"oh wait, you can't interact with content from servers that blocked you, or are blocked. Don't worry, this is only used to stop spam and illegal content. Except for when it isn't".

[–] gon@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Yesterday I said something along the lines of "servers don't matter" and then someone said "well if they don't matter then why is it even a question?" and I almost collapsed in on myself.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

don’t forget when federation just doesn’t work because the servers aren’t aware of each other!

happens quite often on smaller servers

[–] JayGray91@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

or links to anything in the threadiverse doesn't open via your instance without an app, extension or proper linking unless it's from the front page.