But that only helps in knowing which communities I can see, I still don’t know how much I’m missing out in the comments on other communities because some of them might be from people my instance has defederated.
I noticed this today when I had a comment chain on lemmy.world that I accessed with my lemm.ee instance. That chain was >10 posts long with several different users from different instances.
When I looked into that community with my feddit.de account, I could only see the first two comments of that chain, not even my own lemm.ee comments were visible despite not being blocked by feddit.de.
It was because the third post of that chain was made by a user on an instance that is blocked by feddit.de and that lead to all following posts also missing.
So now I’m feeling like I’m possibly missing big parts of all those comment sections just because they happen to include a comment from a user somewhere early in the chain that is on an instance which is blocked by my instance.
That’s the reason despite me being german I probalby won’t use feddit.de anymore because, at least for the time being, lemm.ee doesn’t have anyone blocked so in this specific example I can at least see everything posted on lemmy.world that isn’t already blocked by lemmy.world itself(in which case I don’t miss out because no one could see these posts).
While with feddit.de, browsing on lemmy.world I also won’t see things blocked by feddit.de that other users browing lemmy.world could see.
I feel you. When creating an UI you can think of thousands of possibilities which might not be clear to someone however obvious they seem and then design it in a way that couldn’t possibly be misunderstood, then show it to different people who all agree that it’s clearly structured and logical… and the minute you release it you get posts from users where you ask yourself how they could even exist on their own.