An Instance is just another word for 'server' in lemmy terminology. HDTV is a classic form of media that doesn't involve TCP/IP to watch films and other video content.
If everyone was spread out onto different instances
Each instance with an owner/operator making rules... that the average social media user walks in, orders a drink, and starts smoking without any concern that neither one may be allowed. People can be loyal to their media outlets even when it is beyond obvious they are bad. People raised on storybooks that endorse bad behaviors and values, HDTV networks, and social media too. Audience desire to "react comment" to images and not actually read what others have commented - nor learn about the venue operators and reasons for rules is pretty much the baseline experience in 2023.
Keep in mind that you’re going to be retrieving and storing a huge amount of data running these scripts
And you are adding to the overload of lemmy.world, beehaw, lemmy.ml, etc who have all the popular content communities. Federation has a lot of overhead, as does having to distribute a community one vote at a time to 500 subscribed servers.
The question seems like a misuse of the word 'federate'.
It's wild what lemmy.world has done. If your referrer is lemmy.world itself, a click off their web page, it loads the comment. But if you come from another lemmy instance or just put the link directly into your browser address bar, they reject it with ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE - I can't recall having seen a website do this to try and prevent attacks.
Maybe show some screenshots of what you see. Most clients show you the community the post is from.
For open source, I almost always found IRC was a black hole of information. All kinds of developers discussing things that never made it to search engines. It's a long tradition.
Heads-up for anyone who compiles the Rust code from source and is testing/integrating their own manual changes/patches to the code... the main git branch is not what Lemmy 0.18.3 is based on. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3602
Lemmy.world front page is back up, but I am now logged-out
I mangled the link enough that it isn't rendering inline.
I tried 4 underscores, i tried 5. I can not tell from your screenshot exactly how many.
I can't get it to work on an image. Is it 4 underscores?
How would they ever find the external posts to comment on in the first place?