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?
When you post to a community on a different instance, the post itself is still on lemmy.ca, you’re basically just ‘categorizing’ it as being intended for the other instance’s community. It’s similar to asking, “if I make a Mastodon post and I @ a group on another instance, do I have to follow the post rules for my server?”
Thank you for your explanation. This makes it much clearer for me :)