What a HORRIFICALLY misleading headline.

A) Water breaks aren’t banned, just no longer mandated under some local ordinances. Still mandated by federal law, in theory.

B) The law hasn’t even gone into effect yet.

C) The deaths referred to are not from lack of water. It even specifically suggests lack of air conditioning.

All you have to do is host your own instance and other instances you connect with mirror their content to yours. It’s part of the design of the protocol to help reduce user load on any particular server. While users can see content from any connected instance, direct communication happens almost exclusively with their own instance.