T15:48:54.875683Z
       
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       Hashtag search is pretty broken, I'm not sure that's a good way to determine federation status, but if you have questions either about moderation policies or possible technical issues reaching other servers, asking you're instance administrator @theropologist would be an excellent place to start.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxGVxdSQ5NbL7srQOm by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
       2025-08-17T15:27:12Z
       
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       @mllsc Defederation is blocking at an instance level. If you tried to follow an account on a defederated instance, it would fail because your instance would reject all outgoing or incoming messages.The number of followers/following are what your instance knows about this account, so it can vary from the actual numbers. Always consult the profile on their home instance to get accurate numbers.In general, remember that your instance only has a limited view of the whole network. Even if it isn’t defederated, your instance won’t know about another instance if nobody on your instance ever interacted with one of their accounts.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxGaTaxPJgc8SHqkxE by mllsc@beige.party
       2025-08-17T16:03:06Z
       
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       @nicholas @theropologist this is good to know, I thought there weren't very many results and that was odd.