@beforewisdom yeah I think its just an advertising problem. Mastodon often gets pitched as "an alternative Twitter" without clarifying the federation stuff. On kbin we can disable looking at other site's content but not disable ours from being sent out. On the site/instance level admins can defederate and block other sites. But if you don't want federation at all, then it sounds like you aren't really into the who concept of mastodon and the fediverse in the first place.