President Emmanuel Macron's government faced a backlash Wednesday after the centrist leader called for powers to "cut off" social media in case of widespread violence like riots over the past week.
From my understanding (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) if France were to block all traffic from lemmy.world then yes it would break federation between your instance and lemmy.world. Essentially every time someone posts to lemmy.world a push is sent out to all the instances that are federated with it containing the new information. If that push was blocked by France then your instance wouldn’t receive it and would be out of sync.
You could manually go to another instance and read content that it had synced from lemmy.world, but you wouldn’t be able to get your instance to pull data through them bypassing this block. It’s also important to know that one instance doesn’t get a full copy of the content hosted on another instance, only the communities that users are subscribed to. So if you spun up your own instance in France and only subscribed to one community on lemmy.world, then you’d only get updates for that one community hosted on your server.
From my understanding (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) if France were to block all traffic from lemmy.world then yes it would break federation between your instance and lemmy.world. Essentially every time someone posts to lemmy.world a push is sent out to all the instances that are federated with it containing the new information. If that push was blocked by France then your instance wouldn’t receive it and would be out of sync.
You could manually go to another instance and read content that it had synced from lemmy.world, but you wouldn’t be able to get your instance to pull data through them bypassing this block. It’s also important to know that one instance doesn’t get a full copy of the content hosted on another instance, only the communities that users are subscribed to. So if you spun up your own instance in France and only subscribed to one community on lemmy.world, then you’d only get updates for that one community hosted on your server.