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The way the instances decide to federate or defederate explains why you can see the counts and comments change between instances.
If you were to, for example, log into Lemmy.World you wouldn't see anything from Hexbear, but here on Yiffit you can, because World is defeated from Hexbear, but Yiffit is not.
I think, but not sure, so long as you are federated with the community you can see comments and posts from everyone, its just the communities hosted on the defederated instance that you can't see.
I'm pretty sure it extends to users as well. It's like a block of everything from a particular instance/domain. The blocked users can still see the post and interact with it, but anyone on the instance that blocked them won't see their content.
I'll have to switch to another instance next time I see comments from instances I know are defederated from the account I log into to be certain, though.
So I just checked from .ml on !furry@pawb.social . I didn't see any of my posts, but looking at some of the big communities on .world, I can see posts from users of .ml
That's if you block an instance at the user level. If it's blocked at the instance level, then you don't see anything at all. For example, my instance is defederated from hexbear, so I don't see communities, posts, comments, upvotes, user profiles, or anything else from that instance
I'm just used to the receiving end and know I can see posts from users on instances that have defederated from us, just nothing hosted on the instance itself.
It seems like a few instances are having federation issues with .world.
I suspect them of shadow curating. They did it to me, but it might have been just one rogue admin.