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plutolink Jul 17, 2023

Thinking of moving to sh.itjust.works from lemmy.world - one question about the rules though...

Thinking of moving to sh.itjust.works from lemmy.world - one question about the rules though... - Lemmy.world

If I post nsfw onto a community hosted on lemmynsfw, for example, from the sh.itjust.works account, would that breaking the no pron rule, or not necessarily, since it’s posted on a different instance?

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0x4E4F Jul 17, 2023

No, it doesn’t break the rule IMO. Yes, the image is hosted on sh.itjust.works, but it’s not posted ik any community on sh.itjust.works, so… it should be OK.

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wheeldawg Jul 17, 2023

Of you post to an outside community, is not hosted on your insurance. It’s hosted where it’s posted.

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0x4E4F Jul 17, 2023

I don’t think that is actually true…

OK let’s make a test. I have 2 accounts on sh.itjust.works, this is my lemmy.fmhy.ml account. I’ll attach a pic, see where the link points to.

The link says lemmy.fmhy.ml 🤷.

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wheeldawg Jul 18, 2023

Huh. Well that just makes no sense structurally. Thanks for pointing it out though.

How does this thing work at all? You would expect it to all be hosted to the site the community is hosted on. So now when a comment thread is fetched, it has to go to all these other servers for every single comment from another instance. This is actually mind-boggling.

Does anyone have an ELI5 for why it’s done this way?

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0x4E4F

Actually, the post content is saved on the instance where the post is posted as well. That post is called a copy, the original resides on the poster’s originating instance. But, not the media, no, that resides on the instance where the poster resgistered.