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

submitted 2 years ago by stormio to c/main

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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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[–] Rentlar 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

To try to give you clarity. The "true copy/original version" of every comment you make is stored on your server. When you click the Fediverse icon (the rainbow star thing) link to your comment it will be of your server, and other server user's content will be on their own domain when you click on the icon within their comment.

Copies of this comment are stored on every server that accesses that post thread that federates with your server. Any changes made will propagate when the copies sync up to the original, including deleted status. If the original server goes down unexpectedly or defederates, the copies on other server no longer sync and remain as they are.

Technical aspects aside, when you post in a community on another instance, you need to follow the rules of that instance. However as a user of your home instance there might be certain expectations placed on your conduct. (Here it seems like don't upload large files is the main thing.)

[–] stormio 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the explanation. I think everything is pretty clear now, including the purpose of that rainbow button above every comment. This Fediverse thing is really cool and I look forward to exploring more of it.

[–] CanadianCorhen 3 points 2 years ago

i wondered what that was!