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Do the rules of your home instance apply when posting to a different instance? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by stormio@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that's why i said "try". i know it's not always easy or possible. and that's just my recommendation based on running this instance. other admins/mods may work differently, i have no idea.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, I get it -- it's very Canadian to consider the sensibilities of as many people as possible along the travel path and for the lifetime of the content we post or carry. Totally admirable.

But it's not gonna be perfect, even if we get very, very close. The trick is to somehow know when we're within epsilon of optimal and then forgiving ourselves over not pleasing absolutely everybody. Just don't beat ourselves up over it. ;-)

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

well said! and I've come to realize that you're never going to please everyone. especially on the internet.