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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

try and follow the rules of both the instance you’re posting from and the one your posting to.

... and every instance that may be brought online and ever federate that content?

Without a crystal ball, how can we know what the rules are for a server brought online in the last 10 minutes, and how our post would or would not be accepted? In a fediverse which potentially includes everything from Hedonism-bot to [email protected], and the vastly different acceptance/rejection criteria for photos, what specifically is the regs for unwitting intermediaries?

Signal-carrier Immunity? If wil gets a Lemmy instance running - totally possible - is there no chance for a [email protected] sub to exist?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He didn't say you have to follow the rules of all the instances in existence, now and forever. He said you should follow the rules of your home server, and where you post, the two places your content is guaranteed to reside. All other instances will propagate based on their settings, and they can choose how they will deal with it, such as beehaw recently defederating from lemmy.world.

The obvious solution is, if you don't like the rules that lemmy.ca has made, is to sign up somewhere where you agree with the rules.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The obvious solution is, if you don’t like the rules that lemmy.ca has made, is to sign up somewhere where you agree with the rules.

You may have missed the transitive part, but that's okay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what you mean by "the transitive part" and I'm honestly not sure if I am not grasping your meaning or if you're not grasping how entries propagate.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 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.