My Federation status set to "On." What does this mean exactly? Are there Lemmy communities that I am automatically federated with when it is enabled?

admin, 1 year ago

When you turn on Federation status, you are able to see posts from every other instance. When you turn it off, you only see posts from kbin and other closely federated instances.

mrbigmouth502, 1 year ago

What determines how closely federated one instance is to another?