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?
Kinda like email, both servers will have a copy of the content. You need to obey the rules of the instance you’re posting on first and foremost.
I suppose the admins at your instance could impose some arbitrary rules about your posts elsewhere, and ban your account if you break them. This would be weird and overbearing, in my opinion and you should change to another instance if you’re at risk of that. As far as I know, the lemmy.ca admins are chill until proven otherwise.