I'm subscribed to !selfhosted@lemmy.world, yet I never saw this post show up. I can't find it with a direct search on lemmy.ml either but the instance is listed here.

Am I misunderstanding how federation works? Or is there a reason why this post is not available on lemmy.ml?

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The person who made this post is from .ml and made it on .world....

So no, it's a pretty safe bet they haven't defederated.

But .ml banned the person who's post this OP can't see, that's the reason why they can't see that one specific post. It's any post by an account banned by .ml.

Anywhere on the fediverse, that's why .ml bans so many people that never comment on .ml

They don't want their users exposed to certain things. And this is a way for them to control what a .ml user sees even on other instances.

[–] Vicinus@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Haha. Yeah, I should pay more attention. Thanks for explaining it slowly for me :)

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But OP's instance is ml

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, but the OP of the linked post on LW is from LW. So likely .ML blocks that particular LW user, i.e. doesn't fetch (or display) their content.