Sorry, English is not my first language, bit I thought the post is somewhat clear?

I didn’t forget a word, maybe a comma - in the given context, the meaning is “Would you keep your opinion for yourself if it’s something you care about?” as the post I replied to suggested exactly that.

Would you if it’s something you care about and want to be vocal about? I’d rather know that she’s full of shit and now out of the whole thing than supporting someone who spews against trans people on a secret identity.

If an instance decides to not federate with another one they don’t see each other anymore. You can’t subscribe to their communities and vice versa, you don’t see their users posts in third instance communities. From your perspective it stops existing.

It’s sometimes necessary e.g. if an instance doesn’t do moderation by itself and hoards of trolls are coming from one instance spamming in many communities so you don’t have to ban each of their trolls. It can also be a tool if moderation goals differ too strongly from each other, and some instances have decided to defederate from lemmy.ml and more vocal tankie instances like lemmygrad and hexbear.

Because they made this thing and Fediverse is per se open. If you question whether they belong, I wonder why you are posting on .ml?

You didn’t post which community you posted that into so it’s a but hard to evaluate how legitimate the removal is.

Mastodon where you can’t use the letter “e”: https://www.vice.com/en/article/its-like-tweeting-but-you-cant-use-the-letter-e/ ( oulipo.social )

Oh wow, I didn’t notice the date! Apparently the edit put it up in my feed - probably because this instance wasn’t there when the post was created.

It’s there, some apps and show the link very prominent if there’s some text as well. Do you see the preview?