Boris Mann

No, you’ll get different content based on everything from flaky federation (software that isn’t perfect) to differences in moderation.

So, for moderation, let’s do an example. Bob has an account on Server A. He posts a comment on a community with his Server A account which is federated from Server B.

But Bob breaks the terms of service / moderation rules on Server B. Server B mods block his account and his comment is not visible there.

If Alice views the comments on the post on Server A, she’ll see Bob’s comment. On Server B, where Bob is blocked, Alice won’t see Bob’s comment.

On Mastodon, servers will sometimes connect to Relays which specialize in moving content between many different servers, which is different than moderation blocks ;)

I wrote a whole article with screenshots of how Mastodon and Lemmy interop.