Federation is about what content you want to host on your server.
If you made a Lemmy server, say sidekick.lemmy, you’d have to make decisions about which sources of content to federate with. For example, if the Lemmy instance I just made up for this hypothetical called loli.network were posting child porn, then you’d have to make a decision whether to have child porn on your instance, manually remove all of it, or just defederate loli.network. Now imagine there’s an instance called aryan.nation. Do you want swastikas and heil hitlers to be visible on your frontpage?
Ada promised her users that transphobia wouldn’t be visible from lemmy.blahaj.zone. That’s the issue.
Federation is about what content you want to host on your server.
If you made a Lemmy server, say sidekick.lemmy, you’d have to make decisions about which sources of content to federate with. For example, if the Lemmy instance I just made up for this hypothetical called loli.network were posting child porn, then you’d have to make a decision whether to have child porn on your instance, manually remove all of it, or just defederate loli.network. Now imagine there’s an instance called aryan.nation. Do you want swastikas and heil hitlers to be visible on your frontpage?
Ada promised her users that transphobia wouldn’t be visible from lemmy.blahaj.zone. That’s the issue.
No, federation is about content sharing. Choosing which content you want to share is a feature of lemmy software specifically.