Without that level control over my feed, I’ll probably go back to the other place. I thought self-determination is part of the fediverse mission, but so far that is much easier on reddit. Is that feature in planning for any of the major hubs (kbin/lemmy/beehaw)?
That’s an interesting thought… haven’t considered that!
If my instance were to go offline, do the posts/comments stay visible by the other instances?
That’s how I believe federation works. So everything I’m subscribed to with my user on my instance is pulled in and kept in sync. If the origin instance of the community goes down, everything that was synced up to that point still exists on my instance and I can read it.