What firmware version? I haven’t broke my Vita so I don’t really have the fixing experience, but maybe reinstalling the firmware could help https://cimmerian.gitbook.io/vita-troubleshooting-guide/serious-problems/bootloop
Assuming you use a non-permament hack that you can’t exactly use now, I’m not sure how you could put the files there if you got them.

seeing this over at kbin.cafe

nope, that would make the experience way worse with federation not working well with communities. like for example I’ve made a community over on lemmy.world and it has a couple of members and a few posts in it, but I can’t see it from any other lemmy instances I’ve tried (unless it doesn’t work if you’re not logged in). you can kinda make kbin see it but to make posts appear you have to search for them and if you search for them before you search for the community, they appear in a random magazine and then when the magazine for that community is created the posts that were put in random stay there and never return… so yeah…