No idea how I got there but somehow I saw this post somehow on sh.itjust.works, about a prefab house that was found floating in the Pacific. I wanted to comment but the only login I have is on lemmy.world. Notice the post is from The Picard Maneuver, whose posts I’ve seen many times, and it says lemmy.world above their name.
Lemmy.world has a whitepeopletwitter community but the newest post is 2 months old. This one is from 10 hours ago. Search on the lemmy.world main page for “Minding” turns up a bunch of posts going back months, but this one isn’t there.
I thought I understood how federation works but I’m stumped. Is this really a lemmy.world post? If not, what does the presence of “lemmy.world” on it indicate?
Yes I get the principle, I’m just having trouble with the mechanics, but not quite “just as easily” - posting or commenting in a community hosted on sh.itjust.works seems to require remote-subscribing to the community from lemmy.world - which I’ve done and it’s now pending. Waiting to see if that does the trick.
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