I think the whole defederation thing is extremely unclear snd confusing. I think better documentation needs to be made to clearly show what we will and will not see when defederated by another instance. I don’t think it’s clear at all. I’ve asked this question like 10 times and received 10 different answers
The admin post makes it sound like we should ONLY see lemmy.world users, since the ‘original’ is located on beehaw, and beehaw has defederated us.
This band kicks ass.
If you are getting it for local playback (i.e. Plex), get a Zidoo Z9x or something along those lines. You’ll have way less headaches, I promise you.
Plex is becoming more and more of a pain in the ass. The company is trying to push everyone to get a plex pass and I suspect it probably won’t even be free for too much longer. This is just based on recent changes and where I see the software going. To top it all off, Plex on Android is by far the worst thing on the fucking planet. Every other update breaks basic functionailty.
So yea, do yourself a favor and just get something like a Zidoo. It’s the same price as a 2019 shield pro anyway. Just note that a Zidoo isn’t for streaming. It’s for local playback only.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the Shield has incorrect colors for Dolby Vision Profile 7 (blu ray format). So if you are playing those, then definitely DO NOT get the Shield.
Wait this directly contradicts what I was told in my below post. I’m still seeing some (not all) new posts from Beehaw. I used /c/gaming@behaw.org as an example.
I see, thank you!
Yes, absolutely. I think smaller niche communities should be encouraged whenever possible.
Ah ok this checks out. So as a Lemmy.World user, I am still going to see all of the new posts in those communities. I just can’t comment? I could have sworn that the documentation stated that we wouldn’t be receiving any new content (posts/comments) from Beehaw. So you are saying it is just a read-only? It does seem that we aren’t picking up all of the new posts from /c/gaming@beehaw.org. If you actually go to beehaw.org, there are way more new posts. Do you know why this is? There are also comments on the beehaw version but not the lemmy.world version. Aren’t you saying we should be seeing comments?
Idk I give up. It’s not clear at all. Hopefully better documentation and examples will be made to better help educate people like myself.