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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.
Truth.social (Trumpโs social network thing) is an unfederated Mastodon. Basically, your instance is an island, but a fully functional island.
It mean the instance is isolated from the fediverse but people who register in that instance will be able to see the content in it.
Like some kind of private instance.