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Addis' design is (loosely) inspired by Mel Medarda. She's a force to be reckoned with.
Being on lemmy and by extension fediverse
Her instance in particular, Hexbear, was initially defederated from everyone (that is, disconnected from the wider Lemmy/fediverse network), but recently decided to change their policy and federated (or, joined the network), hence her calling out "being federated" like this
Well summarized