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?

  • SpringtimeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Hi smorks, Thank you for lemmy.ca

    I’m still a bit confused by your above comment.

    To clarify:

    So, if I’m logged into my lemmy.ca account and would create a post with a picture on a different instance, e.g. lemmy.ml or Lemmy.world , it would be against the rules of lemmy.ca?

    And vice versa, if someone with an account on an instance that is known for banning criticism of certain governments, if they were to post such a post on lemmy.ca or lemmy.world , would still break the rules of their home instance and risk being banned there for something they’ve posted on a different instance that doesn’t have that rule?

    Does that mean, I would need a second account on a different instance that doesn’t have this/these particular rules when posting such content?

    Thank you 🙂

    • mkhouryEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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?”

      • SpringtimeEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Thank you for your explanation. This makes it much clearer for me :)

    • SpringtimeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      On a separate note, because, I just notice this in my comment:

      Are there plans by you and lemmy.world to increase synchronization?

      I’ve noticed just typing lemmy.ca and lemmy.ml turn into an automatic link, while typing lemmy.world doesn’t.

      I’ve also noticed, the sync between these two instances (lemmy.ca and lemmy.world) is lagging or problematic when looking for communities on the other instance or trying to post from within one one instance to the other. Sometimes my lemmy.ca account doesn’t let me post or comment to lemmy.world and vice versa and I have to switch accounts.