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?
Interesting. I appreciate hearing your perspective as an admin!
Does federated content get stored on your server permanently or will it eventually “age out”? For example, if Lemmy.ml shuts down permanently tomorrow, will Lemmy.ca still have all that federated content a decade from now?
Back to the “no porn” rule, does it apply only to content that is uploaded to this server or are we also not allowed to link to off-site content? (For the record, I don’t plan on doing any NSFW stuff here. I’m just curious.)
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.