Blahaj Lemmy Meta

Every server is their own boat. Lemmy.blahaj.zone is one boat that I'm on. You're on the sh.itjust.works boat. And we're talking about the lemmy.org boat.

On each boat their members can make communities. Like here we're in the "main" community on the lemmy.blahaj.zone boat.

When two servers are federated then they take their boats and dock to each other, allowing members to view communities from the other boat. Since you're reading this post that means your boat (sh.itjust.works) and my boat (lemmy.blahaj.zone) are federated and you can access our community from your boat.

When a server is defederated that means the boats are going to be independent and users from these two boats won't be able to access communities from each other. In this case specifically for you it means nothing because you're on neither lemmy.blahaj.zone or lemmy.org. but since i am on lemmy.blahaj.zone then for me it means i won't be able to view new content from lemmy.org boat or any of its communities

It sounds bad, but the federation (and defederation) is a strength. It allows servers to choose who they want to talk to. Rather than making things an all-or-none situation like reddit where you can be on reddit or not, with the fediverse you can choose to be on many different boats and each boat has their own vibe and boats they talk to. Like right now there's some drama with the lemmy.world server and some people are deciding they don't want to be on a server where, at best, the admin is acting like a child.