The community is at a different level than instances or federation. For example, the rules a community agrees on aren’t typically related to your instance or handled by the instance moderation team / admin.
Every instance will have some kind of terms of use that you must follow to keep an account on that instance.
A local community specifically for the bureaucracy of the local instance is also a special case.
In general, posting / replying in communities should be encouraged no matter which instance the community or your account was created on.
However, if you are breaking either your instance’s rules or causing problems for users on another instance you can expect to be reported and likely have some moderation actions taken against your account. Basically, just having an external account isn’t a license to behave badly.
The community is at a different level than instances or federation. For example, the rules a community agrees on aren’t typically related to your instance or handled by the instance moderation team / admin.
Every instance will have some kind of terms of use that you must follow to keep an account on that instance.
A local community specifically for the bureaucracy of the local instance is also a special case.
In general, posting / replying in communities should be encouraged no matter which instance the community or your account was created on.
However, if you are breaking either your instance’s rules or causing problems for users on another instance you can expect to be reported and likely have some moderation actions taken against your account. Basically, just having an external account isn’t a license to behave badly.
Aah, thank you! This clarifies things greatly for me.