You'd have to ask them. In my opinion, app notifications are ephemeral. I can dismiss them and I don't care. While emails should be important. I don't want to soft through a bunch of useless junk when I'm looking for important stuff like bank statements or whatever.
JackbyDev
joined 1 year ago
That's a good way of putting it. While my instance holds my canonical comments and the communiy's instance holds the canonical list of comments on a post, if the community's instance isn't federated with my instance (or the pair temporarily cannot communicate) then my comments won't show in the list.
Alright. I wanted to verify something to double check. Here is the flow of how my comment gets to your instance and is visible by you. It helps when you realize that all communications you do are with your instance. I might get inbox/outbox terminology reversed or wrong.
- I post a comment to !fediverse@lemmy.world, but it is done through https://programming.dev/c/fediverse@lemmy.world. this goes to programming.dev's inbox.
- Because lemmy.world is federated with programming.dev, they scoop up my comment from programming.dev's outbox
- Because jlau.lu is federated with lemmy.world, they get my comment from lemmy.world.
- When you view !fediverse@lemmy.world through jlau.lu/c/fediverse@lemmy.world you will see my comment from your server's copy of it.
I say the canonical copy is on my home instance because imagine a scenario where lemmy.world is NOT federated with programming.dev but for whatever reason programming.dev didn't defederate back. I could still see and comment on !fediverse@lemmy.world. Other users of programming.dev could see my comments and reply, but nobody else.
This is how I understand federation to work but it might be incorrect. It's a complicated topic. It might be that your instance directly gets the comment from mine.
Test comment. Verifying something. Will reply in a separate one instead of editing this.
As if anyone doesn't immediately unsubscribe from email notifications or totally ignore them.
They removed this feature from web browsers too. Not just the app.
How many instances federate by default? It may be difficult to get your new solo instance into the others.
While spreading out is good, this isn't something like cryptocurrency where it's specifically bad if you have over 50% share. Each instance is the source of truth for their users and communities hosted there. It's not like a block chain where something with over half can suddenly define their own truth for everyone. So it's not necessarily a massive cause for alarm.
Your comments are stored on both. The "canonical" version would be on your home instance but every instance that is federated with your instance would get a copy of your comments. I think it's even possible to have your content removed from one instance but not another. One of my posts shows as removed in the mod log but isn't actually removed.
While that's true, and not a bad idea, I'm not gonna check an email for notifications on who replied to posts and stuff like that.