If an instance isn’t defederated with another instance, it can talk to it.
You can see which instances an instance defederates with yourself. For lemmy instances, it’s at /instances. Just check each end.
So, for example, I’m on lemmy.today. http://lemmy.today/instances doesn’t have lemmygrad.ml in its Blocked Instances list (it doesn’t defederate from anything, as a matter of policy, in fact).
https://lemmygrad.ml/instances doesn’t have lemmy.today in its Blocked Instance, so it isn’t defederated on their end either.
Ergo, they can communicate.
Pretty easy to check a pair of Lemmy instances for that.
All that being said, though, if you want to create a series of throwaway accounts to argue with them without them banning you, I think that both you and they are going to be happier if you two stay away from each other. It’s just not worth your time, and I think that the chances of there being a productive outcome for you or them isn’t very high.
If an instance isn’t defederated with another instance, it can talk to it.
You can see which instances an instance defederates with yourself. For lemmy instances, it’s at /instances. Just check each end.
So, for example, I’m on lemmy.today. http://lemmy.today/instances doesn’t have lemmygrad.ml in its Blocked Instances list (it doesn’t defederate from anything, as a matter of policy, in fact).
https://lemmygrad.ml/instances doesn’t have lemmy.today in its Blocked Instance, so it isn’t defederated on their end either.
Ergo, they can communicate.
Pretty easy to check a pair of Lemmy instances for that.
All that being said, though, if you want to create a series of throwaway accounts to argue with them without them banning you, I think that both you and they are going to be happier if you two stay away from each other. It’s just not worth your time, and I think that the chances of there being a productive outcome for you or them isn’t very high.
Cheers, you can see what I wrote on asklemmygrad, I made it clear that it was me (in bio and name)
You’ve been banned from lemmygrad.ml
Message from the Admins: “How dare you question our faith in our lord and savior Joseph Stalin?”
I wasn’t, but okay, keep doing whatever else you’re doing