@lisko@sopuli.xyz’s comment is not visible at all on the Lemmy instance while to me my comment is not visible at all on the Beehaw instance, nothing is showing in modlog though so I assume it has not been removed.
Am I unaware of a mechanic of federation occurring here? Or is something bugged?
Oh and another thought that has just come to mind when it comes to targeted defederating of individuals, and not indicating to those people that they’ve been banned in this way.
When I made this comment about child pornography, I was already defederated by this instance.
Someone however upvoted that comment, so presumably they agreed. Does that person know I was defederated from that instance though? Or do they think that the Beehaw people could see that comment? Seeing a comment from one instance that you think other instances can see will cause people to upvote that comment instead of writing a comment of their own saying the same thing.
If I hadn’t commented at all, that upvoter may have written their own thing saying something similar to what I said but with visibility to the Beehaw people. But instead none of them saw that point, and are left with absolutely no counter-narrative to the idea of making CHILD PORN with AI and that being topic being even remotely up for fucking debate.
Upvotes/downvotes actively reduce repetitive content, making people upvote a comment that they agree with instead of saying the same thing. If they don’t know that comment is only visible on a specific instance and isn’t visible in instances that they might want to counter a point on, they won’t comment. Suppression of opposition occurs and has knock on effects in this way.