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How does comment federation work? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by monge_stan@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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I'm sure this question has been asked and answered many times, but I can't seem to find the info.

My naive understanding is that a given community lives on a certain server. For example, this post is at lemmy.ml: https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/107757/Is-anybody-else-more-active-here-then-they-were-on

Then, I figured that when I visit that post from kbin.social, I figured it would pull the comments from the lemmy.ml community and that no matter where you view a post, the comments would (eventually) be identical. However, the comments are very different at https://lemmy.world/post/746839 which makes me think that I have a pretty fundamental misunderstanding with how things work.

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[–] Pamasich@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

lemmy.ml is blocking kbin requests, meaning kbin instances get an error when trying to retrieve new posts and comments.

It's still unclear why they are doing it, but it seems to be deliberate as they are specifically blocking the kbin user agent (some text kbin uses to identify itself to other fediverse servers).

I assume they're trying to defederate without actually limiting the freedom of their own users. By just blocking requests from kbin instances, their own users can still use kbin magazines as they please, only kbin users are excluded from federation.