@norro no it doesn’t. You can still follow anyone on any server. They won’t show up automatically in your Local timeline, but you can still follow them. It becomes a problem of discovery. How do you FIND people? That’s where hashtags and boosts come in. That’s why it’s so important to boost posts you think are interesting, so those posts become searchable by more instances.
@smitty either instances are important or they or not? If they are my home community then I should be able to be in multiple (without having to make multiple accounts)