That's not how federation works. You can still interact with lemmy.world and its users from another instance, but spreading out not only helps with lemmy.world's load, but also the fediverse.
remkit
too late, going to register on lemm.ee now!
At present, I don't think it does, which is a shame.
Well, it's their instance, they can do what they want with it. You should definitely save your $ and setup your own instance so you can federate with whatever you want.
No, again, my suggestion is not to centralise anything.
If anything, I would have preferred if ps5[email protected] had moved to lemm.ee instead of lemmy.world. As it stands, lemmy.world is getting too big for a "federated" Lemmyverse, why should we continue to support federation on Lemmy, if lemmy.world becomes the new Reddit?
No, as opposed to moving a specialised instance, like how Android moves to lemdro.id. All of the centralisation lemmy.world and lemmy.ml is beginning to have an effect, and you guys are just at the starting line of finding out.
Decentralisation has nothing to do with blockchains. Hell, even BitTorrent was decentralised before the term blockchain even came to be.
the instance I'm on seems to be performant enough :)
One good way would be HTTP response times from the API, since that is not something that would be cached by Cloudflare at the edge.
As long as it isn't actual credentials from reputable sites, it's almost definitely a scam lol