Fedia.io no longer federates with lemmy.ml for some reason. It’s by choice, apparently. Since .ml is such a large and widely used instance, this causes some confusion. If you go to search for magazines, it often comes up. Searching on ‘linux’ for example turns up the largest linux community at the top of the results, which is the lemmy.ml one.
Users are not stopped from or warned about posting to communities on the now-defederated instance, so you get people posting there without realizing that lemmy.ml and the vast majority of users of that community will never see it. I’ve done it myself by accident.
Is this by design? Could we get a warning about it or something, when a defederated instance comes up in the magazine search results? Should it come up at all? Can we get a notification when communities we’re subscribed to get defederated?
You’re absolutely right about that… At least adding a warning or better yet stopping people from posting to it entirely should be done…
Getting a notification about it is also absolutely doable.
I created an issue for it: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/issues/1595
I agree, it’s an issue with the hexbear communities as well, I’m happy to be defederated from them, but they always show up when searching for magazines and it can be pretty confusing
