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Do the rules of your home instance apply when posting to a different instance? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years 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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[–] leecalvin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think they should.

Hopefully your home instance has rules that facilitate having a safe space online regardless of where you are posting to.

Otherwise if you are doing something like promoting "othering" or denying the Holocaust or the moon landing, etc, you may end up getting your instance banned from federating with servers where the mods don't like what you're posting.