Why is my browser trying to pull content from several other Lemmy instances?

I run a pretty locked down Firefox browser and I noticed when browsing lemmy.world that the browser wants to pull stuff from a long list of other instances, which fails because they aren’t trusted. Is this normal? I thought an instance would collect the things you are subscribed to and store them locally so that you didn’t have to go talk to 20 different servers. Not true?

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Jon-H558, 10 months ago

I thought media would be pulled direct and text and links on the thread is what is federated

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SwingingKoala, 10 months ago

Not true?

Kinda, external files are pulled from other servers, not content.

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