People aren't on every community and don't see every post

You could however link that post to speed things along in this one

This is not stackoverflow

While I'm a subscriber there as well, this member asked the community they belong to a question. Nothing wrong with that, its the point of federation.

If you wanted to be useful, you should've linked the actual post.

Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.ml

Upvote for the edit 😉

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