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