Coming back here, this thread is now displaying correctly for me a few days later. Very strange behavior. Also, I realized I don’t know how to post multiple images on a comment, lol. I’m going to have to figure that out.

Is anyone else seeing weirdness on this thread? When I view it in tree view, multiple comments have the same string of 15-20 responses that show underneath them. I took some screenshots showing this. Each of these begins with a comment that then has the same string of responses underneath it. The screenshots show the first 3 comments of that long string of comments.

Weirdness
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Thank you!!! This is exactly what I needed. I really appreciate the thoughtful and thorough reply.

This is confusing to me as well.

Where I still struggle is in the details of defederation for a service like kbin because it’s more interactive than Mastodon. Here are some examples that confuse me.

For these, let’s assume we have Servers A, B, and C. Server A has defederated from (i.e. blocked) Server B, but otherwise they are all connected to each other.

1. Someone from Server B originates a thread. Someone from Server C sees it and comments on it. I assume people on Server A don’t see the post at all, even though there are comments from Server C people.
2. Someone from Server A originates a thread. I assume people from Server B can see it and comment on it? That is, the blocking is only one-way?
3. Someone from Server C originates a thread. Someone from Server B comments on it, and someone from Server C replies to that comment. What can people from Server A see?

Anyone who can shed light on this will be greatly appreciated. :-)