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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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[–] GreyEyedGhost 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He didn't say you have to follow the rules of all the instances in existence, now and forever. He said you should follow the rules of your home server, and where you post, the two places your content is guaranteed to reside. All other instances will propagate based on their settings, and they can choose how they will deal with it, such as beehaw recently defederating from lemmy.world.

The obvious solution is, if you don't like the rules that lemmy.ca has made, is to sign up somewhere where you agree with the rules.

[–] corsicanguppy 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The obvious solution is, if you don’t like the rules that lemmy.ca has made, is to sign up somewhere where you agree with the rules.

You may have missed the transitive part, but that's okay.

[–] GreyEyedGhost 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure what you mean by "the transitive part" and I'm honestly not sure if I am not grasping your meaning or if you're not grasping how entries propagate.