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submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by CascadiaRo@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

At the beginning of last month, a crosspost to a lemm.ee community showed up in my feed - and it would seem that it showed up in mine alone.

I commented, but nobody else did - and nobody seems to have upvoted or downvoted the post either.

IIRC lemm.ee’s closure is older than this account.

If anyone has any insight, I’m a bit curious to know how and why this could have happened.

Otherwise, behold and regale this weird thing that happened for me!

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 40 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The person who cross-posted it was ~~probably~~ definitely from your local instance.

You only ever interact with your local instance's copy of any community, even remote ones. If the community is to a remote instance that is either offline or since de-federated, there's nothing that prohibits you from interacting with it*. Because lemm.ee is no longer there to federate out the post/comments to any of the community's subscribers, only people local to your instance will see it.

*Admins can remove the community and, prior to it going offline, mods can lock it. But if an instance just disappears, you can still locally interact with any of its communities on your instance; the content just won't federate outside your instance.