I’ve been on Lemmy for some time now and it’s time for me to finally understand how Federation works. I have general idea and I have accounts on three federated instances, but I need some details.

Let Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta be four federated instances. I have an account on Alpha and create a post in a community on Beta. A persoson from Gamma comments on it and a person from Delta upvotes the post and the comment.

The question: On which instances are the post, the comment and the upvotes stored?

  • Falmarri@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It depends what you mean by inefficient. It’s very efficient if you’re optimizing for robustness and control of data.

    • Corgana@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      It’s also very efficient if you’re optimizing for having an actual fucking conversation without algorithms or ads.

    • lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Control or redundancy of data?

      If there is a federated delete, I get the impression there is no actual way to ensure that data is deleted?