Yo, sup! I have some quick questions about Federation and Lemmy.

  1. How are the comments that I make on other instances stored? Are they stored on the monero.town instance, and only accessible to other instances when they connect to monero.town?

  2. If so, does that mean that the rules for this instance apply across all the lemmy instances I interact with (because all my comments end up getting hosted on this instance)?

  • shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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    3 years ago

    Cant answer your second question, but to answer the first one, your origional comment is hosted here and a message gets sent to the other server that says “hey, this user on my instance made this comment on your users post” and the other server mirrors that comment. If monero.town goes down your comment is still seen because monero.town has a copy, the posters instance has a copy, and all the instances that are subscribed to that community have a copy.

    • pokkst@monero.town
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      3 years ago

      And, when you delete a post on the fediverse, not every server acknowledges the deletion request, so some servers may end up keeping a copy even if it’s deleted elsewhere.