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You can't. What you can and can't follow is determined by whatever the server federates with, which is not under your control. Also you lose all your followers and in case of server shutdown all the accounts on that server stop existing, so you can't follow them either.
Federation is a brittle framework that starts collapsing the moment anybody tries to use it seriously.