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Do the rules of your home instance apply when posting to a different instance? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by stormio@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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I'm new to the Fediverse and I'm still trying to understand how this all works. While browsing the All/Federated home page, I saw some posts which seemed to be pornographic. It got me thinking about the rules of Lemmy instances. Lemmy.ca has a "no porn" rule. Hypothetically, if I were to use my Lemmy.ca account to post porn on an instance which allows that type of content, would I be in violation of Lemmy.ca's rules?

I guess the question is related to my confusion about where federated content is stored. If I use my Lemmy.ca account to reply to a Lemmy.ml thread, which server does my comment "live" in? If I were to delete my Lemmy.ca account, would all my comments in Lemmy.ml disappear too?

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[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

federated content is stored permanently, i'm pretty sure.

i suppose it's fine if you link to off-site content, because technically, porn content from other instances is essentially the same thing. this federation stuff is hard, haha.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if I have a Lemmy.ca account and I look at content on let's say booty.world, Lemmy.ca will cache ANYTHING I look at on booty.world?!?!

If this is true, Lemmy is doomed.

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry, i should have been clearer. the posts/comments themselves are federated/stored on other servers. images are not, they are only stored on the instance they were posted from.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

That’s very useful to know. So only text is federated.