I'm pretty new to this federation idea, but if I'm on a small instance of Lemmy and browsing c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world, would I still see degraded performance?
Are the instances mirroring the content of the communities hosted in another instance?
(Edit: thanks everyone, your responses are really helpful!)
Think it depends where you work
When I worked in a company big enough that I didn't know anyone around me at the office, I only said hello to the receptionist
Whereas at companies where I know and work with the people in the office, of course we say hello to each other - we even hang out at each others houses sometimes