Yeah, I’m really hoping Lemmy gets a manual hide/unhide feature similar to Reddit at some point.

I read elsewhere that it’s not completely bidirectional when it comes to posts on a third party instance. For example, if lemmy.world and beehaw.org users both post to a thread on another instance that they are both still federated with, lemmy.world users will see the beehaw.org users’ posts, but not the other way around.

I haven’t confirmed if this is true yet though, so maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong.

This is where the Lemmy interface could use some work. It should definitely notify users when they are about to post to an instance that is defederated with them and let them know that no other instances will see the post.