Yeah, my understanding is that defederation prevents any incoming communication, so you won’t see any posts or comments that come from lemmy.bullshit, however users from lemmy.bullshit will still see all of your comments and posts from lemmy.world unless they choose to defederate you back.
It’s a bit self-serving of me to phrase it this way, but I do think the Reddit debacle shaved off a disproportionately not-terrible segment of the Reddit userbase. I think you could make your comment about Redditors instead and it would still be fair. There’s obviously a lot of Twitter users we don’t want here, but if we got the top 0.1% of Twitter users by quality? That’s not bad.
I know there was some occasional friction between the fans on the old site, but I’ll also throw in a recommendation for The Orville as modern Trek that’s worth seeing. It does a great job capturing the spirit of the second-gen era presented for the current gen, with its cautious optimism pricked once a week by reminders of challenges yet to be resolved.
The first season is slightly rough (more proof it’s a real Trek show?), as they figured out the ratio of comedy to drama, but by season three it’s about as jokey as TNG. Fox did a bad job promoting it, it’s definitely not Family Guy in space, which I think was probably what the network wanted it to be.
There’s tons of Trek people both behind and in front of the camera, so while there’s obviously no ties to the Trek canon, it’s the closest anything has ever come, stylistically.
Yeah, they can vote and reply and all of that and others who remain federated will see their interactions, but you or any other server who defederates them won’t.