• Akagigahara@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Federated means that any instance that is federated with them receives their content and can bee seen on that instance.

    Defederated means they are not federated anymore, thus blocking both users and content.

    It’s usually done to combat content you don’t want on your instance

    • bouldering_barista@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Ok ok… So me using Lemmy.world is a specific instance of Lemmy, so it’s almost like its own server? And other instances (maybe lemmy.unitiedstates?) is its own federated instance likely related to just U.S. posts and it can communicate with other instances? Do de-federated instances have no other communication with instances?

      Apologies if these are silly, I feel like a dum dum because everyone else seems to grasp this except me.