I might try my hand at contributing. I have yet to do any open source development but really want to work on something lemmy related.

I was ready to put on some rose colored glasses and be all contrarian, but nah, you’re totally right

Isn’t it also the case that each instance gets updates from all others? So in this case, lemmy.world’s access to beehaw communities might lack user@beehaw.org activity and beehaw’s access lacks user@lemmy.world activity?

But I also believe lemmy.world can see old beehaw stuff from before the defed, so that could play a role. I’m really just trying to wrap my head around all the network effects and repercussions, its confusing as hell.