Back in the day at least on Mastodon you can keep your instance unfederated, but I don’t know about Lemmy, it would be good some Lemmy project admins advice here.
I think “to federate” means to copy the “true” versions of posts onto your instance. So if your instance isn’t federated, you’re basically shadowbanned, i.e. you can write stuff (which is saved on your instance) but nobody sees it, since no other instance is copying it over.
Back in the day at least on Mastodon you can keep your instance unfederated, but I don’t know about Lemmy, it would be good some Lemmy project admins advice here.
If you’re unfederated, doesn’t that mean you can’t see anything?
I think “to federate” means to copy the “true” versions of posts onto your instance. So if your instance isn’t federated, you’re basically shadowbanned, i.e. you can write stuff (which is saved on your instance) but nobody sees it, since no other instance is copying it over.