As it stands right now, it looks like we have to just judge based off of how old posts are to see if we can still interact with a community.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You mean like if there’s a community called !cats@example.com and your home instance no longer federates with the instance example.com?

    If so, I’ll add that to Tesseract as it sounds useful.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      this would be an amazing addition! It would help avoid the disconnect between de-federated instances/communities

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Added :) I also disabled the “Create Post” button if the community is on a defederated instance even though, technically, you can still post to your instance’s local copy (it just won’t federate).

        Edit: This only works one way. i.e. it can only know if your instance is defederated from the community’s. If the community’s instance is defederated from yours, there will be no indicator because there’s no way to do it without a remote lookup which is both unreliable and inefficient at scale.